and rare causes of acute respiratory failure

... Onarheim H, Aardal S: Outcome after acute respiratory failure is more dependent on dysfunction in other vital organs than on the severity of the respiratory failure Crit Care 2003, 7:R72-R77 Lewandowski ... mortality rates in patients with ARF as the only organ failure were 3.2% and 14.7%, respectively The question arises as to why isolated respiratory failure leads to such relatively low mortality rates ... Frostell CG, Bonde J, and the ARF Study Group: Incidence and mortality after acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome in Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland Am J Respir Crit Care...

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... and Chronic Health Evaluation II; ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; ICU, intensive care unit; SD, standard deviation; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Page of (page number not ... Critical Care Vol 11 No Zilberberg et al Figure respiratory analysis of independent transfusion risk factor for acute Multivariatedistress syndrome (ARDS) respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) After ... development of the acute respiratory distress syndrome Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995, 151:293-301 Pepe P, Potkin RT, Reus DH, Hudson LD, Carrico CJ: Clinical predictors of the adult respiratory distress...

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... Acute respiratory failure following pharmacologically-induced hyperventilation: an experimental animal study Intensive Care Med 1987, 15:8-14 Beale R, Grover ER, Smithies M, Bihari D: Acute respiratory ... Discussion This study shows the advantage of using the PRVC mode for ventilation during acute respiratory failure PIP was lower for all patients using the PRVC mode compared to the VC mode, and alveolar ... (cmH2O) VC (n = 44) 20 (19-23) 24 (23-27) P < 0.0001 Results Forty-Four patients with acute respiratory failure were included No patient was excluded after randomization There were no statistically...

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... conducting and analyzing studies of the potential benefits of tracheostomy in patients with acute respiratory failure Physician belief in the utility of tracheostomy, patient selection and the lack of ... end-points can be affected by the timing of tracheostomy, as it does not alter the course of respiratory failure The availability of a percutaneous approach has potentially lowered the threshold ... potentially be influenced by performing a tracheostomy relatively early in patients with acute respiratory failure We tested the hypothesis that tracheostomy, when performed prior to active weaning,...

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... Gattinoni L, Pesenti A, Avalli L, Rossi F, Bombino M: Pressurevolume curve of total respiratory system in acute respiratory failure Computed tomographic scan study Am Rev Respir Dis 1987, 136:730-736 ... No patient changed their initial group taken into account the PEEP value at baseline Respiratory mechanics Respiratory mechanics were assessed during end inspiratory and end expiratory occlusion ... PEEP mmHg for the same static respiratory system pressure (20 cmH2O) from the static tidal volume-pressure curves obtained at the different PEEP levels A static respiratory system pressure of...

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... acute lung injury; ARDS, adult respiratory distress syndrome; ARF, acute respiratory failure; SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; TISS, Therapeutic ... of ventilatory support in patients with ARF Abbreviations ARDS: adult respiratory distress syndrome; ARF: acute respiratory failure; CI: confidence interval; CPAP: continuous positive airway pressure; ... cost-effectiveness of ventilator support and aggressive care for patients with acute respiratory failure due to pneumonia or acute respiratory distress syndrome Am J Med 2000, 109:614-620 Linko R, Okkonen...

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... of respiratory failure (adjudicated final diagnosis of heart failure; P = 0.008) and patients with non-cardiac aetiology of respiratory failure (adjudicated final diagnosis other than heart failure; ... patients with cardiac aetiology of respiratory failure (adjudicated final diagnosis of heart failure) ; right: patients with non-cardiac etiology of respiratory failure Noveanu et al Critical Care ... of respiratory failure in ICU patients was unknown Exact mechanisms of a better short term and long-term survival in patients being treated with oral beta-blockers at the time of respiratory failure...

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... million cases of all types of ARIs each year ARIs have the highest prevalence in hospitals Among causes of childhood mortality, pneumonia has the highest percentage 1.3 The situation of mothers’ ... shortcomings Health staff very often did not explore all signs of severe diseases Skills in counting respiratory frequency were less than required The percentage of health staff correctly differentiated ... Vi, the percentage of providers knowing its signs increased from 66.7% to 100%, knowing r aised respiratory rate, an indicator for pneumonia increased from 47.2% to 83.3% 3.2.2.2 Knowledge in...

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... approximately 48 hours before the onset of acute respiratory failure High spinal anesthesia associated with vasomotor block, profound bradycardia and respiratory insufficiency could be responsible ... tachycardia), while pneumonia, sepsis or septic shock were unlikely causes of http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/2/1/177 respiratory failure, as there was no positive culture and the rapid resolution ... every possible cause of acute lung injury, we concluded that this is a rare case of acute respiratory failure due to AFE in a twin pregnancy Case presentation A 34-year-old healthy woman with...

