Luxatio cordis due to right pericardium tear, a difficult diagnosis: report of a case.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the impact of missing Acute Physiology Score (APS) values on risk-adjusted mortality. DESIGN:Retrospective review of prospectively collected Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III database. SETTING:The intensive care units (ICUs) of an academic medical center. PATIENTS:38,...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Afessa B,Keegan MT,Gajic O,Hubmayr RD,Peters SG

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pulmonary flow resistance is mainly determined by vessel calibres, resulting from the interaction of volume-passive distension and active vasomotion. However, quantitative information on the interplay between these counteracting forces in the lung is lacking. Therefore, we aimed at quantifying (1) the effects...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Ding ZP,Scheeren TW,Arndt JO

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the involvement of intestinal angiotensin II type 2 receptors in the outcome of acute severe hypovolemia as well as systemic and regional mesenteric hemodynamics and intestinal mucosal functions in anesthetized pigs. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective, interventional animal study in a university r...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Laesser M,Spak E,Ewert S,Aneman A,Fandriks L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pressure-volume (PV) curves are recorded after induction of complete muscle paralysis, which may limit their clinical use. The feasibility of recording PV curves without paralysis has not been tested. In 19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and no hemodynamic instability we prospectivel...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Decailliot F,Demoule A,Maggiore SM,Jonson B,Duvaldestin P,Brochard L

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was noninvasive assessment of respiratory compliance and resistance in mechanically ventilated patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF). To this end, flow, change in lung volume, and airway pressure were measured at the proximal tip of the endotracheal tubes in twenty nine critically ill...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bernasconi M,Ploysongsang Y,Gottfried SB,Milic-Emili J,Rossi A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the feasibility of craniectomy with duraplasty in four patients with life-threatening encephalitis and, in particular, their long-term outcome. DESIGN:Report of four cases, analysis of the acute clinical course and neurological long-term sequelae. RESULTS:Generous craniectomy with duraplasty was p...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Taferner E,Pfausler B,Kofler A,Spiss H,Engelhardt K,Kampfl A,Schmutzhard E

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sepsis-evoked myocardial dysfunction is possibly due to decreased myofilament calcium sensitivity, and a calcium sensitizer may thus specifically improve contractility in sepsis by enhancing myofilament calcium sensitivity. We examined whether the calcium sensitizer levosimendan mitigates myocardial dysfuncti...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Behrends M,Peters J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2), one of the key mortality prediction models for children in intensive care units, has not been validated in Japan. The purpose of this study was to validate the performance of PIM2 in a population of patients admitted to one pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Jap...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Imamura T,Nakagawa S,Goldman RD,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify and reduce medication-prescribing errors by introducing systematic physician education and post-cardiac surgery admission prescription forms. DESIGN:Errors were defined as: incomplete prescriptions; potential adverse drug events (ADEs), i.e. either intercepted or non-intercepted incorrect prescri...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Burmester MK,Dionne R,Thiagarajan RR,Laussen PC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Motivated by a new randomized trial (the PEPTIC trial) that raised the issue of an increase in mortality with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) relative to histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RAs), we updated our prior systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) addressing the impact of pharmacological gastro...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Wang Y,Ge L,Ye Z,Siemieniuk RA,Reintam Blaser A,Wang X,Perner A,Møller MH,Alhazzani W,Cook D,Guyatt GH

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Measurement of functional residual capacity (FRC) during controlled and especially during assisted ventilation remains a challenge in the physiological evaluation of ventilated patients. To validate a bag-in-box closed helium dilution technique allowing measurements both during pressure-controlled (PCV) and p...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Di Marco F,Rota Sperti L,Milan B,Stucchi R,Centanni S,Brochard L,Fumagalli R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the actual cost of pediatric intensive care and its different components, particularly the differences between various patient groups, with special reference to the variable cost and the elements included in it. DESIGN:Prospective, observational study. SETTING:Multidisciplinary 12-bed pediatric i...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： García S,Ruza F,Alvarado F,Madero R,Delgado MA,Dorao P,Frias M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen polytrauma patients with asymmetric pulmonary contusion were treated with differential lung ventilation (DLV) for a mean of 106 hours (range 24-298, median 83). The differential time constant (Tc), compliance (Ct), inspiratory and expiratory airway resistance (Rawinsp, Rawexp) and peak-airway pressure (Pawpeak...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Zandstra DF,Stoutenbeek CP,Bams JL

