management of hypertension in the pediatric intensive care unit

... postoperative pain was administered 100 mg intravenous fentanyl during continuous EEG monitoring The frequency quickly diminished in about min, demonstrating the rapid clinical action of the short-acting ... because of its ability to continuously monitor the end result of therapeutics at the neuronal level, improving the timing of therapeutic intervention by physicians not timing of therapeutic intervention ... increasing with excitement and decreasing with tranquility These rhythms occur mainly in the posterior head and are the predominant brain activity in the normal brain The beta rhythm occurs in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... four staff work daily in the ICU department The ICU has 24 beds with continuous non-invasive monitoring and ventilators There are windows in the bed areas of the ICU Trained clinician-researchers ... for the decrease in acetylcholine activity in the brain 2.5–26.4 Elevated level of serum urea nitrogen The prevalence of delirium in the Emergency Department was 9.6% [28] In this series, the ... surgeons and anesthesiologists could reduce the incidence of delirium in the patients who are at high risk by carefully ordering and monitoring the dosages of drugs, and watching for signs of cardiac...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... misinterpretation of data The study involved catheterization of the right external jugular vein in dogs and assessment of the pulmonary artery waveforms via digital sampling The neural network was ‘trained’ ... priorities in the pulmonary artery catheter group were defined by the investigators before the study began, and assessment of achievement of these goals was based on the highest value obtained; however, ... pulmonary artery catheters over standard care in this patient group Indeed, there was a higher rate of pulmonary embolism in the catheter group than in the standard treatment arm The physiological...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... unit (ICU) patients with ICU stay* ues outside of intensive care during the first 50 days ofserum sodium Proportion of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with serum sodium valvalues outside the ... based and reflect the management of all patients admitted to ICUs under the care of 26 intensive care specialists, it is possible that patients treated in other types of ICUs or in other health regions ... hospital care to the residents of the city of Calgary and surrounding areas (population 1.2 million) in the province of Alberta, Canada [14] All critically ill adult patients in the CHR are managed in...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... detected in seven of the eight children infected with multiple viruses, including all three patients infected with a coronavirus Of the 14 children with a single infection, nine had RSV The other ... small number Furthermore, the yield of viral culture depends on the quality of sampling, the correct transport and storage of samples, and the type of cells used In addition, the technique has ... causes of the common cold On the other hand, there is increasing evidence that they are also important causes of severe lower respiratory disease Rhinovirus infections have been reported in elderly...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... hyperglycemia in a pediatric critical care unit Pediatr Crit Care Med 2008, 9:581-588 12 Klein G, Hojsak J, Schmeidler J, Rapaport R: Hyperglycemia and outcome in the pediatric intensive care unit J ... safety of this therapy Abbreviations BG: blood glucose; ICU: intensive care unit Author details Medical Center of Central Georgia, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care ... across the spectrum of medical disciplines As such, even in the absence of direct evidence of improved outcomes with glycemic control in pediatric critical care, there may be good reason for pediatric...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... PREVENTION OF HYPOGLYCEMIA 34 Potential Harm From Insulin Therapy • The Joint Commission considers insulin to be of the highest-risk medicines in the inpatient setting – Consequences of errors with insulin ... • Initiate prandial doses of rapid-acting analogue with the first dietary trays, even if patient is receiving IV insulin infusion Find a 6- to 8-h interval during IV insulin infusion when the ... therapies reduce insulin needs? 19 Calculating the SC Insulin Dose • Establish the 24-hour insulin requirement by extrapolating from the average intravenous insulin dose required over the previous...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2015, 21:12

... disease in the developed countries, whereas in some of these countries it occurs in the 20-30% of the adult population Arterial hypertension is highly prevalent in the Epidemiology of hypertension in ... moderate hypertension is less clear in the development renal failure Based on the Hellenic Society for the Study of Hypertension guidelines (2008) the aim of the screening of blood pressure in the ... progression of renal disease development Secondary hypertension accounts for approximately 5-10% of all cases of hypertension and results from an underlying, identifiable cause In the remaining 95% of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21

