Thoracic bioimpedance and Doppler cardiac output measurement: learning curve and interobserver reproducibility.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether continuous gas flow in the breathing circuit or an airleak around the tracheal tube cuff will introduce errors into the measurement of oxygen consumption (VO2) with indirect calorimetry. DESIGN:Nonrandomized, controlled trial. SETTING:Experimental laboratory. SUBJECTS:Ten healthy, anes...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Räsänen J

更新日期：1992-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The current trend to manage critically ill hematologic patients admitted with acute respiratory failure is to perform noninvasive ventilation to avoid endotracheal intubation. However, failure of noninvasive ventilation may lead to an increased mortality. DESIGN:Retrospective study to determine the frequenc...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Adda M,Coquet I,Darmon M,Thiery G,Schlemmer B,Azoulay E

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to determine the frequency and the clinical and epidemiologic characteristics of sepsis in a hospital-based population in Colombia. DESIGN:Prospective cohort. SETTING:Ten general hospitals in the four main cities of Colombia. PATIENTS:Consecutive patients admitted in emergency rooms, intensive ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rodríguez F,Barrera L,De La Rosa G,Dennis R,Dueñas C,Granados M,Londoño D,Molina F,Ortiz G,Jaimes F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of the present study were to evaluate, in patients with persistent arterial hypotension in the immediate postcardiac surgery period, the effects of norepinephrine infusion on ventriculo-arterial coupling, its determinants: arterial elastance and end-systolic ventricular elastance, and to test ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Guinot PG,Longrois D,Kamel S,Lorne E,Dupont H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Perfluorocarbon liquid ventilation has been shown to enhance pulmonary mechanics and gas exchange in the setting of respiratory failure. To optimize the total liquid ventilation process, we developed a volume-limited, time-cycled liquid ventilatory support, consisting of an electrically actuated, microprocess...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Meinhardt JP,Quintel M,Hirschl RB

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the rationale for the regionalization of adult critical care and discuss how lessons from the trauma experience may be relevant to this debate. DESIGN:Narrative review and opinion. RESULTS:Variation in the quality of critical care among hospitals has prompted calls for regionalization of care for ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kahn JM,Branas CC,Schwab CW,Asch DA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the short-term physiologic effects (indexes of respiratory effort, ventilation, and gas exchange), leaks, patient-ventilator asynchrony, and comfort of four noninvasive ventilation (NIV) facial, oronasal, or oral interfaces with major differences in internal volume. DESIGN:Prospective, short-term, cr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fraticelli AT,Lellouche F,L'her E,Taillé S,Mancebo J,Brochard L

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute renal failure remains a major challenge in critical care medicine. Both neutrophils and chemokines have been proposed as key components in the development of acute renal failure. Although the Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines (DARC) is present in several tissues and a highly specific ligand for vari...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zarbock A,Schmolke M,Bockhorn SG,Scharte M,Buschmann K,Ley K,Singbartl K

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suction applied to a chest-tube drainage system produces subambient pressure within the chest tube and may increase or decrease the flow of gas passing from the airway through a bronchopleural fistula. Such gas may have participated in gas exchange and contain more CO2 and less O2 than inspired gas. Calculated or meas...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Powner DJ,Cline CD,Rodman GH Jr

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relationship between treatment-related variables for Candida bloodstream infection and hospital mortality. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING:Thousand two hundred-bed academic medical center. PATIENTS:A total of 245 consecutive patients with Candida bloodstream infections who rece...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Labelle AJ,Micek ST,Roubinian N,Kollef MH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate a novel combination of preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative variables (including the Parsonnet, and the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II and III [APACHE II and III] scores) in cardiac surgery patients in order to predict hospital outcome, complications, and length of st...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Turner JS,Morgan CJ,Thakrar B,Pepper JR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent strides in computational biology and high-throughput technologies have generated considerable interest in understanding complex biological systems. The application of these technologies to critical illness and injury offers the potential to define adaptive and maladaptive programs of gene expression induced by ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cobb JP,Suffredini AF,Danner RL

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we assessed whether a high CO2 gap predicts mortality in adult critically ill patients with circulatory shock. DATA SOURCES:A systematic search of MEDLINE and EMBASE electronic databases from inception to October 2019. STUDY SELECTION:Studies from adult (age ≥ 1...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Al Duhailib Z,Hegazy AF,Lalli R,Fiorini K,Priestap F,Iansavichene A,Slessarev M

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate premorbid conditions and sociodemographic characteristics associated with differences in hospitalization and mortality rates of sepsis in blacks and whites. DESIGN:Secondary data analysis of the publicly available New Jersey State Inpatient Database for 2002. SETTING:Acute care hospitals in New ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Dombrovskiy VY,Martin AA,Sunderram J,Paz HL

