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... smokers with COPD, 2) Former smokers with COPD, 3) Current smokers with no evidence of COPD or airflow obstruction, and 4) Lifetime non-smokers with no evidence of COPD or airflow obstruction Groups ... and serum in patients with stable COPD compared to controls Methods Study subjects We recruited categories of subjects aged 35 years or older into this study; 1) Current smokers with COPD, 2) Former ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/11/1/41 mediators vary widely within stable COPD patients over time Without knowledge of the inherent variability of the factor being analyzed, it is difficult to know...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... 42 ANNEXES 43 MANAGEMENT of patients with dementia 44 ANNEXES 45 MANAGEMENT of patients with dementia 46 ANNEXES 47 MANAGEMENT of patients with dementia Annex Short form of the Informant Questionnaire ... than in people with Alzheimer’s disease  MANAGEMENT of patients with dementia Dementia with Lewy bodies Characteristic features of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are fluctuation of awareness ... limited number of behavioural problems in patients with mild to moderate dementia.97,98,101-105 1++ 1+ One small study of augmentation of perphenazine in patients with moderate dementia, with either...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... 1994; Moffatt et al 1994; Simon et al 1994) Strength of evidence IAssessment of Patients with Leg Ulcers The management of patients with venous leg ulcers Assessment 2.1 Assessment of Patients with ... also fall with age Strength of evidence II 10 The management of patients with venous leg ulcers Assessment 2.2 Management of Patients with Venous Leg Ulcers The records show that patients with venous ... photocopy of each form before sending it 24 The management of patients with venous leg ulcers Appendix 2: Audit Form The management of patients with venous leg ulcers Notes 25 26 The management of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... the early management of patients with a head injury,14 followed in 1999 by the Galasko report from the Royal College of Surgeons.15 SIGN published SIGN 46: Early management of patients with a head ... half of those attending are children under the age of 14 years The majority of patients are fully conscious (see Table 1), without a history of loss of consciousness or amnesia or other signs of ... Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Early management of patients with a head injury A national clinical guideline May 2009 Early management of patients with a head injury ISBN 978 905813 46 Published...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... SIGN 119 Management of patients with stroke: identification and management of dysphagia6 and SIGN 108 Management of patients with stroke or TIA: assessment, investigation, immediate management ... stroke patients and their families and liaised with services with the aim of improving aspects of participation and quality of life for patients with stroke and/or their carers The backgrounds of ... an update of SIGN 64 Management of patients with stroke: rehabilitation, prevention and management of complications, and discharge planning and supersedes it Since the publication of SIGN 64...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... as offering the best compromise between accuracy of staging and containment of morbidity 17 MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER 6.2.5 RESECTION IN PATIENTS WITH STAGE IIIA NSCLC A number of ... for patients with stage 1A lung cancer and 38-65% for patients with stage 1B lung cancer Surgery gives the highest chance of cure for patients with stage I and II lung cancer D 6.2.2 Patients with ... palliative radiotherapy with single fractions of 8Gy 23 MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH LUNG CANCER Chemotherapy The greatest change in the management of lung cancer since the publication of the original...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... days of drug dispensed based on the assessment schedule Patients with values between 80% and 100% were considered to be treatment compliant Of the 153 patients enrolled in the study, 106 patients ... mg/day Of the 153 patients enrolled in the study, 106 patients (69.2%) were compliant with treatment During the 12-week switching period, no patients received diphenhydramine and five patients ... demonstrated the effectiveness of aripiprazole compared with standard -of- care treatment in outpatient-treated patients with schizophrenia, especially in the areas of symptom improvement, clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... and exercise in the management of CVD risk factors in patients with SMI by evaluating a selective review of relevant literature focusing on the vulnerability of patients with SMI to these risk ... in patients with SMI were also evaluated, along with current Page of 10 evidence on how improvements in the management of the CVD risk factors may impact SMI patients mortality and quality of ... in individuals with SMI in the community, 29% of men and almost 60% of women with SMI were obese [51] The prevalence of obesity in patients with SMI is equal or higher than that of the general...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... impact of non-operative management of advanced CRC in an unselected, consecutive series of patients presenting with newly diagnosed disease It reviews and compares the outcomes of patients with ... formation in patients presenting with malignant large bowel obstruction One of the concerns in managing patients with surgically incurable CRC without resection of the primary tumour is the risk of the ... score of operated patients, stoma rates in operated patients and the indications for surgery in emergency patients Patients deemed surgically incurable at presentation were studied Patients with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... 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 ... 