Frequency of technical problems encountered in the measurement of pulmonary artery wedge pressure.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The neuroprotective effects of the noble gas xenon are well known. Argon, in contrast to xenon, is abundant, inexpensive, and therefore widely applicable. In this study, we analyzed the possible neuroprotective role of argon in an in vivo rat model of acute focal cerebral ischemia. DESIGN:Controlled laborato...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ryang YM,Fahlenkamp AV,Rossaint R,Wesp D,Loetscher PD,Beyer C,Coburn M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe complications sometimes occur in critically ill patients during intrahospital transport. Possible causes may be inadequate ventilation, insufficient monitoring, interrupted application of vasoactive drugs, or disconnections and accidental extubation. We constructed a transport unit equipped with a respirator; c...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Link J,Krause H,Wagner W,Papadopoulos G

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patient comfort is not assured by common practices for terminal extubation. Treatment guidelines suggest minimizing dosage of opioids and sedatives. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that clinicians are limited in their ability to recognize distress in such patients and tend to undermedicate patients in distress. Ye...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Billings JA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2003 global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) provided numerous challenges to the delivery of critical care. The Toronto critical care community has learned important lessons from SARS, which will help in preparation for future disease outbreaks. OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this stud...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Booth CM,Stewart TE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the efficacy of iontophoretic delivery of calcium to experimental hydrofluoric acid burns. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled study. SETTING:Institutional laboratory. SUBJECTS:Male nude rats. INTERVENTIONS:For the in vitro experiment, a full-thickness skin from the back was set in a vertical flow-t...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Yamashita M,Yamashita M,Suzuki M,Hirai H,Kajigaya H

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the feedback regulation of glucocorticoids on corticotropin secretion in patients with septic and nonseptic circulatory shock. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:An intensive care unit of a general hospital. PATIENTS:Two groups of patients with septic shock (n = 11) or nonseptic shock (n = 7). A ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Perrot D,Bonneton A,Dechaud H,Motin J,Pugeat M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The absence of N20 somatosensory evoked potential after cardiac arrest is related to poor outcome. However, discrimination between the low-amplitude and the absence of N20 is challenging. P25 and P30 are short-latency positive peaks with latencies between 25 and 30 ms following N20 (P25/30). P25/30 is eviden...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kim SW,Oh JS,Park J,Jeong HH,Kim JH,Wee JH,Oh SH,Choi SP,Park KN,Cerebral Resuscitation and Outcome evaluation Within catholic Network (CROWN) Investigators.

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to determine if particulate material within the pulmonary vascular bed could be sampled by aspirating blood from a wedged pulmonary artery catheter. 99mTechnetium-labeled albumin microspheres (20 micrometers) were injected and embolized into the precapillary pulmonary vasculature of 6 critical...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Allen WG,Olsen GN,Williams WH,Yergin BM

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Clinical predictors for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been studied in few prospective studies. Although transfusions are common in the intensive care unit, the role of submassive transfusion in non-trauma-related ARDS has not been studied. We describe here the clinical predictors of ARDS ris...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gong MN,Thompson BT,Williams P,Pothier L,Boyce PD,Christiani DC

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the influence of private attending physician status on the withdrawal of life-sustaining interventions among patients dying within a medical intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN:Retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING:An academic tertiary care center. PATIENTS:One hundred fifty-nine consecutive patie...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kollef MH

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：OBJECTIVES:Administration of eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexanoic acid, omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil, has been associated with improved patient outcomes in acute lung injury when studied in a commercial enteral formula. However, fish oil has not been tested independently in acute lung injury. We therefore sought...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Stapleton RD,Martin TR,Weiss NS,Crowley JJ,Gundel SJ,Nathens AB,Akhtar SR,Ruzinski JT,Caldwell E,Curtis JR,Heyland DK,Watkins TR,Parsons PE,Martin JM,Wurfel MM,Hallstrand TS,Sims KA,Neff MJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 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 determine the role of toll-like receptor 2 in cardiac dysfunction during polymicrobial sepsis. DESIGN:Controlled animal study. SETTING:University hospital research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Male C57BL/6, wild-type, toll-like receptor 2-/-. INTERVENTION:Polymicrobial peritonitis, a clinically relevant model ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zou L,Feng Y,Chen YJ,Si R,Shen S,Zhou Q,Ichinose F,Scherrer-Crosbie M,Chao W

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Studies have shown contradicting results on the association of nursing workload and mortality. Most of these studies expressed workload as patients per nurse ratios; however, this does not take into account that some patients require more nursing time than others. Nursing time can be quantified by tools like...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Margadant C,Wortel S,Hoogendoorn M,Bosman R,Spijkstra JJ,Brinkman S,de Keizer N

