a new conceptual framework in critical care medicine

... study Aromatic amine dehydrogenase (AADH), like MADH, is a TTQ-dependent amine oxidase AADH transfers electrons, derived from the deamination of primary amines (aromatic amines are generally preferred ... substrate benzylamine Again,aswithMADHandTSOX,anindicationasto whether H-transfer occurs classically or by quantum tunneling was gained by investigating the temperature dependence of the rates ... H-tunneling by a vibrationally assisted mechanism, although a Boltzman analysis suggests a very small population in anything other than the vibrational ground state An alternative explanation might...

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... data We abstracted data from the results of the trial including the number of patients in the treatment and placebo arms that were included in the final data analysis, and the mortality rate in ... and placebo, leading to a high rate of falsely negative trials, with many attendant implications for critical care research and practice Materials and methods One author (SKA) performed a search ... controlled trials of therapies in critical care medicine evaluating proportional mortality as a primary endpoint and published in five highimpact medical journals during the past 10 years utilized...

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... Brook, New York, USA Informa Healthcare USA, Inc 52 Vanderbilt Avenue New York, NY 10017 # 2010 by Informa Healthcare USA, Inc Informa Healthcare is an Informa business No claim to original U.S ... Colonization and Infection in the Critical Care Unit 102 C Glen Mayhall PART II: CLINICAL SYNDROMES IN CRITICAL CARE Clinical Approach to Sepsis and Its Mimics in Critical Care Burke A Cunha Meningitis ... not trained in infectious diseases It is written by clinicians in infectious diseases in critical care and is meant as a handbook to provide valuable information not included in critical care textbooks...

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... following phrase was used (where 'AD' means 'address'): intensive care medicine [journal] AND journal article [pt] AND (Andorra [AD] OR Austria [AD] OR OR Wales [AD]) NOT (Australia [AD] OR Canada ... Europe ranked second and was followed by Canada, Japan, Asia (excluding Japan) and Oceania Eastern Europe, Central and Latin America, and Africa made little contribution Western Europe and the USA ... that publications in journals with higher mean impact factors originated from Canada, Japan and Latin America Although the value of the impact factor as a tool for assessing the quality of a...

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... Critical Care Vol 12 No Martin many healthcare databases, their use has expanded from the original intent to permit novel research investigations for important areas in healthcare For example, ... sepsis in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 1996 to 2004: secondary analysis of a high quality clinical database, the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database Crit Care 2006, 10:R42 Annane D, Aegerter ... results are related to the OutcomeRea database, to local coding practices or training, to national effects specific to France, or to influences of critical care or critical care medical conditions...

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... 128:288-295 Larsen AI, Dickstein K, Ahmadi NS, Aarsland T, Kvaloy JT, Hall C: The effect of altering haemodynamics on the plasma concentrations of natriuretic peptides in heart failure Eur J Heart Fail ... Almog Y, Novack V, Megralishvili R, Kobal S, Barski L, King D, Zahger D: Plasma level of N terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide as a prognostic marker in critically ill patients Anesth Analg 2006, ... Critical Care Vol 13 No Collinson occurs in a range of other clinical conditions other than cardiac dysfunction, including sepsis [11] Values are frequently raised in the intensive care population,...

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... length of hospital stay, and mortality of central line-associated bloodstream infection in intensive care departments in Argentina: a prospective, matched analysis Am J Infect Control 2003, 31:475-480 ... younger than 65, influenza was shown to increase mortality substantially [6], and critically ill patients with liver cirrhosis suffering from additional acute renal failure (ARF) have a mortality ... mortality In critically ill HIV patients, Tumbarello and colleagues [13] assessed a crude mortality of 43%, with an infection-associated excess mortality of 27% A similar rate of bloodstream infection-associated...

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... Knowledge in Critical Care Medicine Wolfgang Krüger • Andrew James Ludman Core Knowledge in Critical Care Medicine Wolfgang Krüger Medizinische Universitätsklinik Kantonsspital Aarau Aarau Switzerland ... is a proinflammatory stimulus in non-injured lungs [551], though surgery and general anaesthesia are associated with inflammation measurable in blood plasma, making causation difficult to ascertain ... protective mechanical ventilation facilitates keeping inflammation locally/regionally compartmentalized [287] All in all, ventilator settings can beyond doubt aggravate VILI as depicted in detail above...

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... that outlined by Laine and Davidoff [7], because in many cases our patients are unable to assimilate the information and participate in meaningful decision making However, the principle still applies ... psychological needs as well as some medical aspects of care such as pain management in children than in the past Being aware of our shortcomings and striving toward their elimination will, in the ... negotiating the overall goals and care, switching from provision of life support and therapy to comfort care, providing excellent palliative care, giving explanations in clear understandable language,...

