Retention of cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills after initial overtraining.

abstract：:The metabolic support of critically ill patients is a relatively new topic of active research and discussion, and surprisingly little is known about the effects of critical illness on metabolic physiology and activity. The metabolic changes seen in critical illness are highly complex, and how and when to treat them ar...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Vincent JL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether glucose utilization and metabolic substrate (glucose and fat) oxidation could be manipulated in patients with secondary multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Intensive care units (ICU) of two university hospitals. PATIENTS:Eight adults free of hepatic ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Arnold J,Campbell IT,Hipkin LJ,Keegan M,Jenkins S,O'Sullivan E,Chadwick S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn is characterized by the presence of intense vasoconstriction and vascular remodeling. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation has been recognized as a critical regulatory element in signal transduction, because it is dynamically regulated by the opposing actions of pr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Berkenbosch JW,Baribeau J,Ferretti E,Perreault T

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute effects of controlled O2 therapy on hemodynamics and blood gases were investigated in 22 patients with decompensated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). An inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) of 0.24 and 0.28 given to the first 12 patients markedly improved arterial and mixed-venous blood oxygenation with ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lejeune P,Mols P,Naeije R,Hallemans R,Melot C

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The randomized two-way factorial Dressing Study (1,636 patients, 28,931 catheter days) showed that a chlorhexidine-impregnated sponge decreased the incidence of major catheter-related infections from 1.4‰ to 0.6‰ catheter days, and that scheduled dressing changes every 7 days was not inferior to scheduled ch...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schwebel C,Lucet JC,Vesin A,Arrault X,Calvino-Gunther S,Bouadma L,Timsit JF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A hallmark of amniotic fluid embolism is the induction of coagulation defects. Little is known about the nature of these defects or the causative agent or agents. The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of meconium containing (native) meconium-amniotic-fluid infusion (MAFI) and meconium-free (cent...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Petroianu GA,Altmannsberger SH,Maleck WH,Assmus HP,Friedberg C,Bergler WF,Rüfer R

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the clinical utility of right ventricular end-diastolic volume index (RVEDVI) and pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP) as measures of preload status in patients with acute respiratory failure receiving treatment with positive end-expiratory pressure. DESIGN:Prospective, cohort study. SETTI...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cheatham ML,Nelson LD,Chang MC,Safcsak K

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Addressing the quality gap in ICU-based palliative care is limited by uncertainty about acceptable models of collaborative specialist and generalist care. Therefore, we characterized the attitudes of physicians and nurses about palliative care delivery in an ICU environment. DESIGN:Mixed-methods study. SETT...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wysham NG,Hua M,Hough CL,Gundel S,Docherty SL,Jones DM,Reagan O,Goucher H,Mcfarlin J,Cox CE

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe and identify factors associated with mortality rate and quality of life 1 yr after prolonged mechanical ventilation. DESIGN:Prospective, observational cohort study with patient recruitment over 26 months and follow-up for 1 yr. SETTING:Intensive care units at a tertiary care university hospital....

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chelluri L,Im KA,Belle SH,Schulz R,Rotondi AJ,Donahoe MP,Sirio CA,Mendelsohn AB,Pinsky MR

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess in-hospital neurologic (CNS) complications in adult patients undergoing veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory failure. DESIGN:Retrospective analysis of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization's data registry. SETTING:Data reported to Extracorporeal Life Support Orga...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lorusso R,Gelsomino S,Parise O,Di Mauro M,Barili F,Geskes G,Vizzardi E,Rycus PT,Muellenbach R,Mueller T,Pesenti A,Combes A,Peek G,Frenckner B,Di Nardo M,Swol J,Maessen J,Thiagarajan RR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Intensive insulin therapy with tight glucose control is known to result in reduced morbidity and mortality in inflammation-related critical illness. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha induction in myocardial infarction may trigger inflammation and have detrimental effects on cardiomyocytes. This study was des...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Li J,Zhang H,Wu F,Nan Y,Ma H,Guo W,Wang H,Ren J,Das UN,Gao F

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred patients were ventilated with high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) during the initial 24-h postoperative period in the surgical and neurosurgical ICUs. Eighty-three were successfully weaned, 2 could not be ventilated adequately with HFJV, and 15 with criteria of acute respiratory failure received HFJV for...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sladen A,Guntupalli K,Marquez J,Klain M

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although contraindicated, there are situations when a patient who has recently taken a phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitor (e.g., sildenafil) might need intravenous nitroglycerin (NTG) treatment. This study determined if, and at what dose, intravenous NTG could be administered safely to men with coronary artery dis...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Parker JD,Bart BA,Webb DJ,Koren MJ,Siegel RL,Wang H,Malhotra B,Jen F,Glue P

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new device has been developed to estimate continuously and noninvasively cardiac output from the thoracic electrical bioimpedance (CObi). CObi was compared to cardiac output by thermodilution (COtd) in five anesthetized dogs. Blood pressure, blood volume, and blood flow were manipulated by hemorrhage and infusions o...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tremper KK,Hufstedler SM,Barker SJ,Zaccari J,Harris D,Anderson S,Roohk V

