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abstract：:Current research indicates that the majority of survivors of critical illness develop post-intensive care syndrome (PICS), which includes new or worsening cognitive or psychiatric disorders that persist for months to years after critical illness. These cognitive impairments and psychiatric disorders are profound and l...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hopkins RO,Girard TD

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis is important because untreated deep vein thrombosis can cause death or permanent impairment and because effective treatments are available. The approach to the diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis varies because of differences in local resources and expertise. Duplex ultrasonogr...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Elliott CG

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Practicing pulmonologists are often faced with the question of whether a lung disease is related to something in the patient's workplace, home, or recreational environment. Recognizing a lung disease as exposure related creates both opportunities and obligations for clinicians. In addition to managing the patient, the...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rose CS,Lynch DA,Cool CD

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive care unit (ICU) acquired pneumonia is one of the most common and morbid health care-associated infections. Despite decades of work developing and testing prevention strategies, ICU-acquired pneumonia remains stubbornly pervasive. Pneumonia prevention studies are difficult to interpret because all are at risk...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Klompas M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

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journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Oh SS,Folch E

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) is an infection prevention strategy in intensive care unit (ICU) patients by topical administration of antibiotics to the mouth and stomach to eradicate potentially pathogenic bacteria and yeast that may cause infections. It also includes a short course of intrave...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： van Essen EH,de Jonge E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pandemics of influenza have been reported since the early sixteenth century. Recent pandemics include the Spanish flu (H1N1) from 1918 to 1920 (resulting in approximately 50 million deaths worldwide); the Asian flu (H2N2) from 1957 to 1958 (resulting in more than 1 million deaths); the Hong Kong flu (H3N2) from 1968 t...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Rajagopal S,Treanor J

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical ventilation practices in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have progressed with a growing understanding of the disease pathophysiology. Paramount to the care of affected patients is the delivery of lung-protective mechanical ventilation which prioritizes tidal volume and plateau press...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sklar MC,Patel BK,Beitler JR,Piraino T,Goligher EC

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past decade, much information has been gained on the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in patients suspected of having hospital-acquired pneumonia. The key to an effective therapeutic approach is the diagnostic strategy used, and timely administration of appropriate antibiotic therapy. Many patients, but no...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Brun-Buisson C

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral corticosteroids are powerful relatively nonspecific antiinflammatory agents with a range of well-characterized side effects. There is good evidence to show that they accelerate the rate of resolution of exacerbations of COPD and relapse is less likely if patients receive these drugs. Maintenance therapy with oral...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Calverley PM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is primarily a disease of the elderly. Although NSCLC is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and the overall prognosis of this disease is poor, treatment improves survival compared with best supportive care, independent of the stage of disease. Elderly patients hav...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Sequist LV,Fidias P

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonspecific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP) is a complex disorder commonly associated with other conditions such as connective tissue diseases (CTDs) and environmental exposures. Although idiopathic NSIP has been recognized as a separate clinical entity, recent studies have suggested that a proportion of these cases hav...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Teoh AKY,Corte TJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing prevalence and recognition of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) coupled with an awareness of its detrimental health consequences has resulted in the need for timely and cost efficient access to diagnostic sleep testing and treatment. As a result, increased emphasis is being placed on simplified ambulatory m...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Cruz SD,Littner MR,Zeidler MR

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent advances in understanding, the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains a challenging clinical problem. Optimization of gas exchange and preventing the iatrogenic propagation of lung injury are cornerstones of its clinical management. A number of novel approaches and adjuncts to ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Kress JP,Marini JJ

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance has generally increased over the past 5 decades, with occasional brief respites following the introduction of new antimicrobial classes. Resistance has been driven by bacterial genetic events, antibiotic pressures, and lapses in hospital hygiene. Recently promoted solutions to the problem of h...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Weinstein RA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection occurs worldwide and is the most common cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in 5- to 20-year-olds. The most reliable diagnostic test is the enzyme immunoassay, which allows immunoglobulin (Ig)G and IgM titration and presents 92% sensitivity and 95% specificity on paired samples....