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... crime, and better remuneration All these factors impose major challenges on health care in South Africa in general, but also on critical care medicine in particular Can critical care survive in South ... Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine (WFSICCM) References Lipman J, Lichtman AR: International perspectives on critical care: critical care in Africa Critical Care Clin 1997, 13:255265 ... the critical care specialist trainees have to write and pass an examination to be certified as intensivists Table Chris Hani Baragwanath intensive care unit (ICU) adult patient profile (1-year...

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... Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment: Issues in Emerging Health Technologies: Hand-carried Ultrasound Units for Point-of -care Cardiac Examinations Canadian Coordinating ... 24-hour intensivist and critical care nurse coverage but will serve several ICUs at one time Early data published in Critical Care Medicine in January 2004 suggested that severity-adjusted mortality ... large carinal laceration [8] Monitoring Telemedicine An infrastructure for providing intensivist-led care from a distance is receiving much attention Two years ago a report examined the poor uptake...

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... of the greatest advances in critical care medicine during the past decade Similarly, recent technology has also enhanced the quality of basic CPR For the past four decades, basic CPR has been performed ... readily capable of delivering life-saving critical care Considering that sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation is one of the greatest causes of premature mortality in many societies, ... endotracheal intubation, mechanical ventilation, therapeutic hypothermia, and various intravenous pharmacological infusions [10,11] Therefore, with the rapid use of AEDs by random bystanders,...

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... Critical Care Vol 10 No Struelens and Denis endemic MRSA in The Netherlands and Scandinavia [5,6] Clinical practice recommendations include MRSA carrier screening to inform patient isolation ... hospital-acquired MRSA infection and should prove cost-saving [13,14] A technology assessment challenge Will such prediction prove correct in critical care? The findings of Harbarth and colleagues ... unisolated MRSA patient-days avoided, the number of unnecessary preemptive isolation days avoided, the increase in the MRSA decolonization rate, the decrease in the MRSA transmission and infection...

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... unit setting, and helped in the statistical analysis AK participated in the design of the study and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... contralateral side was catheterised Catheterisation was performed under continuous dynamic observation of real-time 2D images obtained by placing the transducer parallel and superior to the Available ... Data collection and statistical analysis Forms containing patients' characteristics and all the pertinent fields for each technique were filled out in a timely fashion, and data were entered in...

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... Miyagawa J, Hotta K, Shimomura I, Nakamura T, Miyaoka K, Kuriyama H, Nishida M, Yamashita S, Okubo K, Matsubara K, Muraguchi M, Ohmoto Y, Funahashi T, Matsuzawa Y: Paradoxical decrease of an adipose-specific ... Diabetes 2003, 52:1182-1186 12 Weyer C, Funahashi T, Tanaka S, Hotta K, Matsuzawa Y, Pratley RE, Tataranni PA: Hypoadiponectinemia in obesity and type diabetes: close association with insulin ... Moroi M, Matsui J, Eto K, Yamashita T, Kamon J, Satoh H, Yano W, Froguel P, Nagai R, Kimura S, Kadowaki T, Noda T: Disruption of adiponectin causes insulin resistance and neointimal formation J...

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... Moreover, a national board exam for critical care medicine is not yet available, which suggests that we not have a minimum national standard for intensivists Critical care research in mainland China ... behalf of the China Critical Care Clinical Trial Group: Natural disaster In Intensive and Critical Care Medicine: WFSICCM World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine ... international medical journals Possible reasons might include: inadequate training and experience in clinical research; inadequate staffing dedicated to research; inadequate funding for critical care...

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... http://www.gsejournal.org/content/41/1/34 Phase A M M AM Phase AMM* AMM Phase AM_AMM* AM_AMM AM_AMM* Phase 4b Phase 4a AM_AMM_AM_AMM AM_AM_AMM Figure Mating structure for a single sire family in the Awassi ... semi-improved pasture in a temperate Australian tablelands climate Such grazing systems are characterized by low pasture availability in the colder winter months, and abundant pasture growth in spring with ... the manuscript preparation All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Traits measured in the Awassi-Merino resource flock A list of all traits included...

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... pharmacy services, pharmacy staffing, and hospital mortality rates Pharmacotherapy 2007, 27:481-493 65 Montazeri M, Cook DJ: Impact of a clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary intensive care ... staffing Pharmacist participation in ICU care Incorporation of quality assurance into academic education ICU, intensive care unit Bar code technologies target the administration phase of the medication ... medications should be prepared within the pharmacy department by pharmacists using a standardized process and standardized medication concentrations Second, participation of a pharmacist in clinical...

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