The Nursing Activities Score Per Nurse Ratio Is Associated With In-Hospital Mortality, Whereas the Patients Per Nurse Ratio Is Not.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the therapeutic effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on the mortality rate and host defense pattern in fulminant intra-abdominal sepsis. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled trial. SETTING:Research laboratory in a university hospital. SUBJECTS:Adult male Wistar rats. INTE...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lundblad R,Nesland JM,Giercksky KE

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Swallowing disorders may be associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients following invasive mechanical ventilation. We investigated the incidence of dysphagia, its time course, and association with clinically relevant outcomes in extubated critically ill patients. DESIGN:Prospective observational t...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schefold JC,Berger D,Zürcher P,Lensch M,Perren A,Jakob SM,Parviainen I,Takala J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary barotrauma developed in 18/430 patients receiving respirator support for longer than 12 hours. Pneumothorax occurred in 15 of these patients and was treated with tube thoracostomy and 15-20 cm H2O pleural suction. Full reexpansion of the lungs were achieved in all but three patients, two of whom had bronchop...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zimmerman JE,Dunbar BS,Klingenmaier CH

更新日期：1975-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The neuroprotective effects of the noble gas xenon are well known. Argon, in contrast to xenon, is abundant, inexpensive, and therefore widely applicable. In this study, we analyzed the possible neuroprotective role of argon in an in vivo rat model of acute focal cerebral ischemia. DESIGN:Controlled laborato...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ryang YM,Fahlenkamp AV,Rossaint R,Wesp D,Loetscher PD,Beyer C,Coburn M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the ability of central venous-to-arterial carbon dioxide pressure difference, central venous oxygen saturation, and the combination of these two parameters to detect extubation failure in critically ill patients. DESIGN:Multicentric, prospective, observational study. SETTING:Three ICUs. PATIEN...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mallat J,Baghdadi FA,Mohammad U,Lemyze M,Temime J,Tronchon L,Thevenin D,Fischer MO

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric mucosal damage produced by topical application of necrotizing agents is diminished by topical or systemic pretreatment with a variety of E and F prostaglandins. The rat restraint model of gastric mucosal injury is more analogous to clinical stress ulceration than are models using intragastric application of to...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ephgrave KS,Horton J,Burns D

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of the study is to test whether multimodal magnetic resonance imaging can provide a reliable outcome prediction of the clinical status, focusing on consciousness at 1 year after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN:Single center prospective cohort with consecutive inclusions. SETTING:Cr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tollard E,Galanaud D,Perlbarg V,Sanchez-Pena P,Le Fur Y,Abdennour L,Cozzone P,Lehericy S,Chiras J,Puybasset L

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of intravenous empiric treatment with meropenem compared with ceftazidime-tobramycin in patients with hospital-acquired lower respiratory tract infections. DESIGN:Prospective, nonblind, randomized trial. SETTING:Multicenter trial conducted at 22 centers. PATIENTS:T...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sieger B,Berman SJ,Geckler RW,Farkas SA

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Over 2,500 children undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in the United States each year, and up to 35% require PICU support for life-threatening complications. PICU mortality has dropped from 85% to 44%, but interpretation is confounded by significant cohort heterogeneity. Reports conflict regardi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zinter MS,Dvorak CC,Spicer A,Cowan MJ,Sapru A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Trauma induces a complex immune response that requires a systems biology research approach. Here, we used a novel technology, mass cytometry by time-of-flight, to comprehensively characterize the multicellular response to trauma. DESIGN:Peripheral blood mononuclear cells samples were stained with a 38-marker...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Seshadri A,Brat GA,Yorkgitis BK,Keegan J,Dolan J,Salim A,Askari R,Lederer JA

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether paralysis alters pulmonary deposition of albuterol delivered by metered dose inhaler and spacer to small animals. DESIGN:A parallel group study of intubated and ventilated rabbits. INTERVENTIONS:Animals in group 1 (n = 7) were paralyzed with intravenous pancuronium, and ventilated at a rat...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fok TF,al-Essa M,Monkman S,Dolovich M,Girard L,Coates G,Kirpalani H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the responses of noninvasively measured tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) and calculated muscle oxygen tension (PmO2) to standard hemodynamic variables for early detection of imminent hemodynamic instability during progressive central hypovolemia in humans. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Researc...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Soller BR,Ryan KL,Rickards CA,Cooke WH,Yang Y,Soyemi OO,Crookes BA,Heard SO,Convertino VA

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intralipid elimination patterns were compared in 25 healthy controls, 12 patients recovering from uncomplicated cholecystectomy, and 25 critically ill patients. The intravenous fat tolerance test revealed a similar fractional removal rate (k2) in healthy controls and critically ill patients, but k2 was increased in ch...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lindh A,Lindholm M,Rössner S

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial and transcutaneous O2 (PtcO2) and CO2 (PtcCO2) tensions, arterial O2 saturations (SaO2) and P50 values were measured in 47 patients before extubation. In order to unmask ventilation to perfusion (VA/Q) inequality, all variables were obtained without CPAP and with FIO2 of 0.40 as well as with CPAP of 5 cm H2O ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tahvanainen J,Nikki P

