Halothane interference with transcutaneous oxygen monitoring: in vivo and in vitro.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between nitric oxide production, endotoxemia, and hemodynamic alterations in human septic shock. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:A 32-bed intensive care unit in a university referral hospital. PATIENTS:Two groups of septic patients with shock (n = 13) or without shock (n =...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gómez-Jiménez J,Salgado A,Mourelle M,Martín MC,Segura RM,Peracaula R,Moncada S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an unusual hemolytic transfusion reaction. A group O donor was inadvertently transfused with 100 ml of group A red cells during the course of plasmapheresis. Granulocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogenemia and low levels of factors V, VIII, and IX developed immediately after the infusion. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： McKenna PJ,Scheinman HZ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sepsis remains a major health threat in intensive care medicine. The renin-angiotensin system (ACE) affects inflammatory responses. In addition, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors act to ameliorate lung injury. To investigate whether the widely used ACE inhibitor enalapril, used to treat hypertension, c...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hagiwara S,Iwasaka H,Matumoto S,Hidaka S,Noguchi T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Levosimendan is a novel inodilator that improves cardiac contractility by sensitizing troponin C to calcium. This drug has proved to be effective in treating advanced congestive heart failure but has not been evaluated in septic settings. The purpose of the present study was to study the effects of this drug ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Oldner A,Konrad D,Weitzberg E,Rudehill A,Rossi P,Wanecek M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To perform a complete immunological characterization of compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome in patients with sepsis and to explore the relationship between these changes and clinical outcomes of 28-day mortality and secondary infections. DESIGN:Prospective single-center study conducted between ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gomez HG,Gonzalez SM,Londoño JM,Hoyos NA,Niño CD,Leon AL,Velilla PA,Rugeles MT,Jaimes FA

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Conventional outcomes research provides only percentage risk of such end points as mortality rate, utilization of resources, and/or broad groupings of multiple organ system dysfunction. These prognostications generally are not applicable to individual patients. The purpose of the present study was to determin...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Slotman GJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the hypothesis that splanchnic ischemia and mucosal hypoxia are responsible for lipopolysaccharide-induced intramucosal acidosis in pigs. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, unblinded study. SETTING:Surgical research laboratory at a large, university-affiliated medical center. SUBJECTS:Anesthetized...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： VanderMeer TJ,Wang H,Fink MP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This survey was designed to study current practices in the monitoring and treatment of patients with severe head injury in the United States. DATA SOURCES:The collected data represent answers to telephone interviews of nurse managers, clinical specialists, and staff nurses specializing in neurotrauma care at...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ghajar J,Hariri RJ,Narayan RK,Iacono LA,Firlik K,Patterson RH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Resuscitation from hemorrhagic shock (HS) predisposes to subsequent infections. Susceptibility to infection following sepsis has been attributed to apoptosis. Interleukin (IL)-6 has been shown to have antiapoptotic properties and to decrease postresuscitation inflammation in rodent and porcine models of HS. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Arikan AA,Yu B,Mastrangelo MA,Tweardy DJ

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As of October 1985, 37 candidates have passed the final examination in intensive care for the Diploma of Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FFARACS). In September 1984, 23 of these successful candidates responded to a questionnaire seeking information on their educational e...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Byth PL,Harrison GA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Vasopressin is a possible stimulus for both adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and endothelin-1 release. The aim of this study was to compare plasma concentrations of ACTH, cortisol, and endothelin-1 after epinephrine or vasopressin administration in an experimental animal model of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kornberger E,Prengel AW,Krismer A,Schwarz B,Wenzel V,Lindner KH,Mair P

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Cognitive deficits after traumatic brain injury are a leading cause of disability worldwide, yet no effective pharmacologic treatments exist to improve cognition. Traumatic brain injury increases proinflammatory cytokines, which trigger excess function of α5 subunit-containing γ-aminobutyric acid type A rece...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Khodaei S,Avramescu S,Wang DS,Sheng H,Chan NK,Lecker I,Fernandez-Escobar A,Lei G,Dewar MB,Whissell PD,Baker AJ,Orser BA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypotheses that, for uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock (UHS) in rats, mild hypothermia, compared with normothermia, would increase long-term survival as well as moderate hypothermia, oxygen breathing would increase survival further, and hypothermia and oxygen would mitigate visceral ischemia (dysoxia...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Takasu A,Stezoski SW,Stezoski J,Safar P,Tisherman SA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of a hydroxyethyl starch-deferoxamine conjugate on hepatic microcirculation in an isobaric, anesthetized rat model of hemorrhagic shock and asanguineous resuscitation. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled study. SETTING:Laboratory at a university hospital. SUBJECTS:Twenty-thr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bauer M,Feucht K,Ziegenfuss T,Marzi I

