Medical therapy of acute myocardial infarction: Part I. Role of thrombolytic and antithrombotic therapy.

abstract：:Hyponatremia is one of the newer and emerging risk factors for an adverse prognosis in chronic heart failure. Why decreased serum sodium is associated with worse prognosis remains unclear. It may reflect worsening heart failure and the deleterious effects of activation of neurohormones. The mechanism of hyponatremia i...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Chatterjee K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal clivus fractures are rare in children, with only 5 cases published in the English literature to date. Clivus fractures, particularly longitudinal type, are associated with high mortality and morbidity. We report a case of longitudinal clivus fracture in a teenager with survival and complete neurological r...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Samraj RS,Stalets EL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulatory shock affects every third patient in intensive care units and is associated with high mortality. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) could serve as a means for monitoring tissue perfusion in circulatory shock. PURPOSE:To assess the evidence of NIRS monitoring in circulatory shock, we conducted a s...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Varis E,Pettilä V,Wilkman E

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We evaluated the effects of after-hours/nighttime patient transfers out of the ICU on patient outcomes, by performing a systematic review and meta-analysis (PROSPERO CRD 42017074082). DATA SOURCES:MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar, CINAHL, and the Cochrane Library from 1987-November 2019. Conference abst...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Moshynskyy AI,Mailman JF,Sy EJ

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the number of available donor hearts severely limits the epidemiologic impact of heart transplantation on patients with heart failure, patients with end-stage heart failure unresponsive to medical management currently have no other viable alternatives. Destination therapy with a ventricular assist device is t...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Poston RS,Griffith BP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fluid responsiveness is the ability to increase the cardiac output in response to a fluid challenge. Only about 50% of patients receiving fluid resuscitation for acute circulatory failure increase their stroke volume, but the other 50% may worsen their outcome. Therefore, predicting fluid responsiveness is ne...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Orso D,Paoli I,Piani T,Cilenti FL,Cristiani L,Guglielmo N

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The feasibility and clinical outcomes of conservative fluid management after sepsis resuscitation remain unknown. OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the effect of a conservative fluid management protocol on fluid balance and intensive care unit (ICU)-free days among patients with sepsis. METHODS:In a single-center phas...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Semler MW,Janz DR,Casey JD,Self WH,Rice TW

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin receptors (IRs) in the brain have unique molecular features and a characteristic pattern of distribution. Their possible functions extend beyond glucose utilization. In this systematic review, we explore the interactions between insulin and the brain and its implications for anesthesiologists, critic...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Bilotta F,Lauretta MP,Tewari A,Haque M,Hara N,Uchino H,Rosa G

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fever after cardiac surgery in children may be due to bacterial infection or noninfectious origin like systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) secondary to bypass procedure. A marker to distinguish bacterial from nonbacterial fever in these conditions is clinically important. The purpose of our study was to eva...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Nahum E,Livni G,Schiller O,Bitan S,Ashkenazi S,Dagan O

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a devastating and costly condition. Although the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association recommends admitting patients with ICH to a neurocritical care unit (NCCU), this strategy may accrue unnecessary cost for patients with relatively milder presentation. We ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Hafeez S,Behrouz R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine racial and ethnic differences in the utilization of 3 interventions (tracheostomy placement, gastrostomy tube placement, and hospice utilization) among patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI). DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Data from the National Inpatient Sample, from 2002 to ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Jones RC,Creutzfeldt CJ,Cox CE,Haines KL,Hough CL,Vavilala MS,Williamson T,Hernandez A,Raghunathan K,Bartz R,Fuller M,Krishnamoorthy V

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Frontal chest radiographs are the principal diagnostic imaging study to detect, verify, or exclude acute thoracic injury after trauma, and they should be obtained as quickly as possible without compromising clinical assessment and resuscitation. Chest radiographs provide important information about potentially life-th...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Mirvis SE,Shanmuganathan K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) refers to a clinical syndrome of acute lung injury that occurs in a temporal relationship with the transfusion of blood products. Because of the difficulty in making its diagnosis, TRALI is often underreported. Three not necessarily mutually exclusive hypotheses have been ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Jawa RS,Anillo S,Kulaylat MN

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intrahospital transports (IHTs) of neurosurgical intensive care unit (NICU) patients can be hazardous. Increasing intracranial pressure (ICP) and/or decreasing cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) as well as cardiopulmonary alterations are common complications of an IHTs, which can lead to secondary brain injury...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Bender M,Stein M,Kim SW,Uhl E,Schöller K

