Abstract:
:We report a case of an amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) causing a cardiorespiratory arrest associated temporally with ingestion of castor oil in a full-term normal pregnancy. Risk factors usually associated with AFE were not found in this patient.
journal_name
Crit Care Medjournal_title
Critical care medicineauthors
Steingrub JS,Lopez T,Teres D,Steingart Rdoi
10.1097/00003246-198806000-00016subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-06-01 00:00:00pages
642-3issue
6eissn
0090-3493issn
1530-0293journal_volume
16pub_type
杂志文章abstract:OBJECTIVES:Myocardial ischemia plays a central role in the development of right ventricular failure after acute pulmonary embolism. This study investigates whether pulmonary mediators act specifically on coronary tone and cardiac contractile function in acute pulmonary microembolization and whether such effects are alt...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199803000-00024
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the tolerance and the efficacy of noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in severe acute respiratory failure occurring in intensive care unit (ICU) neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies, and to establish predictive variables of efficacy of this method. DESIGN:Prospect...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200009000-00012
更新日期:2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To study the importance of endothelin-1-induced vasoconstriction in a model of acute and maintained low cardiac output, by investigating regional changes within the mesenteric and particularly the intestinal mucosal circulation. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled animal study. SETTING:University-affiliated rese...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200108000-00019
更新日期:2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To compare four different methods of endotracheal lidocaine administration with respect to the site of administration. DESIGN:Randomized controlled trial. SETTING:University hospital. PATIENTS:Thirty-two female patients (43.6 +/- 11.5 years old) undergoing elective gynecologic operations with an anesthesio...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00003246-199107000-00015
更新日期:1991-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine the specific effect of peak volume history pressure on the inflation limb of the pressure-volume curve and peak pressure-volume curve pressure on the deflation limb of the pressure-volume curve. DESIGN:Prospective assessment of pressure-volume curves in saline, lung lavage injured sheep. SETTIN...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000128573.28173.2e
更新日期:2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a complex multifaceted disorder that plays out over days to weeks. Many patients with SAH are seriously ill and require a prolonged intensive care unit stay. Cardiopulmonary complications are common. The management of patients with SAH focuses on the anticipat...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e318195865a
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine the relative distribution of fluid within the extracellular fluid volume (ECFV) and the effect on oxygen delivery after infusing either normal saline or 5% albumin in cardiac surgical patients. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, unblinded, interventional study. SETTING:Cardiac surgical intensive c...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00003246-200112000-00011
更新日期:2001-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:There is substantial variation in use of life sustaining technologies in patients near the end of life but little is known about variation in physicians' initial ICU admission and intubation decision making processes. Our objective is to describe variation in hospital-based physicians' communication behavior...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e318287f0dd
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Although discussing a prognosis is a duty of physicians caring for critically ill patients, little is known about surrogate decision-makers' beliefs about physicians' ability to prognosticate. We sought to determine: 1) surrogates' beliefs about whether physicians can accurately prognosticate for critically ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e318180ddf9
更新日期:2008-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Hospitals use a variety of strategies to maximize the availability of limited ICU beds. Boarding, which involves assigning patients to an open bed in a different subspecialty ICU, is one such practice employed when ICU occupancy levels are high, and beds in a particular unit are unavailable. Boarding disrupt...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002905
更新日期:2018-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effectiveness of lorazepam and midazolam for long-term sedation of critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients. DESIGN:Double-blind, randomized, controlled study. SETTING:Medical intensive care unit in a university teaching hospital. PATIENTS:Sixty-four evaluable adult patients admitte...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00003246-199908000-00009
更新日期:1999-08-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000003522
更新日期:2019-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181934f1b
更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study was undertaken to investigate ventilatory requirements during high frequency ventilation (HFV). Six anesthetized dogs were ventilated with bird M-2 or Emerson 2-V ventilators at respiratory rates (RRs) ranging from 13-1300 breath/min. PaCO2 was maintained within normal range at all rates by tidal volume (VT...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198303000-00005
更新日期:1983-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Colloid osmotic pressure (COP) was measured simultaneously with cardiorespiratory measurements in 103 surgical patients suspected of having circulatory problems. In a small subset of 28 patients, measurements were taken before, during, and after surgical operations. Similarly, data sets were taken before, during, and ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198303000-00010
更新日期:1983-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:This survey was designed to study current practices in the monitoring and treatment of patients with severe head injury in the United States. DATA SOURCES:The collected data represent answers to telephone interviews of nurse managers, clinical specialists, and staff nurses specializing in neurotrauma care at...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/00003246-199503000-00023
更新日期:1995-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:In 2003, critical care and infectious disease experts representing 11 international organizations developed management guidelines for the use of corticosteroid therapy in patients with sepsis and septic shock that would be of practical use for the bedside clinician, under the auspices of the Surviving Sepsis ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000142983.15421.11
更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The heart rate variability (HRV) of 82 patients exhibiting sinus rhythm and admitted for possible myocardial infarction (MI) was evaluated. Using a simple information entropy measure to quantify the HRV, patients subsequently diagnosed with MI or experiencing significant dysrhythmia (n = 35) exhibited less entropy (0....
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198801000-00014
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:: To determine the relationship between intra-abdominal sepsis-induced high mobility group-box 1 and diaphragm contractile performance and to determine the inhibitory effects of antibodies for high mobility group-box 1 and receptor for advanced glycation end-products on septic peritonitis-induced diaphragmat...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181a930f7
更新日期:2009-09-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium's multidimensional approach on the reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients hospitalized in intensive care units. DESIGN:A prospective active surveillance before-after study. The stud...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182657916
更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The focus on improving education in critical care medicine must begin early in medical school training and further be promoted during residency if there is to be an increase in intensivists in the hospital workforce. This is "critical" to healthcare reform movements that are endorsing full-time critical care coverage ...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000252917.25301.18
更新日期:2007-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002872
更新日期:2018-03-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000001420
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine the financial impact of a sepsis protocol designed for use in the emergency department. DESIGN:Retrospective analysis of a before-after study testing the implications of sepsis protocol. SETTING:Academic, tertiary care hospital in the United States. PATIENTS:Persons with septic shock presentin...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000261886.65063.CC
更新日期:2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Limited data are available on the influence of sedation for critical care therapy with the widely used anesthetic propofol on recovery from acute traumatic brain injury. To establish the influence of propofol on endogenous neurogenesis and functional recovery after traumatic brain injury, rats were sedated wi...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a639fd
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To determine the abnormalities present in endotracheal tubes removed from mechanically ventilated patients for "massive airleak." "Massive airleak" was defined as a leak that the attending physician felt was indicative of endotracheal tube defect such that extubation (and reintubation, if needed) would be ind...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1993-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the early myocardial biochemical inflammatory response with the microdialysis technique during porcine endotoxemia and to simultaneously monitor systemic hemodynamics. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial with parallel groups. SETTING:Animal research laboratory at the Univers...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000075740.61294.a6
更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The present trend in managed care has meant downsizing expectations concerning the availability of support for resuscitation research. This trend applies to funding possibilities from industry, governmental agencies, and nongovernmental agencies (Table 1). There will be increasing barriers to making innovations. Truth...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-02-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVE:Acute renal failure can be treated with continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) or intermittent hemodialysis. There is no difference in mortality, although patients treated with CRRT may have a higher rate of renal recovery. Given these considerations, an estimate of the costs by modality may help in choo...
journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000045182.90302.B3
更新日期:2003-02-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000253407.89594.15
更新日期:2007-02-01 00:00:00