nursing care of patients with lower respiratory tract disorders

... showing band of 683 bp, Influenza A of 105 bp, Influenza B of 503 bp Lane 3: Marker 100 bp ladder Lane 4: Amplicon for PIV1 showing band of 84 bp, PIV2 of 197 bp, PIV3 of 266 bp, and hMPV of 440 bp ... of acute lower respiratory disease of children in a pediatric group practice J Pediatr 1971, 78(3):397-406 Fan J, Henrickson KJ, Savatski LL: Rapid simultaneous diagnosis of infections with respiratory ... deaths in developing world [2] Viruses account for 50–90% of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) in young children [3] with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), parainfluenza viruses...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... A total of 23 patients were included in the study LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection; PICU, paediatric intensive care unit the probes All samples had been spiked before extraction with an ... nmol/l of the forward and reverse primers and 75–200 nmol/l of each of Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/2/R61 Table Demographic and clinical characteristics of children with lower respiratory ... 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 five patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... Effect of prone positioning on the survival of patients with acute respiratory failure N Engl J Med 2001, 345:568-573 The ARDS Network: Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional ... the prone position on patients with hydrostatic pulmonary edema compared with patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary fibrosis Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000, 161:360-368 ... 40–49 31–40 0–31 Quartiles of SAPS II Proning may benefit the most seriously ill subset of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome Those in the quartile with the highest Simplified...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... fluid [7], and was associated with a lower incidence of MOF [8] However, the measurement of proinflammatory cytokines does not address the issue of maintenance of alveolar–epithelial barrier ... the development of MOF [6] In a randomized controlled trial conducted in 44 patients, Ranieri and coworkers demonstrated that a lung protective strategy attenuated the levels of proinflammatory ... Critical Care June 2004 Vol No dos Santos and Slutsky that this is associated with apoptosis of cells in distal organs (kidney, villi of colon) and end-organ dysfunction...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... Median age of deceased patients was 35 years after a median of 9.5 days of mechanical ventilation (IQR = 3.2 to 15.7) Chest radiograph findings were abnormal in all patients Patients with viral ... cause of ICU admission in (H1N1)v infected patients, developing severe respiratory failure, which is associated with a relatively high case-fatality An international registry of patients with ... mean of 1.5 days of hospital admission • An international registry of ICU patients with influenza A (H1N1)v infection is warranted Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Critical Care...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... improve the pharmaceutical care of patients with cancer Thus, a key issue exists – can the pharmaceutical care of patients with cancer be enhanced by leveraging on the role of pharmacoinformatics ... records.45-48 Nevertheless, with the rapid development of informatics and IT, the potential of such health information systems are indeed attractive in the pharmaceutical care of patients with cancer 1.3.2 ... .39 2.2 Healthcare professionals’ sources of anticancer drug interaction information 40 2.3 Sources of drug interaction information based on the practice settings of healthcare professionals...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:50

