... just before the patient was leaving the emergency room for either the observation unit of our ED or another ward, including theICU According to the final diagnosis made by the experts, an inaccurate ... stay for less than eight hours inthe emergency room before their admission into another wardIn accordance with standard practice in our institution for ARF in elderly patients, the performance ... appropriate At the time of the study, non-invasive ventilation or continuous positive airway pressure was not performed inthe elderly inthe ED, but they were performed intheICU when the patients...
... by consensus in consultation with a third reviewer if needed Data abstraction After pretesting and refining the forms on two trials of surfactant therapy in adults and clarifying definitions ... or under-reported in this literature Also, a large proportion of patients and events are reported in one trial [12] Furthermore, issues of the optimal dose andthe timing of administration, and ... caregivers inthe patients' ventilator tubing or endotracheal tube, particularly during suctioning We pretested and refined the developed forms on two trials of surfactant therapy for adults, and clarified...
... sepsis on admission to the ICU; of these, 162 (21%) had abdominal infection without concurrent respiratory infection and 380 (49%) had respiratory infection without concurrent abdominal infection The ... infections were defined as infections occurring more than 24 hours after onset of a preexisting infection, at a site other than the abdominal orrespiratory system for patients inthe abdominal orrespiratory ... 0.027) infections were also more common in patients with abdominal infections than in those with respiratory infections Secondary infections were more common in patients with abdominal infections...
... treatment The cardiac surgeon, in addition to actively participating to the clinical decision making process, is responsible for selecting and inserting the cannulas and starting the extracorporeal ... aeration [13] During ECMO, nitric oxide administration [14], vasoactive support, and prone positioning were maintained or initiated according to clinical conditions ECLS for hemodynamic support The ... available for consultation and performed at least one daily evaluation This study, supported by institutional funds only, followed the principles of the Helsinki declaration and was approved by the Internal...
... conveyed inthe discourse Interpersonal Themes, onthe other hand, reveal something of the attitude of the speaker orthe writer And Textual Theme is the link between the clause contains that Theme and ... naturally, information units which are initial in a discourse will contain only new information In speech, information units are realized phonologically by tone units (or tone groups) Many phonologists ... they andthe impersonal pronouns it and there Then comes other nominal groups-those with common nouns or proper nouns as Head -and nominalizations Providing these are functioning as Subject, then...
... locus histones, andthe remaining DHSs inthe deleted cells were examined to determine the roles of these DHSs onthe transcription of Ig-b gene andonthe maintenance of the active chromatin state ... between the Na channel and Ig-b genes, one at the transcriptional start site, one inthe first intron of the Ig-b gene, four between Ig-b and its downstream growth hormone (GH) genes, and one inthe ... intergenic regions by solid lines Horizontal arrows represent transcriptional orientations Exon numbers are indicated The hypothesized organization of a portion of the Na channel gene for which the nucleotide...
... Electrostatic interactions occur between an epitope containing mainly two or more adjacent arginine residues on one protein fragment and an acidic epitope containing two or more adjacent glutamate or aspartate ... fractional contribution of the additional lifetime was close to zero Figure shows the typical time-dependent donor decays for the D1–CFP bearing donor alone and with the donor and acceptor D1–CFP ... were used as the mold for the PCRQuik reaction Incorporating the oligonucleotide primers, each complementary to the opposite strand of the vector and containing the desired mutations, generated...
... with respiratoryfailure may be classified into two groups, depending onthe component of therespiratory system that is involved: hypoxemic respiratoryfailureand hypercapnic respiratoryfailure ... can be lifesaving [6] Respiratoryfailure is a syndrome in which therespiratory system fails in one or both of its gas exchange functions: oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination In general, ... pneumonia, and pulmonary edema, which interfere with the normal function of the lung and airway The predominant mechanism in type I failure is uneven or mismatched ventilation and perfusion (intrapulmonary...
... capacity depends on cone size and whether or not the fruit or cone contains internal divisions that increase its insulation capacity None of the temperature-exposure time combinations tested, greatly ... affected the viability of the seeds enclosed inthe cones in either of the species Therefore, it seems certain that cones provide efficient insulation against the devastating effects of fire Moreover, ... that remain inside the cones and are dispersed after the fire, thus avoiding destruction, or those that are buried inthe soil Pinus seeds last for a very short time onthe soil surface as they are...
... district, the yield module were 2.55 tons/ha in winter and 2.67 tons/ha in spring, the lowest yield in Phu Luong district in module (2.32 tons/ha in winter and 2.54 tons/ha in spring) The yield ... climate and land conditions of the region and obtained much higher yield as well as economic efficiency than the local varieties 23 CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION Conclusion The favorable factors for ... in spring crop was 35 plants/m2 and 45 plants/m2 in winter At these densities, the EY was 2.78 tons/ha in spring crop and 2.47 tons/ha in winter; the AY was 2.50 tons/ha in spring and 1.90 tons/ha...
