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medical management of the patient undergoing cardiac surgery

Medical management of the hospitalized alcoholic patient

Medical management of the hospitalized alcoholic patient

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... Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome CPRC The Problem Patients may not tell physician about alcohol use if they are not asked about it Patients usually will state they use much less alcohol than they ... sedation (large, frequent doses of benzodiazepines) cannot stop DTs once they have begun CPRC Medical Complications in Patients with Alcoholism Increased risk of all types of infections due to: decreased ... manifestation of alcohol withdrawal Affects < 5% of patients Mortality 15%, due to: myocardial infarction respiratory arrest sepsis As age increases, risk of DTs increases Rare in patients < 30 years of...
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Assessment and Management of the Elderly Patient with Multiple Sclerosis pot

Assessment and Management of the Elderly Patient with Multiple Sclerosis pot

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... Care in the Elderly 2012:4 Elderly patient with multiple sclerosis Pain Pain is one of the most common symptoms of MS and can be seen in more than half of all patients with MS Pain can either be ... mobility in patients with MS.5 Furthermore, exercise can help counteract the effects of disuse atrophy Given the potential implications of serious falls, many older patients may develop a “fear of falling” ... density in patients with MS There are currently no clinical guidelines in the evaluation, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis in MS patients.53 The current recommendations of screening the general...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "The complicated management of a patient following transarterial chemoembolization for metastatic carcinoid" potx

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... from the patient for publication of this case report and accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Competing interests The ... that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions The management of pneumatosis intestinalis in this patient also proved quite challenging Given the timing of onset after evidence of ... characterized by gas-filled cysts in the wall of either the large or small bowel The most common and most emergent life-threatening cause of intramural bowel gas is the result of bowel necrosis [12] Distinguishing...
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Báo cáo y học: "Roundtable debate: Controversies in the management of the septic patient – desperately seeking consensus" ppsx

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... because they got blood but rather the timing of how much fluid they received At the end of 72 hours, both groups received the same amount of fluid but it was frontloaded in the early goal-directed therapy ... intake My immediate therapeutic concern is the tachycardia, the nature of the cardiac rhythm, and the possibility of myocardial ischemia Dr A As we stand at the bedside, reviewing the admission laboratory ... intravascularly replete How is that point defined in the patient with organ failure? It depends, in part, on the age of the patient and cardiac function If the patient is young or left ventricular function...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Optimal management of the high risk surgical patient: beta stimulation or beta blockade" pdf

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... patients (80% of the cohort) Second, RCRI assess specifically the cardiac risk of the patient, not the mortality related to the surgical procedure Accordingly, mortality was 6% to 7% in the patients ... assess the adequacy of DO2 Pearse et al [9] also measured ScvO2 in most of the patients investigated in their study assessing the efficacy of GDT [8] They reported that ScvO2 fluctuated over the ... On the contrary, evidence that beta-blockade therapy increased the risk of death in patients with RCRI scores below is much more robust, as this analysis included the vast majority of the patients...
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Báo cáo y học: "The use of moderate hypothermia during cardiac surgery is associated with repression of tumour necrosis factor-α via inhibition of activating protein-1: an experimental study" doc

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... inhibition of Raf, hypothermia suppresses the phosphorylation of p38 MAPK in vitro, thereby inhibiting phosphorylation of c-Jun and AP-1 activation [22] Regulation of the activity of AP-1 occurs ... showed that the inhibition of p38 MAPK activities blocks TNF-α secretion in transgenic hearts The congruency of the effect of moderate hypothermia on phosphorylation of p38 MAPK and activity of AP-1, ... placed and the chest was closed Postoperative care The lungs of the pigs were mechanically ventilated until the end of the experiment Postoperative monitoring included continuous registration of heart...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Diagnostic value and prognostic implications of serum procalcitonin after cardiac surgery: a systematic review of the literature" pptx

