Prospective endoscopic study of stress erosions and ulcers in critically ill neurosurgical patients: current incidence and effect of acid-reducing prophylaxis.

abstract：:The image of the physician as a therapist, as well as the general perception of the physician's role in society and in the life of patients and their families, has changed dramatically in past decades. In response, many conferences, editorials, and planning activities for medical and premedical curricula have been dev...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Detre K

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness and safety of the hemoglobin-based nitric oxide scavenger, pyridoxalated hemoglobin polyoxyethylene, against placebo in patients with vasopressor-dependent distributive shock. DESIGN:Multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, open-label study. SETTING:Sixty-one participating I...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Vincent JL,Privalle CT,Singer M,Lorente JA,Boehm E,Meier-Hellmann A,Darius H,Ferrer R,Sirvent JM,Marx G,DeAngelo J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disadvantages of external ventricular drainage are the threat of sepsis and the nuisance of dislodging a precarious system in routine care. The experience of the authors with nearly 200 cases using a long ventricular catheter demonstrates that a subgaleal tunnel can be easily made for the ventricular catheter usin...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Saunders RL,Lyons TA

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish Department of Veterans Affairs' intensive care unit (ICU) costs from a database and to use this information to validate the Russell equation, the most commonly used method of calculating ICU costs. To compare and trend Department of Veterans Affairs' and nationwide (USA) ICU and healthcare costs...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Halpern NA,Bettes L,Greenstein R

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine prevalence, risk factors, and outcome of thrombocytopenia in medical intensive care patients. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:The 12-bed medical intensive care unit of a university hospital. PATIENTS:All consecutively admitted patients with normal platelet count at admission an...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Strauss R,Wehler M,Mehler K,Kreutzer D,Koebnick C,Hahn EG

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Anemia increases risk of bleeding complications in the critically ill. In primary intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), the most fatal type of stroke, outcome is largely dependent on the volume of hemorrhage into the brain. We investigated the relationship between anemia and clinical course of acute ICH. METHODS:S...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kumar MA,Rost NS,Snider RW,Chanderraj R,Greenberg SM,Smith EE,Rosand J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article analyzes, from a legal perspective, a recent phenomenon involving a clash between the values of attending medical personnel and the instructions of surrogate decision-makers acting on behalf of incompetent patients. Some hospitals have gone to court to challenge decisions by surrogates to continu...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cantor NL

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the efficacy and safety of proton pump inhibitors in comparison with histamine-2 receptor antagonists for stress-related upper gastrointestinal bleeding prophylaxis among critical care patients. DATA SOURCES:PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and ClinicalTrials.gov. STUDY SELECTION:Randomized, con...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lin PC,Chang CH,Hsu PI,Tseng PL,Huang YB

更新日期：2010-04-01 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

abstract：:High-risk patients who survived general (noncardiac) surgery were observed to have cardiac index (CI) values averaging 4.5 L/min.m2, oxygen delivery (DO2) greater than 600 ml/min.m2, and oxygen consumption (VO2) 170 ml/min.m2 during the first 2 or three days postoperatively. Patients who subsequently died maintained r...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Shoemaker WC,Kram HB,Appel PL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although survival is traditionally modeled using Cox proportional hazards modeling, this approach may be inappropriate in sepsis, in which the proportional hazards assumption does not hold. Newer, more flexible models, such as Gray's model, may be more appropriate. OBJECTIVES:To construct and compare Gray's...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kasal J,Jovanovic Z,Clermont G,Weissfeld LA,Kaplan V,Watson RS,Angus DC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric mucosal damage occurs in critically ill patients in intensive care units and develops in the setting of severe physiologic stress. Within 24 hrs of admission to the intensive care unit, 75% to 100% of critically ill patients demonstrate evidence of stress-related mucosal disease. Stress ulcers present a risk o...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fennerty MB

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the impact of prophylactic continuous lateral rotation therapy on the prevalence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, and mortality in critically ill medical patients. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, clinical study. SETTING:Three medical inte...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Staudinger T,Bojic A,Holzinger U,Meyer B,Rohwer M,Mallner F,Schellongowski P,Robak O,Laczika K,Frass M,Locker GJ

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To derive a target range of optimal sedation for the COMFORT Scale and to prospectively test that target range against intensivist assessment of adequacy of sedation. DESIGN:Serial prospective agreement cohort studies. SETTING:Twelve-bed pediatric intensive care unit in an urban academic teaching hospital. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Marx CM,Smith PG,Lowrie LH,Hamlett KW,Ambuel B,Yamashita TS,Blumer JL

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:1) To evaluate the prognostic roles of quantitative CT and pulmonary function tests and 2) to assess the association of dynamic strain and ventilation heterogeneity during unassisted spontaneous breathing with 90-day survival in patients with paraquat poisoning. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:A universi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Liu Y,Luo XJ,Li GQ,Wei LQ,Yu X,Li YM

更新日期：2019-02-01 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

authors： Meyer N,Harhay MO,Small DS,Prescott HC,Bowles KH,Gaieski DF,Mikkelsen ME

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if intracranial pressure monitor placement in patients with acute liver failure is associated with significant clinical outcomes. DESIGN:Retrospective multicenter cohort study. SETTING:Academic liver transplant centers comprising the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group. PATIENTS:Adult critica...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Karvellas CJ,Fix OK,Battenhouse H,Durkalski V,Sanders C,Lee WM,U S Acute Liver Failure Study Group.

