Multidisciplinary care for tracheostomy patients: a systematic review.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Dextrose may be used during cardiac arrest resuscitation to prevent or reverse hypoglycemia. However, the incidence of dextrose administration during cardiac arrest and the association of dextrose administration with survival and other outcomes are unknown. METHODS:We used the Get With The Guidelines®-Res...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Peng TJ,Andersen LW,Saindon BZ,Giberson TA,Kim WY,Berg K,Novack V,Donnino MW,American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation Investigators.

更新日期：2015-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mechanical ventilation (MV) with high tidal volumes may induce or aggravate lung injury in critical ill patients. We compared the effects of a protective versus a conventional ventilatory strategy, on systemic and lung production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) in patien...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Pinheiro de Oliveira R,Hetzel MP,dos Anjos Silva M,Dallegrave D,Friedman G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intensive care units (ICUs) face financial, bed management, and staffing constraints. Detailed data covering all aspects of patients' journeys into and through intensive care are now collected and stored in electronic health records: machine learning has been used to analyse such data in order to provide dec...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Shillan D,Sterne JAC,Champneys A,Gibbison B

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Early multimodal treatment of severe sepsis, including the use of drotrecogin alfa (activated) (DrotAA) when indicated, is considered essential for optimum outcome. However, predicting which infected patients will progress to severe sepsis and the need for aggressive intervention continues to be problemati...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Hodder RV,Hall R,Russell JA,Fisher HN,Lee B

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is growing interest in patient outcomes following critical illness, with an increasing number and different types of studies conducted, and a need for synthesis of existing findings to help inform the field. For this purpose we conducted a systematic review of qualitative studies evaluating patient out...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Hashem MD,Nallagangula A,Nalamalapu S,Nunna K,Nausran U,Robinson KA,Dinglas VD,Needham DM,Eakin MN

更新日期：2016-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Impaired skeletal muscle function has important clinical outcome implications for survivors of critical illness. Previous studies employing volitional manual muscle testing for diagnosing intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICU-AW) during the early stages of critical illness have only provided limited d...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Connolly BA,Jones GD,Curtis AA,Murphy PB,Douiri A,Hopkinson NS,Polkey MI,Moxham J,Hart N

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the feasibility of blood gas analysis and electrolyte measurements during emergency transport prior to hospital admission. RESULTS: A portable, battery-powered blood analyzer was used on patients in life threatening conditions to determine pH, pCO2, pO2, sodium, potassium and ionized c...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Prause G,Ratzenhofer-Komenda B,Offner A,Lauda P,Voit H,Pojer H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The administration of dopexamine may constitute a therapeutical option to improve hepatosplanchnic perfusion in sepsis. In order to verify this hypothesis, we administered dopexamine in an experimental sepsis model in rats. METHODS:This prospective, randomized, controlled laboratory study was conducted in...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Birnbaum J,Klotz E,Spies CD,Lorenz B,Stuebs P,Hein OV,Grundling M,Pavlovic D,Usichenko T,Wendt M,Kox WJ,Lehmann C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanically ventilated, intubated patients are at increased risk for tracheal colonization with bacterial pathogens that may progress to heavy bacterial colonization, ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT), and/or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Previous studies report that 10 to 30 % of patients with V...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Craven DE,Hudcova J,Lei Y,Craven KA,Waqas A

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Metabolic acidosis during hemorrhagic shock is common and conventionally considered to be due to hyperlactatemia. There is increasing awareness, however, that other nonlactate, unmeasured anions contribute to this type of acidosis. METHODS:Eleven anesthetized dogs were hemorrhaged to a mean arterial press...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Bruegger D,Kemming GI,Jacob M,Meisner FG,Wojtczyk CJ,Packert KB,Keipert PE,Faithfull NS,Habler OP,Becker BF,Rehm M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Sedation overuse is frequent and possibly associated with poor outcomes in the intensive care unit (ICU) patients. However, the association of early oversedation with clinical outcomes has not been thoroughly evaluated. The aim of this study was to assess the association of early sedation strategies with o...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Tanaka LM,Azevedo LC,Park M,Schettino G,Nassar AP,Réa-Neto A,Tannous L,de Souza-Dantas VC,Torelly A,Lisboa T,Piras C,Carvalho FB,Maia Mde O,Giannini FP,Machado FR,Dal-Pizzol F,de Carvalho AG,dos Santos RB,Tierno PF,

更新日期：2014-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Dynamic predictors of fluid responsiveness, namely systolic pressure variation, pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation and pleth variability index have been shown to be useful to identify in advance patients who will respond to a fluid load by a significant increase in stroke volume and cardiac ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Benes J,Giglio M,Brienza N,Michard F

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Critical illness myopathy is an acquired skeletal muscle disorder with severe myosin loss and muscle weakness frequently seen in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. It is unknown if impaired excitation-contraction coupling contributes to the muscle weakness. METHODS:We used a unique ICU model where rats wer...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Llano-Diez M,Cheng AJ,Jonsson W,Ivarsson N,Westerblad H,Sun V,Cacciani N,Larsson L,Bruton J

