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... have shown that time to treatment with DrotAA has an influence on mortality [9,10], with the maximum beneficial effect being observed if treatment is started within 24 hours of the onset of sepsis-induced ... injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome Recommendation We concur with the ADDRESS authors DrotAA should not be used in patients with severe sepsis and low risk for death Competing interests The ... Lilly and Company, agreed to complete a number of phase IV studies evaluating the use of DrotAA in lower-risk patients with severe sepsis, in children with severe sepsis, and in patients receiving...

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... has not been receiving new antibiotics within the preceding 72 hours Negative lower respiratory tract cultures in such patients can be used to justify stopping antibiotic therapy 426 We believe ... endotracheal intubation [6] It may be inappropriate to base a decision to begin or to continue antibiotic treatment for VAP on the results of qualitative cultures, because positive qualitative culture ... colony-forming units/ml was used as the cutoff point, the sensitivity was 26% and specificity was 78% With regard to qualitative evaluation, the sensitivity was 81% but specificity was only 23% Camargo...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... that up to 39% of patients with low albumin levels would be misdiagnosed as being adrenally insufficient based on total cortisol levels Levels in these patients appear to be low due to hypoproteinemia ... seem to be preserved and may in fact be elevated There are several important limitations of this study that deserve consideration This study included 18 patients with sepsis but none with septic ... patients in septic shock with ≤ µg/dL total cortisol response to corticotropin stimulation receive low-dose corticosteroids, and b) free cortisol levels should not be used to determine adrenal...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... [11] To quantify the surface roughness directly, a new method using ultrasound scanning has been proposed [12] Ultrasound has been used along with mechanical disturbance methods, such as indentation ... correlation between ultrasonic parameters and clinical grades obtained by a specific device might provide limited information Furthermore, this study used ‘interval between signals’ to correlate with ... distance between the transducer and tissue, orientation of the transducer (incidence angle of ultrasound beam), and curvature of the tissue surface besides the tissue state The echo duration can be...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... [11] To quantify the surface roughness directly, a new method using ultrasound scanning has been proposed [12] Ultrasound has been used along with mechanical disturbance methods, such as indentation ... correlation between ultrasonic parameters and clinical grades obtained by a specific device might provide limited information Furthermore, this study used ‘interval between signals’ to correlate with ... distance between the transducer and tissue, orientation of the transducer (incidence angle of ultrasound beam), and curvature of the tissue surface besides the tissue state The echo duration can be...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 16:20

... inhibitory process Taken together, it might be predicted that a therapeutic regimen combining ASA along with a TPR antagonist would be more beneficial than therapy with ASA alone Specifically, under these ... activity of isoprostanes have been conducted with a specific form, 8-iso-PGF2α (Figure 1), as it is one of the most abundantly produced in vivo [85] Much work has been done with this compound as it ... initiates within seconds upon exposure to ADP, thrombin, serotonin, and epinephrine Thrombin is considered the most potent physiologic agonist and thus has been widely used to study secretion along with...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... at the moderate-to-high dosages used here (CPZ units = 1116) As the procognitive advantages of atypical APDs reported in comparative studies, which could be caused by the use of high dosages ... APDs, which suggests a positive effect of these new drugs on the nonpsychotic symptoms of schizophrenia The limitations of the present study should be taken into account Firstly, the relatively ... of neurogenesis on cognitive gains/enhancements can only be correctly evaluated by longitudinal studies that incorporate more than a few weeks between assessments Conclusions Data from the literature...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... pneumomediastinum may be as high as 10% (see [5,6]) Pneumopericardium, however, is rare and, to the best of the authors' knowledge, no incidence rates have been recorded Neither have any clinical trials been ... blunt chest trauma with bone fractures should heighten the suspicion of intrathoracic organ lesions CT scanning is the preferred imaging modality in trauma patients, and should be performed at an ... 72:330-331 Conclusion This report describes a rare case of pneumopericardium with extreme ECG abnormalities after blunt chest trauma This condition should be distinguished from other pathologies...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... been shown to be a consistent finding in children with difficult asthma [6] and a relationship between BWT and RBM thickness has been demonstrated in adults with asthma, following treatment with ... has previously been used to assess BWT in HRCT in adult asthmatics [7] was used However, more recently a paediatric study comparing BWT in HRCT with endobronchial biopsies has used a semi-quantitative ... This score, which in the context of this study was only used to assess bronchial wall thickness has been used previously to assess the relationship between CT features of bronchiectasis and lung...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... One should be aware that, in the study by Annane and colleagues, patients were in septic shock with systolic blood pressure below 90 mmHg for more than hour This is not the usual patient because ... noradrenaline in patients with normal adrenal function than in those with impaired adrenal function However, when one gives low doses of corticosteroids to patients with impaired adrenal function ... problems associated with corticosteroids occurred in those studies that used high doses (1–2 g methylprednisolone) When lower doses (200–300 mg/day of hydrocortisone) were used, superinfection...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... host defense mechanisms, antigens can be absorbed and distributed in the body Intact food proteins can be detected in plasma [4-6] and gut bacteria can be detected in mesenteric lymph nodes [7] ... relationship between GI digestion and food allergy, results of in vitro digestion experiments have been considered to assess the allergenic potential of new food Page of (page number not for citation ... has been incorporated in the decision tree or weight-ofevidence approach to evaluate the allergenic potential of novel food proteins that may be present in food crops [32,33] The SGF assay has been...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:24

... embarrassed (= Because people were watching ) - Without is the opposite of with - Who's the man without any shoes on? Page - They set to work, but without enthusiasm NOTE We can leave out any after without ... with a friend (= We were together.) - Pete is the man with long hair (= He has long hair.) - I'll cut the wood with my electric saw - They set to work with enthusiasm (= enthusiastically) - With ... leave out any after without - Who's the man without shoes on? But we not normally leave out a/an after with or without NOT I went with friend Of has a number of different meanings - the handle of...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2013, 11:46

... children and should be permitted to select the appropriate education for each of them It is critical that parents purchase education directly, when, and only for as long as, they believe their ... education market parents and students would decide based on the perceived costs and benefits of each option Only the total separation of state and school can re-institute parental responsibility, ... want their children to improve educationally By and large, education is an economic commodity to be purchased in the marketplace according to the preferences and valuations of education consumers...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2013, 23:10

... up (with) p.v When you move faster and reach the same level or place as people who had been moving faster or doing better than you were, you catch up or catch up with them We left an hour before ... police told the robber to surrender What did the police tell the robber? 15 Karen is trying to gradually be able to lift 100 pounds What is Karen doing? 16 Betty was so angry with her boyfriend ... that my old house was being 16 I need to buy a new 100-watt bulb; this one yesterday 10 FOCUS ON: phrasal verbs used as nouns, Many two-word phrasal verbs can be used as nouns All the...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 15:20