Infection control practices in intensive care units of 14 European countries. The EURO.NIS Study Group.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Processed EEG monitoring has been suggested for sedation depth evaluation in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The present study investigated the efficacy of two processed EEG monitors using SEF90% or SEF95% and BIS to differentiate between conscious (Ramsay score 4) and unconscious sedation (Ramsay score ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Walder B,Suter PM,Romand JA

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether the addition of intrapulmonary percussive ventilation to the usual chest physiotherapy improves gas exchange and lung mechanics in tracheostomized patients. DESIGN AND SETTING:Randomized multicenter trial in two weaning centers in northern Italy. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS:46 tracheost...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Clini EM,Antoni FD,Vitacca M,Crisafulli E,Paneroni M,Chezzi-Silva S,Moretti M,Trianni L,Fabbri LM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the adequate site of activated coagulation time (ACT) measurement during continuous haemodiafiltration (CHDF) using nafamostat mesilate. DESIGN:Prospective, consecutive, clinical study. SETTING:An intensive care unit of a general hospital. PATIENTS:Ten patients with acute organ failure includi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hu ZJ,Iwama H,Suzuki R,Kobayashi S,Akutsu I

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 63-year-old man underwent distal oesophagectomy and proximal gastrectomy. Postoperatively, controlled ventilation was necessary for 53 days because of anastomotic leakage. Multiple sedative regimens proved to be inadequate. By contrast, a fentanyl-midazolam combination with continuous supplementation of clonidine 0....

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Böhrer H,Bach A,Layer M,Werning P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of a scientific paper is to communicate results and within the paper this applies especially to the presentation of data. It is the universal practice in medical journals to present statistical results using tables. Good tables are an integral part of the manuscript. To help researchers communi...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Alberti C,Boulkedid R

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether erythromycin is non-inferior to metoclopramide in facilitating post-pyloric placement of self-propelled spiral nasoenteric tubes (NETs) in critically ill patients. METHODS:A prospective, multicenter, open-label, parallel, and non-inferiority randomized controlled trial was conducted compar...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hu B,Ouyang X,Lei L,Sun C,Chi R,Guo J,Guo W,Zhang Y,Li Y,Huang D,Sun H,Nie Z,Yu J,Zhou Y,Wang H,Zhang J,Chen C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the incidence and clinical characteristics of delayed cerebral thrombosis in bacterial meningitis patients. METHODS:We assessed the incidence and clinical characteristics of delayed cerebral thrombosis in adults with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) culture-proven community-acquired bacterial meningitis incl...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Lucas MJ,Brouwer MC,van de Beek D

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of different lung recruitment maneuvers using electric impedance tomography. DESIGN AND SETTING:Experimental study in animal model of acute lung injury in an animal research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Fourteen pigs with saline lavage induced lung injury. INTERVENTIONS:Lung volume, region...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Odenstedt H,Lindgren S,Olegård C,Erlandsson K,Lethvall S,Aneman A,Stenqvist O,Lundin S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effects of polymyxin B-immobilized fiber (PMX-F) on bone resorption in septic patients. DESIGN AND SETTING:Observational prospective study in intensive care units of a general hospital. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS:25 patients with severe sepsis and 20 healthy controls. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Nakamura T,Kawagoe Y,Matsuda T,Koide H

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the concentration conformity of infusion solutions manually prepared on intensive care units (ICU) with solutions from pharmacy-based, automated production. METHODS:A prospective observational study conducted in a university hospital in Germany. Drug concentrations of 100 standardised infusion solut...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Dehmel C,Braune SA,Kreymann G,Baehr M,Langebrake C,Hilgarth H,Nierhaus A,Dartsch DC,Kluge S

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To derive recommendations for the dosing of commonly used medications in the morbidly obese patient in the ICU. DATA SOURCES:Articles were obtained through computerized searches involving MEDLINE. The bibliographies of retrieved publications and textbooks were reviewed for additional references. STUDY SELEC...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Erstad BL

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship of fluid balance and weaning outcomes. METHODS:We prospectively collected demographic, physiological, daily fluid balance (measured inputs minus outputs), and weaning data from 87 mechanically ventilated patients. PATIENTS:We examined 87 patients, a median age of 66 years, APACHE...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Upadya A,Tilluckdharry L,Muralidharan V,Amoateng-Adjepong Y,Manthous CA

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：:Surgical principles of early excision of devitalized tissue and prompt wound closure which govern the management of all traumatic injuries have been developed in the primary treatment of burns. Topical and systemic antibodies which delay wound infection and control invasive sepsis provide an initial period of two to t...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Quinby WC Jr,Burke JF,Bondoc CC