更新日期：2016-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is a new technique that might enable portable and non-invasive organ perfusion quantification at the bedside. However, it has not yet been tested in critically ill patients. We sought to establish CEUS's feasibility, safety, reproducibility and potential diagnostic value...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Schneider AG,Goodwin MD,Schelleman A,Bailey M,Johnson L,Bellomo R

更新日期：2013-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:To provide up-to-date information on the prognostic factors associated with 28-day mortality in a cohort of septic shock patients in intensive care units (ICUs). METHODS:Prospective, multicenter, observational cohort study in ICUs from 14 French general (non-academic) and university teaching hospitals. Al...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Quenot JP,Binquet C,Kara F,Martinet O,Ganster F,Navellou JC,Castelain V,Barraud D,Cousson J,Louis G,Perez P,Kuteifan K,Noirot A,Badie J,Mezher C,Lessire H,Pavon A

更新日期：2013-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing effective analgesia and adequate sedation is a generally accepted goal of intensive care medicine. Due to its rapid, organ independent and predictable metabolism the short acting opioid remifentanil might be particularly useful for analgesia-based sedation in the intensive care unit (ICU). This hypothesis wa...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Kuhlen R,Putensen C

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care of the critically ill patient is becoming increasingly complex. Protocols, which standardize care of patients with similar diseases, represent a potential solution to managing multiple simultaneous problems in critically ill patients. In this article, we examine the advantages and disadvantages to care protocoliz...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Chang SY,Sevransky J,Martin GS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Stimulation of beta2-adrenergic receptors (beta2-ARs) inhibits tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) release in monocytes. In septic shock, endogenous catecholamines induce beta2-AR downregulation, leading to an increased TNF-alpha release. The aims of this study were to analyze the molecular mechanisms ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Link A,Selejan S,Maack C,Lenz M,Böhm M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care a...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Pepe PE,Roppolo LP,Fowler RL

更新日期：2015-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular hypoxia is a fundamental mechanism of injury in the critically ill. The study of human responses to hypoxia occurring as a consequence of hypobaria defines the fields of high-altitude medicine and physiology. A new paradigm suggests that the physiological and pathophysiological responses to extreme environmen...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Grocott M,Montgomery H,Vercueil A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:During septic shock, resistance to the haemodynamic effects of catecholamine vasopressors and inotropes is a well-recognised marker of mortality risk. However, the specific cardiovascular or metabolic response elements that are most closely associated with outcome have not been well defined. The objective ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Kumar A,Schupp E,Bunnell E,Ali A,Milcarek B,Parrillo JE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: That thrombocytopenia results in increased mortality or transfusion requirements has not been confirmed by previous studies. We performed a case-control study in which 36 patients who developed severe thrombocytopenia of less than 50x109 platelets/l were carefully matched for the severity of underlying dis...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Stephan F,Montblanc Jd,Cheffi A,Bonnet F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been shown to improve splanchnic blood flow in experimental studies. This report evaluates the effects of NAC on liver perfusion and lactate signal intensities in the liver tissue of septic shock patients using proton magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy. Furthermore, the mo...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Hein OV,Ohring R,Schilling A,Oellerich M,Armstrong VW,Kox WJ,Spies C

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:B and T lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) is an inhibitory receptor, whose primary role in CD4(+) T cell is thought to inhibit cytokine production. We explore BTLA expression on CD4(+) T cells in healthy controls and septic patients, and assess the correlation of BTLA expression on CD4(+) T cells in the early s...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Shao R,Li CS,Fang Y,Zhao L,Hang C

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The past 25 years have witnessed the development of improved tools with which to predict short-term and long-term outcomes after critical illness. The general paradigm for constructing the best known tools has been the logistic regression model. Recently, a variety of alternative tools, such as artificial neural netwo...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Clermont G

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe sepsis and septic shock are among the leading causes of mortality in the intensive care unit. Over a decade ago, early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) emerged as a novel approach for reducing sepsis mortality and was incorporated into guidelines published by the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign. In addition...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Gupta RG,Hartigan SM,Kashiouris MG,Sessler CN,Bearman GM

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Annual Congress offers the opportunity for basic scientists and clinicians to share recent findings. Apart from the large number of free communications, several sessions of the congress were dedicated to state-of-the-art tutorials given by established speakers. The areas...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Preiser JC

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:To determine whether subjecting patients to 100 ml of additional dead space after a 120-minute weaning trial could predict readiness for extubation. METHODS:This was a prospective, non-randomised pilot study in an intensive care unit at a university hospital with 14 beds. It included all non-tracheostomis...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Solsona JF,Díaz Y,Vázquez A,Pilar Gracia M,Zapatero A,Marrugat J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a severe complication in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). Clinical signs of meningitis are often masked by SAH-related symptoms, and routine cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis fails to indicate BM. Microdialysis (MD) is a technique for monitoring cerebra...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Schlenk F,Frieler K,Nagel A,Vajkoczy P,Sarrafzadeh AS

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lowering of hyperglycemia in the intensive care unit (ICU) is widely practiced. We investigated in which way glucose regulation, defined as mean glucose concentration during admission, is associated with ICU mortality in a medical and a surgical cohort. METHODS:Retrospective database cohort study includin...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Siegelaar SE,Hermanides J,Oudemans-van Straaten HM,van der Voort PH,Bosman RJ,Zandstra DF,DeVries JH

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00