critical care of patients needing hyperbaric oxygen therapy

... concentration did not change Of the 25 patients admitted from fire-accidents we were able to measure WB-CN concentration hours after HBO therapy in 11 patients Of these patients had not received ... after HBO seven patients showed an increase in WB-CN and five a decrease Of the 12 patients from non-fire accidents we were able to measure WB-CN hours after HBO therapy in patients, of these which ... In the group of patients from fire accidents only patients had a WB-CN concentration higher than 39 μmol/L and of those received OHCob before the blood test In the group of non-fire patients none...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... treating PI and has the major advantage of avoiding the pulmonary toxicity of oxygen that can be associated with use of prolonged high flow oxygen [9] The use of heliox seems to be more effective ... reports have shown the success of metronidazole in treating patients who are symptomatic, with a typical course of 500 mg orally three times daily [7] Inhalation oxygen therapy was first introduced ... order to increase the partial pressure of oxygen in the blood and to decrease the partial pressure of non -oxygen gases in the cysts [8] This change in oxygen delivery in the cysts is supposed...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:24

... release - activation of osteoclasts and stimulation of osteogensis - cover of raised oxygen requirement of the damaged tissue in spite of impaired blood supply via stimulation of angiogenesis [4,5] ... L: The historical perspective of hyperbaric therapy Ann N Y Acad Sci 1965, 117:651-670 Camporesi RM: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy: A Committee Report Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society Kensington ... in advanced carcinomas of the head and neck] HNO 1999, 47:695-701 21 Kang TS, Gorti GK, Quan SY, Ho M, Koch RJ: Effect of hyperbaric oxygen on the growth factor profile of fibroblasts Arch Facial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... those without HBO2 therapy In our study, we further identified that HBO2 therapy alleviated the burden of critical care by shortening the length of ICU stay, and duration of MV and NIV support ... the number of patients in this study was small Third, we only focused on the clinical outcomes of the study patients; therefore, the local effects of HBO2 therapy, such as tissue oxygenation, ... Anderson J, Hanson D, Thompson P: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Chronic Wounds Adv Skin Wound Care 2010, 23(3):116-119 Cimşit M, Uzun G, Yildiz S: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy as an anti-infective agent...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... C6 Other Cause of DRP related to the logistics of the prescribing or dispensing mechanism Other causes of DRPs Currently, in the provision of pharmaceutical care, healthcare professionals work ... exchange of health-related data for the purpose of increasing the effectiveness of health care delivery The main aims of e-Health are to provide an improvement in the quality of patient care, increase ... differences in terms of the scope, completeness and accuracy of these resources The challenge for both healthcare professionals and patients is to critically assess the vast amounts of available information,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:50

