Effect of classic heatstroke on serum procalcitonin.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is increasingly used in the management of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. With extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, select patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome can be managed without mechanical ventilation, sedation, or neuromuscular blockade. Publ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kurihara C,Walter JM,Singer BD,Cajigas H,Shayan S,Al-Qamari A,DeCamp MM,Wunderink R,Budinger GRS,Bharat A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether implementation of Composite Resuscitation Team Training is associated with improvement in survival to discharge and code team performance after pediatric in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS:We conducted a prospective observational study with historical contr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Knight LJ,Gabhart JM,Earnest KS,Leong KM,Anglemyer A,Franzon D

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preliminary experimental data suggest that selective β1-blockers may improve ex vivo cardiac function in animal sepsis. Currently, the effects of esmolol on in vivo cardiac function and on vascular function are unknown. The present study was designed to examine the effects of the β1-selective blocker esmolol ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kimmoun A,Louis H,Al Kattani N,Delemazure J,Dessales N,Wei C,Marie PY,Issa K,Levy B

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Delirium is common in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU and associated with short- and long-term morbidity and mortality. The use of systemic corticosteroids is also common in the ICU. Outside the ICU setting, corticosteroids are a recognized risk factor for delirium, but their relationship with del...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schreiber MP,Colantuoni E,Bienvenu OJ,Neufeld KJ,Chen KF,Shanholtz C,Mendez-Tellez PA,Needham DM

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high rate of death from septic shock persists despite general improvements in care. The relative failure of mechanistically based therapies in various clinical trials should also trigger a reconsideration of such mechanistic approaches. Despite reversion of shock by hydrocortisone, the similar death rate compared wi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lukaszewicz AC,Payen D

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss the potential therapeutic value of intraluminal oxygenation of the gut in critical illness. DATA SOURCES:Relevant articles published in the English language literature. STUDY SELECTION:No special study has been carried out for the present presentation. DATA EXTRACTION:Information from the litera...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Haglund U

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of the present study were to evaluate, in patients with persistent arterial hypotension in the immediate postcardiac surgery period, the effects of norepinephrine infusion on ventriculo-arterial coupling, its determinants: arterial elastance and end-systolic ventricular elastance, and to test ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Guinot PG,Longrois D,Kamel S,Lorne E,Dupont H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss a possible role of the endothelium in sepsis. DATA SOURCES:Studies published in biomedical journals and our own experimental results. STUDY SELECTION:Studies on endothelial mechanisms in the context of sepsis. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS:Changes in endothelial cells on activation by inflammato...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hack CE,Zeerleder S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To derive a target range of optimal sedation for the COMFORT Scale and to prospectively test that target range against intensivist assessment of adequacy of sedation. DESIGN:Serial prospective agreement cohort studies. SETTING:Twelve-bed pediatric intensive care unit in an urban academic teaching hospital. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Marx CM,Smith PG,Lowrie LH,Hamlett KW,Ambuel B,Yamashita TS,Blumer JL

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the plasma volume (PV) expanding effect of a fast infusion rate with that of a slow infusion rate of a fixed volume of 5% albumin, of the synthetic colloids, 6% hydroxyethyl starch 130/0.4 and 4% gelatin, and of 0.9% NaCl in a rat sepsis model and to compare the plasma-expanding effect among these...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bark BP,Persson J,Grände PO

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertonic saline is the recommended therapy to shrink swollen brain cells in patients with acute hyponatremia accompanied by seizures. OBJECTIVES:In the absence of hypertonic saline, hypertonic mannitol will shrink the cell volume. Because mannitol is excreted rapidly, our aim was to ensure that it would b...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Porzio P,Halberthal M,Bohn D,Halperin ML

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We recently reported that bacterial lipopolysaccharide stimulates release of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha from both human vascular tissue and cultured smooth muscle cells. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that increased intracellular cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) could inhibi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zhang LM,Castresana MR,Shaker IJ,Dalton ML,Leeper-Woodford SK,Newman WH

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Most studies have assessed conflict between clinicians and surrogate decision makers in ICUs from only clinicians' perspectives. It is unknown if surrogates' perceptions differ from clinicians'. We sought to determine the degree of agreement between physicians and surrogates about conflict and to identify pre...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schuster RA,Hong SY,Arnold RM,White DB

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate relationships between acute adrenergic stress, plasma catecholamine concentrations, and beta 2-adrenergic receptors. DESIGN:Prospective, descriptive study. SETTING:Emergency medical service at a university hospital. PATIENTS:Twenty-seven patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (n = 11),...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Prengel AW,Lindner KH,Anhäupl T,Trunk E,Georgieff M,Lurie KG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the reversibility of acute kidney injury-induced neutrophil dysfunction and to identify involved mechanisms. DESIGN:Controlled laboratory experiment and prospective observational clinical study. SETTING:University laboratory and hospital. SUBJECTS:C57BL/6 wild-type mice. PATIENTS:Patients with ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Singbartl K,Miller L,Ruiz-Velasco V,Kellum JA