... Simultaneously, the voluntary efforts of bearing down increases the intra-abdominal pressure, facilitating the development of a stripping wave, resulting in stool evacuation Common causes of constipation in ... ­ paring of neuronal nitric oxide in human colon.20 These fi ­ ndings suggest an increase in inhibitory neurons in the aging colon, affecting gut motility However, the ­ ignificance of s these ... and perception of critical level of filling in the rectum When the individual adopts a sitting or squatting position, the anal sphincters and the puborectalis relax, straightening the anorectal...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... tubers to the i) The increased yield of crops planted in the first field generation RRD will be demonstrated This will involve the importation of high quality seed in the RRD and the final bulking ... This in part reflected the higher priority placed on the project by the Vietnamese counterparts as the results of the trials and training became evident 3.5 Monitoring of project In the initial ... and ware marketing A comprehensive survey was conducted providing an insight into the margins made in the sale of ware potatoes to Ho Chi Minh and the reasoning behind choice of seed It had been...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... (11:00 to 12:00 in the morning, 14:00 to 15:00 in the afternoon, and 17:00 to 21:00 in the evening) Bathing and measurement of body weight were conducted daily in the morning Medical examinations, ... 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 on clinical implications of physiological ... rhythmic in our study (i.e., presence of a lightdark cycle, of a cycle of NICU staffing, of a cycle of bathing, etc.) prevents us from making inferences about the endogenous or exogenous nature of...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... troponin healthy infants older intensive care admissions along with healthy infants The boxes are the interquartile ranges, the whiskers are the 5th to 95th percentiles, with the heavy black line ... (77%) of the samples being collected under general anaesthetic cTnT was detected in six (10%) of the healthy infants Diagnoses in these six patients were (one patient each): inguinal hernia; skin ... following admission This may reflect the release kinetics of cTnT, or the type of myocardial injury seen in these babies In a full thickness myocardial infarct troponin starts to rise within two...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... ScvO2 between baseline and six hours in either the surviving or non-surviving group of patients However, there was a significant increase in ScvO2 at six hours in the overall group of patients with ... system; FiO2, inspired fractional oxygen concentration; ICU, intensive care unit; LOSbefore ICU, length of stay in hospital before intensive care unit admission; LOShospital, length of stay in hospital; ... either in the whole collective or in the different patient groups Discussion The main finding of this study was that low ScvO2 at admission was associated with increased risk of mortality in...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... the ICUs of 21 university, teaching, and non-teaching hospitals in the Netherlands The data were obtained from the database of the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) [8] For the data ... new tree of the given size, and the 10th is used to assess the accuracy of that tree in predicting the outcomes in this 10th subset This process is repeated for each of the remaining nine sets ... was involved in the acquisition of the data, and helped draft the manuscript AA-H was involved in the acquisition of the data and was responsible for the statistical analysis ML helped draft the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... detection of the source of infection did not involve interventions other than those routinely performed in the care of patients under these circumstances In accordance with official recommendations of ... involved in the care of patients, reviewed the literature, coordinated the study and drafted the manuscript EM and TR were involved in the care of the patients CS performed identification of the causative ... date of admission to the ICU and recovery of the first sample in which B cepacia was isolated, are shown in Table In four patients specimens were obtained in the ICU, whereas in the remaining...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... transfer, aftercare program and procedure This follow-up study is part of the standard aftercare program of the department of Pediatric Intensive Care The objective of the aftercare program was ... survey in The Netherlands the prevalence rates of mental health problems in the present study are considerably higher In general, the 1-month prevalence of anxiety disorders in The Netherlands ... populations Therefore, findings of this study are preliminary and exploratory Besides, it minimized the number of risk variables that could be included in the analyses of our study Therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... consisted of board-certified intensivists, ICU fellows and residents Residents, mainly from the Department of Anesthesiology and the Department of Internal Medicine, received months of training in the ... measures were influenced by a learning process over time Before the start of the study and during the baseline and intervention periods, the clinical services, including the ICU, offered by our ... Before the start of the study, both ICU hospital pharmacists completed a training period of weeks in the ICU During this training, they familiarized themselves with the daily practices and routines...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... emphasized in the studies assessing the effects of implementation of the guidelines of the surviving sepsis campaign [27,39] In view of the limitations of our work, the observations about the use of ... [37,38] The use of guidelines could be a surrogate marker for a better quality of care in general in the ICUs, thereby explaining the link between availability of guidelines and prognosis This point ... universally in the intensive care unit? Crit Care 2010, 14:205 doi:10.1186/cc9961 Cite this article as: Montravers et al.: Strategies of initiation and streamlining of antibiotic therapy in 41 French intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21