Intravenous ibuprofen blocks the hypoxemia of pulmonary glass bead embolism in the dog.

abstract：:Ischemia of the intestines damages the permeability of the intestinal wall, allowing lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (endotoxin) to leak from the gut lumen into the blood circulation, causing shock and death. We measured LPS levels associated with corticosteroid treatment vs. no treatment in cats whose superior mesenteric ar...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gaffin SL,Gathiram P,Wells MT,Brock-Utne JG

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Phenylephrine is often used for management of cerebral perfusion pressure after traumatic brain injury, but can have undesirable actions. Few studies have evaluated alternatives. The hypothesis was that arginine vasopressin was as effective as phenylephrine for maintaining tissue oxygenation during cerebral p...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Dudkiewicz M,Proctor KG

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the amount of spontaneous variability of cardiac output over time in critically ill patients, and to determine the effect of mechanical ventilation on cardiac output variability over time. DESIGN:Case series. SETTING:Medical intensive care unit in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. PATIENTS:T...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sasse SA,Chen PA,Berry RB,Sassoon CS,Mahutte CK

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antimicrobial effects of nitric oxide (NO) have been demonstrated in vitro against a variety of infectious pathogens, yet in vivo evidence of a potential therapeutic role for exogenous NO as an antimicrobial agent is limited. Thus, we assessed the effects of inhaled NO on pulmonary infection, leukocyte infilt...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Webert KE,Vanderzwan J,Duggan M,Scott JA,McCormack DG,Lewis JF,Mehta S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the value of laser bronchoscopy in patients with inoperable carcinoma of the lung who required ventilatory assistance for acute respiratory failure. DESIGN:Retrospective review of the medical records of all patients undergoing laser bronchoscopy. SETTING:The Lahey Clinic Medical Center, a tertiar...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Stanopoulos IT,Beamis JF Jr,Martinez FJ,Vergos K,Shapshay SM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute lung injury secondary to smoke inhalation is a major source of morbidity and mortality in burn patients. We tested the hypothesis that nebulized epinephrine would ameliorate pulmonary dysfunction secondary to acute lung injury by reducing airway hyperemia and edema formation and mediating bronchodilatat...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lange M,Hamahata A,Traber DL,Cox RA,Kulp GA,Nakano Y,Traber LD,Herndon DN,Enkhbaatar P

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The high incidence of lower lobe collapse in adult intensive care patients is well described. We aimed to document the incidence and distribution of acute lobar collapse in the pediatric intensive care setting. The influence of anatomical and pathophysiological differences between the adult and pediatric resp...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Thomas K,Habibi P,Britto J,Owens CM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To address issues of antibiotic dosing during sustained low-efficiency dialysis by using available pharmacokinetic data, intermittent and continuous renal replacement therapy dialysis guidelines, and our experience with sustained low-efficiency dialysis. DATA RESOURCES:Published clinical trials, case reports...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bogard KN,Peterson NT,Plumb TJ,Erwin MW,Fuller PD,Olsen KM

更新日期：2011-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The emergency department (ED) often serves as the first site for the recognition and treatment of patients with suspected severe sepsis. However, few evaluations of the national epidemiology and distribution of severe sepsis in the ED exist. We sought to determine national estimates of the number, timing, ED ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wang HE,Shapiro NI,Angus DC,Yealy DM

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the variability in short-term sepsis mortality by hospital among Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services beneficiaries in the United States during 2013-2014. DESIGN:A retrospective cohort design. SETTING:Hospitalizations from 3,068 acute care hospitals that participated in the Centers for Medi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hatfield KM,Dantes RB,Baggs J,Sapiano MRP,Fiore AE,Jernigan JA,Epstein L

更新日期：2018-11-01 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 conjunctival oxygen monitor reflects oxygen tension of the internal carotid artery without introducing the heating artifact characteristic of transcutaneous monitors. It is now being used in the ICU and the operating room to measure accurately and continuously Po2 and temperature of conjunctival tissue. We examine...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Isenberg SJ,Green BF

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Spread of multidrug-resistant organisms within the intensive care unit (ICU) results in substantial morbidity and mortality. Novel strategies are needed to reduce transmission. This study sought to determine if the use of daily chlorhexidine bathing would decrease the incidence of colonization and bloodstream...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Climo MW,Sepkowitz KA,Zuccotti G,Fraser VJ,Warren DK,Perl TM,Speck K,Jernigan JA,Robles JR,Wong ES

