... fingers of a hand, = thumb, = index finger, = middle finger, = ring finger and = little finger For example, the sequence 2-2-5-3-4 indicated the following task: index finger twice, little finger ... Physics in Medicine and Biology 1988, 33:1433-42 34 Wray S, et al: Characterization of the nearinfrared absorption spectra of cytochrome aa3 and haemoglobin for the non-invasive monitoring of ... it, you won’t think it Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports 2010 42 Grosse-Wentrup M: Biased feedback in brain-computer interfaces Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation...
... being included in this study, all the subjects underwent clinical examinations intended to exclude cerebral, cardiac, and circulatory diseases According to the rules of the local Hospital in ... improvement in motor control and reaching tasks, and increased his AAT (Aachener Aphasie Test) score from 52/60 to 56/60 Measurement protocol We applied TCD and NIRS during baseline conditions and during ... This index is expressed in %/s From the TCD data, we also calculated the Gosling's pulsatility index (PI) of the MCA in baseline conditions andin correspondence of the maximum CBFV increase during...
... drain into the inferior vena cava or coronary sinus will not be involved in this measurement Healthy resting individuals have a ScvO that is slightly lower than the SvO2 [3] In heart failure and ... distribution of cardiac output that occur in periods of hemodynamic instability In shock states, blood flow to the splanchnic and renal circulations falls, while flow to the heart and brain is maintained ... metabolism in patients with chronic heart failure were studied by magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which indicated that dobutamine has the ability to increase cardiac output and limb Možina and Podbregar...
... entry and printing Perioperative Considerations inCardiacSurgery Fig Recording bolo/drip drug administrations and computing dosages and quantities Fig Printout of anesthesia record Data Integration ... protocols incardiacsurgery are investigated and analized in terms of their effect on postoperative mortality and incidence of myocardial infarction following cardiac surgery, postoperative cardiac ... The signalling throughout the cell during anesthetic preconditioning include protein kinase C (PKC), protein tirozin kinase (PTK), mitogenactivated protein kinases (MAPK), protein kinase-B, mitochodria...
... Topics inCardiacSurgery Commonly used catecholamines such as dopamine, dobutamine, isoproterenol, epinephrine, norepinephrine and inotropic catecholamines not milrinone and levosimendan, being ... Morimatsu, et randomized 100 patients to post-operative heart to norepinephrine infusion in line and this study was carried out monitoring of renal function with infusion of norepinephrine in postsurgical ... activation of kinases and TNF The inflammatory response can be maintained by several factors including the production of cytokines such as TNF-alpha (α), interleukin (IL-1), IL-1 (beta), interleukin (IL-2),...
... antibiotic, daptomycin in the treatment of DSWI due to gram-positve organisms incardiacsurgery Our findings, suggest that treatment of daptomycinsusceptible DSWI with a daptomycin-containing antibiotic ... in three patients, type II in six, type IIIa in one, type IIIb in seven, in type IVa in two, and type V in the remaining four The patients underwent initial surgical revision, at which time a choice ... daptomycin Only a 50% success rate in patients with prosthetic joint infections was reported by Rao and Regalla [20] It must however be taking in account that in these studies the dose of daptomycin...
... 22.7 Combined CABG & valve surgery 381 13.6 Ascending aorta and aortic arch surgery 60 2.1 Combined ascending aorta & valve surgery 116 4.1 Combined ascending aorta & coronary surgery 0.2 Cardiac ... patients, enabling certain precautions to be put into place, such as daily monitoring of physiological dysfunction [27], and allowing prognoses and therapeutic choices, including withdrawal of ... of daily cardiacsurgery score (CASUS) and its derivatives incardiacsurgery patients Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2010, 58:1-6 14 Ceriani R, Mazzoni M, Bortone F, Gandini S, Solinas C, Susini G, Parodi...
... (P < 0.001) and 0.63 (P < 0.001), respectively Bland–Altman analysis showed a mean bias and LOA of -1.1 l/minute and -1.9 to +4.1 l/minute versus -1.4 l/minute and -4.8 to +2.0 l/minute, respectively ... 13:437-440 Jansen JR, Wesseling KH, Settels JJ, Schreuder JJ: Continuous cardiac output monitoring by pulse contour during cardiacsurgery Eur Heart J 1990, 11 Suppl I:26-32 Wesseling KH, Jansen JR, Settels ... continuous pulse contour cardiac output cannot be recommended after weaning from CPB Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions MS and...
