... septic shock among patients who have SIRSon arrival compared to patients without SIRS.Eleven patients had bacteraemia with 8/154 SIRS-positive patients compared to 3/211 patients who did not ... non-SIRS patients: p = 0.001, RR 6.9 (95% CI 2.0-23.3). Most of the deaths among patients with SIRS occurred among patients with malignant conditions. Septic shock developed in 4/154 (3%) of the patients ... that SIRS patients without infection hadmore comorbidity and a higher mortality than patients without SIRS [9].The 28-day mortality was 1/42 (2%) among septic patients, 1/20 (5%) among patients...
... 47 patients for whom ETI was performed immediately upon arrivalto the emergency department (ED). This group represented 16% of all intubated patients. Of the ETIs performed inthe ED, 43 patients ... rate. Forty patients in thisgroup died before arriving at the hospital and had amedian GCS of 3 (3 - 3) and RTS of 0.0 (0.0 - 0.0).Additionally, 47 patients (16% of all intubated patients) were ... before arriving at hospital” group.§ Patients not transported from the scene by the service were not included in the table.Table 4 Annual distribution of patients with severe traumaYear 1994...
... 14:R84http://ccforum.com/content/14/3/R84Page 5 of 10 patients in the doripenem group and in 47 (15%) of 313 patients in the comparator group (P = 0.648).In the Cox proportional hazards model, patients in thedoripenem ... the subset of patients with P. aeruginosa at baseline,this pathogen was eradicated or presumed eradicatedfrom 16 (67%) of 24 patients in the doripenem group andfrom 10 (42%) of 24 patients in ... greaterfor patients in the comparator group with P. aeruginosa atbaseline than for those without P. a e r ug ino s a. For exam-ple, median duration of mechanical ventilation was 10days for all patients...
... glucoseTable 1: Characteristics of patients in normoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia group at initiation of follow-upAll patients (N = 1,029) Patients with hyperglycaemia(N = 360) Patients without hyperglycaemia(N ... excluded 211 patients who refused to participate in the study, 203 patients dueto terminal illness, and another 29 patients who werereceiving corticosteroid treatment.Of the remaining 1,105 patients, ... glucosemeasurements were recorded for analyses. Patients were fed according to the Department policy.In short, all patients were fed from admission; all patients who could tolerate or had no counter...
... Thirteen additional patients were examined, although either they were unable totolerate the procedure (three patients) , unable to cooperatedue to confusion or delirium (six patients) , or satisfactory ... measurements do not accurately reflect fluid responsiveness in critically ill patients. • Less than 50% of ICU patients given fluid boluses are volume responsive.Available online http://ccforum.com/content/13/4/R111Page ... characteristicsA total of 102 volume challenges in 89 consecutive patients were evaluated. One patient had three studies performed,while the remaining patients with more than one study had twostudies each....
... ill medical patients Ang-1 concentrations in critically ill non-septic patients (0.8ng/ml, 0.5 to 11.7 ng/ml), patients with severe sepsis (0.5 ng/ml, 0.3 to 18.8 ng/ml) and patients with ... shock and non-septic patients. In contrast, median serum Ang-2 concentrations were consist-ently increased in critically ill non-septic patients (2.8 ng/ml,1.0 to 9.0 ng/ml), in patients with severe ... markedly lower in critically ill non-septic patients (43.5 pg/ml, 4.1 to 200.0 pg/ml), patients withsevere sepsis (112.7 pg/ml, 34.9 to 569.1 pg/ml) and patients with septic shock (70.5 pg/ml, 3.7...
... MICU patients, followed by mixed intensive care unit(ICU) patients, surgical ICU patients and cardiothoracicsurgery ICU patients, and will end with the least relatedpatient category – outpatients.ReviewClinical ... prevent AF in critically ill patients [41,45]. There are notrials investigating prevention of AF in MICU patients. In surgical ICU patients, and especially in CTS patients, thereare trials and ... thromboembolism in patients with AF [135].Conclusion on stroke incidenceThere are insufficient data in medical ICU patients, but inCTS patients it is clear that the stroke incidence is increasedin patients...