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyze plasma interferon-gamma and interleukin-10 concentrations in patients with systemic meningococcal disease and patients with severe Gram-positive septic shock caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae or Staphylococcus aureus. To study the in vitro cytokine (interferon-gamma and interleukin-10) responses i...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bjerre A,Brusletto B,Høiby EA,Kierulf P,Brandtzaeg P

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：: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:Exposure of neutrophils to low doses of bacterial lipopolysaccharides enhances their readiness to respond with inflammatory mediator generation including oxygen radical formation to a subsequently applied inflammatory stimulus ("priming"). In the present study, we investigated the role of lipid mediator synth...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sibelius U,Hattar K,Hoffmann S,Mayer K,Grandel U,Schenkel A,Seeger W,Grimminger F

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our understanding of the acute respiratory distress syndrome in children is limited, and literature is dominated by investigations in adult patients. Recent preclinical studies suggest that the susceptibility to and severity of acute respiratory distress syndrome in children could differ from that in adults....

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schouten LR,Veltkamp F,Bos AP,van Woensel JB,Serpa Neto A,Schultz MJ,Wösten-van Asperen RM

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The right atrial pressure (Pra) was compared to the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (Pcw) in 54 patients. In patients with heart disease, the correlation of Pra with Pcw was poor. However, in patients without clinical heart disease, Pra approximated Pcw, in both absolute number and change. This finding was independ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Risk C,Rudo N,Falltrick R,Feeley T,Don HF

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A lack of intensive care units beds in Israel results in critically ill patients being treated outside of the intensive care unit. The survival of such patients is largely unknown. The present study's objective was to screen entire hospitals for newly deteriorated patients and compare their survival in and ou...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Simchen E,Sprung CL,Galai N,Zitser-Gurevich Y,Bar-Lavi Y,Levi L,Zveibil F,Mandel M,Mnatzaganian G,Goldschmidt N,Ekka-Zohar A,Weiss-Salz I

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the potential value of heart rate variability features for automated monitoring of sedation levels in mechanically ventilated ICU patients. DESIGN:Multicenter, pilot study. SETTING:Several ICUs at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. PATIENTS:Electrocardiogram recordings from 40 mechanica...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Nagaraj SB,McClain LM,Zhou DW,Biswal S,Rosenthal ES,Purdon PL,Westover MB

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In postcardiac surgery patients, we often noticed that monitored tidal volumes exceeded the ventilator settings. We investigated whether cardiogenic oscillation causes overestimation of tidal volume. DESIGN:Prospective, observational, clinical study. SETTING:Surgical intensive care unit in a national heart...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Imanaka H,Takeuchi M,Tachibana K,Nishimura M

更新日期：2004-07-01 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:To compare the oxidative stress induced by IV iron infusion in critically ill patients and in healthy volunteers. DESIGN:Multicenter, interventional study. SETTING:Two ICUs and one clinical research center. SUBJECTS:Anemic critically ill patients treated with IV iron and healthy volunteers. INTERVENTIONS:...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lasocki S,Piednoir P,Couffignal C,Rineau E,Dufour G,Lefebvre T,Puy H,Duval X,Driss F,Schilte C

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Remarkable progress has been made during the last decade in defining the molecular mechanisms that underlie septic shock. This rapidly expanding field is leading to new therapeutic opportunities in the management of severe sepsis. AIM:To provide the clinician with a timely summary of the molecular biology o...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cinel I,Opal SM

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：OBJECTIVES:There has long-been controversy about the possible superiority of norepinephrine compared to dopamine in the treatment of shock. The objective was to evaluate the effects of norepinephrine and dopamine on outcome and adverse events in patients with septic shock. DATA SOURCES:A systematic search of the MEDLI...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： De Backer D,Aldecoa C,Njimi H,Vincent JL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on PaO2 during collapse of a single pulmonary lobe was investigated in seven dogs. Increasing PEEP to the ventilated region of lung increased the proportion of cardiac output flowing to the collapsed lobe and decreased PaO2 and pH. PaCO2 increased at the onset of l...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sánchez De León R,Orchard C,Sykes K,Brajkovich I

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The benefit of continuous on-site presence by a staff academic critical care specialist in the intensive care unit of a teaching hospital is not known. We compared the quality of care and patient/family and provider satisfaction before and after changing the staffing model from on-demand to continuous 24-hr c...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gajic O,Afessa B,Hanson AC,Krpata T,Yilmaz M,Mohamed SF,Rabatin JT,Evenson LK,Aksamit TR,Peters SG,Hubmayr RD,Wylam ME

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00