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Blasi F,Tarsia P,Aliberti S,Cosentini R,Allegra L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In heart failure (HF), pleural effusion results from increased interstitial fluid in the lung due to elevated pulmonary capillary pressure. Rarely, pleural effusions may occur in association with isolated right HF. HF-associated effusions are typically bilateral, but if unilateral, they are more commonly seen on the r...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Porcel JM

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary immunity to fungal pathogens requires both innate and adaptive immune responses. Alveolar macrophages, dendritic cells, and neutrophils are the phagocytic cells of the lung innate system. These cells produce early inflammatory mediators (i.e., reactive oxygen species, cytokines, and chemokines) in response t...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hernández Y,Herring AC,Huffnagle GB

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung-protective ventilator strategies are considered standard practice in the care of patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). To minimize ventilator-induced lung injury, attention is directed at avoidance of alveolar overdistention and cyclical opening and closing. The lowest possible plateau pre...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Hess DR

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shock is a broad category of injury to the human body caused by a variety of insults. Fluid resuscitation is the cornerstone of initial therapy for nearly all forms of shock. This article reviews the basic physiology determining body fluid composition, the goals of fluid resuscitation in shock, the types of fluids ava...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Martin GS,Lewis CA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila has been found to be a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia in patients who required intensive care unit (ICU) admission. In many studies, the clinical manifestations for Legionnaires' disease were more severe and the mortality was higher when compared with pneumonias of other etiology. ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Vergis EN,Akbas E,Yu VL

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma is a heterogeneous disorder with a complex etiology. Prevalence rates for asthma have been increasing in many countries over the past few decades. While it is unclear why this increase is occurring, the variation reported in asthma prevalence and severity associated with ethnicity offers some insight into the d...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Moraes TJ,Sears MR,Subbarao P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment strategies for anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) are evolving. Cyclophosphamide (CYC) plus corticosteroids (CSs) is the mainstay of therapy for generalized, multisystemic AAV. Historically, the combination of CYC plus CS was used for a minimum of 12 months, but concern a...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Wang T,Weigt SS,Belperio JA,Lynch JP 3rd

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assisted mechanical ventilation (MV) may be a favorable alternative to controlled MV at the early phase of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), since it requires less sedation, no paralysis and is associated with less hemodynamic deterioration, better distal organ perfusion, and lung protection, thus reducing t...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Saddy F,Sutherasan Y,Rocco PR,Pelosi P

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past 5 years, there has arguably been a shift in the pathologic diagnosis of lung cancer, especially adenocarcinoma, moving toward a more patient-centered approach to reporting that works to incorporate information that may be clinically meaningful to prognosis and impactful to clinical management strategy. As ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Konopka KE

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the pleural effusions that occur with the post-cardiac injury (Dressler's) syndrome (PCIS) and those that occur after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. The PCIS can occur after any type of cardiac injury and is thought to be due to anti-myocardial antibodies. The primary symptoms are ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Light RW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daily oral care with chlorhexidine for mechanically ventilated patients is ubiquitous in contemporary intensive care practice. The practice is predicated upon meta-analyses suggesting that adding chlorhexidine to daily oral care regimens can reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) rates by up to 40%. Close analys...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Klompas M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a complicated disease involving many organ systems. Identification of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) genetic code has not only enhanced our understanding of the mechanism of CF pathology but has also provided explanations for phenotypic variation. Additionally, genetic testi...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Lommatzsch ST,Aris R

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed frequently by paramedics, emergency department personnel, and inpatient physicians. Unfortunately, after more than 40 years of practice and study, there are still many controversies and unresolved treatment issues. This article focuses on four current controversies in C...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： White SJ,Himes D,Rouhani M,Slovis CM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure greater then 25 mm Hg at rest and greater then 30 mm Hg with exercise in association with normal left heart filling pressures. However, many patients with PAH have much higher pulmonary artery pressures, which, untreated, can rapidly ...

journal_title：Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine

authors： Bull TM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00