Obesity in the critically ill: a narrative review.

abstract：:Marked respiratory insufficiency was established in 20 of 91 patients with acute pancreatitis. 16 of them died, 12 from uncontrollable hypoxaemia. At postmortem the most prominent finding was microatelectasis, the occurrence of which correlated highly with the serum amylase activity. ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Talvik R,Liigant A,Sissak HM,O'Konnel-Bronina N

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate a least squares fitting technique for the purpose of measuring total respiratory compliance (Crs) and resistance (Rrs) in patients submitted to partial ventilatory support, without the need for esophageal pressure measurement. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized study. SETTING:A general ICU of a Univ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Iotti GA,Braschi A,Brunner JX,Smits T,Olivei M,Palo A,Veronesi R

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the prevalence of relative adrenal insufficiency in patients successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest, and its prognostic role in post-resuscitation disease. DESIGN AND SETTING:A prospective observational single-center study in a medical intensive care unit. PATIENTS:64 patients hospitalised...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Pene F,Hyvernat H,Mallet V,Cariou A,Carli P,Spaulding C,Dugue MA,Mira JP

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：: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：:Although colitis is often seen in critically all patients who have received multiple broad-spectrum antibiotics, there are no reports describing severe sepsis as a result of Clostridium difficile infection. We describe three cases of severe sepsis with local intestinal Clostridium difficile infection as the only ident...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Lowenkron SE,Waxner J,Khullar P,Ilowite JS,Niederman MS,Fein AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To validate a simple method avoiding discard volumes in pediatric patients with indwelling arterial and venous lines. DESIGN:Zero-discarding was achieved by passive extracorporeal arteriovenous backflow via standard single pressure transducer equipment. We tested backflow distances (10, 20 and 30 cm beyond t...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Weiss M,Fischer J,Boeckmann M,Rohrer B,Baenziger O

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of terlipressin on oxygenation, PaO2/FIO2, heart rate, mean arterial pressure, and mortality in children with septic shock refractory to high doses of dopamine/dobutamine and adrenaline. DESIGN AND SETTING:A randomized, nonblind study in the pediatric intensive care unit of a universit...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Yildizdas D,Yapicioglu H,Celik U,Sertdemir Y,Alhan E

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is used for patients with refractory heart failure with or without respiratory failure. This temporary support is provided by blood pumps which are connected to large vessels. Bleeding episodes are a typical complication in patients with ECLS. Recently, several studies illustr...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Heilmann C,Geisen U,Beyersdorf F,Nakamura L,Benk C,Trummer G,Berchtold-Herz M,Schlensak C,Zieger B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Assessment of the cost utility (CU) of acute renal replacement therapy (RRT) from a societal perspective during a 5-year follow-up. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional cohort study in a medical-surgical intensive care unit and an acute RRT unit of 410 consecutive patients treated with acute RRT in Helsinki Univ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Laukkanen A,Emaus L,Pettilä V,Kaukonen KM

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：:A 17-year-old patient with Shone's disease had to be readmitted to the hospital 3 months after implantation of an artificial aortic valve because of extreme mitral insufficiency with consecutive pulmonary edema and hepatic dysfunction. He had been orally anticoagulated and presented with a high international normalize...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Rauch R,Hofbeck M,Ries M,Singer H,Klinge J

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Baedorf Kassis E,Train S,MacNeil B,Loring SH,Talmor D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify objective trends of the course of illness that might be used as benchmarks in the auditing of the organization/performance of Intensive Care Units (ICU). DESIGN:Retrospective analysis. PATIENTS AND SETTING:A group of 12,615 patients and 55,464 patient-days prospectively collected in 89 ICUs of 1...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Iapichino G,Radrizzani D,Ferla L,Pezzi A,Porta F,Zanforlin G,Miranda DR

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the levels of auto-PEEP and dynamic hyperinflation during high frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) and controlled mechanical ventilation (CMV) in six patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease within the first 36 h of acute exacerbation. The comparative evaluation was performed at similar conditi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Conti G,Bufi M,Rocco M,Calzecchi E,De Blasi RA,Antonelli M,Pelaia P,Gasparetto A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare outcome prediction using the Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score (MODS) and the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), two of the systems most commonly used to evaluate organ dysfunction in the intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN:Prospective, observational study. SETTING:Thirty-one-bed, universit...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Peres Bota D,Melot C,Lopes Ferreira F,Nguyen Ba V,Vincent JL

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In oleic acid-induced pulmonary oedema (OAPO) sequential intrapulmonary fluid accumulation occurs leading to different expiratory flow pattern in dependent lung regions. The potential effects on efficacy of high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV, f = 3 Hz, I: E = 0.43, FiO2 = 0.4) were studied and compared with continuo...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hachenberg T,Wendt M,Hermeyer G,Ludwig E,Meyer J,Lawin P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of screening strategy and contact precautions for patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective observational cohort from 1 February 1995 to 31 December 2001 in three intensive care units (45 beds) in a French teaching hospital....

