Diabetes mellitus does not adversely affect outcomes from a critical illness.

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

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：OBJECTIVES:Interventions that reduce the generation or the effects of reactive oxygen species exert controversial effects in animal models of lung injury, and these could be secondary to the pro-oxidant effects of antioxidants generally by their interaction with iron. We here describe the effects of N-acetylcysteine, d...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ritter C,da Cunha AA,Echer IC,Andrades M,Reinke A,Lucchiari N,Rocha J,Streck EL,Menna-Barreto S,Moreira JC,Dal-Pizzol F

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Expert task forces have proposed that adult critical care medicine services should be regionalized in order to improve outcomes. However, it is currently unknown if high intensive care unit (ICU) patient volumes are associated with reduced mortality rate. The objective was to investigate whether high-volume I...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Glance LG,Li Y,Osler TM,Dick A,Mukamel DB

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the recall of 100 patients after ICU admission. There was a wide spectrum of race, religion, occupation, and educational levels. The more common diagnoses included asthma, pneumonia, trauma, and adult respiratory distress syndrome. The average Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Turner JS,Briggs SJ,Springhorn HE,Potgieter PD

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:Oral amiodarone's slow absorption handicaps rapid treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias. We used iv amiodarone to treat ten patients with hemodynamically significant atrial arrhythmias and life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias refractory to all conventional medical treatment. Arrhythmias were controlled in nine...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Alves LE,Rose EP,Cahill TB Jr

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether mean arterial blood pressure excursions below the lower limit of cerebral blood flow autoregulation during cardiopulmonary bypass are associated with acute kidney injury after surgery. SETTING:Tertiary care medical center. PATIENTS:Four hundred ten patients undergoing cardiac surgery w...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ono M,Arnaoutakis GJ,Fine DM,Brady K,Easley RB,Zheng Y,Brown C,Katz NM,Grams ME,Hogue CW

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：OBJECTIVES:The American College of Critical Care Medicine provided 2002 and 2007 guidelines for hemodynamic support of newborn and pediatric septic shock. Provide the 2014 update of the 2007 American College of Critical Care Medicine "Clinical Guidelines for Hemodynamic Support of Neonates and Children with Septic Shoc...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Davis AL,Carcillo JA,Aneja RK,Deymann AJ,Lin JC,Nguyen TC,Okhuysen-Cawley RS,Relvas MS,Rozenfeld RA,Skippen PW,Stojadinovic BJ,Williams EA,Yeh TS,Balamuth F,Brierley J,de Caen AR,Cheifetz IM,Choong K,Conway E Jr,Cor

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although hepatic cytochrome P-450 protein concentrations are altered following endotoxin shock, changes in P-450 isoforms in sepsis have not been fully investigated. The aim of this study was to determine whether the major P-450 isoform in rat liver (i.e., CYP1A2) is down-regulated during the progression of s...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Crawford JH,Yang S,Zhou M,Simms HH,Wang P

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although the majority of sudden cardiac arrests occur in patients with ischemic heart disease, the effect of therapeutic hypothermia on arrhythmia susceptibility during acute global ischemia is not well understood. While both ischemia and severe hypothermia are arrhythmogenic, patients undergoing therapeutic...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Piktel JS,Rosenbaum DS,Wilson LD

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased cardiac index, oxygen delivery (DO2), and oxygen consumption (VO2) patterns were shown to characterize the physiologic status of surviving high-risk surgical patients, and indicate increased metabolic needs; relatively normal DO2 and VO2 values were found to characterize the sequential pattern of n...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Shoemaker WC,Appel PL,Kram HB

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring gas exchange in critically ill patients can provide valuable information on their nutritional status and energy expenditure. Several semiautomated machines are available for measuring oxygen consumption (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2). This study evaluated, under controlled laboratory conditions, ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Eccles RC,Swinamer DL,Jones RL,King EG

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Severe thermal injury causes immune dysfunctions involving both pro- and anti-inflammatory mechanisms. It subsequently leads to a state of immune deficiency that shares some similarities with sepsis-induced immunosuppression. A hallmark of the latter is established by decreased monocyte human leukocyte antige...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Venet F,Tissot S,Debard AL,Faudot C,Crampé C,Pachot A,Ayala A,Monneret G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of clinical diagnoses compared to autopsy findings in critically ill patients in the current medical era. DESIGN:We conducted a retrospective, blinded review of matched medical records and postmortem findings in patients who died between June 2006 and ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fröhlich S,Ryan O,Murphy N,McCauley N,Crotty T,Ryan D

