The impact of a neurointensivist-led team on a semiclosed neurosciences intensive care unit.

abstract：:Seven dogs with electromagnetic flow probes implanted on their main (QT) and left (QL) pulmonary arteries, had catheters placed in their left atria and pulmonary artery, and were ventilated via Carlen's double-lumen endotracheal tubes. The effect of high-frequency oscillation (HFO) on the redistribution of pulmonary b...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hall SM,Strawn WB,Levitzky MG

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether base excess, base excess caused by unmeasured anions, and anion gap can predict lactate in adult critically ill patients, and also to determine whether acid-base variables can predict mortality in these patients. DESIGN:Retrospective study. SETTING:Adult intensive care unit of tertiary ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rocktaeschel J,Morimatsu H,Uchino S,Bellomo R

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the early myocardial biochemical inflammatory response with the microdialysis technique during porcine endotoxemia and to simultaneously monitor systemic hemodynamics. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled trial with parallel groups. SETTING:Animal research laboratory at the Univers...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mutschler DK,Eriksson MB,Wikström BG,Lind L,Larsson A,Bergren-Kiiski R,Lagrange A,Nordgren A,Basu S

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：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 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：OBJECTIVES:We sought to review findings from recent literature on the postresuscitation care of cardiac arrest patients using therapeutic hypothermia as part of nontrial treatment. DESIGN:Literature review. SETTING:Hospital-based environment. SUBJECTS:Patients initially resuscitated from cardiac arrest who underwent...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sagalyn E,Band RA,Gaieski DF,Abella BS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increases in exhaled nitric oxide have been demonstrated to originate from the lungs of rats after septic lung injury. The aim of this study was to investigate whether treatment with the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) would prevent lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced in...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Aaron SD,Valenza F,Volgyesi G,Mullen JB,Slutsky AS,Stewart TE

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Clinical trial designs that randomize patients to fixed treatment regimens may disrupt preexisting relationships between illness severity and level of therapy. The practice misalignments created by such designs may have unintended effects on trial results and safety. METHODS:To illustrate this problem, the T...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Deans KJ,Minneci PC,Suffredini AF,Danner RL,Hoffman WD,Ciu X,Klein HG,Schechter AN,Banks SM,Eichacker PQ,Natanson C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Postresuscitation care bundle treatment after return of spontaneous circulation in patients experiencing in-hospital cardiac arrest can improve patients' survival and quality of life. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combined therapy of Shenfu injection and postresuscitation ca...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zhang Q,Li C,Shao F,Zhao L,Wang M,Fang Y

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balloon flotation catheterization of the central circulation provides data which may be most meaningful and important to the management of critically ill patients. It allows the measurements of the filling pressures of the right and left ventricle as well as the cardiac output. These data combined with information con...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Swan HJ

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We recently reported that bacterial lipopolysaccharide stimulates release of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha from both human vascular tissue and cultured smooth muscle cells. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that increased intracellular cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) could inhibi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zhang LM,Castresana MR,Shaker IJ,Dalton ML,Leeper-Woodford SK,Newman WH

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of monoclonal antibody to tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha on the hemodynamic alterations and survival rate in rats subjected to intestinal ischemia/reperfusion. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized study. SETTING:Animal laboratory of an institute for research in traumatology. SUBJECTS:M...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Yao YM,Bahrami S,Redl H,Schlag G

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Recently, the definition of sepsis has changed from a physiologic derangement (Sepsis-1 and -2) to organ dysfunction (Sepsis-3) based. We sought to determine the concordance between the different sepsis phenotypes and how that affected mortality. DESIGN:Retrospective, multicenter study. SETTING:Three acade...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Engoren M,Seelhammer T,Freundlich RE,Maile MD,Sigakis MJG,Schwann TA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if there is a difference in nosocomial pneumonia frequency rate in mechanically ventilated trauma patients treated with sucralfate vs. ranitidine for stress ulcer prophylaxis. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized trial. SETTING:A 640-bed urban teaching hospital and trauma center. PATIENTS:Ninety-two...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pickworth KK,Falcone RE,Hoogeboom JE,Santanello SA

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether the provision of computerized physiologic trend data could improve outcome in newborn infants requiring intensive care. DESIGN:Randomized, controlled trial, with subsidiary questionnaire studies. SETTING:Tertiary neonatal intensive care unit with 12 intensive care cots. PATIENTS:All infan...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cunningham S,Deere S,Symon A,Elton RA,McIntosh N

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Thrombotic microangiopathy syndromes are a heterogeneous group of severe diseases that often require ICU admission. Prompt initiation of targeted therapies is required for atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, whereas there is no specific consensus therapy for Shiga toxi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Joseph A,Rafat C,Zafrani L,Mariani-Kurkdjian P,Veyradier A,Hertig A,Rondeau E,Mariotte E,Azoulay E

