Abstract:
:The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the role of ultrasonography in avoiding cranial misplacement of the tracheostomy tube and tracheal ring fractures during percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT). The tracheas of 26 consecutive ICU patients who had undergone PDT but who later died were removed en bloc at autopsy. The tracheas were opened along the membranous portion and the condition of tracheal rings and the site of tracheostomy macroscopically evaluated. The patients were divided in two groups: group A with 15 patients who underwent "blind" PDT and group B with 11 patients who underwent ultrasound-guided PDT. In five (33%) patients from group A, autopsy revealed that the tracheostomy tube was placed between the cricoid cartilage and the first tracheal ring (cranial misplacement) and in six (43%) patients a fracture of one tracheal ring was found. Cranial misplacement of the tracheostomy tube in patients from group B was not found (P < 0.05) and four (36%) patients had a broken tracheal ring (P = NS). The authors maintain that by using ultrasound-guided PDT cranial misplacement of the tracheostomy tube may be entirely avoided.
journal_name
Intensive Care Medjournal_title
Intensive care medicineauthors
Sustić A,Kovac D,Zgaljardić Z,Zupan Z,Krstulović Bdoi
10.1007/s001340000589keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2000-09-01 00:00:00pages
1379-81issue
9eissn
0342-4642issn
1432-1238journal_volume
26pub_type
杂志文章abstract:OBJECTIVE:Transcapillary heat transfer after injections of cold saline into the right atrium generates bronchial thermodilution curves resembling those observed in the aorta. Under the assumption that no indicator is lost or gained within the pulmonary capillary bed and changes in blood temperature are instantaneously ...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s001340050818
更新日期:1999-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::A total of 6178 persons with out-of-hospital (70%) and in hospital (30%) cardiac arrests from the first of January 1982 until the end of 1989 were reviewed retrospectively with respect to 4 variables, contributing to a score for specific prediction of poor prognosis (cut-off point: greater than 3 points). These includ...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01706419
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-003-2052-0
更新日期:2004-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:To provide evidence-based guidelines for early enteral nutrition (EEN) during critical illness. METHODS:We aimed to compare EEN vs. early parenteral nutrition (PN) and vs. delayed EN. We defined "early" EN as EN started within 48 h independent of type or amount. We listed, a priori, conditions in which EN is o...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,实务指引,评审
doi:10.1007/s00134-016-4665-0
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To assess procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) plasma concentrations and clearance in nonseptic end-stage renal failure patients undergoing their first three hemodialysis sessions. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective observational consecutive clinical study at a university hospital. PATIENTS:The stud...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-003-1664-8
更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Impairment of haemostasis has been described with slowly degradable medium molecular weight hydroxyethyl starch (MMW-HES), whereas rapidly degradable MMW-HES is generally considered to have no important effects on blood coagulation. This study was undertaken to investigate the effects of a rapidly degradable ...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/s001340101107
更新日期:2001-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-004-2328-z
更新日期:2004-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::A case of bilateral pseudoaneurysms of the pulmonary arteries caused by blunt chest injury is presented. Although this is a very rare complication, this entity should always be suspected in a patient with hemoptysis and a radiodensity on chest radiograph following chest injury. Selection of operative procedures should...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/BF01706428
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/s00134-002-1469-1
更新日期:2002-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Arterial blood ketone body ratio, reflecting hepatic mitochondrial redox state, was measured in 26 brain-dead patients who were hypotensive but hemodynamically stable. All of them had substantially normal hepatic function. In 18 of the patients, blood ketone body ratio was maintained within the normal range in spite o...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01691432
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s001340050762
更新日期:1998-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Limited data exist on the correlation between higher flow rates of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and its physiologic effects in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF). We assessed the effects of HFNC delivered at increasing flow rate on inspiratory effort, work of breathing, minute ventilatio...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-017-4890-1
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/BF00255635
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To establish a preliminary list of critical incidents (CIs) associated with mechanical ventilation and to describe a CI reporting method. DESIGN:A list of CIs was established based on a consensus among ICU caregivers. The list was compared to CIs collected prospectively during a predefined study period. SE...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/s00134-002-1251-4
更新日期:2002-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To investigate the sources of hemorrhage and use of endoscopic hemostasis in patients with clinically significant upper gastrointestinal (UGI) hemorrhage after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective study, 123 beds of ICU in a 1,629-bed medical center. MEASUREMENTS AND RE...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-003-1921-x
更新日期:2003-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:We investigated the effect of different levels of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on the cricothyroid (CT; a tensor muscle of the vocal folds) and posterior cricoarytenoid (PCA; sole abductor muscle of the vocal folds) muscles in dogs. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled animal study. SUBJECTS:Nine m...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01709524
更新日期:1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The process of fluidisation involves blowing warm air through small solid microspheres thus creating a liquid, without wetness. The warmth provides some important properties including reducing the metabolic rate in thermal injury which has a beneficial effect on mortality, modifying catabolism after surgery, providing...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/BF01701488
更新日期:1995-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Evaluation of the distribution and antibiotic susceptibility of the aerobic gram-negative bacilli (AGNB) isolated from patients in intensive care units (ICU study). DESIGN AND SETTING:Microbiological study carried out in 1991 in 39 teaching hospitals. A standardized method was used to determine the minimum i...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/BF01699228
更新日期:1996-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 已发布勘误
doi:10.1007/s00134-020-06269-y
更新日期:2020-10-14 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-005-2604-6
更新日期:2005-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-012-2689-7
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Production of beta-lactamases is the most important means of bacterial resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics. The traditional, plasmid-mediated beta-lactamases were initially confined to Enterobacteriaceae but have now spread to other genera and species including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Haemophilus influenzae, and Nei...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1007/BF01745244
更新日期:1994-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-005-2801-3
更新日期:2005-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:While using a transcutaneous system for assessment of liver function by indocyanine green plasma disappearance rate (ICG-PDR) in critically ill patients, we compared the agreement between ICG-PDR obtained by the recommended standard ICG dosage (0.5 mg/kg) and a reduced dosage (0.25 mg/kg). DESIGN:Clinical st...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/s00134-003-2091-6
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:Intensive care unit survivors suffer from prolonged impairment, reduced quality of life, and higher mortality rates after discharge compared to the general population. Socioeconomic status may play a partial but important role in mortality and recovery. Therefore, the detection of factors that are responsible f...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1007/s00134-018-5412-5
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the accuracy of the percentage of infected cells (%IC) in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) diagnosis according to its onset from the initiation of mechanical ventilation. PATIENTS:One hundred and eight patients admitted ...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-004-2323-4
更新日期:2004-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/s00134-007-0971-x
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effectiveness of an enhanced software Model Predictive Control (eMPC) algorithm for intravenous insulin infusion, targeted at tight glucose control in critically ill patients, over 72 h, in two intensive care units with different management protocols. DESIGN:Comparison with standard care i...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究,随机对照试验
doi:10.1007/s00134-008-1236-z
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::We report a case of fatal septic shock, with hyperlactatemia and blood cultures positive for Streptococcus pneumoniae, in a 70-year-old patient. On two occasions (5 days, and 2 days before the patient's death), the relationship between oxygen delivery (DO2) and consumption (VO2) was examined in conjunction with two pr...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s001340050300
更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the use of antidotal therapy in patients with an elevated digitalis concentration following chronic or acute exposure. DESIGN AND SETTING:Retrospective review of patient records over 2 years in 20 city hospitals in France. PATIENTS:Overall 838 patients with an elevated serum digitalis concentrat...
journal_title:Intensive care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1007/s00134-008-1092-x
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00