Emergency endovascular treatment of a life-threatening hemorrhage from traumatic rupture of the left extracranial vertebral artery.

abstract：:608 patients admitted to a general Intensive Care Unit (ICU) over a 30 month period were analyzed according to the Apache II Severity of Disease Classification System on day one of admission. Hospital outcome details were available on 583 patients in the series. The mean Apache II scores for survivors (396) and non-su...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Jacobs S,Chang RW,Lee B,Lee B

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate efficacy and safety of enoxaparin for catheter-related arterial thrombosis in infants with congenital heart disease. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:Pediatric Intensive Care and Cardiology Unit at the University Children's Hospital of Zurich. PATIENTS:A cohort of 32[Symbol: s...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bontadelli J,Moeller A,Schmugge M,Schraner T,Kretschmar O,Bauersfeld U,Bernet-Buettiker V,Albisetti M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To clarify the effects of hypercapnia (increased PaCO2) on gastric mucosal oxygenation during anaesthesia in dogs. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled animal study. SETTING:Experimental research laboratory of an university hospital. SUBJECTS:Six chronically instrumented dogs. INTERVENTIONS:Dogs were anaestheti...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Schwartges I,Schwarte LA,Fournell A,Scheeren TW,Picker O

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cytokeratin 19 (CK19) is a specific cytoskeletal structure for alveolar epithelium. We hypothesized that the levels of CK19 fragments in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid could serve as an index of epithelial injury and as a prognosis marker in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or acute respiratory distr...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Stern JB,Paugam C,Validire P,Adle-Biassette H,Jaffré S,Dehoux M,Crestani B

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of minitracheotomy (MT) insertion for intratracheal oxygen insufflation (ITO2) on arterial blood gases and survival in patients with respiratory failure from chronic lung disease. DESIGN:Open, prospective clinical study. SETTING:A 12-bed medical intensive care unit in a non-universi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Andrivet P,Richard G,Viau F,Letinier JY,Darne C,Vu Ngoc C

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We report the first patient to developed abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) with intrahepatic portal venous gas (IHPVG) and pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis following emergency upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. CASE PRESENTATION:A 53-year-old man underwent an emergency upper gastrointestinal endoscopy fo...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hayakawa M,Gando S,Kameue T,Morimoto Y,Kemmotsu O

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present our observation of the development of a rare nail deformity in the prolonged course of disease of a critically ill patient with a pulmonary abscess. DESIGN:Case report. SETTING:Tertiary referral, 16-bed, level I surgical ICU in an academic hospital. PATIENT:A 48-year-old Caucasian male was treat...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Wester JP,van Eps RS,Stouthamer A,Girbes AR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Recalibration and determining discriminative power, internationally, of the existing delirium prediction model (PRE-DELIRIC) for intensive care patients. METHODS:A prospective multicenter cohort study was performed in eight intensive care units (ICUs) in six countries. The ten predictors (age, APACHE-II, urgen...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： van den Boogaard M,Schoonhoven L,Maseda E,Plowright C,Jones C,Luetz A,Sackey PV,Jorens PG,Aitken LM,van Haren FM,Donders R,van der Hoeven JG,Pickkers P

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risk of critical illness is determined both by genetic and environmental influences, particularly those relating to infectious and cardiovascular diseases. Physiologically-based scoring systems cannot measure prior risk because they do not quantify physiological reserve independently of the acute illness. Genetic prof...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bion JF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Adler K,Schlieper D,Kindgen-Milles D,Meier S,Schallenburger M,Sellmann T,Schwager H,Schwartz J,Neukirchen M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article [1] because a number of studies included in this review [2, 3, 4] (originally cited as references 98, 128, 129) have since been retracted. Consequently, this has rendered the content of the review unreliable. ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Editorial Office of Intensive Care Medicine.

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of the study was do describe the architecture of accretions occurring on the tips of central venous catheters (CVC). DESIGN:A conservative procedure was used followed by two different techniques of electron microscopy. SETTING AND PATIENTS:the study included 19 catheters which have been used on ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Poisson DM,Touquet S,Bercault N,Arbeille B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To quantify the variability in the concentration of drug infusions prepared on an intensive care unit and establish whether there was a relationship between the quality of syringe labeling and drug preparation. DESIGN:Audit carried out over 3 weeks in May 2006 and completed in May 2007. SETTING:The adult ne...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Wheeler DW,Degnan BA,Sehmi JS,Burnstein RM,Menon DK,Gupta AK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether an appropriately designed combination of an index of ventilatory endurance and the frequency divided by tidal volume ratio (f/VT) provides prognostic information for weaning outcome not offered by any index alone. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective study in a multidisciplinary intensive care u...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Vassilakopoulos T,Routsi C,Sotiropoulou C,Bitsakou C,Stanopoulos I,Roussos C,Zakynthinos S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that the rate of degradation of exogenously administered albumin is faster with bolus administration than with continuous infusion and thus that a bolus administration is less efficacious in restoring blood albumin concentration (BAC) in the hypoalbuminemic critically ill pediatric pati...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Greissman A,Silver P,Nimkoff L,Sagy M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antipyrine metabolism is a "gold standard" measure of mixed cytochrome P450 (CYP) mediated drug metabolism in humans. Cytokines (e.g., interleukin-6) and nitric oxide reduce CYP 450 activity in vitro and in vivo. Because interleukin-6 and nitric oxide production increases in children with sepsis-induced multi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Carcillo JA,Doughty L,Kofos D,Frye RF,Kaplan SS,Sasser H,Burckart GJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The use of heat and moisture exchangers (HME) during noninvasive ventilation (NIV) can increase the work of breathing, decrease alveolar ventilation, and deliver less humidity in comparison with heated humidifiers (HH). We tested the hypothesis that the use of HH during NIV with ICU ventilators for patients wit...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Lellouche F,L'Her E,Abroug F,Deye N,Rodriguez PO,Rabbat A,Jaber S,Fartoukh M,Conti G,Cracco C,Richard JC,Ricard JD,Mal H,Mentec H,Loisel F,Lacherade JC,Taillé S,Brochard L