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of halothane on electrodes covered with polypropylene and FEP teflon membranes, used for monitoring transcutaneous oxygen tension, was compared in vitro and in patients anesthetized with halothane. In vitro experiments with halothane showed a false increase in PO2 measured by the electrode covered with poly...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Samra SK

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the amount of nutrients delivered, prescribed, and required for critically ill patients and to identify the reasons for discrepancies between prescriptions and requirements and between prescriptions and actual delivery of nutrition. DESIGN:Prospective cohort study. SETTING:Twelve-bed medical inte...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： De Jonghe B,Appere-De-Vechi C,Fournier M,Tran B,Merrer J,Melchior JC,Outin H

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Venous thromboembolic disease is among the most common causes of morbidity and mortality during pregnancy. The clinical evaluation alone is insufficient for the diagnosis of venous thromboembolic disease, and the normal pregnant state makes this evaluation even more challenging. DIAGNOSIS:Objective testing ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Stone SE,Morris TA

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the feasibility and safety of delivering early goal-directed sedation compared with standard sedation. DESIGN:Pilot prospective, multicenter, randomized, controlled trial. SETTING:Six ICUs. PATIENTS:Critically ill adults mechanically ventilated for greater than 24 hours. INTERVENTIONS:Patients r...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Shehabi Y,Bellomo R,Reade MC,Bailey M,Bass F,Howe B,McArthur C,Murray L,Seppelt IM,Webb S,Weisbrodt L,Sedation Practice in Intensive Care Evaluation Study Investigators.,Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury (AKI) is commonly and increasingly encountered in patients with critical illness. In the past, epidemiologic studies have consistently found that oliguria further increases the risk of death from AKI. Compared with patients outside the intensive care unit (ICU), critically ill patients are more lik...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bagshaw SM,Bellomo R,Kellum JA

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfluorocarbon (PFC) emulsions are promising oxygen-carrying blood supplements for the treatment of shock and in organ preservation for transplantation. We used the isolated, blood-perfused, canine right lower lung lobe (RLL) to determine the effect of a PFC emulsion, Oxypherol (FC-43), upon lung fluid balance and he...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hall JE,Ehrhart IC,Hofman WF

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether the delivered nitric oxide (NO) concentration is affected by a change in the ventilatory setting during neonatal mechanical ventilatory support. DESIGN:Prospective, experimental study. SETTING:Laboratory at Nagoya City University Medical School. INTERVENTIONS:This study was performed by u...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Yamaguchi N,Togari H,Suzuki S

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:The authors evaluated the effectiveness of 6% hydroxyethyl starch (hetastarch) solution for treatment of hypovolemia in 46 critically ill patients. Thirty-two of the patients were studied retrospectively and in 14 patients, cardiopulmonary variables were prospectively measured. A total of 29 patients were in shock sec...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Puri VK,Paidipaty B,White L

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the point prevalence of medication errors at the time of transition of care from an ICU to non-ICU location and assess error types and risk factors for medication errors during transition of care. DESIGN:This was a multicenter, retrospective, 7-day point prevalence study. SETTING:Fifty-eight I...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tully AP,Hammond DA,Li C,Jarrell AS,Kruer RM

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients with severe sepsis have high mortality that is improved by timely, often expensive, treatments. Patients without insurance are more likely to delay seeking care; they may also receive less intense care. DESIGN:We performed a retrospective analysis of administrative database-Healthcare Costs and Util...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kumar G,Taneja A,Majumdar T,Jacobs ER,Whittle J,Nanchal R,Milwaukee Initiative in Critical Care Outcomes Research (MICCOR) Group of Investigators.

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increasing age is a well-recognized risk factor for in-hospital mortality in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for cardiogenic shock, but the shape of this relationship is unknown. In addition, the impact of age on hospital length of stay, patterns of patient disposition, and costs has b...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chung M,Zhao Y,Strom JB,Shen C,Yeh RW

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess prospectively the variations of serum phosphorus concentration (P) after onset of mechanical ventilation (MV) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute respiratory acidosis. In 14 COPD patients, we measured P, PaCO2, and pH, immediately before MV (H0), ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Laaban JP,Grateau G,Psychoyos I,Laromiguière M,Vuong TK,Rochemaure J

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the ability of two methods--Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) and Mortality Prediction Model (MPM)--to predict hospital outcome for a large group of intensive care patients from Britain and Ireland. DESIGN:Prospective, multicenter, cohort study. SETTING:Twenty-six general...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rowan KM,Kerr JH,Major E,McPherson K,Short A,Vessey MP

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00