Acute renal failure in the newborn.

abstract：:Gastric mucosal damage occurs in critically ill patients in intensive care units and develops in the setting of severe physiologic stress. Within 24 hrs of admission to the intensive care unit, 75% to 100% of critically ill patients demonstrate evidence of stress-related mucosal disease. Stress ulcers present a risk o...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fennerty MB

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether chest wall vibration with tracheal gas insufflation during bronchoconstriction maintains gas exchange at lower airway and intrathoracic pressures than those that occur during positive pressure ventilation. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Experimental laboratory. SUBJECTS:Six anesthet...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Eckmann DM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To test whether hospital-based physicians made different intensive care unit and life-sustaining treatment decisions for otherwise identical black and white patients with end-stage cancer and life-threatening hypoxia. DESIGN:We conducted a randomized trial of the relationship between patient race and physic...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Barnato AE,Mohan D,Downs J,Bryce CL,Angus DC,Arnold RM

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tradition of clinical ultrasound in the hands of physicians who provide critical care to the most acutely ill patients stretches back into the 1980s and is rich with experiences from surgical, emergency medicine, and other practices. Now, as critical care ultrasound explodes around the world, it is important to re...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kendall JL,Hoffenberg SR,Smith RS

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors evaluated the effectiveness of 6% hydroxyethyl starch (hetastarch) solution for treatment of hypovolemia in 46 critically ill patients. Thirty-two of the patients were studied retrospectively and in 14 patients, cardiopulmonary variables were prospectively measured. A total of 29 patients were in shock sec...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Puri VK,Paidipaty B,White L

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The difficult airway is a common problem in adult critical care patients. However, the challenge is not just the establishment of a safe airway, but also maintaining that safety over days, weeks, or longer. AIMS:This review considers the management of the difficult airway in the adult critical care enviro...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lavery GG,McCloskey BV

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is an acquired syndrome characterized by intravascular fibrin formation occurring in the course of a variety of severe diseases. In gram-negative sepsis, endotoxin is the bacterial component eliciting a cascade of tissue factor dependent hypercoagulable reactions mediated b...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： ten Cate H

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to investigate if the chloride content of fluids used in resuscitation was associated with short- and long-term outcomes. DESIGN:We identified patients who received large-volume fluid resuscitation, defined as greater than 60 mL/kg over a 24-hour period. Chloride load was determined for each patien...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sen A,Keener CM,Sileanu FE,Foldes E,Clermont G,Murugan R,Kellum JA

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To understand when the use of high-frequency ventilation would be advantageous, we formulated the problem of achieving adequate alveolar ventilation at minimal pressure cost by dividing it into two simpler problems: a) the pressure cost per unit of convective oscillatory flow; and b) the convective flow cost...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Venegas JG,Fredberg JJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether delirium during ICU stay is associated with long-term mental health problems defined as symptoms of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Survey study, 1 year after discharge from a medical-surgical ICU in the Netherlands. PAT...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wolters AE,Peelen LM,Welling MC,Kok L,de Lange DW,Cremer OL,van Dijk D,Slooter AJ,Veldhuijzen DS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our first objective was to determine a blood lactate threshold predictive of survival in human immunodeficiency virus patients experiencing lactic acidosis related to nucleoside analogs, and second, to test l-carnitine for the treatment of patients exceeding that threshold. DESIGN:a) Retrospective study usin...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Claessens YE,Cariou A,Monchi M,Soufir L,Azoulay E,Rouges P,Goldgran-Toledano D,Branche F,Dhainaut JF

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between aminoglycoside disposition kinetics and hemodynamic response to sepsis, as well as vital support therapy, in critically ill patients with sepsis. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study of critically ill patients with sepsis undergoing physiologic and aminoglycoside pharmacokinetic m...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lugo G,Castañeda-Hernández G

更新日期：1997-05-01 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：BACKGROUND:Hypertonic saline is the recommended therapy to shrink swollen brain cells in patients with acute hyponatremia accompanied by seizures. OBJECTIVES:In the absence of hypertonic saline, hypertonic mannitol will shrink the cell volume. Because mannitol is excreted rapidly, our aim was to ensure that it would b...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Porzio P,Halberthal M,Bohn D,Halperin ML

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recent in vivo studies of both septic humans and animals demonstrate that leukocyte delivery is attenuated to sites remote from the primary infection. The mechanisms for this are not entirely clear. L-selectin is integral to rolling, the first step in leukocyte recruitment to an inflammatory site. L-selectin ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ferri LE,Swartz D,Christou NV

