Hyponatremia: A Review.

abstract：:Longitudinal clivus fractures are rare in children, with only 5 cases published in the English literature to date. Clivus fractures, particularly longitudinal type, are associated with high mortality and morbidity. We report a case of longitudinal clivus fracture in a teenager with survival and complete neurological r...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Samraj RS,Stalets EL

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Impaired physical functioning is common and long lasting after an intensive care unit (ICU) admission. The 6-minute walk test (6MWT) is a validated and widely used test of functional capacity. This systematic review synthesizes existing data in order to: (1) evaluate 6-minute walk distance (6M...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Parry SM,Nalamalapu SR,Nunna K,Rabiee A,Friedman LA,Colantuoni E,Needham DM,Dinglas VD

更新日期：2019-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Consensus guidelines support the use of low-molecular-weight heparin for venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis in high-risk trauma patients but do not recommend a specific regimen. The current study compared the effectiveness and safety of enoxaparin 40 mg once-daily versus enoxaparin 30 mg twice-daily fo...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Bush S,LeClaire A,Hampp C,Lottenberg L

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Conflicting data exists on the pharmacologic management of intensive care unit (ICU) delirium. This review appraises the current evidence of pharmacologic management of ICU delirium. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A systematic literature search of MEDLINE and Embase was conducted to answer the population, intervention,...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Korenoski A,Li A,Kane-Gill SL,Seybert AL,Smithburger PL

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Changes in white blood cell (WBC) counts and/or temperature could have important implications in patients on ventilators, but the frequency of these events is uncertain. METHODS:We reviewed the medical records from 281 ventilation episodes in our medical intensive care unit to determine patient characterist...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Edriss H,Whiting J,Nugent K

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relocation of large numbers of critically ill patients between hospitals is sometimes necessary and the risks associated with relocation may be high. In the setting of adherence to an interhospital intensive care unit (ICU) relocation protocol, we aimed to determine whether the interhospital relocation of all ICU pati...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Janz DR,Khan YA,Mooney JL,Semler MW,Rice TW,Johnson JL,deBoisblanc BP,ICU MOVE Investigators and the Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group.

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the setting of the COVID pandemic, many patients falling ill with acute respiratory distress syndrome eventually require prone positioning for gas exchange. Traditionally, central venous catheters are inserted with patient in the supine or Trendelenburg position. However, when a patient cannot tolerate su...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Yang MX,Ng PK

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) refers to a clinical syndrome of acute lung injury that occurs in a temporal relationship with the transfusion of blood products. Because of the difficulty in making its diagnosis, TRALI is often underreported. Three not necessarily mutually exclusive hypotheses have been ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Jawa RS,Anillo S,Kulaylat MN

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to ventricular tachyarrhythmias is a leading cause of death in the United States. This phenomenon is associated with coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, nonischemic cardiomyopathies, congenital heart disease, primary electrical abnormalities, autonomic nervous system abnorma...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Antezano ES,Hong M

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercalcemia may be seen in a variety of clinical settings and often requires intensive management when serum calcium levels are dramatically elevated. All of the many etiologies of mild hypercalcemia can lead to severe hypercalcemia. Knowledge of the physiologic mechanisms involved in maintaining normocalcemia and b...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Maier JD,Levine SN

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ischemic and hypoxic secondary brain insults are common and detrimental in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Treatment aims to maintain an adequate cerebral blood flow with sufficient arterial oxygen content. It has been suggested that arterial hyperoxia may be beneficial to the injured brain to compensate for c...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Wettervik TS,Engquist H,Howells T,Lenell S,Rostami E,Hillered L,Enblad P,Lewén A

更新日期：2020-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by Acinetobacter species have been extensively reported, however, which majorly focused on respiratory tract infections. The risk of mortality and the effect of early catheter removal on survival in catheter-related BSIs (CRBSIs) caused by Acinetobacter spp. remain unclear. ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Lee Y,Lee YT,Wang YC,Chen CT,Sun JR,Liu CP,Liu YM,Kuo SC,Chiu CH,Yang YS,Lin JC,Chen TL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Reintubation following unplanned extubation (UE) is often required and associated with increased morbidity; however, knowledge of risk factors leading to reintubation and subsequent outcomes in children is still lacking. We sought to determine the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes related to reintubation af...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： da Silva PSL,Reis ME,Fonseca TSM,Fonseca MCM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of sepsis is an ongoing challenge for clinicians; despite the wide choice of effective antibiotics to treat infection, sepsis remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality for patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Dysregulation of the immune response is now recognized to be a key factor in ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Panagiotou A,Gaiao S,Cruz DN

