epilepsy and intensive care monitoring indications procedures and administration

... Acid–base balance and disorders In Oh’s Intensive Care Manual Edited by Bersten AD, Soni N Edinburgh: Butterworth Heinemann; 2003:873-883 Morgan TJ: Haemodynamic monitoring In Oh’s Intensive Care Manual ... DA: Intravenous fluid administration and controversies in acid–base Crit Care Resusc 1999, 1:151-156 Figge J, Jabor A, Kazda A, Fencl V: Anion gap and hypoalbuminemia Crit Care Med 1998, 26:1807-1810 ... of standard albumin and gelatin based colloids to cause metabolic acidosis is probably similar to that of saline By contrast, hetastarch and pentastarch are not weak acids, and the SID of standard...

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... charts are not new to health care, but they are not used widely in intensive care medicine Lovegrove and colleagues [19] and Poloniecki and colleagues [7] described the monitoring of outcome from ... Brady AR, Rowan K: Case mix, outcome and length of stay for admissions to adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: the Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre ... Measuring Health Care Outcomes Edited by: Iezzoni L Chicago IL: Health Administration Press; 1994:29-118 Rowan K: Outcome comparisons of intensive care units in Great Britain and Ireland using the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... NS Level of care Full care 1.00 Full care, but no CPR 1.23 (1.09 to 1.39) 0.001 Comfort care 1.35 (1.07 to 1.70) 0.010 *Time-independent (age, baseline creatinine, random glucose) and time-dependent ... (IQR) μmol/L Level of care, number (%) Full care 887 (97) 4799 (95) 2018 (94) Full care, but no CPR 30 (3) 258 (5) 135 (6) Comfort care (0) 11(0) (0) *Results reported as mean (standard deviation) ... signs, Glasgow Coma Score, all laboratory values and level of care (full care, full care without cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), comfort care) Severity of illness at inception (within the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... resolution of critical illness and shorter intensive care unit and hospital lengths of stay and interpretation, and drafting of the manuscript WIJ participated in data acquisition and drafting of the manuscript ... (DIS and SA 6), tracheostomy (DIS and SA 0), and study withdrawal (DIS and SA 1) Patients randomly assigned to DIS were more likely to withdraw from the study (P = 0.03) Five patients (4 DIS and ... EW: Efficacy and safety of a paired sedation and ventilator weaning protocol for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care (awakening and breathing controlled trial): a randomised controlled...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... days intensive care Nutrition administered toto all 504 patients during the firstdays of of intensive care Feeding at represents the administration of nutrition between admission and a.m., and ... the treatment and investigation were unaware of the randomised schedule and the block size Interventions Patients were randomly assigned to receive either standard insulin therapy or intensive insulin ... 250) in the standard insulin group and 36.6% (93 of 254) in the intensive insulin group ICU mortality was similar for patients of the standard insulin group and in those from the intensive insulin...

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... decision support, in several ways We compare the rates and types of MEs and the potential outcome of intercepted and non-intercepted errors Materials and methods In April 2002, University College Hospitals ... entry Results The mean Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II scores for the HWP (19.4, standard deviation 9.5, n = 56) and CPOE (20.0, standard deviation 8.0, n = 99) periods ... prospectively look for all missed prescriptions, standard care was for the pharmacist to review admissions and note discrepancies between ward and ICU prescriptions This error occurred during the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... appropriate anaesthesia and sedation, preanaesthetic preparation and techniques appropriate for adults and children for CT scan, MRI and angiography and post-investigation care An understanding of the ... anaesthetists and intensive care doctors working in hospital practice The material in the book covers all the common pathologies encountered in hospital anaesthetic practice and intensive care Included ... anaesthesia, intensive care and pain management This includes pre-operative assessment and selection and interpretation of appropriate investigations It also includes knowledge of diagnostic imaging and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2014, 10:25

... contributed to study design and concept and writing and editing of the manuscript VT: contributed to the study design and concept, writing and editing of the manuscript and provided financial support ... K23AR054334 and #5T32DK007298 The authors responsibilities were as followed LJ, LVY and SEJ: contributed to the study design and concept, statistical analysis, and writing of the manuscript HMB, GM and ... critically 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...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... pediatric intensive care survivors of serious brain injury Pediatr Crit Care Med 2002, 3:345-350 Gemke RJ, Bonsel GJ, van Vught AJ: Long-term survival and state of health after paediatric intensive care ... admission to an intensive care unit Intensive Care Med 2003, 29:795-800 Ambuehl J, Karrer A, Meer A, Riedel T, Schibler A: Quality of life of survivors of paediatric intensive care Swiss Med Wkly ... pediatric intensive care: a report of a national study of pediatric intensive care units in the United kingdom Pediatrics 2006, 118:2101-2108 Taylor A, Butt W, Ciardulli M: The functional outcome and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... 82 Operating Theatre Figure personnel Percentage stress in Intensive Care and operating theatre Percentage stress in Intensive Care and operating theatre personnel none medium high total Chi ... from the Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Departments of three hospital, Ferrara, Rovigo and Treviso, in northern Italy We measured subjective emotional discomfort (stress) and its correlation with ... the same environmental conditions; they carry out their duties in operating theatres and Intensive Care units, and are confined to closed, air-conditioned environments with a lack of natural light,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... of life after intensive care evaluation with EQ-5D questionnaire Intensive Care Med 2002, 28:898-907 Girard TD, Pandharipande PP, Ely EW: Delirium in the intensive care unit Crit Care 2008, 12(Suppl ... Medicine, Surgery, and Critical Care, Section of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, University Hospital of Florence, Florence, Italy 16 15 17 18 Authors’ contributions MC and SB conceived and designed ... after intensive care in medical cardiovascular and pulmonary patients Crit Care Med 2003, 31:2163-9 Cuthbertson BH, Scott J, Strachan M, Kilonzo M, Vale L: Quality of life before and after intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... PM Page i 22 Recent Advances in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care This page intentionally left blank 22 Recent Advances in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Edited by A.P Adams MB BS, MRCS, LRCP, PhD, ... transfer it was decided to include more Intensive Care Medicine topics and consequently the title has been changed to Recent Advances in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care In association with this change, ... concern, particularly among patients in the intensive care unit In their chapter on Antibiotics and Nosocomial Infection in the Intensive Care Unit, Prof Chastre and Dr Trouillet point out that the excess...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 11:20

