Effect of severe thrombocytopenia on patient outcome after liver transplantation.

abstract：PURPOSE:Mechanical ventilation with lower tidal volumes (≤6 ml/kg of predicted body weight, PBW) could benefit patients without acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, tidal volume reduction could be associated with increased patient discomfort and sedation needs, and consequent longer duration of ventilat...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Serpa Neto A,Simonis FD,Barbas CS,Biehl M,Determann RM,Elmer J,Friedman G,Gajic O,Goldstein JN,Horn J,Juffermans NP,Linko R,de Oliveira RP,Sundar S,Talmor D,Wolthuis EK,de Abreu MG,Pelosi P,Schultz MJ

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a nationwide evaluation of intensive care, we examined patient- and hospital-related factors which could influence the patterns of utilization of arterial cannulae and central venous and pulmonary artery catheters. We also studied the possible impact of these interventions on the short-term outcome among 14...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Saarela E,Kari A,Nikki P,Rauhala V,Iisalo E,Kaukinen L

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report identifies some of the risk factors underlying the acquisition of hospital infections in patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Infection rates vary in different institutes and in different types of ICUs. Patients are particularly prone to septicaemia and respiratory infections and the underlyin...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Emmerson AM

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial catheterization is the second most common invasive procedure performed in the intensive care unit. Despite the ubiquity of the procedure, complications including failure to place the catheter occur. While many clinicians are familiar with the use of ultrasound (US) guidance to decrease complication rates of c...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Shiloh AL,Eisen LA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common but often overlooked life-threatening complication of critical illness. The aim of this cross-sectional survey was to assess current practice of thromboprophylaxis as well as adherence to international guidelines. METHODS:After ethics committee approval, all intensive c...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Schaden E,Metnitz PG,Pfanner G,Heil S,Pernerstorfer T,Perger P,Schoechl H,Fries D,Guetl M,Kozek-Langenecker S

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the regional partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) and partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PCO2) of the perfluorocarbon liquid (PpfcO2, PpfcCO2) during partial liquid ventilation (PLV). DESIGN:Prospective, controlled study. SETTING:A research laboratory at a university medical center. SUBJECTS:Th...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Uchida T,Yokoyama K,Nakazawa K,Makita K

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Two hundred and seventy-three acute hemorrhagic shocks were treated in 1984 in a pre-hospital emergency care unit. Twenty patients (7%) had a paradoxical bradycardia: they were conscious, 9 of them had an undetectable systolic arterial pressure with the sphygmomanometric method but the femoral pulse was still present....

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Barriot P,Riou B

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is associated with a high mortality. The present study sought to determine the incidence of spontaneous ICH in an intensive care unit (ICU) and associated factors. DESIGN:A 6 year retrospective study. SETTING:A general ICU in a university hospital. PATIENTS:All ICU patients d...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Oppenheim-Eden A,Glantz L,Eidelman LA,Sprung CL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical course of quinine-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and review all previous cases reported in the medical literature. DESIGN:Case report/literature review. SETTING:University teaching hospital medical ICU. PATIENTS:One patient in whom thrombocytopenia, coagulopat...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Knower MT,Bowton DL,Owen J,Dunagan DP

更新日期：2003-06-01 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

abstract：:Hepatic encephalopathy is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with acute, subacute and chronic liver failure, involving increased neural inhibition by activation of the GABA/benzodiazepine inhibitory neurotransmitter system. Improvement by GABA and benzodiazepine receptor antagonists as well as by chloride ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Gyr K,Meier R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a patient with evidence of severe intravascular hemolysis after mitral valve repair, an established method for the surgical treatment of mitral valve disease to avoid prosthesis related complications. The coincidence of this uncommon complication with hemodynamic instability due to pre-existing myocardial d...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Seyr M,Hasibeder W,Furtwaegler W,Antretter H,Mutz NJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the consequences of helium/oxygen (He/O(2)) inhalation on respiratory mechanics, gas exchange, and ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) relationships in an animal model of severe induced bronchospasm during mechanical ventilation. DESIGN:Prospective, interventional study. SETTING:Experimental animal labo...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Watremez C,Liistro G,deKock M,Roeseler J,Clerbaux T,Detry B,Reynaert M,Gianello P,Jolliet P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a goal-directed terlipressin infusion increases mean arterial pressure without causing a pulmonary vasopressive effect and whether this response impacts on key parameters of oxygen transport in healthy and endotoxemic sheep. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective controlled trial in a university...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Westphal M,Stubbe H,Sielenkämper AW,Borgulya R,Van Aken H,Ball C,Bone HG