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonidine may be a source of serious toxicity when ingested by toddlers. We describe 11 cases of clonidine ingestion by toddlers (mean dose 0.15 mg/kg; range 0.01 to 0.57). The source of the clonidine was a grand-parent in six of 11 cases. Symptoms included altered level of consciousness (n = 11), miosis (n = 5), brad...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fiser DH,Moss MM,Walker W

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess clinician perceptions of a machine learning-based early warning system to predict severe sepsis and septic shock (Early Warning System 2.0). DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:Tertiary teaching hospital in Philadelphia, PA. PATIENTS:Non-ICU admissions November-December 2016. INTERVE...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ginestra JC,Giannini HM,Schweickert WD,Meadows L,Lynch MJ,Pavan K,Chivers CJ,Draugelis M,Donnelly PJ,Fuchs BD,Umscheid CA

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether delirium during ICU stay is associated with long-term mental health problems defined as symptoms of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Survey study, 1 year after discharge from a medical-surgical ICU in the Netherlands. PAT...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wolters AE,Peelen LM,Welling MC,Kok L,de Lange DW,Cremer OL,van Dijk D,Slooter AJ,Veldhuijzen DS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preoperative intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP) improves the results of complex coronary surgery. However, its insertion may be harmful or contraindicated in cases of severe and diffuse atherosclerosis of the descending aorta and peripheral arteries. We sought to evaluate the efficacy and safety of transbrac...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Onorati F,Bilotta M,Pezzo F,Impiombato B,Caroleo S,Santangelo E,Renzulli A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) is expressed primarily by fibroblasts, is important for alveolar epithelial proliferation/function, and protects against lung injury in multiple animal models. We wished to determine whether acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) alveolar fluid induce...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chandel NS,Budinger GR,Mutlu GM,Varga J,Synenki L,Donnelly HK,Zirk A,Eisenbart J,Jovanovic B,Jain M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A safe, simple, reliable technique for sampling uncontaminated peripheral bronchial secretions in patients with endotracheal tubes has been developed. It is easily performed and requires no special training or equipment. This report summarizes the techniques's usefulness in providing diagnostic samples of peripheral a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Matthew EB,Holstrom FM,Kaspar RL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the potential clinical, metabolic, and economic advantages of enteral nutrition over total parenteral nutrition. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized clinical trial. SETTING:Department of surgery in a university hospital. PATIENTS:Two hundred and fifty-seven patients with cancer of the stomach (n = 1...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Braga M,Gianotti L,Gentilini O,Parisi V,Salis C,Di Carlo V

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the influence of a selective, sterile central nervous system surgery on immune reactivity, particularly whether a decrease of monocytic human leukocyte antigen-DR expression, indicating immunodepression, occurs after neurosurgery and if this measurement is useful for identification of patients wi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Asadullah K,Woiciechowsky C,Döcke WD,Liebenthal C,Wauer H,Kox W,Volk HD,Vogel S,Von Baehr R

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our primary goal was to evaluate the impact on in-hospital mortality rate of adequate empirical antibiotic therapy, after controlling for confounding variables, in a cohort of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with sepsis. The impact of adequate empirical antibiotic therapy on early (<3 days...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Garnacho-Montero J,Garcia-Garmendia JL,Barrero-Almodovar A,Jimenez-Jimenez FJ,Perez-Paredes C,Ortiz-Leyba C

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe opioid use after ICU admission, identify factors associated with chronic opioid use after critical care, and determine if chronic opioid use is associated with an increased risk of death. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:Sweden including all registered ICU admissions between 2010 and 2...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： von Oelreich E,Eriksson M,Sjölund KF,Discacciati A,Larsson E,Oldner A

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The fractional elimination rate of exogenous fat, and fat-mobilizing lipolysis in relation to plasma catecholamine (CA) levels were studied in seven ventilator-treated ICU patients. Blood levels of CA, triglycerides, cholesterol and free fatty acids (FFA) were also analyzed before and during constant infusion of a soy...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lindholm M,Eklund JO,Hamberger B,Järnberg PO

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare and evaluate the potential benefit of two different anticoagulation regimens during endotoxemia in an ovine model. DESIGN:Animal prospective randomized and controlled study following preliminary dose-range study conforming with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals as promulgated by...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schiffer ER,Reber G,De Moerloose P,Morel DR

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right ventricular size and contractility were evaluated using two-dimensional echocardiography during the first days of respiratory support in 23 patients requiring mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure. Nine patients had normal echocardiographic right ventricular function, and nine other patients had a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Jardin F,Gueret P,Dubourg O,Farcot JC,Margairaz A,Bourdarias JP

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00