... tertiary care hospital located in the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), provides multilevel health care for National Guard soldiers and their extended families It has one of the ... It has one of the largest critical care units in the Kingdom serve 40 beds and runs by qualified pulmonary and critical care board certified consultants The purpose of our study is to review ... outcomes of patients diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis requiring ICU admission, and to identify potential factors affecting mortality rates We reviewed the records of patients age of 18...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... IABP therapy, and 83% later assigned to standard care Intracoronary thrombolysis was used in 42% of patients later randomized to IABP therapy compared to 46% of patients in the standard therapy ... the Randomized IABP Trial Critical appraisal of randomized clinical trials of IABP therapy in AMI patients Thorough critical appraisal involves determining the validity of the study design, understanding ... calculation of IABP therapy' s net benefit, which gives policy decision-makers a single measure of its desirability from an efficiency perspective Critical appraisal of the economic analysis of IABP therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... successful catheterisation of the vessel In a previous study, ultrasonography imaging detected venous thrombosis in 33% of critical care patients; in approximately 15% of these patients, the thrombosis ... absolute number of patients and percentage of their group CVC-BSI, central venous catheter-associated blood stream infection Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 10 No ... incidence of bacterial strains implicated in CVC-BSI was similar in patients of the landmark group as compared with patients of the ultrasound group, except for a significantly higher incidence of coagulase-negative...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... contributions of medically related critical illness to the development of PTSD Similarly, a number of research investigations of medical ICU survivors assessing anxiety or memories of the ICU generically ... the genesis of PTSD symptoms and the unique Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 11 No Jackson et al contributions of ICU treatment to the development of PTSD Data ... victims of sexual assault, and patients with cancer), sample sizes are often quite large and patients are in many cases relatively homogenous In contrast, the largest study of PTSD following critical...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... pressure of oxygen/ fraction of inspired oxygen; PCP, Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 12 No Monnet et al and the modalities of critical ... intensive care unit; PaCO2, arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide; PaO2/FiO2, arterial partial pressure of oxygen/ fraction of inspired oxygen Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical ... first-line therapy in a similar proportion of HIV-negative and HIV-positive patients However, in HIV-negative patients, NIMV failed in 71% of cases compared with failure in 13% of HIV-positive patients, ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... daily care of critically ill medical and surgical patients is feasible • IIT reduced electrophysiological incidence of CIP/CIM in daily clinical practice in critically ill medical and surgical patients, ... medical intensive care unit; SICU = surgical intensive care unit study Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 13 No Hermans et al Figure Chronological order of the study ... differential diagnosis between CIP and CIM via routine NCS/EMG is often difficult because of the lack of cooperation of critically ill patients, we used the SNAPs as a surrogate marker for CIP Although...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... SK, Price K, Horak D, Landsberg D: Probability of mortality of critically ill cancer patients at 72 h of intensive care unit (ICU) management Support Care Cancer 2003, 11:686-695 47 Zimmerman JE, ... factors, 70.2% of intubated patients died compared with 45.3% of nonintubated patients Two thousand eight hundred admissions were included in the subgroup analysis of the effect of diagnosis on ... inclusion of data from patients with incurable illness who were certain to die, and to the exclusion of critically ill patients with haematological malignancy who were managed on the ward, of whom...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... doi:10.1186/cc8955 Cite this article as: Afessa B, Keegan MT: Critical care support of patients with nicotine addiction Critical Care 2010, 14:155 ... Nicotine replacement therapy in critically ill patients: A prospective observational cohort study [abstract] Crit Care Med 2009, 37:A8 Abbreviations NRT = nicotine replacement therapy Competing ... replacement therapy for smoking cessation Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004:CD000146 10 Lee AH, Afessa B: The association of nicotine replacement therapy with mortality in a medical intensive care unit...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 526 MAB, 1211 21st Ave South, Nashville, TN 37027, USA Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care, Vanderbilt ... vulnerable patients is possible, but it is irresponsible in light of the growing body of evidence that says we can so much better for our patients Given that there are negligible adverse consequences of ... hospital lengths of stay and an unprecedented 15% reduction in 1-year mortality [4] This study pointed to the importance of removing the silos of our care paradigms by centering the care delivered...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... in intensive care unit patients Crit Care 2009, 13:R70 doi:10.1186/cc9083 Cite this article as: Dixon J, Philips B: The interpretation of brain natriuretic peptide in critical care patients; will ... assessment and prediction of outcome in cardio-renal syndrome type It is clear that the interpretation of BNP concentrations in critical care is fraught with difficulty, but in selected patients there are ... has limited the interpretation of BNP concentrations in the critical care setting Rudiger [9] found that BNP levels in patients with sepsis were similar to those in patients with DHF and that cardiac...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... critically ill patients in the ED is incomplete The primary objective of this study is to determine the length of stay of critically ill patients receiving care in a tertiary care adult emergency ... level The ED diagnosis of critically ill patients varied (Table 2) The majority of patients received at least one invasive procedure in the ED (Table 3) Of the 178 patients, 125 patients (125,178, ... 260(6):586-591 Svenson J, Besinger B, Stapczynski JS: Critical care of medical and surgical patients in the ED: length of stay and initiation of intensive care procedures Am J Emerg Med 1997, 15(7):654-657...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... respondents routinely care for sepsis patients, several earlier studies reported that anaesthetists are crucially involved in intensive care medicine and in the care of critically ill sepsis patients in ... Furthermore, establishment of emergency and intensive care departments, adequate staffing and training of health care providers could be further options to improve the care of African patients suffering ... al.: Availability of critical care resources to treat patients with severe sepsis or septic shock in Africa: a selfreported, continent-wide survey of anaesthesia providers Critical Care 2011 15:R10...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... American Association of CriticalCare Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Emergency Physicians, Canadian Critical Care Society, European Society of Clinical Microbiology ... of the American College of Crit- Available online http://ccforum.com/content/12/3/R70 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ical Care Medicine (ACCM) of the Society of Critical Care ... for patients treatedline )of total duration of sedation (thick line) and Kaplan-Meier survival curve daily= 0.0003) of mechanical ventilation (MV) for patients treated by daily interruption of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... Critical Care February 2002 Vol No Whitley and Ball that cover the ideas presented in this series, and ... frequently not be sufficient and it is vital that researchers recognise their own limitations and seek professional advice whenever it is needed, if only for reassurance Medical statistics is a scientific ... discipline in its own right and a medical statistician fully achieves that role only after years of training and practical experience Most academic departments, and also many clinical departments,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45