Caspase-dependent protein phosphatase 2A activation contributes to endotoxin-induced cardiomyocyte contractile dysfunction.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of step-changes in tidal volume on work of breathing during lung-protective ventilation in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) or the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). DESIGN:Prospective, nonconsecutive patients with ALI/ARDS. SETTING:Adult surgical, trauma, and medical int...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kallet RH,Campbell AR,Dicker RA,Katz JA,Mackersie RC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate if the up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor strengthens the protective effect of amniotic fluid stem cells in a renal ischemia-reperfusion injury model. DESIGN:Randomized animal study. SETTINGS:University research laboratory. SUBJECTS:A total of 40 males 12-week-old Wistar rats w...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mori da Cunha MG,Zia S,Beckmann DV,Carlon MS,Arcolino FO,Albersen M,Pippi NL,Graça DL,Gysemans C,Carmeliet P,Levtchenko E,Deprest J,Toelen J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varying concentrations of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and mannan suspensions were mixed with either saline or plasma from normal volunteers, heated to 100 degrees C for 10 min, and then subjected to the limulus amebocyte lysate test (LAL). A positive LAL in saline required minimum LPS and mannan concentrations of 10(-11)...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hosotsubo KK,Takezawa J,Nishijima MK,Takahashi H,Shimada Y,Yoshiya I

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To understand when the use of high-frequency ventilation would be advantageous, we formulated the problem of achieving adequate alveolar ventilation at minimal pressure cost by dividing it into two simpler problems: a) the pressure cost per unit of convective oscillatory flow; and b) the convective flow cost...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Venegas JG,Fredberg JJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe a case of intentional ingestion of hand sanitizer in our hospital and to review published cases and those reported to the American Association of Poison Control Centers' National Poison Data System. DESIGN:A case report, a literature review of published cases, and a query of the National Poison D...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gormley NJ,Bronstein AC,Rasimas JJ,Pao M,Wratney AT,Sun J,Austin HA,Suffredini AF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether current criteria for the diagnosis of brain death fulfill the requirement for the "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem." DATA SOURCES:Clinical, philosophical, legal, and public policy literature on the subject of brain death. DATA EXTRACTI...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Truog RD,Fackler JC

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate whether admission B-type natriuretic peptide levels predict the development of acute kidney injury in acute coronary syndromes. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:Single-center study, 13-bed intensive cardiac care unit at a University Cardiological Center. PATIENTS:Six-hundred thirty-nine ac...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Moltrasio M,Cabiati A,Milazzo V,Rubino M,De Metrio M,Discacciati A,Rumi P,Marana I,Marenzi G

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Hemodynamic effects of controlled mechanical ventilation (CMV), intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV), and intermittent mandatory ventilation with 5 cm H20 PEEP (IMV 5 peep) were studied in 20 patients after aortocoronary bypass surgery. Significant increases in cardiac index (CI) and stroke volume index (SI) (p le...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mathru M,Rao TL,El-Etr AA,Pifarre R

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the impact of diabetes mellitus on the relationship between glycemia and mortality in critically ill patients. DESIGN:Retrospective observational study. SETTING:Intensive care units of two university hospitals. PATIENTS:Cohort of 4946 critically ill patients including 728 patients with diabetes me...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Egi M,Bellomo R,Stachowski E,French CJ,Hart GK,Hegarty C,Bailey M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect of early administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on hospital mortality in nonneutropenic patients with septic shock, excluding patients with melioidosis. DESIGN:A randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded clinical trial. SETTING AND PATIENTS:Adult patie...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Stephens DP,Thomas JH,Higgins A,Bailey M,Anstey NM,Currie BJ,Cheng AC

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To measure total serum nitrite and nitrate concentrations in children with the sepsis syndrome as an indicator of endogenous nitric oxide production. To determine if there is an association between total serum nitrite and nitrate concentrations and vascular responsiveness to norepinephrine. DESIGN:A prospec...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wong HR,Carcillo JA,Burckart G,Shah N,Janosky JE

