... using a continuous infusion of insulin called the ‘intensive insulin schedule’ (IIS), or to a conventional strategy of treating blood sugar levels above 12.0 mmol/l with the ‘restrictive insulin ... monitoring This technology is in its infancy and there are several questions that remain unanswered, the main being which tissue bed should be monitored Speaking on the oxygen affinity of haemoglobin, ... membranes in achieving significant clearance of cytokines such as interleukin-1 without losing albumin, by using haemofiltration and highvolume exchanges This therapy can potentially alter the way in...
... Telemedicine An infrastructure for providing intensivist-led care from a distance is receiving much attention Two years ago a report examined the poor uptake of information technology into medicine ... physiological parameters and audiovisual contact with patient and their bedside criticalcare nurse in a remote hospital This requires a nerve centre with 24-hour intensivist andcriticalcare nurse coverage ... Healthcare Innovations in Technology Systems Partnerships Awards in 2001 Intensivists remain a scarce resource in many centres [11,12] Further data regarding the efficacy of remote monitoring as...
... National Guard soldiers and their extended families It has one of the largest criticalcare units in the Kingdom serve 40 beds and runs by qualified pulmonaryandcriticalcare board certified consultants ... active pulmonary tuberculosis admitted to our intensive care unit in a period over six years and to examine the characteristics, presentation, underlying risk factors, outcome of patients and to ... pulmonary tuberculosis Conclusion In emerging nations infections such as tuberculosis requiring intensive care are not uncommon Clinician awareness of the symptomatology and contributory factors of...
... present and are becoming important incriticalcare Infectious Diseases inCriticalCareMedicine (third edition) remains the only book exclusively dedicated to infectious diseases incriticalcare ... Colonization and Infection in the CriticalCare Unit 102 C Glen Mayhall PART II: CLINICAL SYNDROMES INCRITICALCARE Clinical Approach to Sepsis and Its Mimics inCriticalCare Burke A Cunha Meningitis and ... by clinicians in infectious diseases incriticalcareand is meant as a handbook to provide valuable information not included incriticalcare textbooks The text is unique in its emphasis and...
... fall into the trap of thinking like Thomas Sydenham It is not the beginning of the end of sepsis research, but the end of the beginning For a related commentary in this issue by Martin Llewelyn and ... are currently in press and will be published inCriticalCareMedicine What targets could a tailored treatment be based on? For Gram-negative bacteria, endotoxin is an immediate candidate The ... methylprednisolone in preventing parenchymal lung injury and improving mortality in patients with septic shock Am Rev Respir Dis 1988, 138:62–68 Cronin L, Cook DJ, Carlet J, Heyland DK, King D, Lansang...
... that the skills to approach and resolve ethical dilemmas are innate in all intensivists, and instead strive to create and develop our ability to think critically in bioethics so as to confront ... to think critically about our ability to reconcile the interests of society, patients, their families, andcriticalcare practitioners, using logic and reaching agreement on common goals In the ... CriticalCare February 2002 Vol No Hawryluck and Crippen involved in the design and/ or funding of a project, then what are the responsibilities and obligations of the investigator...
... to work in the ICU train in technical colleges and undergo further hands-on training and experience once in the ICU There are no formal training programmes for respiratory therapists in South ... criticalcarein Africa CriticalCare Clin 1997, 13:255265 NIH Consensus Development Conference on criticalcaremedicine Crit Care Med 1983, 11:466-469 Marik PE, Kraus P, Lipman J: Intensive care ... factors impose major challenges on health carein South Africa in general, but also on criticalcaremedicinein particular Can criticalcare survive in South Africa? There is no easy answer There...
... humanistic culture incriticalcare where several disciplines with differing opinions and agendas may be involved in caring for a critically ill child For example, in a PICU many disciplines (pulmonology, ... recognized by leaders in paediatric intensive careand incorporated into the daily routines of the PICU Caring for children in the PICU also involves responding to the needs of dying patients It is ... understand the patient and relieve suffering [26] These are difficult goals in that barriers to mindfulness, including fatigue, dogmatism and a closed mind to ideas and feelings, are common in medical...
... Chalfin DB, Cohen IL, Lanken PN: The economics and costeffectiveness of criticalcaremedicine Intensive Care Med 1995, 21:952-961 Halpern NA, Pastores SM, Greenstein RJ: Criticalcaremedicinein ... 'intensive caremedicine' originating from Europe, the following phrase was used (where 'AD' means 'address'): intensive caremedicine [journal] AND journal article [pt] AND (Andorra [AD] OR Austria ... take into account the fact that many articles regarding criticalcare med- R262 CriticalCare Vol No Michalopoulos et al Table 'Total product' of articles published in'criticalcaremedicine' :...
... during and after liberation from mechanical ventilation using pressure support, CPAP, and T-piece (n = 20 each) During weaning, plasma insulin and glucose as well as urinary vanilmandelic acid increased ... by candesartan would inhibit HPV in dogs subjected to acute hypoxia Although plasma renin activity and angiotensin II immunoreactivity increased during hypoxia, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition ... protocol-based weaning procedure helped reduce duration of MV and ICU stay Koksal and coworkers [17] compared plasma insulin, cortisol, glucose and urinary vanilmandelic acid in patients ventilated...