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute respiratory distress syndrome is occasionally seen in newborn infants due to a severe inflammatory process in the lungs that affects capillary-alveolar permeability, epithelial integrity, and type I and II pneumocyte function. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a topically applied nu...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ankermann T,Reisner A,Wiemann T,Krams M,Köhler H,Krause MF

更新日期：2005-06-01 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 review the rationale for the regionalization of adult critical care and discuss how lessons from the trauma experience may be relevant to this debate. DESIGN:Narrative review and opinion. RESULTS:Variation in the quality of critical care among hospitals has prompted calls for regionalization of care for ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kahn JM,Branas CC,Schwab CW,Asch DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A growing number of patients survive sepsis hospitalizations each year and are at high risk for readmission. However, little is known about temporal trends in hospital-based acute care (emergency department treat-and-release visits and hospital readmission) after sepsis. Our primary objective was to measure ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Meyer N,Harhay MO,Small DS,Prescott HC,Bowles KH,Gaieski DF,Mikkelsen ME

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cardiac surgery is frequently followed by postoperative delirium, which is associated with increased 1-year mortality, late cognitive deficits, and higher costs. Currently, there are no recommendations for pharmacologic prevention of postoperative delirium. Impaired cholinergic transmission is believed to pla...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gamberini M,Bolliger D,Lurati Buse GA,Burkhart CS,Grapow M,Gagneux A,Filipovic M,Seeberger MD,Pargger H,Siegemund M,Carrel T,Seiler WO,Berres M,Strebel SP,Monsch AU,Steiner LA

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：:We compared the blood culture results obtained either by venipuncture or through an arterial catheter in 51 critically ill patients with 217 clinically suspected episodes of bacteremia. During each episode, three blood culture samples, two arterial and one venous, were drawn within 1 h. One or more cultures were posit...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Väisänen IT,Michelsen T,Valtonen V,Mäkeläinen A

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The flow rate of a liquid drainage from the lungs is limited because of the elastic nature of the airways. This study was designed to clarify the relationship between intrapulmonary liquid volume and the development of the flow limitation or choked flow phenomenon as a function of expiratory flow rate during ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Baba Y,Brant D,Brah SS,Grotberg J,Bartlett RH,Hirschl RB

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiogenic shock is the most common cause of death in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction and is associated with a poor prognosis. More than 75% of cases are due to extensive left ventricular infarction and ventricular failure. Other causes include right ventricular infarction and papillary muscle ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Topalian S,Ginsberg F,Parrillo JE

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Conflict is common between physicians and surrogate decision makers around end-of-life care in ICU. Involving experts in conflict management improve outcomes, but little is known about what differences in conflict management styles may explain the benefit. We used simulation to examine potential differences ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chiarchiaro J,White DB,Ernecoff NC,Buddadhumaruk P,Schuster RA,Arnold RM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cytomegalovirus reactivation may complicate critical illness in latent carriers of the virus, even in patients who were previously immunocompetent. Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome are considered to be prone for reactivation. Prophylactic antiviral therapy in immunocompetent cytomegalovirus s...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ong DS,Klein Klouwenberg PM,Verduyn Lunel FM,Spitoni C,Frencken JF,Dekker HA,Schultz MJ,Bonten MJ,Cremer OL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a consecutive 17 month period, 15 trauma patients were diagnosed as having a myocardial contusion on the basis of abnormal ECG in 14 patients, elevated creatinine phosphokinase (CPK) in 13 patients, and elevated CPK-Muscle Brain (CPK-MB) isoenzyme determination in 11 patients. Using these screening modalities, ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Torres-Mirabal P,Gruenberg JC,Talbert JG,Brown RS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the association between length of ICU stay and 1-year mortality for elderly patients who survived to hospital discharge in the United States. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study of a random sample of Medicare beneficiaries who survived to hospital discharge, with 1- and 3-year follow-up, stratifie...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moitra VK,Guerra C,Linde-Zwirble WT,Wunsch H

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although ICUs generate attention as consumers of resources, no national data on utilization and costs were available in Canada. U.S. estimates are too old for current comparison. Based on national hospital survey data from Statistics Canada, we calculated the utilization of ICUs in all Canadian general hospitals from ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Jacobs P,Noseworthy TW

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last three decades, numerous articles on plasma catecholamine concentrations in various settings have been published in the medical literature. Despite this abundance of information, no summary article has analyzed the species variations in circulating catecholamine concentrations. In this paper, the plasma cat...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hart BB,Stanford GG,Ziegler MG,Lake CR,Chernow B

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00