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the occurrence rate of complications and mortality in patients with severe asthma requiring endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation. DESIGN:Retrospective review of medical records from September 1982 to July 1988. SETTING:Urban, teaching hospital serving primarily indigent patients. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zimmerman JL,Dellinger RP,Shah AN,Taylor RW

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to determine if particulate material within the pulmonary vascular bed could be sampled by aspirating blood from a wedged pulmonary artery catheter. 99mTechnetium-labeled albumin microspheres (20 micrometers) were injected and embolized into the precapillary pulmonary vasculature of 6 critical...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Allen WG,Olsen GN,Williams WH,Yergin BM

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We hypothesized that deficiency in 25-hydroxyvitamin D before hospital admission would be associated with all-cause mortality in the critically ill. DESIGN:Multicenter observational study of patients treated in medical and surgical intensive care units. SETTING:A total of 209 medical and surgical intensive ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Braun A,Chang D,Mahadevappa K,Gibbons FK,Liu Y,Giovannucci E,Christopher KB

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Because of their beneficial effects in patients with hemorrhagic shock and multiple-system trauma, hypertonic saline solutions are increasingly being used perioperatively for volume resuscitation. Although the anti-edema effects of hypertonic saline on brain are well documented in a variety of brain injury pa...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Toung TJ,Chen CH,Lin C,Bhardwaj A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Although studies have indicated that adrenal insufficiency occurs after severe trauma and hemorrhagic shock, it remains controversial whether adrenal function is depressed during the late stage of polymicrobial sepsis. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled animal study. SETTING:A university research laboratory. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Koo DJ,Jackman D,Chaudry IH,Wang P

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Use of antibiotics in critically ill patients may increase the risk of invasive Candida infection. The objective of this study was to determine whether increased exposure to antibiotics is associated with increased prevalence of invasive Candida infection. DESIGN:Substudy using data from a randomized control...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Jensen JU,Hein L,Lundgren B,Bestle MH,Mohr T,Andersen MH,Løken J,Tousi H,Søe-Jensen P,Lauritsen AØ,Strange D,Petersen JA,Thormar K,Larsen KM,Drenck NE,Helweg-Larsen J,Johansen ME,Reinholdt K,Møller JK,Olesen B,Are

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the incidence, diagnosis, and management of septic emboli caused by vascular catheters after surgery for congenital heart disease. DESIGN:Retrospective clinical review. All patients were computer registered. Our database includes daily follow-up and every sign of infection registered. SETTING:Pedi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Erez E,Sharoni E,Ovadia B,Vidne BA,Dagan O

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:As the Surviving Sepsis Campaign was assessing patient-level data over multiple countries, we sought to evaluate the use of a pragmatic and parsimonious severity-of-illness scoring system for patients with sepsis in an attempt to provide appropriate comparisons with practical application. DESIGN:Prospective,...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Osborn TM,Phillips G,Lemeshow S,Townsend S,Schorr CA,Levy MM,Dellinger RP

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumonia accounts for almost half of intensive care unit (ICU) infections and nearly 60% of deaths from nosocomial infections. It increases hospital stay by 7-9 days, crude mortality by 70% and attributable mortality by 30%. OBJECTIVE:Our purpose was to assess the impact of standard operating procedures ad...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Nachtigall I,Tamarkin A,Tafelski S,Deja M,Halle E,Gastmeier P,Wernecke KD,Bauer T,Kastrup M,Spies C

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:When a patient is incompetent, the family is often considered to be a natural surrogate. The doctors' responsiveness to family wishes may vary. We explored if doctors' personal characteristics were associated with responsiveness to the relatives' wishes when admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is consi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Escher M,Perneger TV,Heidegger CP,Chevrolet JC

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess survival after cardiac arrest and to determine whether age is an independent determinant of late mortality or poor neurologic outcome. DESIGN:Analyses using results of Brain Resuscitation Clinical Trial I (1979 to 1984) and Brain Resuscitation Clinical Trial II (1984 to 1989), two randomized, doubl...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rogove HJ,Safar P,Sutton-Tyrrell K,Abramson NS

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Severe coronavirus disease 2019 is associated with an extensive pneumonitis and frequent coagulopathy. We sought the true prevalence of thrombotic complications in critically ill patients with severe coronavirus disease 2019 on the ICU, with or without extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. DESIGN:We undertoo...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mirsadraee S,Gorog DA,Mahon CF,Rawal B,Semple TR,Nicol ED,Arachchillage DRJ,Devaraj A,Price S,Desai SR,Ridge CA,Singh S,Padley SPG

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00