... was that the clear-cutting would increase the concentration of soil solutions andthe drainage losses in a site where the mineralization and nitrication rates where high before the cutting This ... the concentration of anions and cations inthe gravitational (A) and capillary (B) solutions for the period before clear-cutting 167 àmolc L1 at 30 cm and increasing again inthe deeper layers ... the after clear-cutting e.g increase in soil temperature and moisture, andthe rather large amount of organic matter inthe forest-oor were supposed to favour an increase inthe mineralization...
... Africa, India andthe Americas They generally are dependent on mycorrhizae for the absorption of nutrients required for their growth and for nitrogen fixation [4, 6, 7, 18] One of the fast-growing ... Ectomycorrhization of Acacia holosericea in Senegal 25 °C inthe dark in order to achieve a good coverage of the paper card The filter paper covering the roots was removed andthe mycelium colonizing the ... and rinsed inthe same buffer The roots were post-fixed for h in 2% osmium tetroxide and rinsed in distilled water They were dehydrated through an acetone series and three times in pure acetone...
... participated inthe planning of the experiments andthe Western Blot analyses HS conceived the study and helped with coordination CG performed immunostaining HC participated in its design and coordination ... cell lines a significant reduction in colony forming is observed after incubation with genistein Colony formation was reduced to 50% of the controls in LNCaP afer incubation with genistein 0.01 ... incubation and control Estrogenic stimulation inhibits p21-induction after irradiation in LNCaP On protein level the expression of p21 was analyzed, as these proteins are involved in cell cycle control...
... design, or acquisition of data, surgical procedure and interpretation of data; SE, ABF and PL have been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; ... therefore, a higher risk of pulmonary infection [14] Page of In conclusion, female gender seems to be a significant risk factor in many multivariate analyses Therefore, in all important scoring ... oppression/constriction than men, but less of crucial deteriorating pain Furthermore, women show frequently “atypical” symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and back pain Regarding the co-morbidity, more...
... or without BCAA and arginine during the post-match period had no effect onthe performance inthe following simulated match in wrestlers In addition, BCAA and arginine did not provide additional ... insulin-dependent phase by inducing insulin secretion [14, 15] The consumption of leucine and arginine along with glucose could result in higher insulinemic response compared to glucose alone in healthy subjects ... mixtures containing BCAA and arginine also impaired insulin-stimulated glucose disposal and glycogen synthesis in human skeletal muscles by increasing the inhibitory insulin receptor substrate-1...
... presented with single organ ARF and 254 patients had one or more additional organs in severe failure (SOFA score or 4) Mortality was higher inthe group presenting with more than one organ infailure ... to 15 (normal) Definition of acute respiratoryfailureThe definition of ARF was based onthe SOFA score criteria, in which a score of or is defined as ‘severe’ organ failure [8] According to ... severe respiratoryfailure is accompanied by other severe organ failure, the mortality increased depending onthe number of organs in failure, and reached 75% inthe group with five or six severe organ...
... million for 24 hours and then parts per million for up to days or until exit from the study, whichever was earlier The infants were further randomized to a conventional intermittent mandatory ... ventilation for respiratory distress syndrome, post hoc analysis was performed to assess the influence of ventilator strategy onthe incidence of chronic lung disease The effect of iNO onthe incidence ... supported in this study Disturbances in platelet aggregation and prolongation of bleeding time have been demonstrated in neonates [14,15] Inthe present study there was no evidence of increased intraventricular...
... first months [12] Unlike the secondary importance of age on short-term mortality, age per se is a risk factor for long-term mortality — the risk of death increasing with the number of comorbidities, ... cognitive function andthe difficulty in instrumental activity It is worthy of notice that patients surviving year after ICU admission had regained their previous health status and their further survival ... raises a number of important questions that are very relevant to theICU setting Additional research intheICU also does not support the rationing of healthcare based on chronological age Physicians...
... No Schindler The ranking of these treatments is therefore difficult and depends on which aspect is examined The next question is whether some patient groups respond more favourably to one treatment ... treatment or another Three of the randomised trials reported in this meta-analysis only involved infants with viral bronchiolitis, who responded well to surfactant [1] Only three of the trials involved ... within the first 24–48 hours of intubation in three trials [7,9,10], and within the first days in another [8] The timing of surfactant use was not stated inthe remaining two trials [11] Patients...
... between the described effects of APOBEC3 proteins on bona fide exogenous retroviruses onthe one hand and intracellular retroelements onthe other Results and discussion Restriction of murine and ... Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions CE, SP and DR carried out the experimental work and drafted the manuscript OH performed thein ... NC) The observed distributions of the G-to-A mutations among the GA, GC, GG and GT contexts for HERV-K orthe GXA, GXC, GXG and GXT contexts for IAPE were compared to the distribution of these...