An index to predict outcome in adult respiratory distress syndrome.

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：PURPOSE:Critical care ultrasonography has utility for the diagnosis and management of critical illness and is in widespread use by frontline intensivists. As there is a need for research to validate and extend its utility, the Editor of Intensive Care Medicine included critical care ultrasonography as a topic in the IC...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Mayo P,Arntfield R,Balik M,Kory P,Mathis G,Schmidt G,Slama M,Volpicelli G,Xirouchaki N,McLean A,Vieillard-Baron A

更新日期：2017-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:There are a number of potential etiologies of severe bleeding encountered in the intensive care unit. Although rare, acquired hemophilia is one such etiology that often presents with major bleeding requiring intensive care. Despite the introduction of effective treatments, the reported mortality rate of patie...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Shander A,Walsh CE,Cromwell C

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the markers of perfusion which best discriminate survivors from non-survivors of childhood sepsis and to compare the information derived from gastric tonometry with conventionally measured haemodynamic and laboratory parameters. DESIGN:Prospective clinical study of children with sepsis syndrome or...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Duke TD,Butt W,South M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of thiamine status in patients with severe injuries (injury severity scores greater than 12) showed that they all developed signs of severe thiamine deficiency on the basis of transketolase activity, the standard biochemical test for thiamine deficiency. This occurred within the first week after th...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： McConachie I,Haskew A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence and the prognostic significance of microalbuminuria in patients after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). DESIGN:Prospective and observational clinical study. SETTING:Multidisciplinary intensive care unit. PATIENTS:Fifty-one consecutive patients who underwent aneurysm clip...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Terao Y,Takada M,Tanabe T,Ando Y,Fukusaki M,Sumikawa K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently occurs in critically ill patients and often precipitates use of renal replacement therapy (RRT). However, the ideal circumstances for whether and when to start RRT remain unclear. We performed evidence synthesis of the available literature to evaluate the value of biomarkers...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Klein SJ,Brandtner AK,Lehner GF,Ulmer H,Bagshaw SM,Wiedermann CJ,Joannidis M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between cytokines and the inflammatory responses in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, we examined the changes of cytokines as well as alterations in the markers of neutrophil activation, platelet and endothelial activation, and endothelial injury. DESIGN:Prospectiv...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Gando S,Nanzaki S,Morimoto Y,Kobayashi S,Kemmotsu O

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：: ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Monnet X,Saugel B

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced lung injury is characterized not only by the alteration in lung fluid movement but also by apoptosis of lung epithelial and endothelial cells. We studied whether inhibition of apoptosis using a broad spectrum caspase inhibitor, benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp fluoromethylketone (Z...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Le Berre R,Faure K,Fauvel H,Viget NB,Ader F,Prangère T,Thomas AM,Leroy X,Pittet JF,Marchetti P,Guery BP

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Measurement of functional residual capacity (FRC) during mechanical ventilation is important to standardise respiratory system compliance and adjust the ventilator settings to optimise lung recruitment. In the present study we compared three methods to measure FRC. DESIGN:The bias flow nitrogen washout techn...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Schibler A,Hammer J,Isler R,Buess C,Newth CJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the efficacy of somatostatin for the treatment of severe acute pancreatitis. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized and unblinded study. SETTING:A general intensive care unit (ICU) in a university hospital. PATIENTS:50 patients with severe acute pancreatitis. INTERVENTIONS:All patients received the...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Planas M,Pérez A,Iglesia R,Porta I,Masclans JR,Bermejo B

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe Enterococcus faecalis colonisation and endocarditis in 5 intensive care patients after treatment with selective decontamination (SDD). SETTING:Intensive care unit (ICU) in a general hospital. PATIENTS:The patients were admitted to the ICU because of adult respiratory distress syndrome, polytraum...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Sijpkens YW,Buurke EJ,Ulrich C,van Asselt GJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recording of intratracheal pressure in patients breathing through a tracheostomy tube is marred by methodological problems. In model experiments it has been shown that the introduction of a recording catheter into the tracheostomy tube alters the recorded pressure by as much as 20-40%. To avoid such inaccuracy, a ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Holst M,Striem J,Hedenstierna G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 29-year-old woman was admitted to the Rouen University Hospital for attempted suicide by ingestion of a carbamate insecticide (Temik G, containing 10% aldicarb). Cardio-respiratory arrest occurred at the second hour and acute necrotic hemorrhagic pancreatitis on the second day. Further evolution was uneventful, and ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Moritz F,Droy JM,Dutheil G,Melki J,Bonmarchand G,Leroy J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Optimal respiratory support for interhospital transport of critically ill children is challenging and has been scarcely investigated. High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy has emerged as a promising support mode in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), but no data are available on HFNC used during interho...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Schlapbach LJ,Schaefer J,Brady AM,Mayfield S,Schibler A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We examined whether influenza vaccination affects 1-year risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, and death among intensive care unit (ICU) survivors aged ≥ 65 years. METHODS:Danish Intensive Care Database data on all elderly ( ≥ 65 years) patients hospitalized in Danish ICUs in the per...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Christiansen CF,Thomsen RW,Schmidt M,Pedersen L,Sørensen HT

