System for umbilical artery monitoring.

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：INTRODUCTION:Ventilator settings for patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome supported by venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation are currently set arbitrarily. The impact on serum and pulmonary biotrauma markers of the transition to ultra-protective ventilation settings following extracorporeal...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rozencwajg S,Guihot A,Franchineau G,Lescroat M,Bréchot N,Hékimian G,Lebreton G,Autran B,Luyt CE,Combes A,Schmidt M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR) comprise a novel approach for resuscitation of exsanguination cardiac arrest victims. EPR uses a cold aortic flush to induce deep hypothermic preservation, followed by resuscitation with cardiopulmonary bypass. Development of a rat EPR model would enable study of...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Drabek T,Stezoski J,Garman RH,Wu X,Tisherman SA,Stezoski SW,Fisk JA,Jenkins L,Kochanek PM

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury occurs in up to 50% of patients and is associated with increased mortality and morbidity. This study aimed to discover if perioperative urinary alkalinization with sodium bicarbonate infusion reduces the prevalence of cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney inju...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： McGuinness SP,Parke RL,Bellomo R,Van Haren FM,Bailey M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether naloxone administration after hemorrhagic shock has any beneficial or deleterious effect on immune responses. BACKGROUND DATA:Hemorrhagic shock is known to produce immunodepression in both humans and experimental animals. Although studies suggest that endogenous opioids play a role in im...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wichmann MW,Zellweger R,Ayala A,Chaudry IH

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) increases CO2 production (VCO2) in patients on intermittent positive-pressure ventilation who cannot match their CO2 excretion to the CO2 load, leading to an increase in PaCO2. We studied gas exchange and blood gas values in six patients with chronic respiratory failure, who were venti...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Herve P,Simonneau G,Girard P,Cerrina J,Mathieu M,Duroux P

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS), the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II), the Acute Physiology Score (APS), and the Coronary Prognostic Index (CPI), calculated within the first 24 h of ICU admission, were compared in 76 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Sixteen (21...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moreau R,Soupison T,Vauquelin P,Derrida S,Beaucour H,Sicot C

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pressure inflating the lung during mechanical ventilation is the difference between pressure applied at the airway opening (Pao) and pleural pressure (Ppl). Depending on the chest wall's contribution to respiratory mechanics, a given positive end-expiratory and/or end-inspiratory plateau pressure may be appro...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Talmor D,Sarge T,O'Donnell CR,Ritz R,Malhotra A,Lisbon A,Loring SH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The early detection of bacterial meningitis is crucial for successful outcome. Heparin-binding protein, a potent inducer of increased vascular permeability, is released from activated neutrophils in severe sepsis. OBJECTIVE:In this study we investigated whether heparin-binding protein levels in cerebrospina...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Linder A,Akesson P,Brink M,Studahl M,Björck L,Christensson B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of, the risk factors associated with, and the outcome of tracheostomy in a heterogeneous population of mechanically ventilated patients. DESIGN:Prospective, observational cohort study. SETTING:A total of 361 intensive care units from 12 countries. PATIENTS:A cohort of 5,081 patie...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Frutos-Vivar F,Esteban A,Apezteguía C,Anzueto A,Nightingale P,González M,Soto L,Rodrigo C,Raad J,David CM,Matamis D,D' Empaire G,International Mechanical Ventilation Study Group.

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercially available gas-chromatograph (Sentorr Gas Analyzer, Ohio Medical Products, Madison, WI) was tested, featuring continuous measurement of in vivo PaO2 and PaCO2 by means of a thin, heparin-coated catheter, inserted through an indwelling arterial line. Gas tensions are displayed every 4 min. The probes had ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Carlon GC,Kahn RC,Ray C Jr,Howland WS

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the prevalence of acute kidney injury in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage patients. DESIGN:Retrospective analysis of all subarachnoid hemorrhage admissions. SETTINGS:Neurocritical care unit. PATIENTS:All patients with a diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage between 2009 and 2014. INTERVENTIO...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sadan O,Singbartl K,Kandiah PA,Martin KS,Samuels OB

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen availability during cardiopulmonary bypass was assessed in 22 patients under hypothermic and relatively normothermic conditions. The patients were divided into two groups, 17 of whom received ACD blood and 5, CPD blood. The mean P50 for all patients fell from a preoperative value of 25.9 +/- 2.4 (SD) to 15.6 +/...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fisher A,Foëx P,Emerson PM,Darley JH,Rauscher LA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the ability of two methods--Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) and Mortality Prediction Model (MPM)--to predict hospital outcome for a large group of intensive care patients from Britain and Ireland. DESIGN:Prospective, multicenter, cohort study. SETTING:Twenty-six general...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rowan KM,Kerr JH,Major E,McPherson K,Short A,Vessey MP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with brainstem infarction met the clinical criteria for brain death but had persistent EEG activity, complicating our decision to withdraw life support. We evaluated cerebral blood flow with xenon-enhanced computed tomography (Xe/CT), which documented the absence of posterior circulation flow and persistent,...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Darby J,Yonas H,Brenner RP