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Lucet JC,Paoletti X,Lolom I,Paugam-Burtz C,Trouillet JL,Timsit JF,Deblangy C,Andremont A,Regnier B

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Adverse respiratory and gasometrical effects have been described in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) undergoing noninvasive ventilation (NIV) with standard heat and moisture exchangers (HME). We decided to evaluate respiratory parameters and arterial blood gases (ABG) of patients during NIV with ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Boyer A,Vargas F,Hilbert G,Gruson D,Mousset-Hovaere M,Castaing Y,Dreyfuss D,Ricard JD

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography of optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) for assessment of intracranial hypertension. METHODS:Systematic review without language restriction based on electronic databases, with manual review of literature and conference proceedings until July 2010. Studies we...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Dubourg J,Javouhey E,Geeraerts T,Messerer M,Kassai B

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of our study was to explore, using an innovative method, the effect of temporal changes in the mortality prediction performance of an existing model on the quality of care assessment. The prognostic model (rSAPS-II) was a recalibrated Simplified Acute Physiology Score-II model developed for very elderly...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Minne L,Eslami S,de Keizer N,de Jonge E,de Rooij SE,Abu-Hanna A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Candidemia is increasingly encountered in critically ill patients with a high fatality rate. The available data in the critically ill suggest that patients with prior surgery are at a higher risk than others. However, little is known about candidemia in medical settings. The main goal of this study was to com...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Charles PE,Doise JM,Quenot JP,Aube H,Dalle F,Chavanet P,Milesi N,Aho LS,Portier H,Blettery B

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

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:Both serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) and blood lactate levels in patients with septic shock have been shown to correlate with prognosis. The aim of the study was to define the relative predictive value of these measures. PATIENTS:38 hospitalized patients with ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Marecaux G,Pinsky MR,Dupont E,Kahn RJ,Vincent JL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analysed the case histories of 22 patients with life threatening asthma retrospectively. Fifteen patients needed mechanical ventilation. Three patients, all of them in cardiac arrest before or at the moment of admission, died. In five patients, halothane therapy was successfully used as a last resort. No major comp...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Rosseel P,Lauwers LF,Baute L

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chronic pulmonary hypertension (PH) therapy is poorly investigated in intensive care. Our aim was to evaluate haemodynamic and neuroendocrine effects of the dual endothelin-1 (ET-1) blocker tezosentan in monocrotaline (MCT)-induced PH. METHODS:Male Wistar rats (180-200 g, n = 194) randomly received 60 mg kg(-1...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Lourenço AP,Vasques-Nóvoa F,Oliveira-Pinto J,Fontoura D,Roncon-Albuquerque R Jr,Leite-Moreira AF

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxygen cost of breathing (which is the difference in oxygen consumption measured during controlled ventilation and again during spontaneous ventilation) was measured in 30 patients between the ages of 17 and 96 years at the time of commencement of weaning from mechanical ventilation. There was a significant expone...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： McDonald NJ,Lavelle P,Gallacher WN,Harpin RP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravenous sildenafil for immediate postoperative pulmonary hypertension (PH) in pediatric patients undergoing congenital heart surgery. METHODS:A double-blind, multicenter, placebo-controlled, dose-ranging, parallel-group trial was conducted. Patients were randomized to...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Fraisse A,Butrous G,Taylor MB,Oakes M,Dilleen M,Wessel DL

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:a) to describe a non-barotraumatic ventilatory setting for independent lung ventilation (ILV); b) to determine the utility of single lung end-tidal CO(2) (EtCO(2)) monitoring to evaluate the ventilation to perfusion (V/Q) matching in each lung during ILV and for ILV weaning. DESIGN:prospective study. SETTIN...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Cinnella G,Dambrosio M,Brienza N,Giuliani R,Bruno F,Fiore T,Brienza A

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00