... terminated because of the findingof increased hospital mortality in patients treated by DIS.CensoringThirty-six patients were censored. Patients randomly assignedto DIS were significantly more likely ... because of concerns that patients were insufficientlysedated. Two patients randomly assigned to DIS were with-drawn at the request of the attending physician because the patients were not felt ... the two groups (P = 0.78). Patients were awake on46% of evaluations. Patients treated by DIS were agitated(RASS score > 0) during 18% of the evaluations, whereas patients treated by SA were...
... be the dif-ferent type of patients in each study. The first study was con-ducted in a surgical ICU where 63% of the patients hadcardiovascular problems. In these patients, the decrease inmortality ... of critically ill patients. Mayo Clin Proc 2003, 78:1471-1478.8. Krinsley JS: Effect of an intensive glucose management proto-col on the mortality of critically ill adult patients. Mayo ClinProc ... factor for mortality in mixed ICU patients. Intensive Care Med 2006, 32:435-438.12. Pittas AG, Siegel RD, Lau J: Insulin Therapy for Critically Ill Hos-pitalized Patients: A Meta-analysis of Randomized...
... (retinol), D (cholecalcif-erol) and E (α-tocopherol) in patients with CAD. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population included 30 patients hav-ing angiographically demonstrated CAD and 20 ... tocopher-ol, cholecalciferol and iron were significantly lower in patients with CAD. Table 1: Clinical characteristics of study population. Patients with CAD (n=30) Control group (n=20) P-value ... and Fe were significantly decreased in patients with CAD. In addition, while not statistically significant, serum Cu concentrations tended to be lower in patients with CAD, whereas serum Fe...
... prescribedto patients with bipolar disorder, with an emphasis ontheir use in patients with medical comorbidity. More spe-cifically, the review results include papers concerningbipolar patients ... in patients receiving anticonvul-sants. In patients identified as having polycystic ovaries orhyperandrogenism, monitoring of lipid levels iswarranted.Cardiac diseaseAs discussed above, patients ... in patients with HCV[55]. These findings suggest that valproate can be used forsome patients with HCV without adversely affecting ALTlevels. Obtaining pretreatment baseline ALT levels inpatients...
... were between 35-60 years (Mean±SD was 43.5±10.5 years). Patients were divided into two groups according to the median arousal value and patients characteristics and labor-atory findings were ... among arousal, circulating Lp-PLA2 and total antioxidant capacity in male patients with OSA. Methods: Fifty male patients with newly diagnosed OSA were enrolled the study. A full-night polysomnography ... stroke especially in patients with Lp-PLA2 activity above the lowest quartile [19]. According to the knowledge, circulating Lp-PLA2 levels were not pre-viously studied in patients with OSA....
... function of patients with post myocardial infarction. Echocardiography 2007; 24(9): 940-945. 15. Jurcut R, Pappas CJ, Masci PG, et al. Detection of regional my-ocardial dysfunction in patients ... differentiate be-tween segments of healthy controls, infarcted and non-infarcted segments of post AMI patients by VVI. Jurcut et al.15 also showed significant differences of infarcted and non-infarcted ... strain and strain rate by 2DST in normo-, hypo-, akinetic and dyskinetic seg-ments of post-infarct patients 8-13, 30-37, which were not reliably accessible by TDI. Radial strain also allowed the...
... negativity was assessed as 28 mm/h. Ten patients in anti-CCP(+) group and 12 patients in anti-CCP(-) group were ESR negative. While only ESR negative patients compared between the groups, there ... and anti-oxidant activity in patients with RA. Materials and Methods: RA patients with anti-CCP (+) (n=25) and anti-CCP (-) (n=24) were recruited into the study. All patients had a positive rheumatoid ... an-ti-CCP(+) group. The RA patients without anti-CCP consisted of 24 individuals (19 females, 5 males), aged 42 to 62 years (mean age 56.2 ± 11.2). As shown in Table 1, RA patients with anti-CCP(+)...
... lesions were demonstrated in 11 patients. 8 patients had hematochezia and 4 had me-lena. Only 2 patients had hematuria, 39 had constipa-tion, 3 had diarrhea. 45 patients had been found to be ... symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux. All patients were graded 1 to 5 for these symptoms. Dyspepsia score of patients were minimally 12 and maximally 60. The patients investigated previous smoking ... Kepczyk et al. [3] showed that 55% of patients had upper GI tract lesions. In generally, 41% of patients had upper GI tract lesions [7]. In our study, 52 of 91 patients (57%) had upper GI tract...