Immediate prediction of recovery of consciousness after cardiac arrest.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare some of the confirmatory investigations of brain death with clinical criteria in order to achieve the most sensitive and accurate diagnosis of brain death. DESIGN:All patients with isolated brain lesions and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) = 3 were subjected to neurological examination after ruling out h...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Paolin A,Manuali A,Di Paola F,Boccaletto F,Caputo P,Zanata R,Bardin GP,Simini G

更新日期：1995-08-01 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:Our study aimed to determine the efficacy and safety of colistin in the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) caused by pan-drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Acinetobacter baumanii. DESIGN:Pairwise, retrospective exposed-unexposed study. SETTING:Combined medical and surgical intensive ca...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Kallel H,Hergafi L,Bahloul M,Hakim A,Dammak H,Chelly H,Hamida CB,Chaari A,Rekik N,Bouaziz M

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Varkila MRJ,Cremer OL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy is increasingly practiced in intensive care units and has a low incidence of early complications. The late effects of this procedure are still poorly known and were the focus of this study. DESIGN:Prospective descriptive clinical study. SETTING:Interdisciplinary intens...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Fischler MP,Kuhn M,Cantieni R,Frutiger A

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria remains today one of the major health problems in the tropics with increased morbidity and mortality. The most serious complications are caused by Plasmodium falciparum, which, in contrast to the benign malarias, may progress to a life-threatening multi-system disease. Our case concerns a young woman in the 14...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Gregorakos L,Sakayianni K,Hroni D,Harizopoulou V,Georgiadou F,Adamidou M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Postoperative pneumonia is a potentially devastating complication associated with high mortality in intensive care unit (ICU)-patients. One of the major predisposing factors is the perioperative occurrence of atelectatic formations in non-dependent lung areas. Perioperative ventilation/perfusion mismatch due ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hutschala D,Kinstner C,Skhirtladze K,Mayer-Helm BX,Zeitlinger M,Wisser W,Müller M,Tschernko E

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate compliance with recommended patient-care practices for the prevention of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in the intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN:European descriptive survey by questionnaire mailed to all the directors of ICUs. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS:A total of 1642 general ICUs with more ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Moro ML,Jepsen OB

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge translation is an important step for translational research. In this issue of Intensive Care Medicine, a new mini-series of basic research-related reviews is published. Three invited reviews focus on the role of extracellular matrix in ventilator-induced lung injury and mechanotransduction. The major challen...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Liu M

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical epidemiology of invasive group A streptococcal disease (IGASD) and identify predictors of admissions into an intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN:A cross-sectional study. SETTING:Retrospective review of data. PATIENTS:A total of 204 patients hospitalized throughout the state of Flori...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Mulla ZD

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An investigation into the incidence of post-operative complications after thoracic surgery with 3 different physiotherapy masks. DESIGN:A prospective, consecutive, randomized comparison. SETTING:Department of Thoracic and Heart Surgery at a University Hospital. The treatments were performed by experienced a...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Ingwersen UM,Larsen KR,Bertelsen MT,Kiil-Nielsen K,Laub M,Sandermann J,Bach K,Hansen H

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Endotracheal suctioning can cause alveolar collapse and impede ventilation. One reason is the gas flow through a single-lumen endotracheal tube (ETT) provoking a gradient between airway opening and tracheal (P(tr)) pressures. Separately extending the patient tubing limbs of a suitable ventilator into the trac...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Reissmann H,Böhm SH,Suárez-Sipmann F,Tusman G,Buschmann C,Maisch S,Pesch T,Thamm O,Plümers C,Schulte am Esch J,Hedenstierna G

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Trunk position at 45 degrees from the horizontal is associated with a decreased risk of gastroesophageal aspiration. The objectives of this study were to determine the accuracy of trunk flexion estimates compared to a reference standard measurement, and to determine agreement about trunk flexion among ICU cl...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： McMullin JP,Cook DJ,Meade MO,Weaver BR,Letelier LM,Kahmamoui K,Higgins DA,Guyatt GH

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Amrein K,Oudemans-van Straaten HM,Berger MM

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the clinical impact of bedside colonoscopy for critically ill patients with acute lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. DESIGN AND SETTING:A 3-year retrospective analysis (chart review). Medical intensive care unit (ICU) of a 1,312-bed tertiary-care center in Taiwan. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS:F...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Lin CC,Lee YC,Lee H,Lin JT,Ho WC,Chen TH,Wang HP