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether activation of the nuclear enzyme poly(adenosine 5'-diphosphate [ADP]-ribose) synthetase (PARS) contributes to mortality rate, myocardial dysfunction, and cardiovascular collapse in a porcine model of sepsis induced by implantation of an infected clot. DESIGN:Prospective, random animal st...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Goldfarb RD,Marton A,Szabó E,Virág L,Salzman AL,Glock D,Akhter I,McCarthy R,Parrillo JE,Szabó C

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemodynamic effects of iso-oncotic 3% dextran-60, 6% dextran-70, and Ringer's acetate were compared in 28 male pigs (25 to 30 kg) subjected to experimental trauma and hemorrhage. The animals were kept anesthetized with 75% N2O/25% O2, 0.8% halothane. Hemodynamic and respiratory conditions were allowed to stabilize for...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schött U,Lindbom LO,Sjöstrand U

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:Twelve adult male albino rabbits were assigned alternately to normotensive and hypotensive groups to assess the effect of hypovolemic shock on spontaneous correction of dilutional coagulopathy. All animals underwent dilutional exchange transfusion with 200 mL of rabbit RBCs and 5% human albumin. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hewson JR,Prodger D,Roberts RS,Davis C,Fuller HD,Gregor P,Thomas EJ,Shragge BW,Russett J,Neame PB

更新日期：1991-02-01 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:Because anemia of inflammation is common in ICU patients and hepcidin is the key regulator of iron homeostasis, we examined time-dependent changes in hepcidin, erythropoietin, iron, and inflammatory markers in surgical ICU patients with anemia. DESIGN:Prospective single-center clinical noninterventional stud...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cherry-Bukowiec JR,Engoren M,Wiktor A,Raghavendran K,Napolitano LM

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although misperceptions about prognosis by surrogates in ICUs are common and influence treatment decisions, there is no validated, practical way to measure the effectiveness of prognostic communication. Surrogates' subjective ratings of quality of communication have been used in other domains as markers of ef...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chiarchiaro J,Buddadhumaruk P,Arnold RM,White DB

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Carbon monoxide poisoning affects 50,000 per year in the United States alone. Mortality is approximately 3%, and up to 40% of survivors suffer from permanent neurocognitive and affective deficits. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has shown benefit on reducing the long-term neurologic sequelae of carbon monoxide poi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rose JJ,Nouraie M,Gauthier MC,Pizon AF,Saul MI,Donahoe MP,Gladwin MT

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the recall of 100 patients after ICU admission. There was a wide spectrum of race, religion, occupation, and educational levels. The more common diagnoses included asthma, pneumonia, trauma, and adult respiratory distress syndrome. The average Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Turner JS,Briggs SJ,Springhorn HE,Potgieter PD

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to determine the prognostic value of sublingual PCO2 (P(SL)CO2), lactate concentration, and mixed venous oxygen saturation (S(MV)O2) in hemodynamically unstable intensive care patients and, additionally, to compare the temporal changes of these variables in response to treatment....

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Marik PE,Bankov A

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the effects of dobutamine and norepinephrine on the global cardiovascular response and on the relationship between oxygen uptake (VO2) and oxygen delivery (DO2) during an acute reduction in blood flow associated with tamponade. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled acute intervention study. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zhang H,Spapen H,Vincent JL

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine whether anandamide, an endogenous cannabinoid receptor ligand, is involved in the pathogenesis of septic encephalopathy. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled study. SUBJECTS:Male Wistar rats (7 wks old) were randomly divided into four groups as follows: group 1, control (...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kadoi Y,Hinohara H,Kunimoto F,Saito S,Goto F

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the absence or presence of clinical pharmacists in intensive care units (ICUs) results in differences in mortality rates, length of ICU stay, and ICU charges for Medicare patients with nosocomial-acquired infections, community-acquired infections, and sepsis. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENT...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： MacLaren R,Bond CA,Martin SJ,Fike D

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-risk patients who survived general (noncardiac) surgery were observed to have cardiac index (CI) values averaging 4.5 L/min.m2, oxygen delivery (DO2) greater than 600 ml/min.m2, and oxygen consumption (VO2) 170 ml/min.m2 during the first 2 or three days postoperatively. Patients who subsequently died maintained r...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Shoemaker WC,Kram HB,Appel PL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of continuous infusion of methylene blue (MB), an inhibitor of the nitric oxide pathway, on hemodynamics and organ functions in human septic shock. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled, open-label, pilot study. SETTING:Multidisciplinary intensive care unit of a university hospi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kirov MY,Evgenov OV,Evgenov NV,Egorina EM,Sovershaev MA,Sveinbjørnsson B,Nedashkovsky EV,Bjertnaes LJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 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