更新日期：2003-02-01 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

authors： Ryan DW

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Capillary leakage syndrome (CLS) is a frequent complication in sepsis, characterized by loss of intravasal fluids leading to generalized edema and hemodynamic instability despite massive fluid therapy. In spite of its importance no standardized diagnostic criteria are available for CLS. DESIGN:Prospective cl...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Marx G,Vangerow B,Burczyk C,Gratz KF,Maassen N,Cobas Meyer M,Leuwer M,Kuse E,Rueckholdt H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of hyperinflation induced isorythmic atrio-ventricular dissociation with circulatory failure in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The arrythmia was successfully treated by applying "pressure support ventilation" (PSV: 20 cmH2O) which, by decreasing the respiratory rate and increasi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Conti G,Bufi M,Antonelli M,Rocco M,Gasparetto A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of different infusion pump models on continuity of drug delivery during vertical displacement of syringe pumps. DESIGN:Zero-drug delivery time (ZDDT), retrograde aspiration volume, and infusion bolus were recorded using the same syringe in three different models of syringe pump after l...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Neff TA,Fischer JE,Schulz G,Baenziger O,Weiss M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

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：OBJECTIVE:To define the different types of costs incurred in the care of critically ill patients and to describe some of the most commonly used methods for measuring and allocating these costs. DESIGN:Literature review. Definitions for opportunity, direct and indirect, fixed, variable, marginal, and total costs are de...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Jegers M,Edbrooke DL,Hibbert CL,Chalfin DB,Burchardi H

更新日期：2002-06-01 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：PURPOSE:To determine incidence, risk factors and outcome of tracheal ischemic lesions related to intubation. METHODS:Planned post hoc analysis using patients from a previous randomized controlled study. Fiberoptic tracheoscopy was performed during the 24 h following extubation. In patients with >2 ischemic lesions, ul...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Touat L,Fournier C,Ramon P,Salleron J,Durocher A,Nseir S

更新日期：2013-04-01 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 assess the effects of the cyclooxygenase inhibitor diclofenac in a canine model of pulmonary occlusion and reperfusion of the left lower lobe (LLL). DESIGN:Twelve adult beagle dogs (13-17 kg) were randomly assigned to a control group (n = 6) and a diclofenac-treated group (n = 6). Animals in the treatment...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Segiet W,Krieter H,Stieber C,Albrecht DM,van Ackern K

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe hyperglycaemia as a possible marker of morbidity and mortality in critically ill medical and surgical patients admitted to a multidisciplinary ICU. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:A 13-bed non-cardiac multidisciplinary ICU in a university hospital. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS:Adult patie...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Christiansen C,Toft P,Jørgensen HS,Andersen SK,Tønnesen E

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial pneumonia continues to represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Bacteria are responsible for greater than 90% of the pneumonias, the most common isolates being aerobic Gram-negative bacilli and S. aureus. Cornerstones of treatment are intravenous antibiotics and sup...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Unertl KE,Lenhart FP,Forst H,Peter K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the attitudes of the general public regarding who should decide about the withdrawal of life support and to compare these attitudes with those of intensive care personnel. DESIGN:Nationwide postal questionnaire survey. SETTING:Sweden. PARTICIPANTS:One thousand one hundred ninety-six randomly sel...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Sjökvist P,Nilstun T,Svantesson M,Berggren L

更新日期：1999-09-01 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