Paracetamol-associated coma, metabolic acidosis, renal and hepatic failure.

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the consequences of administration of norepinephrine on muscle tissue oxygenation in severely hypotensive septic shock patients. METHODS:This was a prospective observational study conducted in a medical intensive care unit of a university hospital. We included 28 septic shock patients that received ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Georger JF,Hamzaoui O,Chaari A,Maizel J,Richard C,Teboul JL

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increase of the inflationary lung volume created by a respiratory maneuver is critical for preventing postoperative alveolar collapse. We measured this volume as achieved with IPPB or incentive spirometry (IS) in 20 postoperative surgical patients. Using IPPB, with gas flow and peak airway pressures carefully adju...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Pfenninger J,Roth F

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of traditional and online teaching methods for educating anesthesiology residents in the principles and practice of difficult airway management. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled trial. SETTING:University hospital. PARTICIPANTS:Two randomly selected groups, each contai...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bello G,Pennisi MA,Maviglia R,Maggiore SM,Bocci MG,Montini L,Antonelli M

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the development of demographics and outcome of very old (>80 years) critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units. SETTING:All consecutive patients admitted to 41 Austrian intensive care units (ICUs) over an 11-year period. METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study of prospectiv...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Ihra GC,Lehberger J,Hochrieser H,Bauer P,Schmutz R,Metnitz B,Metnitz PG

更新日期：2012-04-01 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:To test the hypothesis that RNA editing is altered in pediatric patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD) and to determine whether A-to-I RNA editing is associated with the postoperative course following cardiac surgery. Cyanotic CHD is associated with a unique pathophysiology caused by chronic hypo...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Borik S,Simon AJ,Nevo-Caspi Y,Mishali D,Amariglio N,Rechavi G,Paret G

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The efficacy of noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to improve outcomes in severe hypoxemic acute respiratory failure (hARF) due to pneumonia has not been clearly established. The aim of this study was to compare CPAP vs. oxygen therapy to reduce the risk of meeting criteria for endotracheal ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Brambilla AM,Aliberti S,Prina E,Nicoli F,Del Forno M,Nava S,Ferrari G,Corradi F,Pelosi P,Bignamini A,Tarsia P,Cosentini R

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:We examined the incidence, diagnosis and therapy of acute adrenal insufficiency, secondary to adrenal hemorrhage. This insufficiency resulted in temperature irregularities. hemodynamic instability, and a large volume resuscitation requirement post-operatively. The case illustrates that a high level of suspicion should...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Szalados JE,Vukmir RB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether an appropriately designed combination of an index of ventilatory endurance and the frequency divided by tidal volume ratio (f/VT) provides prognostic information for weaning outcome not offered by any index alone. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective study in a multidisciplinary intensive care u...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Vassilakopoulos T,Routsi C,Sotiropoulou C,Bitsakou C,Stanopoulos I,Roussos C,Zakynthinos S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the in vitro activity of fleroxacin against nosocomial gram-negative organisms, 263 multiresistant gram-negative bacilli (203 Enterobacteriaceae and 60 non-fermenting gram-negative bacilli) were isolated from adult patients with nosocomial infections. The different patterns of resistance to eight ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Araque M,Velazco E

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inhalation of nitric oxide (NO) can improve oxygenation and decrease mean pulmonary artery pressure (MPAP) in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). It is not known whether inhaled NO exerts a similar effect in hypoxemic patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DESIG...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Blanch L,Joseph D,Fernández R,Mas A,Martinez M,Vallés J,Diaz E,Baigorri F,Artigas A

更新日期：1997-01-01 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:The objective was to identify factors associated with thrombocytopenia and to assess to what extent thrombocytopenia increases bleeding complications in liver transplant patients. DESIGN:Retrospective study. SETTING:Surgical intensive care unit in a university hospital. PATIENTS:One hundred and sixty-one p...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Ben Hamida C,Lauzet JY,Rézaiguia-Delclaux S,Duvoux C,Cherqui D,Duvaldestin P,Stéphan F

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Limiting the duration of invasive ventilation is an important goal in caring for critically ill patients. Several clinical trials have shown that compared to traditional care, protocols can reduce the total duration of mechanical ventilation. Computerized or automated weaning has the potential to improve wea...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Burns KE,Lellouche F,Lessard MR

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that levosimendan increases systemic and intestinal oxygen delivery (DO(2)) and prevents intramucosal acidosis in septic shock. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled experimental study. SETTING:University-based research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Nineteen anesthetized, mechanically ventilated she...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Dubin A,Murias G,Sottile JP,Pozo MO,Barán M,Edul VS,Canales HS,Etcheverry G,Maskin B,Estenssoro E