... velocity infraredspectroscopy Th + 10 min, after + 90 min, Blood(BFI) by near + 40 min,start therapy;atultrasound and bood minminutes of therapy) index (BFI) by nearinfraredspectroscopy at the ... Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/1/R18 Figure Figure nearinfraredspectroscopy Correlation between cardiac output (CO) and blood flow index (BFI) by nearinfraredspectroscopy ... 0.0001 n = 76 measurements in 20 animals index by nearinfraredspectroscopy Correlation between cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) and blood flow index by nearinfraredspectroscopy r = 0.66, p...
... comparison of aprotinin and tranexamic acid in high-transfusion-risk cardiacsurgery Transfusion 2006, 46:327-338 Hughes S: Aprotinin safety again in spotlight as new study suggests increased cardiac events ... aprotinin can decrease blood loss in selected patients, data are lacking to show that administration of this agent actually improves survival Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests ... associated with aprotinin incardiacsurgery N Engl J Med 2006, 354:353-365 Cosgrove DM, III, Heric B, Lytle BW, Taylor PC, Novoa R, Golding LA, Stewart RW, McCarthy PM, Loop FD: Aprotinin therapy for...
... malfunction, and CO monitor malfunction In our intraoperative and early postoperative setting in patients undergoing cardiac surgery, we found the use of the PAC with fast determination of the ... bias and LOAs of -0.2 litres per minute and -2.2 to +2.6 litres per minute after cardiacsurgery [6] Therefore, we suggest that CO determination with pulse contour analysis in a setting after cardiac ... of calibrated COTranspulm and COPAC measurements prior, during, and after CABG surgery The bias and LOAs of COWave need to be evaluated in different settings against standard methods of CO measurements...
... tranexamic acid in the study by Jimenez and colleagues [1] to attenuate inflammation reveals a glimpse of how the fibrinolytic and pro-inflammatory responses are interlinked The interplay of other ... once initiated, can lead to significant mortality and morbidity in subgroups of patients following cardiacsurgeryIn the last two decades, much scientific effort has led us closer to a definition ... coagulation and fibrinolysis, has the potential to lead to more effective interventions for the clinician perioperatively andin the management of critically ill patients Competing interests The...
... determinations Plasma creatinine, C-reactive protein (CRP), glucose, albumin, leukocytes, and platelets were determined daily for clinical purposes, and aspartate amino transferase, alanine amino ... patients (30 and 36, or 29% and 37%, respectively, in AOX and placebo groups; P = 0.11); it was most frequent in the cardiac patients (P < 0.0001) and least frequent in SAH (2 in AOX andin placebo) ... of cardiacand trauma patients (8.6 mmol/L), and lowest in SAH (6.2 mmol/L) and decreasing significantly over time (P = 0.005), the decrease being similar in the AOX and placebo groups Insulin...
... resistance, and LV stroke work [57] Furthermore, when stoke volume was increased comparably, dobutamine increased heart rate more than epinephrine Epinephrine, dobutamine and dopamine all increase ... Precardiotomy deteriorating fast Deteriorating haemodynamic instability: increasing doses of intravenous inotropes and/ or IABP necessary to maintain SBP > 80mmHg and/ or CI >1.8 L/minute/m2 Progressive ... intravenous inotropes and/ or IABP are necessary to maintain SBP >80 mmHg and/ or CI >1.8 L/minute/m2 without clinical improvement Failure to wean from inotropes (decreasing inotropes results in...
... acid was administered [5] The current study adds to the data questioning if tranexamic acid administration has a place in higher risk cardiacsurgeryand especially insurgery where a cardiac chamber ... clinically as an increase in seizure activity [9,10] Second, several other groups have independently made the observation of increased seizure activity, mainly in patients having open cardiac chamber ... Competing interests In the past years DR has acted as a paid consultant to Bayer Schering, Cubist and Curacyte, the pharmaceutical companies who have the potential blood-sparing agents aprotinin...
... of increasing complexity starting with a model considering hepatic first pass effect under linear and non linear conditions, then, adding the intestinal metabolic step and finally considering ... and low intrinsic hepatic clearance (Clint,0H) High and low inter-individual variability in intrinsic hepatic clearance (this point will be explained in detail in the model) High and low Michaelis-Menten ... flow (ΦH), and the intrinsic clearance at concentration C(Clint, CH) EH Clint,CH Clint,CH H (7) in which Clint, CH is Clint,CH Clint, H· KmH KmH C (8) Thus Clint, CH is a non-linear function...
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