... cohort of scleroderma patients in which a restrictive ventilatory defect was observed in 22% of the patients and secondary PAH in 18% of the patients [30] In our cohort 93.5% of patients with abnormal ... prevalence of alveolitis have been noted in past studies (from 48% to 72%), even considering those with a high number of patients [4,1921] probably because of the different ratios of patients with ... in 16% of our cohort but in 50% of patients with diffuse skin involvement, while moderate-severe restrictive lung disease occurred in 12% of the whole cohort and in 41.7% of the patients with diffuse...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... antibiotic use in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected lower respiratory tract infection The use of PCT to guide antibiotic use resulted in significantly fewer patients receiving ... Recommendation Based on the results of this study, we conclude that PCT testing has the potential to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use in patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infections Still, ... prognostic marker of ventilator-associated pneumonia Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005, 171:4853 Scheinman RI, Cogswell PC, Lofquist AK, Baldwin AS Jr: Role of transcriptional activation of I kappa B...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... population A total of 1,359 persons with the presumed diagnosis of LRTI were included A majority of patients (92.5%) were admitted to the hospital with a median length of stay of eight (interquartile ... stratification of early admission to the intensive care unit of patients with no major criteria of severe community-acquired pneumonia: development of an international prediction rule Crit Care 2009, ... complications, which consisted of empyema only, in 31 patients (3.4%) Of note, some patients experienced more than one serious complication The number of patients with CAP in the six participating...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... that at least 75% of children have been infected with HPIV1 by years of age [4,5] HPIV1 and show high prevalence and are associated with up to 12% of acute lower respiratory tract infections in ... parents of all subjects for the donation of samples used in this study All patients were aged from to 43 years (4.1 ± 5.0 years; mean ± SD) Patients were mainly diagnosed with upper respiratory ... [24] The likelihood of the SR and SRDT models (with likelihood L0) were compared to that of the DR model (with likelihood L1) in a likelihood ratio test (LRT) [14] of the fit of the model The test...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... developed with the intention of creating a care path with rapid pre-operative attention, increased continuity and an accelerated training programme without disturbing the flow of patients with other ... to facilitate a healthy transition process In contrast to the care of younger patients, the care of elderly patients is more complex with more factors involved (such as health status, co-morbidities, ... development of outcomes-based care delivery Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America 1998, 1(10):1-11 Cheah J: Development and implementation of a clinical pathway programme in an acute care general...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... years of age of whom the GPs consider themselves to be the physician taking care of the treatment of this condition in the patient We expect eight to ten patients per practice [18,19] Patients ... detect a difference of 0.3 points with a standard deviation of (a relatively small effect), with alpha = 0.05 and beta = 0.20, ICC = 0.05, a total of 51 practices with 10 patients each would ... Evidence of change will be assessed by studying the effects of the intervention on patients with CHF registered with the participating GPs As in the pilot [10], GPs will include all CHF patients...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... diameter of between 4.0 and 4.9 cm have been found to have a much larger rate of growth with an average rate of 0.79 cm per year in those with continuous expansion compared to 0.27 cm per year with ... of pre-syncope with a brief period of hypotension A repeat CT aortogram demonstrated a rapid increase in size of the AAA to 7.0 cm and retroperitoneal fat stranding (Figures and 4) The neck of ... doi:10.1186/1752-1947-4-333 Cite this article as: Naylor et al.: Lower respiratory tract infection and rapid expansion of an abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010 4:333 Submit...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying ... the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards of care, but studies of the quality of care for patients with diabetes ... 67% of practices achieved the target of 50% of patients having their hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) within the target range; the similar figure for blood pressure (BP) (target of 55%) was 70% Some of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying ... the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards of care, but studies of the quality of care for patients with diabetes ... 67% of practices achieved the target of 50% of patients having their hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) within the target range; the similar figure for blood pressure (BP) (target of 55%) was 70% Some of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... in some villages with the most in Xixiang County without a central tendency Among the 70 patients, the admitting diagnosis was 56 with bronchopneumonia, 11 with bronchitis, two with acute tonsillitis, ... most of the patients where they presented a diffused distribution and with higher occurrence in Xixiang County of the Hanzhong area The parents of the infants denied having contact histories with ... cases of severe acute lower respiratory tract infections were reported through February 2009; and another thirty-eight cases were found in four hospitals in Hanzhong city of Shaanxi Province with...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:21

... Figure with chronic lower respiratory tract infection Immunohistochemical study of hBD-4 expression in patients Immunohistochemical study of hBD-4 expression in patients with chronic lower respiratory ... levels of hBD-4 in controls (n = 6) and Epithelialwith chronic lower respiratory tract infection (n = Epithelial lining fluid levels of hBD-4 in controls (n = 6) and patients with chronic lower respiratory ... along with its stronger antimicrobial activity relative to that of hBD-2, underscores the deep involvement of hBD-4 in the innate immunity of the lower respiratory tract The localization of hBD-4...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... conducted to assess the offset times of the pharmacodynamic effects of prolonged remifentanil infusions in ICU patients with varying degrees of renal impairment, including patients with severe renal ... those of remifentanil in patients with moderate/severe renal impairment Offset of the pharmacodynamic effects of remifentanil The primary objective of the study was to confirm that accumulation of ... of mechanically ventilated patients with varying degrees of renal impairment • Overall, the µ opioid effects of remifentanil were not prolonged in patients with renal impairment The time to offset...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... greatest limitation of our study is the inclusion of heterogeneous patients with regard to the presence of a TBI Nevertheless, because all patients were cared for by the same critical care team and ... than patients with GCS score ≥ [15] However, extubation is often possible in patients with GCS score < [16] A number of patients in our study had TBI and many were in the ET group (14/30 patients ... period of weaning was similar in patients with and without TBI Thus, while the inclusion of patients with TBI did not appear to bias our results, it will be necessary to consider the importance of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20