Adrenal crisis presenting as hypoglycemic coma.

abstract：PURPOSE:During neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) the ventilator is driven by the patients electrical activation of the diaphragm (EAdi), detected by a special esophageal catheter. A reliable positioning of the EAdi-catheter is mandatory to trace a representative EAdi signal. We aimed to determine whether a fo...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Barwing J,Ambold M,Linden N,Quintel M,Moerer O

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the outcome of intensive care unit (ICU) treatment in patients with hematological malignancies. DESIGN AND SETTING:Retrospective cohort study in the medical ICU of a university hospital. PATIENTS:104 critically ill patients after receiving conventional chemotherapy or autologous hematopoietic stem...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Kroschinsky F,Weise M,Illmer T,Haenel M,Bornhaeuser M,Hoeffken G,Ehninger G,Schuler U

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate major similarities and major differences between Western European countries in intensive care unit (ICU) nurse staffing, education, training, responsibilities, and initiative. DESIGN:A questionnaire was sent to Western European doctor members of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, to...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Depasse B,Pauwels D,Somers Y,Vincent JL

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-year-old man underwent distal oesophagectomy and proximal gastrectomy. Postoperatively, controlled ventilation was necessary for 53 days because of anastomotic leakage. Multiple sedative regimens proved to be inadequate. By contrast, a fentanyl-midazolam combination with continuous supplementation of clonidine 0....

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Böhrer H,Bach A,Layer M,Werning P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the global metabolomic profile as measured in circulating plasma from surviving and non-surviving patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis. METHODS:Random, outcome-stratified case-control sample from a prospective study of 1,895 patients hospitalized with CAP and sepsis. Cases (...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Seymour CW,Yende S,Scott MJ,Pribis J,Mohney RP,Bell LN,Chen YF,Zuckerbraun BS,Bigbee WL,Yealy DM,Weissfeld L,Kellum JA,Angus DC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Delirium incidence in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is high and associated with poor outcome. Identification of high-risk patients may facilitate its prevention. PURPOSE:To develop and validate a model based on data available at ICU admission to predict delirium development during a patient's complete I...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Wassenaar A,van den Boogaard M,van Achterberg T,Slooter AJ,Kuiper MA,Hoogendoorn ME,Simons KS,Maseda E,Pinto N,Jones C,Luetz A,Schandl A,Verbrugghe W,Aitken LM,van Haren FM,Donders AR,Schoonhoven L,Pickkers P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate various treatment strategies in critically ill patients with ischaemic acute renal failure, there is a need for reliable bedside measurements of total renal blood flow (RBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and renal oxygen consumption without the need for urine collection. DESIGN:The continuous...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Swärd K,Valsson F,Sellgren J,Ricksten SE

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a randomized clinical trial the prophylactic effects of locally administered antimicrobials on quantitative colonization and respiratory infections were studied in intubated patients with an expected period of mechanical ventilation of greater than 6 days. Nineteen patients received 50 mg of polymyxin B and 80 mg o...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Unertl K,Ruckdeschel G,Selbmann HK,Jensen U,Forst H,Lenhart FP,Peter K

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) is a potent regulator of vascular permeability and inflammation in acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Genetic variants in the Ang-2 gene may lead to altered activities of Ang-2 (or ANGPT2) gene. The aim of this study was to assess if genetic variants of An...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Su L,Zhai R,Sheu CC,Gallagher DC,Gong MN,Tejera P,Thompson BT,Christiani DC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence rates of hospital acquired infections (HAI) during the first 14 days after ICU discharge after treatment during ICU-stay with Selective Decontamination of the Digestive tract (SDD), Selective Oropharyngeal Decontamination (SOD) or Standard Care (SC). DESIGN:Prospective observationa...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： de Smet AM,Hopmans TE,Minderhoud AL,Blok HE,Gossink-Franssen A,Bernards AT,Bonten MJ

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of strict guidelines and a rigorous training program on variability in scoring the revised Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II). DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective survey and intervention in the surgical ICU of a university teaching hospital. MEASUREMENTS:Seven experie...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Polderman KH,Jorna EM,Girbes AR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Candida spp. airway colonization could promote development of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a potentially multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, and worsen the outcome of VAP regardless of pathogen. We therefore address the question of the risk of MDR bacteria isolation ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hamet M,Pavon A,Dalle F,Pechinot A,Prin S,Quenot JP,Charles PE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the perceived utilization of physical restraint (PR) in mechanically ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients and to identify clinical and structural factors influencing PR use. METHODS:A questionnaire was personally handed to one intensivist in 130 ICUs in France then collected on-site 2 ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： De Jonghe B,Constantin JM,Chanques G,Capdevila X,Lefrant JY,Outin H,Mantz J,Group Interfaces Sédation.

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hypoxia-ischemia (HI), as a major cause of fetal brain damage, has long-lasting neurological implications. Therefore, therapeutic interventions that attenuate the neuropathological outcome of HI while also improving the neurofunctional outcome are of paramount clinical importance. The aim of this study was to i...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Fathali N,Lekic T,Zhang JH,Tang J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with severe sepsis, no randomized clinical trial has tested the concept of de-escalation of empirical antimicrobial therapy. This study aimed to compare the de-escalation strategy with the continuation of an appropriate empirical treatment in those patients. METHODS:This was a multicenter non-bl...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Leone M,Bechis C,Baumstarck K,Lefrant JY,Albanèse J,Jaber S,Lepape A,Constantin JM,Papazian L,Bruder N,Allaouchiche B,Bézulier K,Antonini F,Textoris J,Martin C,AZUREA Network Investigators.