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) continues as a contributor to the morbidity and mortality of patients in intensive care units throughout the world, imparting tremendous human and financial costs. During the last ten years there has been a decline in ARDS mortality without a clear explanation. The Americ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Artigas A,Bernard GR,Carlet J,Dreyfuss D,Gattinoni L,Hudson L,Lamy M,Marini JJ,Matthay MA,Pinsky MR,Spragg R,Suter PM

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Motion-mode (MM) echography allows precise measurement of diaphragmatic excursion when the ultrasound beam is parallel to the diaphragmatic displacement. However, proper alignment is difficult to obtain in patients after cardiac surgery; thus, measurements might be inaccurate. A new imaging modality named the a...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Pasero D,Koeltz A,Placido R,Fontes Lima M,Haun O,Rienzo M,Marrache D,Pirracchio R,Safran D,Cholley B

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To study the association between early initiation of intra-arrest therapeutic hypothermia and neurologic outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. METHODS:A prespecified sub-analysis of the PRINCESS trial (NCT01400373) that randomized 677 bystander-witnessed cardiac arrests to transnasal evaporative intra-arr...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Awad A,Taccone FS,Jonsson M,Forsberg S,Hollenberg J,Truhlar A,Ringh M,Abella BS,Becker LB,Vincent JL,Svensson L,Nordberg P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breathing pattern was studied non-invasively in 20 coronary artery bypass surgery patients before the operation and post-operatively after weaning from mechanical ventilation. Post-operatively minute ventilation (VE), breathing frequency (Fr) and mean inspiratory flow (VT/TI) increased (28%, 42%, 27%; p less than 0.01...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Tulla H,Takala J,Alhava E,Huttunen H,Kari A,Manninen H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The interchangeability of continuous measurement of cardiac output (CO) with the traditional bolus method in patients after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is uncertain. DESIGN:Prospective observational clinical study. SETTING:A 20-bed surgical ICU at a university hospital. PATIENTS:Fourteen deeply sedated, v...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Bendjelid K,Schütz N,Suter PM,Romand JA

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of increasing dosages of continuously infused arginine-vasopressin (AVP) on mucosal tissue oxygen tension and oxygen supply in an auto-perfused, innervated jejunal segment in an acute endotoxic porcine model. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, experimental study. SETTING:University hos...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Knotzer H,Maier S,Dünser MW,Hasibeder WR,Hausdorfer H,Brandner J,Torgersen C,Ulmer H,Friesenecker B,Iannetti C,Pajk W

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Type 1 angiotensin II (AT1) receptor antagonists have anti-inflammatory effects in vitro and in patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether losartan (LOS), an AT1 receptor antagonist, reduces lung damage by inhibiting the induction of high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) protein and cytokines by...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Hagiwara S,Iwasaka H,Hidaka S,Hasegawa A,Koga H,Noguchi T

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Ornithine alpha-ketoglutarate (OKG) has proved to be efficient in restoring glutamine (Gln) pools which are strongly depleted in hypercatabolic patients. Since its two components, alpha-ketoglutarate (alphaKG) and ornithine (Orn), give rise to glutamate (Glu), they are both considered as Gln precursors. The ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Cynober L,Lasnier E,Le Boucher J,Jardel A,Coudray-Lucas C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2), one of the key mortality prediction models for children in intensive care units, has not been validated in Japan. The purpose of this study was to validate the performance of PIM2 in a population of patients admitted to one pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in Jap...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Imamura T,Nakagawa S,Goldman RD,Fujiwara T

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze the effect of endothelin-1 on pulmonary arterial and venous contractile force in vitro and on up- and downstream pulmonary vascular resistance in vivo under sham and endotoxemic conditions in pigs. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In vitro: paired preparations of pulmonary arteries and veins were mounted in ...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Rossi P,Persson B,Boels PJ,Arner A,Weitzberg E,Oldner A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Growth hormone (GH) given to reverse muscle catabolism in critical illness increased mortality, illustrating the need for better understanding of the pathophysiology of the GH axis. We describe the relationship between changes in plasma insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and growth hormone-binding protein (...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： O'Leary MJ,Quinton N,Ferguson CN,Preedy VR,Ross RJ,Hinds CJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes of critical illness neuromuscular abnormalities (CINMA). DESIGN:Systematic review. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SELECTION:MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library were searched for reports on adult ICU patients who were evaluated for CINMA clinicall...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Stevens RD,Dowdy DW,Michaels RK,Mendez-Tellez PA,Pronovost PJ,Needham DM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for the estimation of LVEF from first passage radionuclide angiocardiography was adapted to provide estimates of RVEF. In 17 subjects with no history of cardiovascular disease mean LVEF was 0.71 +/- 0.08 and mean RVEF 0.65 +/- 0.08. Mean values for 15 subjects with coronary artery disease but no previous h...

journal_title：Intensive care medicine

authors： Walton S,Rowlands DJ,Shields RA,Testa HJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00