Cardiorespiratory function before and after chest physiotherapy in mechanically ventilated patients with post-traumatic respiratory failure.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the risk factors for development of severe hypoglycemia (defined as glucose <40 mg/dL) in critically ill patients and define the outcomes of this complication. DESIGN:Retrospective database review, including a case-control analysis that matched each patient with severe hypoglycemia with three co...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Krinsley JS,Grover A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To date, no study has systematically investigated the impact of drowning-induced asphyxia on hemostasis. Our objective was to test the hypothesis that asphyxia induces bleeding by hyperfibrinolytic disseminated intravascular coagulation. DESIGN:Observational study. SETTING:A 2,100-bed tertiary care facility...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schwameis M,Schober A,Schörgenhofer C,Sperr WR,Schöchl H,Janata-Schwatczek K,Kürkciyan EI,Sterz F,Jilma B

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inadequate nutrition is common in critical illness due in part to gastric stasis. However, recent data suggest that altered small intestinal mucosal function may be a contributing factor. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of critical illness on sucrose absorption, permeability, and mucosal morp...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Burgstad CM,Besanko LK,Deane AM,Nguyen NQ,Saadat-Gilani K,Davidson G,Burt E,Thomas A,Holloway RH,Chapman MJ,Fraser RJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe three female patients of one family with different phenotypes of the same mutation of the ornithine transcarbamylase gene. X-linked inherited ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency is the most frequent urea cycle disorder. Many of the hemizygous males die during the neonatal period. Women, who are ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Legras A,Labarthe F,Maillot F,Garrigue MA,Kouatchet A,Ogier de Baulny H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Lung CT is the reference imaging technique for acute respiratory distress syndrome, but requires transportation outside the intensive care and x-ray exposure. Lung ultrasound is a promising, inexpensive, radiation-free, tool for bedside imaging. Aim of the present study was to compare the global and regional...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chiumello D,Umbrello M,Sferrazza Papa GF,Angileri A,Gurgitano M,Formenti P,Coppola S,Froio S,Cammaroto A,Carrafiello G

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Critical care medicine trainees and faculty must acquire and maintain the skills necessary to provide state-of-the art clinical care to critically ill patients, to improve patient outcomes, optimize intensive care unit utilization, and continue to advance the theory and practice of critical care medicine. Thi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Dorman T,Angood PB,Angus DC,Clemmer TP,Cohen NH,Durbin CG Jr,Falk JL,Helfaer MA,Haupt MT,Horst HM,Ivy ME,Ognibene FP,Sladen RN,Grenvik AN,Napolitano LM,American College of Critical Care Medicine.

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common causative pathogen in community-acquired pneumonia. In patients, thrombocytopenia is correlated with an adverse outcome of pneumonia. Platelets can modulate the host response to infection in several ways, that is, by facilitating clot formation, production of antim...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： van den Boogaard FE,Schouten M,de Stoppelaar SF,Roelofs JJ,Brands X,Schultz MJ,van't Veer C,van der Poll T

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Isoflurane, a volatile anesthetic agent, has been recognized for its potential neuroprotective properties and has antiapoptotic effects. We examined whether isoflurane posttreatment is protective against early brain injury after subarachnoid hemorrhage and determined whether this effect needs sphingosine-rela...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Altay O,Hasegawa Y,Sherchan P,Suzuki H,Khatibi NH,Tang J,Zhang JH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the internal consistency, validity, responsiveness, and minimal important difference of the Functional Status Score for the ICU, a physical function measure designed for the ICU. DESIGN:Clinimetric analysis. SETTINGS:Five international datasets from the United States, Australia, and Brazil. PA...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Huang M,Chan KS,Zanni JM,Parry SM,Neto SG,Neto JA,da Silva VZ,Kho ME,Needham DM

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the effects of restoring hormonal levels and/or influence on muscle protein metabolism in the stressed state. We have highlighted our clinical experience in the administration of anabolic and anticatabolic agents in stressed clinical populations, primarily adult and pediatric burn injury, as wel...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ferrando AA,Wolfe RR

更新日期：2007-09-01 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

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the preload dependence of femoral maximal change in pressure over time (dP/dtmax) during volume expansion in preload dependent and independent critically ill patients. DESIGN:Retrospective database analysis. SETTING:Two adult polyvalent ICUs. PATIENTS:Twenty-five critically ill patients with a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Vaquer S,Chemla D,Teboul JL,Ahmad U,Cipriani F,Oliva JC,Ochagavia A,Artigas A,Baigorri F,Monnet X

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfusion-associated circulatory overload is the most frequent serious adverse transfusion reaction, with an incidence close to 1% of transfused patients in the general adult population. Patients in ICUs are probably more at risk of transfusion-associated circulatory overload as they are more frequently transfused a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： De Cloedt L,Savy N,Gauvin F,Taylor S,Lacroix J,Emeriaud G

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if inhibition of nitric oxide synthase with NG-nitro-L-arginine-methyl-ester (L-NAME) potentiates endotoxin-induced cardiopulmonary dysfunction and release of cyclooxygenase products in a porcine model of endotoxemia. DESIGN:Prospective, multiple group, controlled experimental study. SETTING:Ph...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hellyer PW,Johnson LW,Olson NC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing a well-established porcine model of cardiac arrest, we found that end-tidal CO2 concentration (ETCO2) strikingly decreased to approximately 24% of control levels, immediately after cardiac arrest and before precordial compression. During precordial compression, ETCO2 progressively increased to 46% of control...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Trevino RP,Bisera J,Weil MH,Rackow EC,Grundler WG