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of management of patients with respiratory failure include improving arterial oxygenation with PEEP and red cell transfusion to maintain oxygen carrying capacity, both of which contribute to improving tissue oxygen delivery. However, standard CPD-stored blood is rapidly depleted of 2,3 diphosphoglycerate (2,...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Kahn RC,Zaroulis C,Goetz W,Howland WS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Critically ill patients often require CT scans. Adverse events (AE) can occur during intra-hospital transport (IHT). The aim of this prospective study was to determine the diagnostic and therapeutic yield and the safety of CT scans in ICU patients. METHODS:All ICU patients having a CT scan for diagnostic purpo...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Aliaga M,Forel JM,De Bourmont S,Jung B,Thomas G,Mahul M,Bisbal M,Nougaret S,Hraiech S,Roch A,Chaumoitre K,Jaber S,Gainnier M,Papazian L

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the prevalence of relative adrenal insufficiency in patients successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest, and its prognostic role in post-resuscitation disease. DESIGN AND SETTING:A prospective observational single-center study in a medical intensive care unit. PATIENTS:64 patients hospitalised...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Pene F,Hyvernat H,Mallet V,Cariou A,Carli P,Spaulding C,Dugue MA,Mira JP

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for two-thirds of ICU admissions due to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and is the leading cause of CAP-related death. Early death is principally due to cardiovascular collapse, whereas late death is associated with hypoxemic respiratory failure. Outcome depends on interactio...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Luján M,Gallego M,Rello J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is estimated to infect over 50% of the world's population, the majority of whom are asymptomatic. Although most research to date has focused on local gastroduodenal disease manifestations, the potential impact of H. pylori infection and the associated chronic active inflammation on systemic disease...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Robertson MS,Clancy RL,Cade JF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) relationships, during continuous axial rotation and in the supine position, in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) using the multiple inert gas elimination technique. DESIGN:Prospective investigation. SETTING:Eighteen-bed intensive care unit in a university hosp...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bein T,Reber A,Metz C,Jauch KW,Hedenstierna G

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypertensive crisis with an arterial blood pressure of 280/180 mmHg developed immediately after an apparently successful removal of a phaeochromocytoma. The blood pressure could not be lowered by phentolamine and not until the administration of dihydralazine and furosemide was the systemic pressure normalized. In ad...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Johansson H,Brismar B,Hedenstierna G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional PEEP ventilation has been recently reported to be deleterious in some cases of ARF with unilateral pneumonia. In such respect, two cases of unilateral bacterial pneumonia were intubated with a Carlens tracheal tube. Measurement of tidal volume, static compliance, and functional residual capacity of each l...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Rivara D,Bourgain JL,Rieuf P,Harf A,Lemaire F

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the pattern of lung emptying and expiratory resistance in mechanically ventilated patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DESIGN:A prospective physiological study. SETTING:A 12-bed Intensive Care Unit. PATIENTS:Ten patients with acute exacerbation of COPD. INTERVENTIONS:At th...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Kondili E,Alexopoulou C,Prinianakis G,Xirouchaki N,Georgopoulos D

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clearly the main determinant of outcome in severe acute pancreatitis is the extent of pancreatic necrosis and the subsequent risk for the development of infected necrosis. A thorough assessment using appropriate scoring systems and the early use of dynamic contrast-enhanced CT will highlight those patients likely to b...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Wyncoll DL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vasopressors are administered to critically ill patients with vasodilatory shock not responsive to volume resuscitation, and less often in cardiogenic shock, and hypovolemic shock. OBJECTIVES:The objectives are to review safety and efficacy of vasopressors, pathophysiology, agents that decrease vasopressor ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Russell JA

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore translation, conversion and definition ambiguities, when using severity scoring systems in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). DESIGN:A prospective study of the prognosis of acute renal failure in ICUs. SETTING:The study was conducted in 20 French ICUs. PATIENTS:360 patients presen...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Féry-Lemonnier E,Landais P,Loirat P,Kleinknecht D,Brivet F

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of enteral feeding on O2-consumption (VO2) and CO2-production (VCO2) was studied in 9 ventilator-dependent patients, who were in a stable condition without signs of hypermetabolism. Resting energy expenditure (REE) in postabsorptive state was assessed and enteral feeding was started by continuous drip (480 ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： van den Berg B,Stam H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure the effect of intense neuromuscular blockade (NMB) on oxygen consumption (VO(2)) in deeply sedated and mechanically ventilated children on the first day after complex congenital cardiac surgery. DESIGN:Prospective clinical interventional study. SETTING:Pediatric intensive care unit of an universi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Lemson J,Driessen JJ,van der Hoeven JG

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was undertaken to determine the delay of extubation attributable to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in comparison to other complications and complexity of surgery after repair of congenital heart lesions in neonates and children. METHODS:Cohort study in a pediatric intensive care unit of a t...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Fischer JE,Allen P,Fanconi S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00