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... Respiratory Research Vol No Miakotina et al surfactant function, are developmentally and hormonally ... mM, 50 mM, 50 µM and 10 mM stock solutions, respectively, and stored at -80°C in aliquots Insulin causes a timeand dose-dependent inhibition of SP-A gene expression with maximum effect at 0.25–2.5 ... elongation reaction Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Available online http:/ /respiratory- research.com/content/3/1/27 was performed with 20 × 106 nuclei Labeled, newly synthesized...

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... prospectively 65 patients who were admitted into the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe respiratory failure Forty patients were male with mean (SD) age 44 ± 21 years (range, 21–77, median 55) ... fulfilling the criteria of ARDS [1] All these patients were supported mechanically for their respiratory failure (PaO2/FiO2 127 ± 11, APACHE II 19.6 ± 1.1) The cause of ARDS was trauma (9), pneumonia ... after submission to the ICU, while 32% of groups B and C (14 patients) died mainly due to respiratory failure (d) the level of urea in the BALF should be more than 0.4 mmol The urea level was...

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... 27):H347–H353 Fishman AP: Pulmonary circulation In: Handbook of Physiology The Respiratory System Circulation and Nonrespiratory Functions, section 3, vol 1, chapter Bethesda, MD: American Physiological ... exchange in the adult respiratory distress syndrome Am Rev Respir Dis 1987, 136: 1232–1236 20 Mélot C, Lejeune P, Leeman M, Moraine JJ, Naeije R: Prostaglandin E1 in the adult respiratory distress ... [16] have led to the conclusions that HPV is really effective in improving gas exchange in severe respiratory insufficiency Critical Care Vol No Naeije and Brimioulle Figure patients, however,...

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... respiratory failure The definition of ARF was based on the SOFA score criteria, in which a score of or is defined as ‘severe’ organ failure [8] According to those criteria, the diagnosis of respiratory ... 6) and five (n = 2) organs in failure are merged because of the small number of patients *Any combination of acute respiratory failure (ARF) and other severe organ failure SAPS II, Simplified Acute ... patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) alone and ARF with other organ failure during their hospital stay (from days 1–10) various reasons (6 patients: chronic renal failure/ renal transplantation,...

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... Median (interquartile range) 2.6 (1.6–6.6) Admission causes Cardiac 12 Respiratory Infection 37 Trauma or surgery 12 Cardiac arrest Results Other causes The clinical data of the patients are presented ... to tissue perfusion [20] Prolonged organ system failure is associated with poor prognosis [21] Attempts to characterise the severity of organ failures and to predict patient outcome has lead ... Recently, calculation of the total maximal Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (TMS) score has been proposed as a refinement of Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) classification [23], and it...

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... heart failure [1] Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is one of the major causes of consultation of elderly patients in emergency departments (EDs) and is the key symptom of most cardiac and respiratory ... and mortality [3-8] In elderly patients, differentiating CPE from respiratory causes is difficult for several reasons Cardiac and respiratory diseases frequently coexist Atypical clinical presentation, ... = 0.11) Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/3/R82 Table Diagnosis of causes of acute respiratory failure by experts, and mortality Number of patients (%) Mortalitya, % Cardiogenic...

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... at years Diabetes mellitus Number of subjects Acute organ failure hospitalization Acute organ failure with inhospital death Acute organ failure with allcause mortality at years Absent BMI ≤ 20 ... of the development of acute organ failure, in-hospital mortality among those with acute organ failure, and mortality at three years among those with acute organ failure by DM status Subjects with ... development of acute organ failure and death after acute organ failure is more related to the presence of DM than to an increased BMI Our definition of acute organ failure is, we believe, a surrogate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... children with acute respiratory failure: Mortality ALI, acute lung injury; ARDS, acute respiratory distress synMortality drome; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; RR, relative risk; RSV, respiratory syncytial ... children with acute respiratory failure: Ventilator-free days ALI, acute lung injury; ARDS, acute respiratory disdays tress syndrome; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; RSV, respiratory syncytial ... with acute respiratory failure: Duration of mechanical ventilation ALI, acute lung injury; ARDS, acute ventilation respiratory distress syndrome; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; RSV, respiratory...

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... compliTime courserespiratory system (Crs) during respiratory distress syn-endance of the respiratory system (Crs) during a decremental positive endexpiratory pressure (PEEP) trial after acute respiratory ... was maintained for 15 before each measurement to allow for haemodynamic and respiratory stabilisation ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; HR, heart rate; mean AP, mean systemic arterial ... Figure tem (Crs) Pa Correlation between PaO2 and static compliance of the respiratory sysand static compliance of the respiratory system (Crs) conditions of the present study, but may not be warranted...

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