... observed in animal models andin patients with ALI with reduction in intrapulmonary shunt These data suggest that allowing spontaneous breathing activity in ALI could help to reduce lung injury ... significantly influenced resting short-term breathing patterns by selectively affecting the duration of expiration A reduction in PEEP was paralleled by an increase in respiratory rate andin minute ... Roch A, Gainnier M, Sainty JM, Auffray JP, Papazian L: Correction: Influence of support on intra-abdominal pressure, hepatic kinetics of indocyanine green and extravascular lung water during prone...
... represents another challenging circumstance in intensive caremedicine Interestingly, selective activation of A3 adenosine receptor (AR) subtype attenuated I/R-induced lung injury and associated apoptosis ... markedly increased ERK1 and ERK2 expression and attenuated reperfusion lung injury and apoptosis, thus presenting a promising approach for moderating lung injury and supporting recovery after clinical ... hand, but protecting lung epithelial cells and inducing cell recovery on the other hand Mura and colleagues [20] estimated the VEGF expression in lung tissue and its concentration in plasma and...
... pressure using a part task trainer Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, CriticalCare & Pain, 5(2), 45À8 Sinclair, R C F & Luxton, M C (2005) Rapid sequence induction Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, ... cuff by inserting a syringe into the valve housing and removing the air until a definite vacuum is noted in the syringe and the pilot balloon is collapsed 10 Extubate the patient, following currently ... carried out in Australia and Scandinavia over a number of years Myles et al (2004) published findings from a large randomised controlled trial using Bispectral Index (BIS) monitoring as a potential...
... anaesthesia are intravenous and inhalational Intravenous is more frequently used than inhalational induction in adults whereas in paediatric anaesthesia both intravenous and inhalational induction ... experience in the past with intravenous induction or prefer this method of induction An inhalational induction is often used in babies and small infants because of difficulties obtaining venous ... for injury and pain especially during placement into the lithotomy position if hip rotation and over abduction occur Intubation difficulties can be increased due to shortening and thickening...
... possibility include pre-loading with IV fluids Obstetric anaesthesia and/ or vasopressor drugs such as ephedrine, which can be prepared as an IV infusion, stand-by syringe containing 50 mg in 10 ml, ... morphine maintains a place whether administered in the traditional intravenous and intramuscular routes or via a titrated PCA system It is clear that the obstetric AP has a role within both outlying ... level and need of the post-registration AP While having to interpret and incorporate this knowledge into their own clinical role, APs must also maintain awareness of personal limitations and be...
... including staffing and training issues are addressed Basic good practice guidelines about consent and treatment have now been issued and ECT clinics are now being inspected and audited both internally ... internally and externally by health and government bodies including the Mental Health Act Commission and ECTAS This inevitably will bring about higher and better maintained standards for the care of ... of avoiding intubation either temporarily, or if successful can be instrumental in eliminating the need for intubation altogether Non-invasive ventilation is used in the clinical setting when...
... relevance to monitoring and therapy of ventilator induced lung injury Current Opinion inCritical Care, 5, 17À20 Shelly, M & Nightingale, P (1999) ABC of Intensive Care M Singer & I Grant, eds ... relevant information and evidence can be collected and stored centrally For some, portfolio building will have begun at an early stage in their career and will mainly include the education and training ... myocardial infarction New England Journal of Medicine, 310, 830À6 Goldman, B U., Christenson, R H., Hamm, C W., Meinertz, T & Ohman, E M (2001) Implications of troponin testing in clinical medicine...
... practitioners and remaining professional tensions seem increasingly less important in the face of NHS reform and modernisation Broad principles surrounding legal, 199 200 S Wordsworth professional and ... history of intestinal 34 intracranial 40, 46, 71 (see also brain; intracranial pressure) intracranial surgery 71 (see also intracranial pressure) justified risk taking during 54 obstetric and gynaecological ... Negligence Law: Seeking a Balance Aldershot: Dartmouth Publishing Index (tables and figures in italics) AAGBI (Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland), guidelines for ODP qualifications...
... group-box protein 1, lipopolysaccharide-binding protein and procalcitonin levels were higher in patients than in healthy control individuals None of the biomarkers of interest discriminated between ... E: A multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial of transfusion requirements incriticalcare Transfusion Requirements inCriticalCare Investigators, Canadian CriticalCare Trials Group ... through increased expression of heat shock protein 70 with glutamine administration [40] Heat shock proteins are a group of proteins that are induced by a wide range of stimuli and serve to maintain...
... Outcomerea Database Investigators: Reliability of diagnostic coding in intensive care patients Crit Care 2008, 12:R95 Martin GS: Epidemiology studies incriticalcare Crit Care 2006, 10:136-137 ... catheterization [8], and the ICNARC, Cub-Réa and NHDS databases have provided novel information regarding sepsis and factors that influence its incidence and outcome [9-16] Competing interests The authors ... CriticalCare 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...