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyponatremia is one of the newer and emerging risk factors for an adverse prognosis in chronic heart failure. Why decreased serum sodium is associated with worse prognosis remains unclear. It may reflect worsening heart failure and the deleterious effects of activation of neurohormones. The mechanism of hyponatremia i...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Chatterjee K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We report the case of a 28-year-old patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with rapid onset of dyspnea and hemoptysis found to have diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) with refractory hypoxemia successfully treated with venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The discussion includes cli...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Patel JJ,Lipchik RJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Although magnesium plays an important role in aerobic metabolism and magnesium deficiency is a common phenomenon in critical illness, the association between magnesium deficiency and lactic acidosis in the intensive care unit (ICU) has not been defined. METHODS:This was a retrospective, cross-sectional st...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Moskowitz A,Lee J,Donnino MW,Mark R,Celi LA,Danziger J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the number of available donor hearts severely limits the epidemiologic impact of heart transplantation on patients with heart failure, patients with end-stage heart failure unresponsive to medical management currently have no other viable alternatives. Destination therapy with a ventricular assist device is t...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Poston RS,Griffith BP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate antimicrobial therapy is essential to ensuring positive patient outcomes. Inappropriate or suboptimal utilization of antibiotics can lead to increased length of stay, multidrug-resistant infections, and mortality. Critically ill intensive care patients, particularly those with severe sepsis and septic shoc...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Campion M,Scully G

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We previously developed a bedside model (I-TRACH), which used commonly obtained data at the time of intubation to predict the duration of mechanical ventilation (MV). We now sought to validate this in a prospective trial. METHODS:A prospective, observational study of 225 consecutive adult medical intensive car...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Clark PA,Inocencio RC,Lettieri CJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Methods to optimize positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remain controversial despite decades of research. The pressure-volume curve (PVC), a graphical ventilator relationship, has been proposed for prescription of PEEP in ARDS. Whether the use of PVC's improves ...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Hata JS,Togashi K,Kumar AB,Hodges LD,Kaiser EF,Tessmann PB,Faust CA,Sessler DI

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This was a retrospective observational study in a pediatric intensive care unit, in which 19 patients received levosimendan. There were no adverse events attributable to levosimendan and no instances where the clinical condition worsened after administration. Arterial lactate levels decreased significantly following l...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Egan JR,Clarke AJ,Williams S,Cole AD,Ayer J,Jacobe S,Chard RB,Winlaw DS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin receptors (IRs) in the brain have unique molecular features and a characteristic pattern of distribution. Their possible functions extend beyond glucose utilization. In this systematic review, we explore the interactions between insulin and the brain and its implications for anesthesiologists, critic...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Bilotta F,Lauretta MP,Tewari A,Haque M,Hara N,Uchino H,Rosa G

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute brain injury (ABI) increases morbidity and mortality in patients with veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO). Optimal neurologic monitoring methods have not been well-explicated. We studied the use of Near-infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to monitor cerebral regional oxygenation tissue saturatio...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Hunt MF,Clark KT,Whitman G,Choi CW,Geocadin RG,Cho SM

更新日期：2020-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the success rate and complications of peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) in patients hospitalized in an intensive care unit (ICU). We performed a cohort study in the ICU of a large tertiary care, university-affiliated community hospital. All ICU patients for whom their attending physicians reque...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Ng PK,Ault MJ,Maldonado LS

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to check if serum lactate was independently associated with mortality among critically ill patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This was a single-center, retrospective cohort study. All adult patients (>18 years of age) who had at least 1 measurement of lactate within 24 hours of admission...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Chebl RB,Tamim H,Dagher GA,Sadat M,Enezi FA,Arabi YM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus (DM) represents an enormous health care concern for the United States and other countries. According to the American Diabetes Association in 2007, there were more than 23 million Americans living with diabetes. This is a 13.5% increase from 2005, likely representing increases in Type II DM (DMII). Di...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Scalea JR,Cooper M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurogenic stunned myocardium (NSM) is a triad of transient left ventricular dysfunction, electrocardiogram changes, and elevation in cardiac enzymes, often mimicking a myocardial infarction. It has been described following acute brain injury. The purported mechanism is catecholamine excess resulting in cardiac dysfun...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Murthy SB,Shah S,Rao CP,Bershad EM,Suarez JI

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periodic epileptiform discharges (PEDs) are frequently encountered during continuous electroencephalography monitoring in the intensive care unit. Their implications and management are variable and highly dependent on the clinical context. This article is intended for the nonneurologist intensivist, reviews basic term...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Lahiri S,Boro AD,Shiloh AL,Milstein MJ,Savel RH

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The efficacy of low-dose hydrocortisone therapy in the management of septic shock remains controversial in critical care for many years. Hence, we performed this meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with trial sequential analysis (TSA) to evaluate its effect on clinical outcome among adult pa...

journal_title：Journal of intensive care medicine

authors： Lyu QQ,Chen QH,Zheng RQ,Yu JQ,Gu XH

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00