A method for predicting survival and mortality of ICU patients using objectively derived weights.

abstract：:Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases in the world, and severe respiratory complications have been described mainly in association with Plasmodium falciparum. We describe a case of acute respiratory distress syndrome complicating infection with P. vivax in the setting of relatively low parasitemia in a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tanios MA,Kogelman L,McGovern B,Hassoun PM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the feasibility, biochemical efficacy, and safety of liberal versus conventional glucose control in ICU patients with diabetes. DESIGN:Prospective, open-label, sequential period study. SETTING:A 22-bed mixed ICU of a tertiary hospital in Australia. PATIENTS:We compared 350 consecutive patients w...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Luethi N,Cioccari L,Biesenbach P,Lucchetta L,Kagaya H,Morgan R,Di Muzio F,Presello B,Gaafar D,Hay A,Crisman M,Toohey R,Russell H,Glassford NJ,Eastwood GM,Ekinci EI,Deane AM,Bellomo R,Mårtensson J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pulmonary air embolism, causing vessel obstruction and primary or secondary reactions of blood, can lead to acute lung injury. In addition, nitric oxide has been known to play a key role in various causes of lung injury. In this study we employed the isolated rat lung model to investigate the effects of l-arg...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chu SJ,Lee TY,Yan HC,Lin SH,Li MH

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute renal failure remains a major challenge in critical care medicine. Both neutrophils and chemokines have been proposed as key components in the development of acute renal failure. Although the Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC) is present in several tissues and a highly specific ligand for vari...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zarbock A,Schmolke M,Bockhorn SG,Scharte M,Buschmann K,Ley K,Singbartl K

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We recently reported that bacterial lipopolysaccharide stimulates release of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha from both human vascular tissue and cultured smooth muscle cells. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that increased intracellular cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) could inhibi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zhang LM,Castresana MR,Shaker IJ,Dalton ML,Leeper-Woodford SK,Newman WH

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether admission B-type natriuretic peptide levels predict the development of acute kidney injury in acute coronary syndromes. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Single-center study, 13-bed intensive cardiac care unit at a University Cardiological Center. PATIENTS:Six-hundred thirty-nine ac...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moltrasio M,Cabiati A,Milazzo V,Rubino M,De Metrio M,Discacciati A,Rumi P,Marana I,Marenzi G

更新日期：2014-03-01 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:To improve control of blood glucose concentrations in critically ill patients through use of a bedside, nurse-managed, intravenous insulin nomogram. DESIGN:Retrospective, before-after cohort study. SETTING:Fifteen-bed mixed medical/surgical intensive care unit in a tertiary, teaching hospital. PATIENTS:A t...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Brown G,Dodek P

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this article were to review the causes and extent of hospital-associated infectious diarrhea and associated risks in the general hospital ward and intensive care unit (ICU), to compare microorganisms with similar symptoms to aid in recognition that will lead to timely and appropriate treatment and co...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bobo LD,Dubberke ER

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine variations in case-mix, structure, resource use, and outcome performance among teaching and nonteaching intensive care units (ICU). DESIGN:Prospective inception cohort study. PATIENTS:A consecutive sample of 15,297 patients at 35 hospitals, which compared 8,269 patients admitted to 20 teaching IC...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zimmerman JE,Shortell SM,Knaus WA,Rousseau DM,Wagner DP,Gillies RR,Draper EA,Devers K

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A closed system device with teflon needle, sideholes, and attached stopcock was designed and evaluated for diagnosis and evacuation of neonatal pneumothoraces. Experience with this device has demonstrated specific advantages over existing needles and techniques. Since the system is airtight, diagnosis of pneumothorax ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fox WW,Eavey RD,Shaffer TH

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss a possible role of the endothelium in sepsis. DATA SOURCES:Studies published in biomedical journals and our own experimental results. STUDY SELECTION:Studies on endothelial mechanisms in the context of sepsis. DATA EXTRACTION AND SYNTHESIS:Changes in endothelial cells on activation by inflammato...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hack CE,Zeerleder S

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop a scheme for early identification of individuals at risk for symptomatic vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). DESIGN:Analysis of prospectively collected data from the placebo-treated group in a multicenter clinical trial. SETTINGS:Fifty-four neurosurgical centers in North America. MEAS...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Qureshi AI,Sung GY,Razumovsky AY,Lane K,Straw RN,Ulatowski JA

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimations of blood glucose in the range 0-80 mg/dl were performed using the Chemstrip bG and StatTek Glucose Low Level test strips. Estimations of glucose levels closely approximated values obtained by a quantitative, enzymatic reference method; both appear to be excellent screening tests for hypoglycemia. There wer...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Maisels MJ,Lee CA