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... patients after minor and aseptic surgery, in 59% after cardiac and thoracic surgery, and in 95% of patients after surgery of the intestine Cardiac surgery per se and the use of cardiopulmonary bypass ... valvular surgery with CBP.© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia Reproduced from [36] by permission of Oxford University Press/British Journal of Anaesthesia ... [33,38,54] Rothenburger et al [35] evaluated the diagnostic value of PCT and CRP in a group of 59 patients undergoing CPB At a cutoff level of ng/ml, PCT had a sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 98%...
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Báo cáo y học: " Serum Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 are early biomarkers of acute kidney injury and predict prolonged mechanical ventilation in children undergoing cardiac surgery: a case-control study" pps

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... Whether these and other cytokines might be early biomarkers of AKI in patients, and whether these biomarkers would predict other adverse outcomes in patients with AKI are unknown To test whether ... to high levels of IL-6, or may have been the result of the patient' s proinflammatory state In our study, patients were children undergoing CPB, in which the major insult is the surgery and bypass ... a therapeutic target in AKI Modulation of these cytokines may reduce the degree of kidney injury itself, as well as the deleterious effects of kidney injury on other end organs, including the...
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Báo cáo y học: " Urine interleukin-6 is an early biomarker of acute kidney injury in children undergoing cardiac surgery" pdf

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... any sample collection Two patients were subsequently excluded due to gross hemolysis of the urine samples Of the 23 patients included in the Statistical analysis of patient data Data was analyzed ... (Hercules, CA, USA) The detection limit of the human IL-6 assay is 0.7 pg/mL; the detection limit of the mouse IL-6 assay is 1.6 pg/mL Injection of recombinant human IL-6 A total of 200 ng of recombinant ... duration of cardiopulmonary bypass (minutes), age, gender, and length of stay (ICU and hospital) There was no management component of this study; patients were managed according to standard of care Patient...
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Báo cáo y học: "Management of the critically poisoned patient" potx

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... which limits the use for direction of care in the acute setting [15] When used appropriately, diagnostic tests may be of help in the management of the intoxicated patient In the patient whose ... administered in cases of suspected or confirmed ingestion of ethylene glycol or methanol Fomepizole prevents the conversion of these agents to the metabolites associated with the majority of the toxic effects ... [24-27] There are several concerns in regard to utilizing the osmol gap as a screening tool in the evaluation of the potentially toxic-alcohol poisoned patient If a patient' s ingestion of a toxic...
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Báo cáo y học: "Clinical accuracy of RIFLE and Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) criteria for acute kidney injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery" pptx

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... (19%) of these patients were categorized in the failure class by RIFLE The other patients were distributed to other RIFLE classes (Table 4) It is important to note that whereas 9.6% of patients ... were the sCr values measured the first day after surgery The sCr values at ICU admission at the day of surgery were not considered in our study We could demonstrate that the majority of patients ... limitations and strengths of both consensus definitions of AKI (in the current versions), we favor the use of RIFLE criteria in patients undergoing cardiac surgery • Correction of sCr for fluid accumulation...
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Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient pps

Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient pps

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... Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient, 3E Medical Care of the Liver Transplant Patient, 3E Edited by Paul G Killenberg, MD Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology ... retransplantation in the context of limited donor organs and the closely related problem of recurrence of the original liver disease in the liver graft Although the basic principles of medical care for the liver ... is best for the transplant center to evaluate the risk SELECTION AND EVALUATION OF THE RECIPIENT of surgery in the context of the potential benefit of transplantation It should further be noted...
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Preoperative medical evaluation of the adult healthy patient

Preoperative medical evaluation of the adult healthy patient

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... mortality than any of the conventional cardiac risk factors of the Revised Cardiac Risk Index Medication use — Clinicians should obtain a history of medication use for all patients before surgery and ... at the time of admission in 1109 patients undergoing elective surgery [37] In 47 percent of cases, the same tests had been performed within the previous year When repeated at admission: ● Of ... asymptomatic patients undergoing low-risk surgical procedures ECGs have a low likelihood of changing perioperative management in the absence of known cardiac disease The prevalence of abnormal...
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Tài liệu Follow-Up of the patient who has received pacemaker pptx