... functions of postcontudes regression (and coefficients of correlation) for ampliLinearandage Linear regression (and coefficients of correlation) for amplitudes and amplitude indexes of PR as functions ... contributions EB and MB participated in all data collection, in the analysis and discussion of the results, and in the writing of the manuscript MO participated in clinical data collection and advised ... neonates hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) face many challenges to adapt to the new environment Heat loss [1], weight loss [2], respiratory distress and cardiac instability [3] are...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... them with additional training, including handbooks and instructions on how to collect data Healthcare professionals and managers between 40 and 49 years old and working in academic or teaching hospitals ... implementation and hospital performance on quality indicators Health Serv Res 2006, 41:307-334 Halpern NA, Bettes L, Greenstein R: Federal and nationwide intensive care units and healthcare costs: ... Healthcare professionals and managers working at ICUs in academic and teaching hospitals tend to be more prepared to change behaviour and to actively work towards implementation compared to healthcare...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Sheba Medical Center Tel Aviv University 52621 Tel Hashomer Israel Bloos F Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Klinikum der ... utility and efficacy For example, monitoring in the field or in the emergency department is often less invasive that that seen during major surgery in the operating room or intensive care unit And monitoring ... Hemodynamic Monitoring: Foundations and Future Fig Schematic representation of the level of intensity of hemodynamic monitoring by place in the health care delivery system and type of monitoring...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 18:21

... substrate and mediators such as PARP inhibitors Application and timing of these therapeutic modalities will depend on the type and phase MMDS is in and will include such factors Adequate monitoring and ... pressure) In intensive care unit (ICU) patients, the determinants of the phasic components of flow should be integrated into the understanding and the therapeutic strategy Oxygen Supply/Oxygen Demand ... outcome, and associated costs of care Crit Care Med 29:1303–1310 Guyton AC, Hall JE (1997) Human Physiology and Mechanisms of Disease, 6th edition WB Saunders, Philadelphia Robin ED (1980) Of men and...

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... (2002) Endothelial cell dysfunction and abnormal tissue perfusion Crit Care Med 30:S229–S234 14 Vallet B (1998) Vascular reactivity and tissue oxygenation Intensive Care Med 24:3–11 15 Wenger RH (2000) ... shock Crit Care Med 27:2361–2366 66 Bland RD, Shoemaker WC, Abraham E, Cobo JC (1985) Hemodynamic and oxygen transport patterns in surviving and nonsurviving postoperative patients Crit Care Med ... undertaken procedures in clinical medicine and the data it provides are crucial in monitoring patients with hypertension However non-invasive techniques are only used in a minority of intensive care...

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... insert and perform Correct signal acquisition is easy to achieve and recognize and, from both the size and shape of the waveform, decisions on fluid therapy, inotrope, pressor and dilator usage, and ... analysis to monitor stroke volume and cardiac output continuously Integrating such a monitoring tool into the existing and accepted concepts such as pressureand volume -monitoring seems to be a promising ... ventilation Intensive Care Med 18:142–147 15 Sakka SG, Ruhl CC, Pfeiffer UJ, et al (2000) Assessment of cardiac preload and extravascular lung water by single transpulmonary thermodilution Intensive Care...

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... abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery Crit Care Med 25:1472–1479 Landow L, Andersen LW (1994) Splanchnic ischemia and its role in multiple organ failure Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 38:626–639 Okazaki K, Miyazaki ... Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Springer, Heidelberg, pp 535–544 30 De Backer D, Dubois MJ (2001) Assessment of the microcirculatory flow in patients in the intensive care unit ... stay and mechanical ventilation were reduced in the EGDT group Polonen and colleagues [30] studied patients undergoing cardiac surgery, randomizing them to control or protocol care Protocolized care...

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... (William Hurford, Intensive Care Medicine, 1988) Introduction Improvements in surgical techniques and perioperative anesthetic management have led to surgery and intensive care therapy for patients ... tissue hypoperfusion may also wax and wane in the intensive care unit ( ICU) patient and be considerably more subtle than the patient presenting with acute hypotension and fluid evidence of tissue ... J Crit Care 6:152–159 12 Gilbert EM, Haupt MT, Mandanas RY, Huaringa AJ, Carlson RW (1986) The effect of fluid loading, blood transfusion and catecholamine infusion on oxygen delivery and consumption...

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