更新日期：1986-03-01 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:To investigate the effects of recombinant human erythropoietin on brain oxygenation in a model of diffuse traumatic brain injury. DESIGN:Adult male Wistar rats. SETTING:Neurosciences and physiology laboratories. INTERVENTIONS:Thirty minutes after diffuse traumatic brain injury (impact-acceleration model),...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bouzat P,Millet A,Boue Y,Pernet-Gallay K,Trouve-Buisson T,Gaide-Chevronnay L,Barbier EL,Payen JF

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hemoccult slide test is used frequently to test for the presence of occult blood in samples of gastric juice obtained from critically ill patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the accuracy of this test to determine the presence of blood in human gastric juice at various pH values. Gastric aspirate...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Long PC,Wilentz KV,Sudlow G,Skillman JJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 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：:The ability of ACTH-(1-24) to prolong survival and to extend the deadline for effective blood reinfusion has been studied in a model of lethal hypovolemic shock in the rat. Anesthetized rats were bled to a mean arterial pressure of 18 to 25 mm Hg and then subjected to one of the following iv treatments: a) saline; b) ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Guarini S,Tagliavini S,Bazzani C,Ferrari W,Bertolini A

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute lung injury with subsequent pneumonia and sepsis represents a major cause of morbidity and mortality in thermally injured patients. Production of nitric oxide by the neuronal and inducible nitric oxide synthase may be critically involved in the pathophysiology of the disease process at different time po...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lange M,Connelly R,Traber DL,Hamahata A,Cox RA,Nakano Y,Bansal K,Esechie A,von Borzyskowski S,Jonkam C,Traber LD,Hawkins HK,Herndon DN,Enkhbaatar P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We previously reported improved oxygenation, but no change, in rates of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) use or death among infants with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn who received inhaled nitric oxide (NO) with conventional ventilation, irrespective of lung disease. The goal of ou...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Christou H,Van Marter LJ,Wessel DL,Allred EN,Kane JW,Thompson JE,Stark AR,Kourembanas S

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:a) To determine whether pentoxifylline has a preventive effect on the decrease in PaO2 that is caused by oleic acid, and whether pentoxifylline facilitates normalization of PaO2 from the decreased state. b) To examine whether pentoxifylline can attenuate an increase in pulmonary vascular permeability that is...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moriuchi H,Yuizono T

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent strides in computational biology and high-throughput technologies have generated considerable interest in understanding complex biological systems. The application of these technologies to critical illness and injury offers the potential to define adaptive and maladaptive programs of gene expression induced by ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cobb JP,Suffredini AF,Danner RL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although the mortality of severe sepsis is easily quantified, the actual cause and timing of death from severe sepsis are less defined. We used the INDEPTH (International Integrated Database for the Evaluation of Severe Sepsis and Drotrecogin alfa activated) database to investigate the reported cause of deat...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Vincent JL,Nelson DR,Williams MD

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinically, asystole or a bradyarrhythmia may follow countershock of ventricular fibrillation (VF) in up to 40% of attempts. This study evaluated the effects of artificial cardiac pacing, calcium chloride (CaCl2), and epinephrine in postcountershock asystole/bradycardia. Micromanometer catheters were positioned in the...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Niemann JT,Adomian GE,Garner D,Rosborough JP

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inotropic and vasopressor drugs are routinely used in critically ill patients to maintain adequate blood pressure and cardiac output in patients with cardiogenic shock although potentially at the expense of increasing myocardial oxygen demand. Pacing optimization has been demonstrated as effective in reducing...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tavazzi G,Kontogeorgis A,Bergsland NP,Price S

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum ionized calcium (Ca+2), creatinine, magnesium, phosphate, and arterial pH were measured in patients on admission to the medical ICU (MICU). Patients were classified into three groups: a) hypotensive (n = 38), those who received vasopressor support for frank hypotension; b) hypertensive (n = 21), those who requir...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Desai TK,Carlson RW,Thill-Baharozian M,Geheb MA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a 2-year period, 14 viable ventilator-dependent patients were transferred from the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) to a general ward floor for nutritional support after failing to wean from mechanical ventilation (MV) while in the MICU. These patients were retrospectively grouped based on their ultimate abilit...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Larca L,Greenbaum DM

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:a) To quantify the use of do-not-resuscitate orders in a tertiary care children's hospital; and b) to characterize the circumstances in which such orders are written. DESIGN:Retrospective chart review. SETTING:University teaching hospital. PATIENTS:All inpatients who died in an urban children's hospital o...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lantos JD,Berger AC,Zucker AR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suction applied to a chest-tube drainage system produces subambient pressure within the chest tube and may increase or decrease the flow of gas passing from the airway through a bronchopleural fistula. Such gas may have participated in gas exchange and contain more CO2 and less O2 than inspired gas. Calculated or meas...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Powner DJ,Cline CD,Rodman GH Jr

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00