Correction factor for thermodilution determination of cardiac output in children.

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：:To determine whether end-tidal carbon dioxide tension (PETCO2) accurately reflects PaCO2 during high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV), 43 studies were performed on eight mongrel dogs with normal lungs. During HFJV, minute volume was modified to obtain a range of PaCO2 values from 15.5 to 74.5 torr. When PETCO2 was mea...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Algora-Weber A,Rubio JJ,Dominguez de Villota E,Cortes JL,Gomez D,Mosquera JM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To comparatively evaluate cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen consumption and a modification of it, cerebral consumption of oxygen, in patients with acute brain injury with acute anemia. DESIGN:Prospective, observational study. SETTING:Neuroscience intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital. PATIENTS...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cruz J,Jaggi JL,Hoffstad OJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:The results of studies on noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure unrelated to cardiogenic pulmonary edema have been inconsistent. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of NPPV on the rate of endotracheal intubation, intensive care unit and hospital length of stay, and...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Keenan SP,Sinuff T,Cook DJ,Hill NS

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the importance of endothelin-1-induced vasoconstriction in a model of acute and maintained low cardiac output, by investigating regional changes within the mesenteric and particularly the intestinal mucosal circulation. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled animal study. SETTING:University-affiliated rese...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Burgener D,Laesser M,Treggiari-Venzi M,Oi Y,Jolliet P,Strasser S,Hadengue A,Aneman A

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased cardiac index, oxygen delivery (DO2), and oxygen consumption (VO2) patterns were shown to characterize the physiologic status of surviving high-risk surgical patients, and indicate increased metabolic needs; relatively normal DO2 and VO2 values were found to characterize the sequential pattern of n...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Shoemaker WC,Appel PL,Kram HB

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review mechanisms underlying sepsis-induced cardiac dysfunction in general and intrinsic myocardial depression in particular. DATA SOURCE:MEDLINE database. DATA SYNTHESIS:Myocardial depression is a well-recognized manifestation of organ dysfunction in sepsis. Due to the lack of a generally accepted defi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rudiger A,Singer M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS) and hospital LOS are common indices used to compare performance of hospitals and are yardsticks used in efforts to contain costs, yet there is no standardized method of quantitating this outcome variable. Attempts have been made to correct LOS according to diseas...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Marik PE,Hedman L

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although hepatic cytochrome P-450 protein concentrations are altered following endotoxin shock, changes in P-450 isoforms in sepsis have not been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to determine whether the major P-450 isoform in rat liver (i.e., CYP1A2) is down-regulated during the progression of s...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Crawford JH,Yang S,Zhou M,Simms HH,Wang P

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute renal failure can be treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) or intermittent hemodialysis. There is no difference in mortality, although patients treated with CRRT may have a higher rate of renal recovery. Given these considerations, an estimate of the costs by modality may help in choo...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Manns B,Doig CJ,Lee H,Dean S,Tonelli M,Johnson D,Donaldson C

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial oxygen saturation, determined noninvasively by pulse oximetry in 32 pediatric patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease (CHD), was compared with oxygen saturation measured by a cooximeter in simultaneously obtained arterial blood samples. The patients were studied in the cardiac catheterization laborato...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Boxer RA,Gottesfeld I,Singh S,LaCorte MA,Parnell VA Jr,Walker P

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Corticosteroid therapy is frequently used in septic patients given the rationale that there is an increased demand for corticosteroid in sepsis, and up to 60% of severe septic patients experience adrenal insufficiency. However, the efficacy of corticosteroid therapy and whether the therapy should be based on...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ai J,Guo L,Zheng Z,Wang SX,Huang B,Li XA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In postcardiac surgery patients, we often noticed that monitored tidal volumes exceeded the ventilator settings. We investigated whether cardiogenic oscillation causes overestimation of tidal volume. DESIGN:Prospective, observational, clinical study. SETTING:Surgical intensive care unit in a national heart...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Imanaka H,Takeuchi M,Tachibana K,Nishimura M

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare in the same patient with septic shock, respective effects of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and the combination of norepinephrine and dobutamine (5 microg/kg/min) on systemic hemodynamic parameters and gastric mucosal perfusion using gastric tonometry and laser-Doppler flowmetry techniques. DESIGN:...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Duranteau J,Sitbon P,Teboul JL,Vicaut E,Anguel N,Richard C,Samii K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) have high mortality. The prognostic importance of peripheral blood stem cell source in critically ill HSCT recipients and the performance of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III have not been ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Afessa B,Tefferi A,Dunn WF,Litzow MR,Peters SG

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Postresuscitation care bundle treatment after return of spontaneous circulation in patients experiencing in-hospital cardiac arrest can improve patients' survival and quality of life. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combined therapy of Shenfu injection and postresuscitation ca...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zhang Q,Li C,Shao F,Zhao L,Wang M,Fang Y

