The 'cardiac-lung mass' artifact: an echocardiographic sign of lung atelectasis and/or pleural effusion.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The present study was conducted to assess the value of serum concentration of lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis and septic shock with respect to its ability to differentiate between infectious and noninfectious etiologies in SIR...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Prucha M,Herold I,Zazula R,Dubska L,Dostal M,Hildebrand T,Hyanek J

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-resuscitation hemodynamic instability following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) may occur from myocardial dysfunction underlying cardiogenic shock and/or inflammation-mediated distributive shock. Distinguishing the predominant shock subtype with widely available clinical metrics may have prognosti...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Anderson RJ,Jinadasa SP,Hsu L,Ghafouri TB,Tyagi S,Joshua J,Mueller A,Talmor D,Sell RE,Beitler JR

更新日期：2018-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The present study assessed the opinion of general practitioners (GPs) concerning their relationships with intensivists. METHODS:An anonymous questionnaire was mailed to 7,239 GPs. GPs were asked about their professional activities, postgraduate intensive care unit (ICU) training, the rate of patient admit...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Etesse B,Jaber S,Mura T,Leone M,Constantin JM,Michelet P,Zoric L,Capdevila X,Malavielle F,Allaouchiche B,Orban JC,Fabbro-Peray P,Lefrant JY,AzuRéa Group.

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:It is recognized that administration of insulin with glucose decreases catabolic response in sepsis. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of two levels of insulinaemia on glucose metabolism and energy expenditure in septic patients and volunteers. METHODS:Glucose uptake, oxidation and s...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Rusavy Z,Sramek V,Lacigova S,Novak I,Tesinsky P,Macdonald IA

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outcomes studies of infections with resistant bacteria often do not account appropriately for intermediate variables--events in the causal pathway between the exposure and the outcome--when controlling for confounders. We discuss how failure to distinguish between confounders and intermediate variables can bias the an...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Schwaber MJ,Carmeli Y

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristic patterns of variation over time, namely rhythms, represent a defining feature of complex systems, one that is synonymous with life. Despite the intrinsic dynamic, interdependent and nonlinear relationships of their parts, complex biological systems exhibit robust systemic stability. Applied to critical ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Seely AJ,Macklem PT

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Dysbiosis of intestinal microbiota likely plays an important role in the development of gut-derived infections, making it a potential therapeutic target against sepsis. However, experience with fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in the treatment of sepsis and knowledge of the underlying mechanisms are ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Li Q,Wang C,Tang C,He Q,Zhao X,Li N,Li J

更新日期：2015-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to determine the effects of alternative resuscitation strategies on microcirculatory perfusion and examine any association between microcirculatory perfusion and mortality in sepsis. METHODS:This was a prospective, formally designed substudy of participants in the Protocolized Care in Early Septic...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Massey MJ,Hou PC,Filbin M,Wang H,Ngo L,Huang DT,Aird WC,Novack V,Trzeciak S,Yealy DM,Kellum JA,Angus DC,Shapiro NI,ProCESS investigators.

更新日期：2018-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Prognosis in patients suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is poor. Higher survival rates have been observed only in patients with ventricular fibrillation who were fortunate enough to have basic and advanced life support initiated soon after cardiac arrest. An ability to predict cardiac arrest outcome...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Kolar M,Krizmaric M,Klemen P,Grmec S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The aetiology of lower respiratory tract infections in young children admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is often difficult to establish. However, most infections are believed to be caused by respiratory viruses. A diagnostic study was performed to compare conventional viral tests with t...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： van de Pol AC,Wolfs TF,Jansen NJ,van Loon AM,Rossen JW

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-A ECMO) is an increasingly adopted life-saving mechanical circulatory support for a number of potentially reversible or treatable cardiac diseases. It is also started as a bridge-to-transplantation/ventricular assist device in the case of unrecoverable cardiac or ca...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Bonicolini E,Martucci G,Simons J,Raffa GM,Spina C,Coco VL,Arcadipane A,Pilato M,Lorusso R

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Data on the incidence of a hypercoagulable state in trauma, as measured by thromboelastometry (ROTEM), is limited and the prognostic value of hypercoagulability after trauma on outcome is unclear. We aimed to determine the incidence of hypercoagulability after trauma, and to assess whether early hypercoagu...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Müller MC,Balvers K,Binnekade JM,Curry N,Stanworth S,Gaarder C,Kolstadbraaten KM,Rourke C,Brohi K,Goslings JC,Juffermans NP

更新日期：2014-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simvastatin therapy for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been shown to be safe and associated with minimal adverse effects, but it does not improve clinical outcomes. The aim of this research was to report on mortality and cost-effectiveness of simvastatin in patients with ARDS at...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Agus A,Hulme C,Verghis RM,McDowell C,Jackson C,O'Kane CM,Laffey JG,McAuley DF

更新日期：2017-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease process which may present with clinical manifestations ranging from benign self-limited disease to overwhelming sepsis. The ability to predict outcome would be helpful in developing treatment plans, and possibly in stratifying patients for clinical trials. ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Rotstein OD

更新日期：2014-10-20 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Prothrombin complex concentrates (PCC) are haemostatic blood preparations indicated for urgent anticoagulation reversal, though the optimal dose for effective reversal is still under debate. The latest generation of PCCs include four coagulation factors, the so-called 4-factor PCC. The aim of this study wa...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Kerebel D,Joly LM,Honnart D,Schmidt J,Galanaud D,Negrier C,Kursten F,Coriat P,Lex206 Investigator Group.