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We perform an ethical analysis of European Union Directive 2001/20/EC on the simplification and harmonization of guidelines regarding good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials involving drugs. BACKGROUND:The Directive provides guidance on protecting incapacitated subjects who participate in dr...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Silverman HJ,Druml C,Lemaire F,Nelson R,European Union Directive.

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the occurrence of life-threatening hyperkalaemia following treatment with therapeutic thiopentone coma. SETTING:The neurosurgical intensive care units of Royal North Shore Hospital and Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia. PATIENTS:Three patients treated with theraputic thiopentone coma. One pati...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Cairns CJ,Thomas B,Fletcher S,Parr MJ,Finfer SR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： De Cassai A,Dal Cin S,Bertini D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Protective mechanical ventilation based on multiple ventilator parameters such as tidal volume, plateau pressure, and driving pressure has been widely used in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). More recently, mechanical power (MP) was found to be associated with mortality. The study aimed to investigat...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Zheng B,Liu N,Ge H,Hong Y

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We conducted a retrospective cohort study in an academic tertiary care center to characterize ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery in The Netherlands. METHODS:All patients following cardiac surgery and mechanically ventilated for ≥24 h were included. The primary out...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Roeleveld PP,Guijt D,Kuijper EJ,Hazekamp MG,de Wilde RB,de Jonge E

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first study 6 patients with raised intracranial pressure due to brain oedema following head injury were given dihydroergotamine because of low perfusion pressure. The intracranial pressure fell simultaneously with the increase in arterial pressure. The intracranial pressure fell from 24 +/- 2 mmHg by a maximum ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Grände PO

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the oxygen affinity for optimal tissue oxygen delivery with a hemoglobin-hydroxyethyl starch conjugate (HRC 101). METHODS:Anesthetized rats were hemodiluted (180 ml kg(-1)) with low (P(50) approximately 70 mmHg) or high affinity (P(50) approximately 14 mmHg) HRC 101 at hemoglobin (Hb) concentratio...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hare GM,Liu E,Baker AJ,Mazer CD

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Peripherally inserted central venous catheters (PICC) have been proposed as an alternative to central venous catheters (CVC). The aim of this study was to determine the thrombosis rate in relation to PICC placement in patients discharged from the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS:Data of patients admitted ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bonizzoli M,Batacchi S,Cianchi G,Zagli G,Lapi F,Tucci V,Martini G,Di Valvasone S,Peris A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Clinical examination is often the first step to diagnose shock and estimate cardiac index. In the Simple Intensive Care Studies-I, we assessed the association and diagnostic performance of clinical signs for estimation of cardiac index in critically ill patients. METHODS:In this prospective, single-centre coho...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hiemstra B,Koster G,Wiersema R,Hummel YM,van der Harst P,Snieder H,Eck RJ,Kaufmann T,Scheeren TWL,Perner A,Wetterslev J,de Smet AMGA,Keus F,van der Horst ICC,SICS Study Group.

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Little is known on the incidence of discomfort during the end-of-life of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the impact of sedation on such discomfort. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of discomfort events according to levels of sedation. METHODS:Post-hoc analysis of an observational prospe...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Robert R,Le Gouge A,Kentish-Barnes N,Adda M,Audibert J,Barbier F,Bourcier S,Bourenne J,Boyer A,Devaquet J,Grillet G,Guisset O,Hyacinthe AC,Jourdain M,Lerolle N,Lesieur O,Mercier E,Messika J,Renault A,Vinatier I,Az

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate the TRISS method as an audit system on a group of patients with severe trauma admitted to an Italian general intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN:Prospective, cohort study of consecutive admissions to the ICU. SETTING:A 6-bed general ICU in a 500-bed general hospital. PATIENTS:190 patients with se...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Corbanese U,Possamai C,Casagrande L,Bordino P

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) remains a life-threatening disease with classic etiology of systemic inflammatory response and mortality between 30 and 50 %. The aim of the present study is to compare two different treatment strategies of goal-directed hemodynamic management and evaluate their impact on surviva...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Trepte CJ,Bachmann KA,Stork JH,Friedheim TJ,Hinsch A,Goepfert MS,Mann O,Izbicki JR,Goetz AE,Reuter DA

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been little research on smoking cessation after critical illness. Smokers make up a high percentage of patients admitted to intensive care (ICU) and stopping smoking is one message that should be clearly given to recovering patients. The recovery period provides an important opportunity for patients to quit ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Jones C,Griffiths RD,Skirrow P,Humphris G

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00