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polarographic conjunctival oxygen sensor was used to measure oxygen tension in a tissue bed supplied by the internal carotid artery. The shared vascular source of the conjunctiva and brain suggests that conjunctival PO2 monitoring may provide an index of cerebral perfusion. We studied the effects of hyperventilation...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Nisam M,Albertson TE,Panacek E,Rutherford W,Fisher CJ Jr

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether a redistribution of blood flow from the mucosa to the muscular layer of the intestinal wall contributes to the observed increased arterial-mucosal Pco2 gradient and the decreased mucosal tonometric pH during endotoxic shock. DESIGN:A prospective, controlled, animal study. SETTING:Anim...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Revelly JP,Ayuse T,Brienza N,Fessler HE,Robotham JL

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Most knowledge related to the pathophysiology of microcirculation in ischemic stroke comes from experimental research. Unfortunately, data on microcirculation in the human brain are limited, partially as a result of the lack of appropriate investigational techniques. The objective of our study was to test th...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pérez-Bárcena J,Goedhart P,Ibáñez J,Brell M,García R,Llinás P,Jiménez C,Ince C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Over 2,500 children undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the United States each year, and up to 35% require PICU support for life-threatening complications. PICU mortality has dropped from 85% to 44%, but interpretation is confounded by significant cohort heterogeneity. Reports conflict regardi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zinter MS,Dvorak CC,Spicer A,Cowan MJ,Sapru A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education recently released new standards for supervision and duty hours for residency programs. These new standards, which will affect over 100,000 residents, take effect in July 2011. In response to these new guidelines, the Society of Critical Care Medicine c...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pastores SM,O'Connor MF,Kleinpell RM,Napolitano L,Ward N,Bailey H,Mollenkopf FP Jr,Coopersmith CM

更新日期：2011-11-01 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 determine whether partial liquid ventilation (PLV) affects the risk of nosocomial pneumonia. STUDY DESIGN:To assess in vitro bacterial adhesion and viability after liquid perfluorocarbon exposure and to assess bacterial recovery after partial liquid ventilation in vivo in rabbits. SETTING:University anim...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sajan I,Scannapieco FA,Fuhrman BP,Steinhorn DM

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the influence of arachidonic acid metabolites on acute lung injury induced by glass bead embolism, two groups of animals were studied before and after the pulmonary artery pressure was doubled by glass bead embolism. One group represented an untreated time control (n = 6) while the second group (n = 6) wa...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Calvin JE,Dervin G

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between behavioral alterations and changes in monoaminergic systems provoked by ischemia-reperfusion liver injury in rats. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled animal study. SETTING:University animal laboratory. SUBJECTS:Male Wistar rats. INTERVENTIONS:Acute liver fai...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Adachi N,Inoue H,Arai T

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether peptic activity in bronchoalveolar fluid, due to the presence of the gastric proteolytic enzyme pepsin, could serve as a biochemical marker for pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents. DESIGN:Prospective, experimental trial. SETTING:A university animal research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Th...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Badellino MM,Buckman RF Jr,Malaspina PJ,Eynon CA,O'Brien GM,Kueppers F

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize the endothelium-dependent and endothelium-independent components of abnormal pulmonary vascular tone in canine oleic acid lung injury. DESIGN:Prospective, interventional study. SETTING:University laboratory. SUBJECTS:Twenty anesthetized mongrel dogs. INTERVENTIONS:Right heart catheterizati...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kafi SA,Scillia P,Mélot C,Gevenois PA,Pagnamenta A,Naeije R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the supplementation of parenteral nutrition with ω-3 fatty acids confers treatment benefits to critically ill adult patients. DATA SOURCE:We performed computerized searches for relevant articles from 1996 to June 2011 on MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane register of controlled trials and...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Palmer AJ,Ho CK,Ajibola O,Avenell A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare propofol, methohexital, and midazolam administered as titrated infusions for sedation during electrical cardioversion. DESIGN:A prospective, randomized, single-blind comparative study. SETTING:Coronary care unit in a military teaching hospital. PATIENTS:Thirty adult patients with atrial fibrilla...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gale DW,Grissom TE,Mirenda JV

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between oxygen uptake (Vo2) and delivery (Do2) was examined in 64 patients immediately after cardiopulmonary bypass. In 44 patients with lactate levels below 2.5 mmol/L, Vo2 decreased proportionally when Do2 decreased below 300 ml/min X m2. At a Do2 over this level, Vo2 plateaued at 105 +/- 13 (SD) ml...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Komatsu T,Shibutani K,Okamoto K,Kumar V,Kubal K,Sanchala V,Lees DE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Atrial fibrillation is frequently seen in sepsis-related hospitalizations. However, large-scale contemporary data from the United States comparing outcomes among sepsis-related hospitalizations with versus without atrial fibrillation are limited. The aim of our study was to assess the frequency of atrial fib...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Desai R,Hanna B,Singh S,Omar A,Deshmukh A,Kumar G,Foreman MG,Sachdeva R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00