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of thiopental loading during resuscitation of 53 patients following cardiopulmonary arrest and compared the outcome with that found in 54 patients treated conventionally in the 30 previous months. Thiopental therapy (10 mg/kg i.v.) was begun within 30 min of the arrest once hemodynamic stability ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Monsalve F,Rucabado L,Ruano M,Cuñat J,Lacueva V,Viñuales A

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the diagnostic performance of a Bayesian Decision-Support System (BDSS) for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). DESIGN:A previously developed BDSS, automatically obtaining patient data from patient information systems, provides likelihood predictions of VAP. In a prospectively studied cohort ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Schurink CA,Visscher S,Lucas PJ,van Leeuwen HJ,Buskens E,Hoff RG,Hoepelman AI,Bonten MJ

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of bilateral pseudoaneurysms of the pulmonary arteries caused by blunt chest injury is presented. Although this is a very rare complication, this entity should always be suspected in a patient with hemoptysis and a radiodensity on chest radiograph following chest injury. Selection of operative procedures should...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Kasai T,Kobayashi K

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The role of haemofiltration as an adjunctive treatment of sepsis remains a contentious issue. To address the role of dose and to explore the biological effects of haemofiltration we compared the effects of standard and high-volume haemofiltration (HVHF) in a peritonitis-induced model of porcine septic shock. ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Sykora R,Chvojka J,Krouzecky A,Radej J,Karvunidis T,Varnerova V,Novak I,Matejovic M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the nursing time required for difficult-to-wean patients in a dedicated weaning center (WC) and to examine the correlation of the nursing time with nursing workload (NW) scores and with clinical severity and dependency. SETTING:Four-bed WC of a pulmonary rehabilitation department. INTERVENTION:N...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Vitacca M,Clini E,Porta R,Ambrosino N

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracorporeal CO2-removal (EC-CO2-R) using a membrane lung system was applied for 12 and 20 days respectively in two young men with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Neuropathological examination revealed only moderate hypoxic changes of unusual distribution. In the first case nerve cell loss in Sommer's se...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Krajewski S,Seitz RJ,Schober R,Breulmann M,Falke KJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Septic shock-induced disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC) contributes to multiple organ failure. Mechanisms governing vascular responses to open occurrence of DIC have not yet been established. Circulating plasma microparticles (MPs), released upon cell stress, constitute a catalytic procoagulant surfa...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Delabranche X,Boisramé-Helms J,Asfar P,Berger A,Mootien Y,Lavigne T,Grunebaum L,Lanza F,Gachet C,Freyssinet JM,Toti F,Meziani F

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate whether variability in milrinone blood levels (MBL) occurs during administration to critically ill children after surgical repair of congenital heart disease, and the clinical relevance of this variability. METHODS:Prospective cohort study conducted in the pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiar...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Garcia Guerra G,Joffe AR,Senthilselvan A,Kutsogiannis DJ,Parshuram CS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Darmon M,Kashani K,Schetz M

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the attitudes of physicians in Milan, Italy, intensive care units (ICUs) regarding end-of-life decisions. DESIGN:Anonymous self-administered questionnaire. SETTING:All 20 ICUs in Milan. PARTICIPANTS:Physicians employed in the ICUs. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS:The response rate was 87% (225 of 259)....

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Giannini A,Pessina A,Tacchi EM

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hypoxic hepatitis (HH) is a form of hepatic injury following arterial hypoxemia, ischemia, and passive congestion of the liver. We investigated the incidence and the prognostic implications of HH in the medical intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS:A total of 1,066 consecutive ICU admissions at three medical ICUs...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Fuhrmann V,Kneidinger N,Herkner H,Heinz G,Nikfardjam M,Bojic A,Schellongowski P,Angermayr B,Schöniger-Hekele M,Madl C,Schenk P

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the pharmacokinetics and local tissue effects resulting from the intratracheal administration of preservative-free fentanyl. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, blinded and controlled animal study. SETTING:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Eighteen adult male New Zealand rabbits. INTERVENTIONS...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Irazuzta JE,Ahmed U,Gancayco A,Ahmed ST,Zhang J,Anand KJ

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spasms in patients with generalized tetanus can be suppressed by a spinal intrathecal infusion of baclofen. We report on four patients and review reported cases treated by this method elsewhere. DESIGN:Intrathecal baclofen infusion was started with a bolus dose (300-500 micrograms) and continued at a steady ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Dressnandt J,Konstanzer A,Weinzierl FX,Pfab R,Klingelhöfer J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate clinical and microbiologic characteristics, modalities of treatment and outcome of patients with cervical necrotizing fasciitis admitted to our institution. DESIGN:Retrospective clinical investigation. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We reviewed the charts of 20 consecutive patients hospitalized in our Int...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Mohammedi I,Ceruse P,Duperret S,Vedrinne J,Boulétreau P

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00