Tài liệu Follow-Up of the patient who has received pacemaker pptx

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... analyze the data and has the capability of sending them on to the physician's office Data are being gathered on the utility of these more sophisticated devices One of the goals is to reduce the need ... wave) on the other side Although the heights of the objects are fixed, the height of the fence can be varied By lowering the fence (from 4.0 to 0.5 mV/cm), the sensitivity is increased and the object ... dislodgement of the lead The relatively thin wall of the myocardium in the pediatric patient represents a particular problem for the use of screw-in electrodes because the screw tends to go through the...
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Evaluation of the Patient Safety Improvement Corps pot

Evaluation of the Patient Safety Improvement Corps pot

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... indepth appreciation of the complexities of patient safety coming out of the program, but they underscored a need for continued training beyond the end of the third week of training The Year trainees ... skills and tools The goal of the train -the- trainer portion of the PSIC is to broaden the reach of the PSIC to more individuals and organizations EVALUATING THE PSIC ROLE IN THE AHRQ PATIENT SAFETY ... Content of the PSIC Training Both groups of trainees interviewed felt that the content of the training was targeted at the appropriate level Of the skills and tools taught during the course, the...
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Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Management of the Athlete potx

Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Management of the Athlete potx

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... and racing In the early days of my diabetes, it was the consistency that had gone The main issue was not actually the controlling of the diabetes; it had more to with the refueling of my body To ... strongly supported by the growth in the clinical research knowledge base of the effects of diabetes on the physiological response to exercise, on the effect of exercise on the response to hypoglycaemia ... modulated as the duration of the exercise increases and as the intensity of the activity changes Since one of the main fuels for exercise is carbohydrate, glucose utilization by the working muscle...
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Care of the Patient with Retinal Detachment And Related Peripheral Vitreoretinal Disease docx

Care of the Patient with Retinal Detachment And Related Peripheral Vitreoretinal Disease docx

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... to the loss of the overlying retina If the edge of the dialysis remains close to the RPE, then the tear may not be discovered unless scleral depression is performed As the vitreous contracts, the ... asymptomatic (i.e., the person often is unaware of the loss of an area of peripheral vision) The sudden onset of numerous floaters and the occurrence of flashes of light are hallmarks of a potential retinal ... the patient more relaxed and Management Strategy for Retinal Detachment The optometric management of the patient with retinal detachment is outlined in Appendix Figure Initial management of the...
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HEALTH STATUS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE FUTURE ELDERLY: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICARE PROGRAM EXPENDITURES potx

HEALTH STATUS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE FUTURE ELDERLY: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICARE PROGRAM EXPENDITURES potx

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... receiver, of the energy that emerges from the tissue (in the case of x-ray, CT, or ultrasound) or the change in the state of the tissue as a result of application of some energy (in the case of MRI) ... prevention of disease was the subject of breakthroughs in all three of the medically focused panels These breakthroughs include the prevention of cardiovascular disease, the prevention of a variety of ... guidance on the likely future of advances in the medical treatment of specific illnesses and the early detection and prevention of diseases Most of these panels consist of physicians or biomedical...
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Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of the Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy pot

Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of the Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy pot

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... of BP BP should be measured with the woman in the sitting position with the arm at the level of the heart (II-2A) An appropriately sized cuff (i.e., length of 1.5 times the circumference of the ... as the objective of statin therapy is to decrease long-term cardiovascular risk, the potential risks of statin therapy (over the nine months of pregnancy) may outweigh the potential benefits of ... Of note, the protocol for women in the MgSO4 arm of the largest of these trials, the Collaborative Eclampsia Trial, did not include administration of benzodiazepines for seizure termination The...
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NASA’S MANAGEMENT OF THE MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY PROJECT potx

NASA’S MANAGEMENT OF THE MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY PROJECT potx

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... checks the overall health of the spacecraft Central control of the entire flight system is under control of the flight software running in the RCE, the same architecture as was used for the Mars ... (Flight Software, continued) Task Description The RCE is the key element of the MSL avionics subsystem, which entirely controls the MSL spacecraft Rover flight software is the software in the main ... 2014 In light of the importance of the MSL Project to NASA’s Mars Program, the Office of Inspector General conducted an audit to examine whether the Agency has effectively managed the Project to...
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