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have confirmed the improved tolerance of a peptide enteral compared to standard enteral alimentation in hypoalbuminemic, critically ill patients. Animal studies, including hypoproteinemic, volume-expanded rats, demonstrated that the protein hydrolysate of a peptide enteral formula was responsible for ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Brinson RR,Pitts VL,Taylor AE

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Radial artery applanation tonometry allows completely noninvasive continuous cardiac output estimation. The aim of the present study was to compare cardiac output measurements obtained with applanation tonometry (AT-CO) using the T-Line system (Tensys Medical, San Diego, CA) with cardiac output measured by i...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wagner JY,Sarwari H,Schön G,Kubik M,Kluge S,Reichenspurner H,Reuter DA,Saugel B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present trend in managed care has meant downsizing expectations concerning the availability of support for resuscitation research. This trend applies to funding possibilities from industry, governmental agencies, and nongovernmental agencies (Table 1). There will be increasing barriers to making innovations. Truth...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Thompson WL,Bellamy R,Cummins RO,Delooz HH,Dick W,Kochanek PM,Ornato JP,Ricci EM,Weil MH,Winter PM

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged artificial ventilation may result in worsening gas exchange and pulmonary compliance in patients with otherwise normal lungs. Prolonged hyperinflations to 40 cm H2O can completely reverse deterioration of gas exchange and compliance in such patients. Similar efforts have effectively recruited atelectatic lun...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Novak RA,Shumaker L,Snyder JV,Pinsky MR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the timing of onset of organ system failure, multiple organ system failure diagnosis, and the subsequent death in children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (ICU). Second, to identify independent risk markers of death in pediatric patients with multiple organ system failure. DESIGN:Rev...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Proulx F,Gauthier M,Nadeau D,Lacroix J,Farrell CA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several variables may account for the response of electrochemical skin surface PO2 sensors to anesthetic gases: cathode material and size, pH of the electrolyte and membrane material. These variables cannot be chosen arbitrarily and their influence has been tested with two types of sensors. In one type (LSC), a large ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Eberhard P,Mindt W

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To systematically investigate the effect of altering release time during airway pressure release ventilation in a neonatal animal model before and after oleic acid-induced acute lung injury. DESIGN:Prospective, nonrandomized, controlled study with repeated measures. SETTING:University research laboratory. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Martin LD,Wetzel RC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computerized gamma scintigraphy revealed a significant (p less than 0.001) rising lung:heart radioactivity ratio, which has been called "slope of injury" or "slope index", with both 99mTechnetium-tagged human serum albumin (99mTc-HSA) and 99mTechnetium-tagged red blood cells (99Tc-RBC) after 0.05 or 0.2 ml/kg iv oleic...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sugerman HJ,Hirsch JI,Tatum JL,Strash AM,Sharp DE,Greenfield LJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The purposes of this report are to a) describe the University of Michigan experience with venoarterial or venovenous extracorporeal life support for severe pediatric pulmonary rescue therapy, and b) examine survivors and nonsurvivors for differences that might be useful for examination in future, prospective...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moler FW,Custer JR,Bartlett RH,Palmisano J,Meliones JN,Delius RE,Braden EI,Snedecor S

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Blood loss and transfusion are frequent among patients undergoing liver surgery. Concerns have been raised about the safety and efficacy of transfusing stored blood. The influence of transfusing fresh vs. stored blood on the liver has not been studied to date. We tested the hypothesis that transfusion of stor...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Matot I,Katz M,Pappo O,Zelig O,Corchia N,Yedgar S,Barshtein G,Bennett-Guerrero E,Abramovitch R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anesthetic preconditioning appears to be a viable strategy to treat ischemic cerebral injury. Here we investigated 1) whether the protection conferred by sevoflurane preconditioning sustains in time; 2) whether sevoflurane preconditioning diminishes mitochondrial dysfunction following cerebral ischemia; and 3...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ye R,Yang Q,Kong X,Li N,Zhang Y,Han J,Xiong L,Liu X,Zhao G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the potential value of heart rate variability features for automated monitoring of sedation levels in mechanically ventilated ICU patients. DESIGN:Multicenter, pilot study. SETTING:Several ICUs at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. PATIENTS:Electrocardiogram recordings from 40 mechanica...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Nagaraj SB,McClain LM,Zhou DW,Biswal S,Rosenthal ES,Purdon PL,Westover MB

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test whether there is a circadian rhythm of blood glucose control in critically ill patients and whether morning blood glucose is an accurate surrogate of overall blood glucose control. DESIGN:Retrospective multiple-center observational study. SETTING:Intensive care units of three tertiary hospitals and ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Egi M,Bellomo R,Stachowski E,French CJ,Hart G,Stow P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00