chronic kidney disease in the intensive care unit

... Critical Care October 2005 Vol No Wulkan et al from the study ‘Nonthyroidal illness’ is common in critically ... Casasnovas P: Serum cystatin C as a marker of acute renal dysfunction in critically ill patients Crit Care 2005, 9:R139-R143 O’Riordan SE, Webb MC, Stowe HJ, Simpson DE, Kandarpa M, Coakly AJ, Newman ... noninvasive estimation of glomerular filtartion rate and as a marker for early renal impairment Am J Kidney Dis 2000, 36: 29-34 ...

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... prevention in progression from milder to more severe forms of AKI, analogous to what we now in chronic kidney disease Competing interests Both authors have participated in the Acute Dialysis Quality ... in the incidence and outcome for early acute injury in a cohort of Australian intensive care units Crit Care 2007, 11:R68 Ympa YP, Sakr Y, Reinhart K, Vincent JL: Has mortality from acute renal ... Crit Care 2004, 8:R204-R2121 Mehta RL, Kellum JA, Shah SV, Molitoris BA, Ronco C, Warnock DG, Levin A: Acute Kidney Injury Network: report of an initiative to improve outcomes in acute kidney...

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... EP, Chertow GM, for the Program of Improve Care in Acute Renal Disease: Spectrum of acute renal failure in the intensive care unit: the PICARD experience Kidney Int 2004, 66:1613-1621 Uchino S, ... activity for patients admitted to intensive care units requiring chronic renal dialysis: a secondary analysis of the ICNARC Case Mix Programme Database Crit Care 2007, 11:R50 Dara SI, Afessa B, Bajwa ... SI, Afessa B, Bajwa AA, Albright RC: Outcome of patients with end-stage renal disease admitted to the intensive care unit Mayo Clin Proc 2004, 79:1385-1390 Uchino S, Morimatsu H, Bellomo R, Silvester...

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... Abbreviations AKI: acute kidney injury; BEST Kidney: Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney; CRRT: continuous renal replacement therapy; ICU: intensive care unit; IQR: interquartile ... renal replacement therapy in the intensive care unit: results from The Beginning and Ending Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (BEST Kidney) Study Critical Care 2010 14:R46 Submit your next manuscript ... Supportive Therapy for the Kidney (B.E.S.T Kidney) Investigators Writing Committee: Patient and kidney survival by dialysis modality in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury Int J Artif...

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... of acute kidney injury by plasma cystatin C in the intensive care unit Nephrol Dial Transplant 2010 in press 14 Endre ZH: Acute kidney injury: definitions and new paradigms Adv Chronic Kidney Dis ... Ostermann M, Chang RW: Acute kidney injury in the intensive care unit according to RIFLE Crit Care Med 2007, 35:1837-1843 Bagshaw SM, George C, Bellomo R: Early acute kidney injury and sepsis: a ... marker for acute kidney injury and predicts mortality in the intensive care unit J Am Soc Nephrol 2005, 16:3046-3052 18 Han WK, Bailly V, Abichandani R, Thadhani R, Bonventre JV: Kidney injury molecule-1...

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... 50:305-314 Ridley SA, Booth SA, Thompson CM, The Intensive Care Society's Working Group on Adverse Incidents: Prescription errors in UK critical care units Anaesthesia 2004, 59:1193-1200 Koppel R, Metlay ... Computerized protocols and bedside decision support Crit Care Clin 1999, 15:523-545 Dean B, Barber N, Schachter M: What is a prescribing error? Qual Health Care 2000, 9:232-237 Dean BS, Barber ND: A validated, ... rates found were less than those reported in a recent study of prescription errors in UK critical care units [12] There was no difference in the mean APACHE II score in the HWP and CPOE periods, indicating...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... intensive care and general care units Crit Care Med 1997, 25:1289-1297 12 Herout PM, Erstad BL: Medication errors involving continuously infused medications in a surgical intensive care unit Crit Care ... intensive care units Pediatr Crit Care Med 2004, 5:124-132 30 Potts AL, Barr FE, Gregory DF, Wright L, Patel NR: Computerized physician order entry and medication errors in a pediatric critical care unit ... computerized unit (C-U; beds), 10 months after implementation of the ICIS in the latter unit Patients were randomly assigned to either of these units by an independent nurse All units had a similar...

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... ill subjects in the intensive care unit (ICU) patients diagnosed with sepsis (as defined by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) consensus ... and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHEII) and sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) scores (for ICU patients) and whether they were diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (ischemic heart disease ... Nierman and Mechanick reported the majority of their cohort of chronically ill elderly patients transferred from the intensive care unit had evidence of rapid bone turnover due to vitamin D deficiency...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... INTRODUCTION Healthcare-associated pneumonia (HAP) is defined as pneumonia that occurs in patients that reside in or have resided in a long-term care facility, acute -care facility, or other healthcare facility ... characteristics of pathogens causing HAP in the Intensive care unit of Bach Mai Hospital which is the area with the highest incidence density of healthcare associated infections among Vietnamese HCFs ... Adjusted OR 95% CI p APACHE II index of ≥ 13 1.9 1.1 – 3.3 < 0.05 Chronic respiratory diseases 1.9 1.1 – 3.3 < 0.05 Endocrine diseases 2.0 0.9 – 4.3 > 0.05 Surgery 2.5 1.1 – 6.1 < 0.05 Endotracheal...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 13:57