更新日期：2013-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The optimal length of antimicrobial therapy has not been extensively studied for a great majority of infections and, in critically ill patients affected by ventilator-associated pneumonia, is a persisting and unsolved issue confronting clinicians. The integration of biomarkers, clinical judgment, and microbiologic era...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Martin-Loeches I,Torres A

更新日期：2013-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM) is a life-threatening systemic consequence early after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), but precise hemodynamics and related outcome have not been studied. The purpose of this study was to investigate the TCM-induced cardiac function by transpulmonary thermodilution and its imp...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Mutoh T,Kazumata K,Terasaka S,Taki Y,Suzuki A,Ishikawa T

更新日期：2014-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight glycemic control has engendered large numbers of investigations, with conflicting results. The world has largely embraced intensive insulin as a practice, but applies this therapy with great variability in the manner of glucose control and measurement. The present commentary reviews what we actually know with ce...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Nasraway SA Jr,Rattan R

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of perioperative haemodilution is to reduce loss of red blood cells during elective surgery. The oncotic and molecular characteristics of the various plasma substitutes employed determine how effectively normovolaemia is maintained, and their non-oncotic effects include alterations in microvascular perfusion. ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Creagh-Brown BC,Evans TW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lack of a patent source of infection after 24 hours of management of shock considered septic is a common and disturbing scenario. We aimed to determine the prevalence and the causes of shock with no diagnosis 24 hours after its onset, and to compare the outcomes of patients with early-confirmed septic sh...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Contou D,Roux D,Jochmans S,Coudroy R,Guérot E,Grimaldi D,Ricome S,Maury E,Plantefève G,Mayaux J,Mekontso Dessap A,Brun-Buisson C,de Prost N

更新日期：2016-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Critical illness myopathy is an acquired skeletal muscle disorder with severe myosin loss and muscle weakness frequently seen in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. It is unknown if impaired excitation-contraction coupling contributes to the muscle weakness. METHODS:We used a unique ICU model where rats wer...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Llano-Diez M,Cheng AJ,Jonsson W,Ivarsson N,Westerblad H,Sun V,Cacciani N,Larsson L,Bruton J

更新日期：2016-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Activation of the sympathetic nervous system has beneficial cardiovascular effects in sepsis, but there is also evidence that sympatholytics have beneficial actions in sepsis. We therefore determined the effect of selective β1-adrenoceptor blockade on cardiac and renal function and cytokine release in ovin...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Calzavacca P,Lankadeva YR,Bailey SR,Bailey M,Bellomo R,May CN

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prior retrospective cross-sectional work has associated antimicrobials with a non-specific phrase: encephalopathy without seizures. The purpose of this study is to determine whether different classes of antimicrobials have differential associations with the daily risk of delirium after critical illness is ad...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Grahl JJ,Stollings JL,Rakhit S,Person AK,Wang L,Thompson JL,Pandharipande PP,Ely EW,Patel MB

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Abdominal distension is common in critical illness. There is a growing recognition that intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) may complicate nonsurgical critical illness as well as after abdominal surgery. However, the pathophysiological basis of the injury to the intestinal mucosal barrier and its influence ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Cheng J,Wei Z,Liu X,Li X,Yuan Z,Zheng J,Chen X,Xiao G,Li X

更新日期：2013-12-09 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: The present study was undertaken to examine the feasibility of venous oxygen measurements in the inferior vena cava (IVC) via a catheter through the umbilical vein. This may serve as a proxy for mixed venous oxygenation and the complications of right atrial cannulation can be avoided at the same time. It h...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Plötz FB,van Lingen RA,Bos AP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A progressive rise of oxidative stress due to altered reduction-oxidation (redox) homeostasis appears to be one of the hallmarks of the processes that regulate gene transcription in physiology and pathophysiology. Reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species serve as signaling messengers for the evolution and...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Haddad JJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to determine whether the provision of corticosteroids improves time to shock reversal and outcomes in patients with post-cardiac arrest shock. METHODS:We conducted a randomized, double-blind trial of post-cardiac arrest patients in shock, defined as vasopressor support for a mi...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Donnino MW,Andersen LW,Berg KM,Chase M,Sherwin R,Smithline H,Carney E,Ngo L,Patel PV,Liu X,Cutlip D,Zimetbaum P,Cocchi MN,Collaborating Authors from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Center for Resuscitation Science Re

更新日期：2016-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The objective of this study was to identify and characterize the most highly cited clinical research articles published on sepsis. METHODS:A comprehensive list of citation classics in sepsis was generated by searching the database of Web of Science-Expanded (1970 to present) using keywords 'sepsis' or 'se...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Tao T,Zhao X,Lou J,Bo L,Wang F,Li J,Deng X

更新日期：2012-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:(1,3)-β-D-Glucan has been widely used in clinical practice for the diagnosis of invasive Candida infections. However, such serum biomarker showed potential to guide antimicrobial therapy in order to reduce the duration of empirical antifungal treatment in critically ill septic patients with suspected invasiv...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： De Pascale G,Posteraro B,D'Arrigo S,Spinazzola G,Gaspari R,Bello G,Montini LM,Cutuli SL,Grieco DL,Di Gravio V,De Angelis G,Torelli R,De Carolis E,Tumbarello M,Sanguinetti M,Antonelli M

更新日期：2020-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary indices are classically believed to allow differentiation of transient (or pre-renal) acute kidney injury (AKI) from persistent (or acute tubular necrosis) AKI. However, the data validating urinalysis in critically ill patients are weak. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Pons and colleagues demonstrate i...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Schneider AG,Bellomo R

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00