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our goal was to "reverse translate" the human response to surgical sepsis into the mouse by modifying a widely adopted murine intra-abdominal sepsis model to engender a phenotype that conforms to current sepsis definitions and follows the most recent expert recommendations for animal preclinical sepsis resea...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Stortz JA,Hollen MK,Nacionales DC,Horiguchi H,Ungaro R,Dirain ML,Wang Z,Wu Q,Wu KK,Kumar A,Foster TC,Stewart BD,Ross JA,Segal M,Bihorac A,Brakenridge S,Moore FA,Wohlgemuth SE,Leeuwenburgh C,Mohr AM,Moldawer LL,E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To define the role of the intensivist in the initiation and management of patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. DESIGN:Retrospective review of the literature and expert consensus. SETTING:Series of in-person meetings, conference calls, and emails from January 2018 to March 2019. SUBJECTS:A mult...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： DellaVolpe J,Barbaro RP,Cannon JW,Fan E,Greene WR,Gunnerson KJ,Napolitano LM,Ovil A,Pamplin JC,Schmidt M,Sorce LR,Brodie D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the control period in this study, small premature infants, 1500 g in birth weight, had insensible water loss (IWL) of 2.28 g/kg/hr (equivlaent to 54 ml/kg/day), which is considerably higher than in full term infants. Under phototherapy, there was a significant increase in IWL (3.14 g/kg/hr) associated with incr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Yeh TF,Vidyasagar D,Pildes RS

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the frequency of obtaining Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and informed consent in critical care research. DATA SOURCES AND DATA EXTRACTION:One-year retrospective review of original critical care research in humans published in seven journals, including American Journal of Respiratory an...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Matot I,Pizov R,Sprung CL

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hypoxemic reperfusion attenuates brain injury secondary to severe cerebral ischemia, myocardial, and intestinal injury occurring in intestinal postischemic shock, and offers hemodynamic stabilization and attenuation of inflammatory response when applied in the resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock. In this stu...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Douzinas EE,Orfanos SE,Livaditi O,Augustatou K,Villiotou V,Kavantzas N,Flevari A,Korkolopoulou P,Roussos C,Patsouris E

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Mechanical ventilation can cause ventilator-induced brain injury via afferent vagal signaling and hippocampal neurotransmitter imbalances. The triggering mechanisms for vagal signaling during mechanical ventilation are unknown. The objective of this study was to assess whether pulmonary transient receptor po...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： González-López A,López-Alonso I,Pickerodt PA,von Haefen C,Amado-Rodríguez L,Reimann H,Niendorf T,Kuebler W,Albaiceta GM,Francis RCE,Spies CD

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trauma is the leading cause of both morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population, and traumatic injury causes > 50% of all childhood deaths. Significant mortality rates have been reported for children with traumatic brain injury. Although children have better survival rates as compared with adults with traumati...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mazzola CA,Adelson PD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Position of the CVP port on a flow-directed balloon-tip pulmonary arterial catheter affects the accuracy of both thermodilution cardiac output determinations and CVP measurements. Systemic allometry (the study of the growth of a part in relation to the total organism) has been used to determine an easily measured inde...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Borland LM

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review the intensive care unit experience of patients with admitted or acquired nosocomial endocarditis (NE) defined according to the Duke criteria. DESIGN:Prospective, cohort study. SETTING:University teaching hospital. PATIENTS:We reviewed the records of 22 patients documented with NE during a 6-yr p...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gouëllo JP,Asfar P,Brenet O,Kouatchet A,Berthelot G,Alquier P

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the incidence of non-neurologic organ dysfunction and its association with outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury admitted to intensive care. DESIGN:Observational cohort study. SETTING:Foothills Medical Centre, which is the only neurosurgical service in southern Alberta (populati...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zygun DA,Kortbeek JB,Fick GH,Laupland KB,Doig CJ

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Goal-directed nutritional support is essential to improving morbidity and mortality. Open abdominal decompression is similarly crucial to the successful treatment of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome. The open abdomen, however, places the patient at risk for potentially significa...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cheatham ML,Safcsak K,Brzezinski SJ,Lube MW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:High physical activity levels are associated with wide-ranging health benefits, disease prevention, and longevity. In the present study, we examined the impact of regular physical exercise on the severity of organ injury and survival probability, as well as characteristics of the systemic immune and metaboli...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sossdorf M,Fischer J,Meyer S,Dahlke K,Wissuwa B,Seidel C,Schrepper A,Bockmeyer CL,Lupp A,Neugebauer S,Schmerler D,Rödel J,Claus RA,Otto GP

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Hyponatremia occurs in up to 30% of patients with pneumonia and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The prevalence of hyponatremia associated with coronavirus disease 2019 and the impact on outcome is unknown. We aimed to identify the prevalence, predictors, and impact on outcome of mild, m...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Frontera JA,Valdes E,Huang J,Lewis A,Lord AS,Zhou T,Kahn DE,Melmed K,Czeisler BM,Yaghi S,Scher E,Wisniewski T,Balcer L,Hammer E

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Formal guidelines recommend that therapeutic hypothermia be considered after in-hospital cardiac arrest. The rate of therapeutic hypothermia use after in-hospital cardiac arrest and details about its implementation are unknown. We aimed to determine the use of therapeutic hypothermia for adult in-hospital ca...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mikkelsen ME,Christie JD,Abella BS,Kerlin MP,Fuchs BD,Schweickert WD,Berg RA,Mosesso VN,Shofer FS,Gaieski DF,American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation Investigators.

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effects of high-dose epinephrine, compared with standard-dose epinephrine, on the dynamics of superficial cortical cerebral blood flow as well as global cerebral oxygenation during experimental cardiopulmonary resuscitation. We hypothesized that high-dose epinephrine might be unable to improve ce...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gedeborg R,Silander HC,Ronne-Engström E,Rubertsson S,Wiklund L

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00