The prevalence of post traumatic stress disorder in survivors of ICU treatment: a systematic review.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish priorities for research in critical care medicine in the UK using survey and nominal group (NG) techniques. DESIGN:The senior doctor and nurse from 325 intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK were invited to contribute up to ten research questions relevant to intensive care organisation, practice...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Goldfrad C,Vella K,Bion JF,Rowan KM,Black NA

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of basic life support, time to first defibrillation and emergency medical service arrival time on neurologic outcome and expenses for hospital care in patients after cardiac arrest. SETTING:Large urban emergency medical services system and emergency department in a 2000-bed university...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bur A,Kittler H,Sterz F,Holzer M,Eisenburger P,Oschatz E,Kofler J,Laggner AN

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adult studies evaluating corticosteroids have found varied efficacy. One study showing mortality benefit utilized fludrocortisone (FLU) and hydrocortisone (HC) (Effect of treatment with low doses of hydrocortisone and fludrocortisone on mortality in patients with septic shock. JAMA 288:862-871, 2002). Use of...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hebbar KB,Stockwell JA,Fortenberry JD

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We set out to summarize the current challenges in academic conflict of interest. METHODS:This is a narrative review by a multidisciplinary, multinational panel of academic officers including deans of medical/pharmacy schools. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:Disclosing conflict of interest has become the appropriate p...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Annane D,Lerolle N,Meuris S,Sibilla J,Olsen KM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify factors that predict outcome in patients receiving a Medical Emergency Team review. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:Tertiary hospital. PATIENTS:Cohort of 228 patients receiving one or more Medical Emergency Team reviews during daytime hours over a 1-year-period. Control cohort o...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Calzavacca P,Licari E,Tee A,Egi M,Haase M,Haase-Fielitz A,Bellomo R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To implement delirium monitoring, test reliability, and monitor compliance of performing the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) in trauma patients. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective, observational study in a level 1 trauma unit of a tertiary care, university-based medical center. ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Soja SL,Pandharipande PP,Fleming SB,Cotton BA,Miller LR,Weaver SG,Lee BT,Ely EW

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can support oxygenation and carbon dioxide elimination in severe lung failure. Usually it is accompanied by controlled mechanical ventilation. Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a new mode of ventilation triggered by the diaphragmatic electrical activity an...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Karagiannidis C,Lubnow M,Philipp A,Riegger GA,Schmid C,Pfeifer M,Mueller T

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the origin of H+ ions participating in the generation of CO2 coming from sodium bicarbonate infusion during metabolic acidosis. We hypothesized that these H+ ions come from a back-titration of the main non-bicarbonate buffers present in the blood, i. e. the hemoglobin and the albumin, and thus pos...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Levraut J,Garcia P,Giunti C,Ichai C,Bouregba M,Ciebiera JP,Payan P,Grimaud D

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 9 Goettingen minipigs we studied the effect of E. coli bacteremia on effective pulmonary capillary pressure and the longitudinal distribution of pulmonary vascular resistance. Precapillary pressure gradient (dPa) was calculated as the difference between mean pulmonary artery pressure (MPP) and effective pulmonary c...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Fretschner R,Klöss T,Guggenberger H,Heuser D,Schmid HJ,Widmann M

更新日期：1990-01-01 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：PURPOSE:We conducted a retrospective cohort study in an academic tertiary care center to characterize ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery in The Netherlands. METHODS:All patients following cardiac surgery and mechanically ventilated for ≥24 h were included. The primary out...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Roeleveld PP,Guijt D,Kuijper EJ,Hazekamp MG,de Wilde RB,de Jonge E

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the intensive care management of 23 children (age 3-15 years) following orthotopic heart (HT) and combined heart and lung transplantation (HLT) performed at our 2 institutes between February 1985 and August 1989. Cyclosporin A, azathioprine and steroids were given as routine immunosuppression, whilst anti-th...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Whitehead B,James I,Helms P,Scott JP,Smyth R,Higenbottam TW,McGoldrick J,English TA,Wallwork J,Elliott M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide evidence for the upregulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) or inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in the assumed imbalance in the pathophysiology of rapid progressive pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (RPPHN), which is characterized by abnormal hypertrophy of the pulmonary art...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hoehn T,Preston AA,McPhaden AR,Stiller B,Vogel M,Bührer C,Wadsworth RM

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the occurrence of life-threatening hyperkalaemia following treatment with therapeutic thiopentone coma. SETTING:The neurosurgical intensive care units of Royal North Shore Hospital and Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia. PATIENTS:Three patients treated with theraputic thiopentone coma. One pati...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Cairns CJ,Thomas B,Fletcher S,Parr MJ,Finfer SR

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the usefulness of early transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) goal-directed therapy after severe traumatic brain injury initiated before invasive cerebral monitoring is available. DESIGN:Prospective, observational clinical study. SETTING:Surgical intensive care unit, university hospital. PATIEN...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Ract C,Le Moigno S,Bruder N,Vigué B