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the addition of intrapulmonary percussive ventilation to the usual chest physiotherapy improves gas exchange and lung mechanics in tracheostomized patients. DESIGN AND SETTING:Randomized multicenter trial in two weaning centers in northern Italy. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS:46 tracheost...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Clini EM,Antoni FD,Vitacca M,Crisafulli E,Paneroni M,Chezzi-Silva S,Moretti M,Trianni L,Fabbri LM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the safety and efficacy of sustained inflations (SI) as lung recruitment maneuvers (RMs) in ventilated pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) patients. DESIGN:Observational, prospective data collection. SETTING:Tertiary-care PICU. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS:Thirty-two consecutive ventilated pediatri...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Duff JP,Rosychuk RJ,Joffe AR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop a liver function-related risk prediction tool to identify acute-on-chronic liver failure patients at greatest risk of in-hospital mortality. METHODS:The LiFe (liver, injury, failure, evaluation) score, was constructed based on the opinions of 157 intensivists within the European Society for Intensiv...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Edmark C,McPhail MJW,Bell M,Whitehouse T,Wendon J,Christopher KB

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compare two patients admitted after near drowning. Both presented a severe metabolic acidosis, but only one of them developed an acute pulmonary edema with hypoxemia. An increase of lipid peroxides associated with a reduction of vitamin E concentration has been observed in this later patient. Lipid peroxidation, on...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bertrand Y,Artoisenet A,Allard B,Barbier B,de Meulder A,Raynaert M,Mathieu P,Dumont E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of continuous and supplementary bolus dose administration of etomidate have been investigated in ten artificially ventilated patients in traumatic coma. Continuous infusion of etomidate (5-25 micrograms/kg/min) proved to be a practical and safe means of sedating these patients and appeared to control moder...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Prior JG,Hinds CJ,Williams J,Prior PF

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We evaluated whether oscillatory compliance (C(X5)) measured by forced oscillation technique (FOT) at 5 Hz may be useful for positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) optimisation. METHODS:We studied seven pigs in which lung injury was induced by broncho-alveolar lavage. The animals were ventilated in volume con...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Dellacà RL,Zannin E,Kostic P,Olerud MA,Pompilio PP,Hedenstierna G,Pedotti A,Frykholm P

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of C1-esterase inhibitor (C1-INH) attenuates myocardial necrosis and sustains normal cardiac performance after myocardial ischemia and reperfusion in animal experiments. We report on our first experience of C1-INH application as rescue therapy in patients undergoing emergency surgical revascularization ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bauernschmitt R,Böhrer H,Hagl S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recording of intratracheal pressure in patients breathing through a tracheostomy tube is marred by methodological problems. In model experiments it has been shown that the introduction of a recording catheter into the tracheostomy tube alters the recorded pressure by as much as 20-40%. To avoid such inaccuracy, a ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Holst M,Striem J,Hedenstierna G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effects of patient-initiated, pressure-regulated, volume-controlled ventilation (PRVC) with pressure-preset intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV) in neonates with respiratory failure. DESIGN:Randomised, prospective study. SETTING:Intensive care unit (14 beds) in a 300-bed paediatric teachi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Piotrowski A,Sobala W,Kawczyński P

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the first case of ARDS in children treated with nitric oxide (NO) inhalation. METHODS:A 13-months infant presented with BPD and severe hypoxemia related to RSV infection and ARDS. Inhaled NO was delivered in the ventilatory circuit of a continuous flow ventilator (Babylog 8000, Dräger) in a concent...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Leclerc F,Riou Y,Martinot A,Storme L,Hue V,Flurin V,Deschildre A,Sadik A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the steady-state trough serum and epithelial lining fluid (ELF) concentrations of teicoplanin 12 mg/kg per day in critically ill patients with ventilator associated pneumonia. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective, pharmacokinetic study in the surgical intensive care unit in a university hospital. PAT...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Mimoz O,Rolland D,Adoun M,Marchand S,Breilh D,Brumpt I,Debaene B,Couet W

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Loer SA,Wietasch JK,Scheeren TW

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic performance of a Bayesian Decision-Support System (BDSS) for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). DESIGN:A previously developed BDSS, automatically obtaining patient data from patient information systems, provides likelihood predictions of VAP. In a prospectively studied cohort ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Schurink CA,Visscher S,Lucas PJ,van Leeuwen HJ,Buskens E,Hoff RG,Hoepelman AI,Bonten MJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00