更新日期：2019-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Isolated shortness of breath in the patient with a history of a malignancy creates a diagnostic challenge and serves as a source of anxiety. Although cancer recurrence is typically the first concern of the patient and the clinician, toxicities of anticancer therapies must also be considered. METHODS:A case ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Clapham KR,Bhimani RD,Cooper JP,Stern TA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Reintubation following unplanned extubation (UE) is often required and associated with increased morbidity; however, knowledge of risk factors leading to reintubation and subsequent outcomes in children is still lacking. We sought to determine the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes related to reintubation af...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： da Silva PSL,Reis ME,Fonseca TSM,Fonseca MCM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae is often found in the lung tissue of patients with bronchocentric granulomatosis (BCG). This organism is believed to be one agent responsible for inciting the hypersensitivity response and subsequent development of the characteristic pathology that defines BCG. The definitive etiology of t...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Collier J,Wolfe R,Lerner R,Nathan S,Mohsenifar Z

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosing acute kidney injury (AKI) stage 3 in critically ill patients may help physicians in making treatment decisions. This diagnosis relies chiefly on urinary output and serum creatinine, which may be of limited value. This study aimed to explore the diagnostic performance of renal resistive index (RRI)...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Zhi HJ,Zhao J,Nie S,Ma YJ,Cui XY,Zhang M,Li Y

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whole-brain criterion of death provides that a person who has irreversibly lost all clinical functions of the brain is dead. Bedside brain death (BD) tests permit physicians to determine BD by showing that the whole-brain criterion of death has been fulfilled. In a nonsystematic literature review, we identified an...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Dalle Ave AL,Bernat JL

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cirrhotic patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) are associated with high mortality rates. The prognosis of critically ill cirrhotic patients is determined by the extent of hepatic and extrahepatic organ dysfunction. This study was conducted to assess and compare the accuracy of the Child-Pugh clas...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Ho YP,Chen YC,Yang C,Lien JM,Chu YY,Fang JT,Chiu CT,Chen PC,Tsai MH

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of low-dose hydrocortisone therapy in the management of septic shock remains controversial in critical care for many years. Hence, we performed this meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with trial sequential analysis (TSA) to evaluate its effect on clinical outcome among adult pa...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Lyu QQ,Chen QH,Zheng RQ,Yu JQ,Gu XH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of high-flow nasal cannula oxygen (HFNO) therapy on hospital length of stay (LOS) and postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) in adult postoperative patients. DATA SOURCES:PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science of Studies, China National Knowledge Index, and Wan Fang...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Lu Z,Chang W,Meng S,Xue M,Xie J,Xu J,Qiu H,Yang Y,Guo F

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain blood flow tests with diffusible radiopharmaceuticals are often done as an ancillary test in brain death (BD). We report a case of an infant with absent brain blood flow on an anterior planar image despite persistent breathing and extensor posturing. We reviewed the literature from 1980 to 2008 using MEDLINE and...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Joffe AR,Lequier L,Cave D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) are often in shock and require hemodynamic support. Identifying and addressing the pathophysiology mechanisms operating in an individual patient is crucial to achieving a successful outcome, while initiating circulatory support therapy to restore adequate tis...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Jentzer JC,Hollenberg SM

更新日期：2020-04-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Morbidity associated with stress ulcer-related bleeding, the cost of medications, and the possible complications associated with stress ulcer prophylaxis are important considerations when prescribing prophylaxis. We prospectively studied the prescription patterns for stress ulcer prophylaxis in patients admi...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Frandah W,Colmer-Hamood J,Nugent K,Raj R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize physicians' stated practices in the treatment of patients with severe acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome (sAAWS) and to use intravenous (IV) phenobarbital as an adjuvant treatment for sAAWS. METHODS:A multidisciplinary, cross-sectional, self-administered survey at 2 large academic centers specia...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Buell D,Filewod N,Ailon J,Burns KEA

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sepsis and sepsis-associated encephalopathy (SAE) are common intensive care unit (ICU) diseases; the morbidity and mortality are high. The present study analyzed the sensitivity of different diagnostic criteria of sepsis 1.0 and 3.0, epidemiological characteristics of sepsis and SAE, and explored its risk fa...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Feng Q,Ai YH,Gong H,Wu L,Ai ML,Deng SY,Huang L,Peng QY,Zhang LN

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At this time, there are no studies evaluating the risk of delirium or coma with the use of ketamine in mechanically ventilated adult patients, compared to conventional therapies such as propofol or dexmedetomidine. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to evaluate the number of days alive without deliri...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Shurtleff V,Radosevich JJ,Patanwala AE

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Timely recognition of critical illness is associated with improved outcomes, but is dependent on accurate triage, which is affected by system factors such as workload and staffing. We sought to first study the effect of delayed recognition on patient outcomes after controlling for system factors and then to ide...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Goel NN,Durst MS,Vargas-Torres C,Richardson LD,Mathews KS

更新日期：2020-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative (GN) pathogens and lack of novel antibiotics have increased the use of colistin, despite unknown optimal dosing. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a colistin loading dose, high-dose (LDHD) maintenance regimen in patients with MDR-GN...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Elefritz JL,Bauer KA,Jones C,Mangino JE,Porter K,Murphy CV

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00