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candidemia is a life-threatening infection in the ICU whose prognosis is highly dependent on the stage at which it is recognized. Procalcitonin (PCT) levels have been shown to accurately distinguish between bacteremia and noninfectious inflammatory states in critically ill patients with clinical signs of sep...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Charles PE,Dalle F,Aho S,Quenot JP,Doise JM,Aube H,Olsson NO,Blettery B

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：PURPOSE:Hypoxia-ischemia (HI), as a major cause of fetal brain damage, has long-lasting neurological implications. Therefore, therapeutic interventions that attenuate the neuropathological outcome of HI while also improving the neurofunctional outcome are of paramount clinical importance. The aim of this study was to i...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Fathali N,Lekic T,Zhang JH,Tang J

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A readily available assessment of changes in pleural pressure would be useful for ventilator and fluid management in critically ill patients. We examined whether changes in pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (Ppao) adequately reflect respiratory changes in pleural pressure as assessed by changes in intraesop...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bellemare P,Goldberg P,Magder SA

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that, during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) of pigs with acute lung injury, the oxygenation index (OI = Paw*FIO(2)*100/PaO(2)) is minimal at the lowest continuous distending pressure (Paw), where the physiological shunt fraction is below 0.1 (Paw(optimal)). DESIGN AND SE...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： van Genderingen HR,van Vught JA,Jansen JR,Duval EL,Markhorst DG,Versprille A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of two different comorbidity measures on the 6-month mortality of severely ill cancer patients. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective cohort study in a ten-bed oncological medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU). PATIENTS:A total of 772 consecutive patients were included over a 45-month p...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Soares M,Salluh JI,Ferreira CG,Luiz RR,Spector N,Rocco JR

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young woman with long-standing systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatic fever presented with deteriorating renal function. She had severe gastritis treated with cimetidine and received methylprednisolone when her blood cultures were repeatedly negative. She developed spontaneous bruising and bleeding from venepunc...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bloxham CA,Carr S,Ryan DW,Kesteven PJ,Bexton RS,Griffiths ID,Richards J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Definition of the changes in the activators of plasminogen, u-PA and t-PA, and examination of the possible generation of plasmin in the circulation in overwhelming sepsis. DESIGN:Serial blood analysis starting 4 h after development of symptoms of toxic shock syndrome. SETTING:Intensive care unit. PATIENT:A...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Haj MA,Robbie LA,Croll A,Adey GD,Bennett B

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a well-recognized clinico-neuroradiological transient condition. Early recognition is of paramount importance for prompt control of blood pressure or removal of precipitating factors and treatment of epileptic seizures or status epilepticus. Delay in the...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Servillo G,Bifulco F,De Robertis E,Piazza O,Striano P,Tortora F,Striano S,Tufano R

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 28 consecutive patients over 64 years old, in whom endoscopy revealed gastro-duodenal ulcers with signs of recent hemorrhage (active bleeding, non-bleeding vessel or adherent clot), 14 were randomly assigned to receive endoscopic alcoholization of the lesions preceded by intragastric instillation of norepinephrine,...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Acalovschi I,Pascu O,Drăghici A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Invasive candidiasis and candidemia are frequently encountered in the nosocomial setting particularly in the intensive care unit (ICU). OBJECTIVE AND METHODS:To review the current management of invasive candidiasis and candidemia in non-neutropenic adult ICU patients based on a review of the literature and ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Guery BP,Arendrup MC,Auzinger G,Azoulay E,Borges Sá M,Johnson EM,Müller E,Putensen C,Rotstein C,Sganga G,Venditti M,Zaragoza Crespo R,Kullberg BJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：PURPOSE:Neurologic and endothelial injury biomarkers are associated with prolonged delirium during critical illness and may reflect injury pathways that lead to poor long-term outcomes. We hypothesized that blood-brain barrier (BBB), neuronal, and endothelial injury biomarkers measured during critical illness are assoc...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hughes CG,Patel MB,Brummel NE,Thompson JL,McNeil JB,Pandharipande PP,Jackson JC,Chandrasekhar R,Ware LB,Ely EW,Girard TD

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study whether transient hyperglycemia adversely affects cerebral energy metabolism in patients with severe traumatic brain lesions. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective, nonrandomized study in the neurosurgical intensive care unit of a university hospital. PATIENTS:108 patients treated for severe traumatic bra...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Diaz-Parejo P,Ståhl N,Xu W,Reinstrup P,Ungerstedt U,Nordström CH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the incidence and the circumstances of a moderate increase in serum creatinine early after elective abdominal aortic surgery. DESIGN:Prospective clinical observational study. SETTING:Surgical intensive care unit in a university hospital. PATIENTS:Two hundred and fifteen consecutive adult patien...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Ryckwaert F,Alric P,Picot MC,Djoufelkit K,Colson P

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00