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become accepted that nitric oxide serves important functions in biological systems as a second messenger. Another diatomic gaseous molecule, carbon monoxide (CO), is also rapidly gaining acceptance as a signaling agent. Some of the activities of CO are analogous to those of nitric oxide in the vascular system a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Morse D,Sethi J,Choi AM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumonia accounts for almost half of intensive care unit (ICU) infections and nearly 60% of deaths from nosocomial infections. It increases hospital stay by 7-9 days, crude mortality by 70% and attributable mortality by 30%. OBJECTIVE:Our purpose was to assess the impact of standard operating procedures ad...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Nachtigall I,Tamarkin A,Tafelski S,Deja M,Halle E,Gastmeier P,Wernecke KD,Bauer T,Kastrup M,Spies C

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：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:To determine the activation of nuclear factor-[kappa]B in peripheral blood CD14+ monocyte/macrophages and CD3+, CD4+, and CD8+ T cells in children with sepsis. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING:University hospital. PATIENTS:Twenty-six children with sepsis (nine females and 17 males, aged between 10 days ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hotta N,Ichiyama T,Shiraishi M,Takekawa T,Matsubara T,Furukawa S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the relationship between the acute inflammatory response after surgical trauma and changes in hepatic cytochrome P450 3A4 activity, compare changes in cytochrome P450 3A4 activity after procedures with varying degrees of surgical stress, and to explore the time course of any potential drug-cytokin...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Haas CE,Kaufman DC,Jones CE,Burstein AH,Reiss W

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although survival is traditionally modeled using Cox proportional hazards modeling, this approach may be inappropriate in sepsis, in which the proportional hazards assumption does not hold. Newer, more flexible models, such as Gray's model, may be more appropriate. OBJECTIVES:To construct and compare Gray's...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kasal J,Jovanovic Z,Clermont G,Weissfeld LA,Kaplan V,Watson RS,Angus DC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring is frequently used in intensive care treatment of patients with intracranial hemorrhage. Data demonstrating an improved outcome from this intervention are lacking. We analyzed standardized mortality ratios in patients with and without ICP monitoring to determine its effi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Valentin A,Lang T,Karnik R,Ammerer HP,Ploder J,Slany J

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological systems are innately complex, display nonlinear behavior, and respond to both disease and its treatment in similar complex ways. Complex systems display self-organization and predictive behavior along a range of possible states, often referred to as chaotic behavior, and can be both characterized and quanti...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pinsky MR

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To assess whether, in patients under mechanical ventilation, fluid responsiveness is predicted by the effects of short respiratory holds on cardiac index estimated by esophageal Doppler. DESIGN:Prospective, monocentric study. SETTING:Medical ICU. PATIENTS:Twenty-eight adult patients with acute circulatory...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Dépret F,Jozwiak M,Teboul JL,Alphonsine JE,Richard C,Monnet X

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of dopexamine on splanchnic blood flow and splanchnic oxygen uptake in septic patients. DESIGN:A prospective, controlled trial. SETTING:A ten-bed intensive care unit (ICU) in a university hospital. PATIENTS:Twelve patients with severe sepsis (according to the criteria of the 1992 Amer...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Meier-Hellmann A,Bredle DL,Specht M,Hannemann L,Reinhart K

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for closed-loop control of blood pressure in acute hypertension after cardiac surgery was evaluated by estimating the amount of nurse-time required to adjust the infusion rate of sodium nitroprusside. The evaluation consisted of a nationwide telephone survey of head nurses in postsurgical ICUs at 9 institutio...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mitchell RR

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis was performed of 15 randomized studies on the prophylaxis with cimetidine and/or ant-acids of upper GI bleeding acquired in the ICU. There were eight comparisons of a group receiving cimetidine with a control group, nine comparisons of a group receiving antacids with a control group, and ten comparison...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lacroix J,Infante-Rivard C,Jenicek M,Gauthier M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand better the incidence and meaning of hyperamylasemia in the intensive care setting, cellulose acetate membrane electrophoresis was used to measure the isoenzymes of serum amylase in 192 patients with a variety of critical illnesses. Seventy of these patients had elevated serum amylase levels, but none had...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Weaver DW,Busuito MJ,Bouwman DL,Wilson RF

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that altering aspirating flow rate (ASR) and sample tubing length (STL) affected the response time and capnogram of 2 different side-stream capnometers. Increased flow rate shortened rise time, transit time, and total delay time (TDT), whereas increased STL increased transit and TDTs but not rise time. Increa...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schena J,Thompson J,Crone RK

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00