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of brainstem encephalitis complicated by torsade de pointes is described. The possible occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias may contribute to the mortality in this condition. We recommend the admission of patients with brainstem encephalitis to an intensive care unit, for a period of electrocardiographic monit...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： De Keyser J,De Boel S,Ceulemans L,Ebinger G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracorporeal CO2-removal (EC-CO2-R) using a membrane lung system was applied for 12 and 20 days respectively in two young men with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Neuropathological examination revealed only moderate hypoxic changes of unusual distribution. In the first case nerve cell loss in Sommer's se...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Krajewski S,Seitz RJ,Schober R,Breulmann M,Falke KJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to identify risk factors and to describe epidemiological patterns for early-(EOB) and late-onset bacteremias (LOB) after trauma. DESIGN:A prospective study conducted on 141 consecutive trauma patients. SETTING:A general intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital. PATIENTS:...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Antonelli M,Moro ML,D'Errico RR,Conti G,Bufi M,Gasparetto A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In hypoxia sensitive cells and tissues, the rates of glucose and O2 consumption are inversely related (Pasteur Effect). Under O2 limiting conditions the demands for glucose (glycogen) in such cells may drastically rise as a means for maintaining ATP turnover close to normoxic rates; nevertheless ion and electrical pot...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hochachka PW

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：PURPOSE:To examine the consequences of administration of norepinephrine on muscle tissue oxygenation in severely hypotensive septic shock patients. METHODS:This was a prospective observational study conducted in a medical intensive care unit of a university hospital. We included 28 septic shock patients that received ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Georger JF,Hamzaoui O,Chaari A,Maizel J,Richard C,Teboul JL

更新日期：2010-11-01 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

authors： Dahaba AA,Rehak PH,List WF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of the relationships between oxygen supply, demand, and uptake can be used to interpret cardiac output values, identify types of acute circulatory failure, guide attempts to improve cellular function, and thus prevent the development of multiple organ failure and death. Five steps in the interpretation of card...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Vincent JL

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the correlation between microalbuminuria and extravascular lung water in patients in septic shock who require mechanical ventilation for severe respiratory failure. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective, observational, clinical study in the 20-bed intensive care unit of a university hospital. PATIEN...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Molnár Z,Szakmány T,Heigl P

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Interhospital transfers of critically ill pediatric patients in The Netherlands are accompanied by referring specialists or by specialist retrieval teams. We compared the interventions before and directly after transports and the complications and the equipment available during transports in the two groups. ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Vos GD,Nissen AC,H M Nieman F,Meurs MMB,van Waardenburg DA,Ramsay G,Donckerwolcke RAMG

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors influencing nitrogen balance during total parenteral nutrition have been investigated in 34 critically ill injured patients studied during the first 6 days after trauma. Basal nitrogen balance was severely negative (-0.26 +/- 0.12 (SD) g X kg-1), but improved consistently during treatment. Nitrogen intake prov...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Iapichino G,Radrizzani D,Solca M,Pesenti A,Gattinoni L,Ferro A,Leoni L,Langer M,Vesconi S,Damia G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a fatal case of a child presenting Reye's syndrome associated with a variety of arrhythmias and ischemia-like ST-T ECG changes. At autopsy, fatty infiltration and patchy myocytolysis were detected in sections of the heart. This case report emphasizes cardiac involvement in Reye's syndrome and the possible me...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Sarti A,Cecchi F,Manetti A,Busoni P

更新日期：1996-01-01 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

authors： Iwasaki H,Ohmori H,Sumita S,Yamauchi M,Namiki A

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the accuracy of eight different prognostic scores (Stiehm, Niklasson, Leclerc, Garlund, the MOC score, Tesero, the Glasgow Meningococcal Septicaemia Prognostic Score (GMSPS) and Tüyzüs) in the prediction of fatal outcome in meningococcal disease. DESIGN:Combined prospective and retrospective s...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Derkx HH,van den Hoek J,Redekop WK,Bijlmer RP,van Deventer SJ,Bossuyt PM

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Trustworthy clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) require identification and careful management of conflicts of interest (COIs) among all participants in the guideline development. Furthermore, COIs are more common than anticipated. However, there are no universally accepted methods to identify and manage COIs...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Alhazzani W,Lewis K,Jaeschke R,Rochwerg B,Møller MH,Evans L,Wilson KC,Patel S,Coopersmith CM,Cecconi M,Guyatt G,Akl EA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00