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：: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:To evaluate the role of cholesterol and lipoproteins in children with severe meningococcal sepsis. DESIGN:Retrospective observational study. SETTING:A university-affiliated pediatric intensive care unit. PATIENTS:Fifty-seven patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit with meningococcal sepsis o...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Vermont CL,den Brinker M,Kâkeci N,de Kleijn ED,de Rijke YB,Joosten KF,de Groot R,Hazelzet JA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate aortic functional alterations in the acute phase of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and to evaluate the relationship between potential cardiovascular alterations and delayed cerebral infarctions or poor Glasgow Outcome Scale score at discharge from critical care unit. DESIGN:Prospective ob...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Papanikolaou J,Makris D,Karakitsos D,Saranteas T,Karabinis A,Kostopanagiotou G,Zakynthinos E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Extracellular mitochondrial DNA and N-formyl peptides released following tissue damage may contribute to systemic inflammation through stimulation of the innate immune system. In this review, we evaluate existing in vivo human data regarding a role for mitochondrial DNA and N-formyl peptides in producing sys...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lubkin DT,Bishawi M,Barbas AS,Brennan TV,Kirk AD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factors responsible for determining the position of the oxyhemoglobin equilibrium curve during the neonatal period are briefly reviewed and the clinical implications of these changes are examined. Two clinical trials employing exchange transfusions as an adjunct to conventional therapy of the severe respiratory distre...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Oski FA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the effects of recombinant human erythropoietin on brain oxygenation in a model of diffuse traumatic brain injury. DESIGN:Adult male Wistar rats. SETTING:Neurosciences and physiology laboratories. INTERVENTIONS:Thirty minutes after diffuse traumatic brain injury (impact-acceleration model),...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bouzat P,Millet A,Boue Y,Pernet-Gallay K,Trouve-Buisson T,Gaide-Chevronnay L,Barbier EL,Payen JF

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare in the same patient with septic shock, respective effects of epinephrine, norepinephrine, and the combination of norepinephrine and dobutamine (5 microg/kg/min) on systemic hemodynamic parameters and gastric mucosal perfusion using gastric tonometry and laser-Doppler flowmetry techniques. DESIGN:...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Duranteau J,Sitbon P,Teboul JL,Vicaut E,Anguel N,Richard C,Samii K

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the natural evolution of systemic oxygen delivery (Do2) and oxygen consumption (Vo2) in sheep infused with low or high doses of endotoxin. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled experimental study. SETTING:Animal research laboratory at a medical university. SUBJECTS:Twenty-nine chronically instrumented aw...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pittet JF,Pastor CM,Morel DR

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential assessment of renal function in 50 critically ill postoperative patients was done by simultaneous determinants of osmolar, free water, creatinine and sodium clearances, and fractional excretion of sodium. The traumatic and nontraumatic critically ill surgical patients had a characteristic pattern of creatin...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Brown R,Babcock R,Talbert J,Gruenberg J,Czurak C,Campbell M

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Secretoneurin is associated with cardiomyocyte Ca handling and improves risk prediction in patients with acute myocardial dysfunction. Whether secretoneurin improves risk assessment on top of established cardiac biomarkers and European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation II in patients undergoing ca...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Brynildsen J,Petäjä L,Myhre PL,Lyngbakken MN,Nygård S,Stridsberg M,Christensen G,Ottesen AH,Pettilä V,Omland T,Røsjø H

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to quantify the association between intensive care unit-acquired dysglycemia (hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, and high variability) and in-hospital mortality. DESIGN:Retrospective, observational study. SETTING:eICU Research Institute participating hospitals with an active tele-ICU program bet...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Badawi O,Waite MD,Fuhrman SA,Zuckerman IH

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several variables may account for the response of electrochemical skin surface PO2 sensors to anesthetic gases: cathode material and size, pH of the electrolyte and membrane material. These variables cannot be chosen arbitrarily and their influence has been tested with two types of sensors. In one type (LSC), a large ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Eberhard P,Mindt W

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effects of cardiac surgery with and without extracorporeal circulation on the mechanics of the respiratory system, lung, and chest wall. We also determined the time course of those effects. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled study. SETTING:An eight-bed, cardiac-surgical intensive care unit at a u...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Roosens C,Heerman J,De Somer F,Caes F,Van Belleghem Y,Poelaert JI

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The absence of N20 somatosensory evoked potential after cardiac arrest is related to poor outcome. However, discrimination between the low-amplitude and the absence of N20 is challenging. P25 and P30 are short-latency positive peaks with latencies between 25 and 30 ms following N20 (P25/30). P25/30 is eviden...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kim SW,Oh JS,Park J,Jeong HH,Kim JH,Wee JH,Oh SH,Choi SP,Park KN,Cerebral Resuscitation and Outcome evaluation Within catholic Network (CROWN) Investigators.

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：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 determine the effect that acute physiologic derangements have on outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and to design a composite score summarizing these abnormalities. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:Neuroscience intensive care unit in a tertiary care academic center. PATIENTS:Cons...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Claassen J,Vu A,Kreiter KT,Kowalski RG,Du EY,Ostapkovich N,Fitzsimmons BF,Connolly ES,Mayer SA

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00