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 ... that withholding the option to prone was unethical, based on their early experience Thirdly, a post hoc analysis of the data indicated a marked mortality benefit with proning in the subset of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... led to a relative risk reduction of almost 30% in patients with septic shock [9] The survival benefit of combination therapy was significant only in patients with blunted response to ACTH stimulation ... effects of catecholamine dysfunction and refractory hypotension [5] Downregulation of catecholamine receptors occurs with prolonged use of exogenous catecholamines and this may be reversed with ... similar resistance because of poor experiences with identical drugs given in higher doses [18] Levels of cortisol and responsiveness to ACTH stimulation in patients with sepsis vary considerably...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... the rate of infection of pancreatic necrosis [4] Pooling of the data from these 183 patients by Bosscha and colleagues in a meta-analysis resulted in a group of 95 patients treated with prophylactic ... to acute pancreatitis Con: No, antibiotics are not important in the management of patients with pancreatitis with evidence of pancreatic necrosis Lorne H Blackbourne and Stephen M Cohn Limiting ... mortality (64%) compared with those patients without Candida (19%, P < 0.01) Certainly, critically ill patients developing superinfections tend to be those with more severe disease, with longer antibiotic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... mind that most patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome still die of multiple organ failure and not of hypoxemia In this regard, PPV is now used (and normalized by the use of fluid) routinely ... outcome of patients undergoing high-risk surgery PPV as a tool to track changes in contractility? Determinants of pulse pressure variation Pulse pressure variation (PPV) is a marker of the position ... Michard et al Figure Patients who have reached the plateau of the Frank–Starling relationship can be identified as patients in whom PPV is low The clinical and intraoperative goal of ‘maximizing stroke...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... classification [13]: Patients with a forced expiratory volume in sec (FEV1) of 30-50% of their predicted value were categorized into stage III, patients with a FEV1 below 30% predicted, or with 30-50% ... [Cost -of- illness Study for the Treatment of COPD in Germany] Pneumologie 2004, 58:837-844 Rutten-van Molken MP, Oostenbrink JB, Tashkin DP, Burkhart D, Monz BU: Does quality of life of COPD patients ... the assumption of a normal distribution was rejected, and conclusions were compared with those based on the parametric regression models Results Patients A total of 117 patients with GOLD stages...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... and all patients gave written informed consent All OA patients fulfilled the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology for the classification of OA [24] Isolation and culture of synovial ... 23/53 OA patients DREAM mRNA was significantly reduced by 63% in PBMCs from OA patients, with a pain score on the VAS (0 to 100) of greater than 40 (n = 14) compared with healthy controls OA patients ... compared with healthy controls (❍) and with OA patients with a low pain score (VAS score of less than or equal to 40; ∇) No significant differences were observed between healthy controls and OA patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... to determine the effects of these drugs on total mortality in COPD, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis with and without TORCH for ICS/LABA and inclusive of UPLIFT for tiotropium ... high-quality randomized controlled trials of tiotropium, formoterol, salmeterol, formoterol/budesonide or salmeterol/fluticasone in patients with stable COPD in which total mortality was reported ... years of age), had follow-up of months or greater, and were published in the English language with a Jadad score of or greater [10] We restricted the duration to months to ensure that patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... profile of roflumilast Discussion PDE4 inhibitors have demonstrated an anti-inflammatory effect in animal models and patients with COPD [6,7] In two previous 12-month studies, in patients with ... reduction in exacerbations with roflumilast treatment and identified a subgroup of patients who are most likely to benefit from treatment with roflumilast, namely those patients with chronic bronchitis ... stated * Patients could have received more than one of these medications seen for post-bronchodilator FEV1 (see Additional file 1, Table S1) In the group of patients with COPD associated with chronic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... will perform a selective review of the psychotropic medications often prescribed to patients with bipolar disorder, with an emphasis on their use in patients with medical comorbidity Currently, ... patients with uncontrolled cancer pain associated with cognitive impairment or anxiety [83] Conclusions The treatment of bipolar disorder is complicated in patients with medical comorbidity Patients ... treatment with valproate as compared to antidepressants, lithium or gabapentin in patients with HCV [55] These findings suggest that valproate can be used for some patients with HCV without adversely...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... treatment with large doses or in the treatment of patients with spasticity of cerebral origin and of the elderly (Aisen et al., 1993) These adverse effects rarely require withdrawal of medication ... 29: 197–202 Pharmacological management of spasticity Ketel, W B & Kolb, M E (1984) Long-term treatment with dantrolene sodium of stroke patients with spasticity limiting the return of function ... improvement of mobility and activities of daily living (From & Heltberg, 1975) In a double-blind crossover trial of baclofen and placebo in 23 patients (18 with multiple sclerosis and with spinal...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... American Academy of Neurology: Licensed to the members of the US Headache Consortium Pharmacological Management of Acute Attacks A Introduction Effective long-term management of patients with migraine ... Should not be used in patients with risk of ischemic heart disease Associated with low incidence of recurrence Moderate-to-severe headache Treatment option for patients with nausea and/or vomiting ... including an improved likelihood of compliance Such a formal plan of care empowers patients to manage their condition with the potential to reduce the number of office and emergency visits The...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20