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of hypertonic saline on bacterial translocation and the number and function of natural killer and T cells in controlled hemorrhagic shock. DESIGN:Randomized controlled study. Duration of follow-up was 24 hrs. SETTING:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Adult male Sprague-Dawley r...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hirsh M,Dyugovskaya L,Bashenko Y,Krausz MM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new quantitative method for measuring the prognosis and severity of illness in terms of probability of survival was developed from 224 studies in an index population of 220 critically ill surgical patients. Patients were selected preoperatively to eliminate pre-existing cardiac disease, cirrhosis, nutritional debili...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bland RD,Shoemaker WC

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the accuracy of mixed venous hemoglobin oxygen saturation estimated, using in vivo pulmonary artery reflectance oximetry with ranging concentrations of carboxyhemoglobin. DESIGN:Criterion standard, a comparison of an alternative test to the "gold standard." SETTING:Laboratory animal facility of a ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Haney M,Tait AR,Tremper KK

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Prophylactic levetiracetam is currently used in ~40% of patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, and the potential impact of levetircetam on health-related quality of life is unknown. We tested the hypothesis that prophylactic levetiracetam is independently associated with differences in cognitive function he...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Naidech AM,Beaumont J,Muldoon K,Liotta EM,Maas MB,Potts MB,Jahromi BS,Cella D,Prabhakaran S,Holl JL

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Lung-protective ventilation for acute respiratory distress syndrome aims for providing sufficient oxygenation and carbon dioxide clearance, while limiting the harmful effects of mechanical ventilation. "Flow-controlled ventilation", providing a constant expiratory flow, has been suggested as a new lung-prote...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schmidt J,Wenzel C,Spassov S,Borgmann S,Lin Z,Wollborn J,Weber J,Haberstroh J,Meckel S,Eiden S,Wirth S,Schumann S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To review the immunologic role of the cytokines and the specific role that tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays in response to infection. The influence of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on TNF, the cytokine cascade, and resultant pathologies are also reviewed. DATA SOURCES:A MEDLINE search of the international E...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Beutler B,Grau GE

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether the provision of computerized physiologic trend data could improve outcome in newborn infants requiring intensive care. DESIGN:Randomized, controlled trial, with subsidiary questionnaire studies. SETTING:Tertiary neonatal intensive care unit with 12 intensive care cots. PATIENTS:All infan...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cunningham S,Deere S,Symon A,Elton RA,McIntosh N

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the association of pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) use with in-hospital mortality. DESIGN:Prospective, observational study. SETTING:The medical intensive care units (MICU) of two teaching hospitals. METHODS:The study included 751 adults who were admitted to the MICU, excluding those who stayed...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Afessa B,Spencer S,Khan W,LaGatta M,Bridges L,Freire AX

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Chronic subdural hematoma is a commonly encountered disease in neurosurgic practice, whereas its increasing prevalence is compatible with the ageing population. Recommendations concerning postoperative thrombosis prophylaxis after burr-hole drainage of chronic subdural hematoma are lacking. The aim of this s...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Licci M,Kamenova M,Guzman R,Mariani L,Soleman J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow rates and pressure recording accuracy were compared for Argyle 14-, 16-, and 18-ga double-lumen and Edwards 7-Fr triple-lumen CVP catheters. Physiologic saline solution was pressure-infused into dogs through one lumen and CVP was measured via the other lumen. CVP accuracy was unaltered by simultaneous rapid infus...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ikeda S,Schweiss JF

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to quantify the effect of hypertonic saline solution on contused and noncontused brain tissue in patients with traumatic brain injury. We hypothesize that hypertonic saline would increase the volume of brain contusion while decreasing the volume of noncontused hemispheric areas. DES...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lescot T,Degos V,Zouaoui A,Préteux F,Coriat P,Puybasset L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether blood lactate, base deficit, or oxygen-derived hemodynamic variables correlate with morbidity and mortality rates in a clinically-relevant LD50 model of penetrating trauma. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled study. SETTING:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Anesthetized, mechanically...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moomey CB Jr,Melton SM,Croce MA,Fabian TC,Proctor KG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappa B) activation in mononuclear and neutrophils from critically ill patients and to compare NF-kappa B activation with circulating concentrations of interleukin (IL)-6, IL-8, and soluble intercellular adhesion molecule (sICAM)-1. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTIN...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Paterson RL,Galley HF,Dhillon JK,Webster NR

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The genetic background of hypertensive crisis is unknown. We examined the association of polymorphisms in genes involved in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system with hypertensive crisis. DESIGN:Population-based case-control study. SETTING:Emergency department at a tertiary care university hospital. PAT...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sunder-Plassmann G,Kittler H,Eberle C,Hirschl MM,Woisetschläger C,Derhaschnig U,Laggner AN,Hörl WH,Födinger M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures in the neonatal period are usually concomitants of serious neurological disease. The convulsive phenomena take certain distinctive and often subtle forms because of the status of the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological development of the neonatal brain. The predominant etiological process is hypoxic-ischem...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Volpe JJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00