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We reviewed randomized trials of adult ICU patients of interventions hypothesized to reduce delirium burden to determine whether interventions that are more effective at reducing delirium duration are associated with a reduction in short-term mortality. DATA SOURCES:We searched CINHAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Al-Qadheeb NS,Balk EM,Fraser GL,Skrobik Y,Riker RR,Kress JP,Whitehead S,Devlin JW

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether polymorphisms of the surfactant protein B gene may be associated with increased mortality in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome. DESIGN:A prospective cohort study. SETTING:Four adult intensive care units at a tertiary academic medical center. PATIENTS:Two hundred fou...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Currier PF,Gong MN,Zhai R,Pothier LJ,Boyce PD,Xu L,Yu CL,Thompson BT,Christiani DC

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how top loads with different doses of carbon monoxide (CO)-saturated saline solutions (CO-saline) affect microvascular and systemic hemodynamics and to delineate the corresponding biochemical mechanisms. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Male Golden Syr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hangai-Hoger N,Tsai AG,Cabrales P,Suematsu M,Intaglietta M

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine perceptions of nurses and physicians in regard to ethical decision-making climate in the ICU and to test the hypothesis that the worse the ethical decision-making climate, the greater the discordance between nurses' and physicians' rating of ethical decision-making climate with physicians hypothes...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Jensen HI,Hebsgaard S,Hansen TCB,Johnsen RFA,Hartog CS,Soultati I,Szucs O,Wilson ME,van den Bulcke B,Benoit DD,Piers R

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the rate of elimination of ethanol after a major burn trauma. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled study. SETTING:National burns unit in a Swedish university hospital. PATIENTS AND SUBJECTS:Eight consecutive patients suffering from 18%-72% total burned surface area and nine healthy male control subjects...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zdolsek HJ,Sjöberg F,Lisander B,Jones AW

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum ionized calcium (Ca+2), creatinine, magnesium, phosphate, and arterial pH were measured in patients on admission to the medical ICU (MICU). Patients were classified into three groups: a) hypotensive (n = 38), those who received vasopressor support for frank hypotension; b) hypertensive (n = 21), those who requir...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Desai TK,Carlson RW,Thill-Baharozian M,Geheb MA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The results from the recent Targeted Temperature Management trial raised the question whether cooling or merely the avoidance of fever mediates better neurologic outcome in resuscitated patients. As temperature per se is a major determinant of cardiac function, we characterized the effects of hyperthermia (4...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Alogna A,Manninger M,Schwarzl M,Zirngast B,Steendijk P,Verderber J,Zweiker D,Maechler H,Pieske BM,Post H

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Bradycardia is common in critical care units. It may be transient, asymptomatic and of little consequence, or life-threatening. Bradycardia may result from abnormalities of the sinus node, atrioventricular node, or the His-Purkinje system. It may also be precipitated by drug effects or enhanced vagal tone. Proper diag...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kaushik V,Leon AR,Forrester JS Jr,Trohman RG

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To discuss a potential role for endothelial cell apoptosis in the pathogenesis of sepsis. DATA SOURCES:Studies published in biomedical journals and studies from the authors' laboratory. STUDY SELECTION:In vitro and in vivo studies of endothelial cell apoptosis in endotoxin and sepsis models. DATA EXTRACTIO...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hotchkiss RS,Tinsley KW,Swanson PE,Karl IE

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Ventilator-associated pneumonia diagnosis remains a debatable topic. New definitions of ventilator-associated conditions involving worsening oxygenation have been recently proposed to make surveillance of events possibly linked to ventilator-associated pneumonia as objective as possible. The objective of the...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Damas P,Frippiat F,Ancion A,Canivet JL,Lambermont B,Layios N,Massion P,Morimont P,Nys M,Piret S,Lancellotti P,Wiesen P,D'orio V,Samalea N,Ledoux D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Mechanical circulatory support can maintain vital organ perfusion in patients with cardiac failure unresponsive to standard pharmacologic treatment. The purpose of the current study was to report complication and survival rates in patients supported with emergency percutaneous venoarterial cardiopulmonary byp...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schwarz B,Mair P,Margreiter J,Pomaroli A,Hoermann C,Bonatti J,Lindner KH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Very elderly persons admitted to ICUs are at high risk of death. To document life-sustaining interventions (mechanical ventilation, vasopressors, renal replacement therapy) provided in the ICU and outcomes of care. DESIGN:Multicenter, prospective cohort study. SETTING:ICUs of 24 Canadian hospitals. PARTICI...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Heyland D,Cook D,Bagshaw SM,Garland A,Stelfox HT,Mehta S,Dodek P,Kutsogiannis J,Burns K,Muscedere J,Turgeon AF,Fowler R,Jiang X,Day AG,Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.,Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network.

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that cocaine-induced cerebral vasodilation in newborn sheep is mediated via beta-adrenergic receptor activation. DESIGN:The cerebral effects of a single intravenous injection of cocaine (4 mg/kg) given 30 mins after pretreatment with propranolol (1 mg/kg...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： O'Brien TP,Pane MA,Traystman RJ,Gleason CA

更新日期：1999-04-01 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