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Radial artery applanation tonometry allows completely noninvasive continuous cardiac output estimation. The aim of the present study was to compare cardiac output measurements obtained with applanation tonometry (AT-CO) using the T-Line system (Tensys Medical, San Diego, CA) with cardiac output measured by i...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wagner JY,Sarwari H,Schön G,Kubik M,Kluge S,Reichenspurner H,Reuter DA,Saugel B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic support of critically ill patients is a relatively new topic of active research and discussion, and surprisingly little is known about the effects of critical illness on metabolic physiology and activity. The metabolic changes seen in critical illness are highly complex, and how and when to treat them ar...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Vincent JL

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this article are to introduce and explore a novel paradigm based on complex nonlinear systems, and to evaluate its application to critical care research regarding the systemic host response and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). DATA SOURCES:Published original work, review article...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Seely AJ,Christou NV

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the effect of glycosylated recombinant human tumor necrosis factor binding protein-1 (r-hTNF binding protein-1), the extracellular domain of the tumor necrosis factor receptor p55 produced in mammalian cells, in a rabbit model of circulatory shock due to Escherichia coli. DESIGN:Prospective, rando...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Porat R,Paddock HN,Schwaitzberg SD,Connolly RJ,Wilkens T,Dasch JR,Gascon MP,Hutchison JS,Ythier A,Wallach D

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sepsis remains a major health threat in intensive care medicine. The renin-angiotensin system (ACE) affects inflammatory responses. In addition, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors act to ameliorate lung injury. To investigate whether the widely used ACE inhibitor enalapril, used to treat hypertension, c...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hagiwara S,Iwasaka H,Matumoto S,Hidaka S,Noguchi T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Clinical providers have access to a number of pharmacologic agents during in-hospital cardiac arrest. Few studies have explored medication administration patterns during in-hospital cardiac arrest. Herein, we examine trends in use of pharmacologic interventions during in-hospital cardiac arrest both over tim...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moskowitz A,Ross CE,Andersen LW,Grossestreuer AV,Berg KM,Donnino MW,American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines – Resuscitation Investigators.

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Goal-directed nutritional support is essential to improving morbidity and mortality. Open abdominal decompression is similarly crucial to the successful treatment of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome. The open abdomen, however, places the patient at risk for potentially significa...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cheatham ML,Safcsak K,Brzezinski SJ,Lube MW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the statistical association of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) score with multiple intervention and outcome variables in surgical ICU patients. DESIGN:Continuous data collection on every patient admitted to the surgical ICU for a 21-month period. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rutledge R,Fakhry SM,Rutherford EJ,Muakkassa F,Baker CC,Koruda M,Meyer AA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether plasma lipid hydroperoxides may be a useful marker for sepsis. DESIGN:Exploratory, open-label study. SETTING:Critical care unit at a university medical center. PATIENTS:Twelve patients with sepsis syndrome requiring hemodynamic monitoring with pulmonary artery catheters. Seven patients...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Keen RR,Stella L,Flanigan DP,Lands WE

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was done to assess the effects of temperature on bleeding time and clotting time in normal male and female volunteers. DESIGN:Open study utilizing normal volunteers. SETTING:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Fifty-four healthy male and female volunteers, ranging in age from 19 to 35 yrs, ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Valeri CR,MacGregor H,Cassidy G,Tinney R,Pompei F

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An increasing number of ICU patients survive and develop mental, cognitive, or physical impairments. Various interventions support recovery from this postintensive care syndrome. Physicians in charge of post-ICU patients need to know which interventions are effective. DATA SOURCES:Systematic literature searc...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mehlhorn J,Freytag A,Schmidt K,Brunkhorst FM,Graf J,Troitzsch U,Schlattmann P,Wensing M,Gensichen J

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Capillary refill time is a noninvasive method to assess tissue perfusion to determine shock status. Capillary refill time is defined as the time required to regain skin color after blanching pressure is applied. Although common methods to measure capillary refill time depend on clinicians' visual assessment,...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Nickel AJ,Jiang S,Napolitano N,Yehya N,Fitzgerald JC,Bruins BB,Lockman JL,Nadkarni VM,Nishisaki A

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the multiple biological, metabolic, and pharmacologic effects of supplemental arginine, much effort has been devoted to defining its role in numerous clinical conditions. Herein, we review the multiple pathways of arginine metabolism with its various enzyme systems; the effect of arginine on nutrition, healing, ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Barbul A,Uliyargoli A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute respiratory distress syndrome is occasionally seen in newborn infants due to a severe inflammatory process in the lungs that affects capillary-alveolar permeability, epithelial integrity, and type I and II pneumocyte function. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a topically applied nu...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ankermann T,Reisner A,Wiemann T,Krams M,Köhler H,Krause MF

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Critically ill patients often develop large gastric residual volumes during nasogastric feeding as a result of poor gastroduodenal motility. Nasojejunal feeding may decrease the severity of this complication. The aim of this study was to determine whether nasojejunal feeding improved tolerance of enteral nutr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Davies AR,Froomes PR,French CJ,Bellomo R,Gutteridge GA,Nyulasi I,Walker R,Sewell RB

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00