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the consequences of helium/oxygen (He/O(2)) inhalation on respiratory mechanics, gas exchange, and ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) relationships in an animal model of severe induced bronchospasm during mechanical ventilation. DESIGN:Prospective, interventional study. SETTING:Experimental animal labo...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Watremez C,Liistro G,deKock M,Roeseler J,Clerbaux T,Detry B,Reynaert M,Gianello P,Jolliet P

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the generalisability of published clinical risk predictive models for invasive candidiasis in ICU patients. METHODS:The performance characteristics of published clinical risk factor-only and Candida colonisation-only predictive models for invasive candidiasis were assessed in a multicentre cohort of ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Playford EG,Lipman J,Kabir M,McBryde ES,Nimmo GR,Lau A,Sorrell TC

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current medical knowledge lacks specific information regarding creatine kinase (CK) elevation in influenza A pH1N1 (2009) infection. OBJECTIVES:Primary endpoints were correlation between CK at intensive care unit (ICU) admission and ICU mortality. Secondary endpoints were ICU length of stay (LOS), mechanica...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Borgatta B,Pérez M,Rello J,Vidaur L,Lorente L,Socías L,Pozo JC,Pozo J,Garnacho-Montero J,Rello J,pH1N1 GTEI\/SEMICYUC.

更新日期：2012-07-01 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:To examine the usefulness of preload indices obtained by transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) for estimating stroke volume at various levels of cardiac index. DESIGN:Prospective clinical study. SETTING:Intensive care unit with surgical patients. PATIENTS:16 ventilated patients monitored via Swan-Ganz ca...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Greim CA,Roewer N,Apfel C,Laux G,Schulte am Esch J

更新日期：1997-04-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The efficacy of interferon gamma therapy in reducing infection and improving outcome from infection in patients sustaining major injury was examined. DESIGN:Randomized double-blind placebo control trial SETTING:Nine level one university affiliated trauma centers in the United States. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPA...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Dries DJ

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma colloid osmotic pressure (COP) has been calculated from both serum albumin concentration and plasma total protein concentration. These values have been compared to those measured directly using a membrane-transducer oncometer in a group of normal subjects, in a group of critically-ill patients with a variety of...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Barclay SA,Bennett D

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the steady-state trough serum and epithelial lining fluid (ELF) concentrations of teicoplanin 12 mg/kg per day in critically ill patients with ventilator associated pneumonia. DESIGN AND SETTING:Prospective, pharmacokinetic study in the surgical intensive care unit in a university hospital. PAT...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Mimoz O,Rolland D,Adoun M,Marchand S,Breilh D,Brumpt I,Debaene B,Couet W

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficiency of non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) in decompensated patients with either chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or chronic restrictive pulmonary disease. DESIGN:Retrospective study. SETTING:A 17-bed intensive care unit in a university teaching hospital. SET...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Robino C,Faisy C,Diehl JL,Rezgui N,Labrousse J,Guerot E

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial catheterization is the second most common invasive procedure performed in the intensive care unit. Despite the ubiquity of the procedure, complications including failure to place the catheter occur. While many clinicians are familiar with the use of ultrasound (US) guidance to decrease complication rates of c...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Shiloh AL,Eisen LA

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of the dialysis disequilibrium syndrome (DDS) that was marked by the rapid onset of cerebral edema and the subsequent development of acute respiratory failure. The patient was treated successfully with a combination of mechanical hyperventilation and mannitol. The clinical presentation, pathogenesis...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： DiFresco V,Landman M,Jaber BL,White AC

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00