... favourable haemodynamic response to surgery Patients otherwise received protocolized standard care in our unit, with pressure-controlled mechanical ventilation and positive end-expiratory pressure ... cardio-thoracic surgery within three weeks after surgery and who were still in the intensive care unit (ICU), in order to study predictors of success of rethoracotomy [9] The amount of pericardial ... surgery not incorporate haemodynamic variables as obtained during monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU) [5,6,8,9,11,13] When pericardial tamponade was suspected, 52% of our patients had...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... intensive care unit; IV: intravenous; M: male; Mg: magnesium; MAP: mean arterial pressure; NE: norepinephrine, PMH: past medical history; PRN: Pro re nata (As Needed) Discussion Tetanus is a disease ... nursing and ancillary staff of the intensive care unit at the Patras University Hospital for their remarkable effort in providing excellent patient care and in facilitating our academic activities ... tetanus in the ICU and wrote the manuscript DV provided patient care, collected data, and edited the manuscript MM participated in patient care, directed antibiotic therapy, and edited the manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... than 15), diagnostic categories, the number of red cell units administered per patient (0 units, 1–3 units, 4–6 units, 7–9 units, 10 or more units) and mortality rates were initially compared amongst ... 23.9 99 ± 22.3 Number of patients No of transfusions (%) Not transfused 1–3 units 4–6 units 7–9 units ≥10 units No of units/patient-days Haemoglobin concentrations Transfusion episodes (n = 2758) ... performed for specific disease categories including multiple trauma, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases and postoperative patients in order to control for the influence of disease categories...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... intensive care unit Crit Care Med 1997, 25:614–619 Chambrin MC, Ravaux P, Calvelo D, Jaborska A, Chopin C, Boniface B: Multicentric study of monitoring alarms in the adult intensive care unit (ICU): ... Practice of Intensive Care Monitoring Edited by Tobin MJ New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc; 1998:33–44 Lawless ST: Crying wolf: false alarms in a pediatric intensive care unit Crit Care Med 1994, 22:981–985 ... Intensive Care Med 1993, 19:343–346 Aaron JN, Carlisle CC, Carskadon MA, Meyer TJ, Hill NS, Millman RP: Environmental noise as a cause of sleep disruption in an intermediate respiratory care unit...

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... Care 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 August 2001 Vol No Kollef of nosocomial infection in intensive care units in Europe: results of the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care ... drug-resistant bacteria Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998, 157:531-539 Richards MJ, Edwards JR, Culver DH, Gaynes RP: Nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units in the United States National Nosocomial ... Critical Care August 2001 Vol No Kollef Table Practices promoting the optimization of antimicrobial use in the intensive care unit setting Provide adequate initial...

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... Critical Care October 2001 Vol No Booij Table Suitability of relaxants for use in the ICU Parameter Vecuronium ... succinylcholine effect [11] The same holds for patients with sepsis, malignancy, burn trauma and liver disease [12] In such patients there is a wide variability in the neuromuscular blocking effect, ... dysfunction Anaesthesia 1991, 46:980-982 Yentis SM: Suxamethonium and hyperkalaemia Anaesth Intensive Care 1990, 18:92-101 Martyn JAJ, White DA, Gronert GA, Jaffe RS, Ward JM: Up-and down regulation...

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... requires discharge of the patient after days of care) raise legitimate concerns about patient-invariant (‘cookbook’) care Individualizing patient care while standardizing clinical decisions with ... Even when the healthcare community understands the proper approach, compliance of physicians with evidence-based treatments or guidelines is low across a broad range of healthcare topics [20,85–89] ... therapy staffs of the Intermountain Respiratory Intensive Care Unit and of the ShockTrauma/Intermountain Respiratory ICU, and to the Respiratory Care Department of the LDS Hospital, for collaboration...

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... provide guidance on how to implement changes in individual intensive care units.” Indeed, physicians want to improve their delivery of care, but often lack an understanding of the basic theories that ... EW: New ways to improve unnecessary variation and improve outcomes in the intensive care unit Curr Opin Crit Care 2001, 7:304-311 Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS: To Err is Human: Building ... Critical Care December 2001 Vol No Wall et al Critical Care, Chan et al [3] describe their experiences with developing and implementing...

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... Impact of a rotating empiric antibiotic schedule on infectious mortality in an intensive care unit Crit Care Med 2001, 29:1101-1108 Cohen MT: Epidemiology of drug resistance: implications for ... antibiotics in a medical intensive care unit Impact on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2000, 162:837-843 ... Critical Care February 2002 Vol No Pechère resistance mechanisms can become incorporated into the stable...

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... shock Intensive Care Med 2000, 26: 148-152 Ugarte H, Silva E, Mercan D, De Mendonca A, Vincent JL: Procalcitonin used as a marker of infection in the intensive care unit Crit Care Med 1999, 27:498-504 ... Zimmerli W, Ritz R: Calcitonin precursors are reliable markers of sepsis in a medical intensive care unit Crit Care Med 2000, 28:977-983 Oberhoffer M, Rubwurm S, Bredle D, Chatzinicolau K, Reinhart K: ... and TNF-α in an unselected population of patients suffering from a broad range of diseases in an intensive care unit (ICU) Method The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committees of...

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