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the mechanism by which methylprednisolone protects the liver from hypoxia-induced injury. DESIGN:Prospective control study using the isolated rat liver. SETTING:Animal research facility. SUBJECTS:Male, fasted, pathogen-free Sprague-Dawley rats. INTERVENTIONS:Low-flow hypoxia was produced by...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Motoyama S,Saito S,Minamiya Y,Saito R,Nakamura M,Okuyama M,Imano H,Ogawa J

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critically ill patients who fear impending death may die suddenly. We studied prospectively the incidence of death in critically ill surgical patients who articulated the fear that they were about to die. Physiologic, environmental, and behavioral correlates which might influence perceptions of impending death were ex...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Poulton TJ,Butdorf MB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recent studies have demonstrated the therapeutic effectiveness and pharmacologic mechanisms of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in the treatment of a systemic shock state. To elucidate the in vivo role of HBOT during sepsis, we evaluated the effects of HBOT on intestinal mucosal injury and bacterial transloca...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sakoda M,Ueno S,Kihara K,Arikawa K,Dogomori H,Nuruki K,Takao S,Aikou T

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients (n = 158) who had been respirator-treated and who could remember the treatment were retrospectively (after greater than 2 months) interviewed about their experiences. Of all patients, 47% had felt anxiety and/or fear during the treatment. These feelings were intimately related to the experience of agony/panic...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bergbom-Engberg I,Haljamäe H

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the timing of onset of organ system failure, multiple organ system failure diagnosis, and the subsequent death in children admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (ICU). Second, to identify independent risk markers of death in pediatric patients with multiple organ system failure. DESIGN:Rev...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Proulx F,Gauthier M,Nadeau D,Lacroix J,Farrell CA

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute renal tubular injury is a serious complication in the postoperative period, which is associated with high mortality and increased ICU stay. We aimed to demonstrate the protective effect of rhEPO against acute tubular injury induced by ischemia-reperfusion and to explore the mechanism of canonical transi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Shen S,Jin Y,Li W,Liu X,Zhang T,Xia W,Wang Y,Ma K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between nitric oxide production, endotoxemia, and hemodynamic alterations in human septic shock. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:A 32-bed intensive care unit in a university referral hospital. PATIENTS:Two groups of septic patients with shock (n = 13) or without shock (n =...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gómez-Jiménez J,Salgado A,Mourelle M,Martín MC,Segura RM,Peracaula R,Moncada S

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess protective and risk factors for mortality among pediatric patients during initial care after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and to evaluate changes in hospital mortality. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort using the 1997, 2000, and 2003 Kids Inpatient Database, a probabilistic sample of ch...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bratton SL,Van Duker H,Statler KD,Pulsipher MA,McArthur J,Keenan HT

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the results of cardiac output measurements obtained by lithium dilution and thermodilution. DESIGN:Case series, observational study. SETTING:High-dependency postoperative unit and intensive care unit of a teaching hospital. PATIENTS:Forty patients were studied. Thirty-four patients had undergoin...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Linton R,Band D,O'Brien T,Jonas M,Leach R

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To define the features of human amniotic mesenchymal stromal cell secretome and its protective properties in experimental models of acute brain injury. DESIGN:Prospective experimental study. SETTING:Laboratory research. SUBJECTS:C57Bl/6 mice. INTERVENTIONS:Mice subjected to sham or traumatic brain injury...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pischiutta F,Brunelli L,Romele P,Silini A,Sammali E,Paracchini L,Marchini S,Talamini L,Bigini P,Boncoraglio GB,Pastorelli R,De Simoni MG,Parolini O,Zanier ER

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the coping strategies used by family decision makers of adult critical care patients during and after the critical care experience and the relationship of coping strategies to posttraumatic stress symptoms experienced 60 days after hospitalization. DESIGN:A single-group descriptive longitudinal cor...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Petrinec AB,Mazanec PM,Burant CJ,Hoffer A,Daly BJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the value of soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 as a biomarker of infection in patients with neutropenic fever comparing with procalcitonin and C-reactive protein. DESIGN:Prospective, comparative, single-center study. SETTING:Hematology ward at a university hospital. SUBJECT...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lin CH,Yao M,Hsu SC,Ho CC,Lin MT,Lin CA,Hu FC,Yu CJ,Tien HF

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an unusual hemolytic transfusion reaction. A group O donor was inadvertently transfused with 100 ml of group A red cells during the course of plasmapheresis. Granulocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogenemia and low levels of factors V, VIII, and IX developed immediately after the infusion. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： McKenna PJ,Scheinman HZ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurologic dysfunction, coma, and seizures are common in obstetric patients in the intensive care unit. OBJECTIVE:To review common neurologic disorders resulting in critical illness in pregnancy. REVIEW:Obstetric disorders causing coma and seizures include eclampsia, acute fatty liver of pregnancy, and amn...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Karnad DR,Guntupalli KK

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00