Intestinal nitric oxide output during reduced mucosal blood flow in healthy volunteers.

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

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：:The ICU has been considered a psychologically stressful environment. Although numerous studies have investigated this stress in ICU nurses, virtually none have examined how stressful the ICU is for physicians. This prospective study compares housestaff physicians' ratings of stress in the ICU to other medical-surgical...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Eisendrath SJ,Link N,Matthay M

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the number of adult or pediatric intensive care unit patients without documented invasive fungal infection who receive systemic antifungal therapy. DESIGN:A 1-day cross-sectional cohort study. SETTING:One hundred sixty-nine intensive care units in France and Belgium. PATIENTS:All patients stay...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Azoulay E,Dupont H,Tabah A,Lortholary O,Stahl JP,Francais A,Martin C,Guidet B,Timsit JF

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Comparison of two versions of bispectral index (BIS) derived from the electroencephalogram in mechanically ventilated and continuously sedated patients after major abdominal surgery. DESIGN:Prospective, cohort, observational, unblinded study. SETTING:Surgical intensive care unit of a university hospital. P...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tonner PH,Wei C,Bein B,Weiler N,Paris A,Scholz J

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This report will describe the preparations for and the provision of care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. DATA SOURCES:Patient medical records. STUDY SELECTION:Not applicable. DATA EXTRACTION:Not applicable. DATA SYNTHESIS:No...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Johnson DW,Sullivan JN,Piquette CA,Hewlett AL,Bailey KL,Smith PW,Kalil AC,Lisco SJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Low tidal volume (= tidal volume ≤ 6 mL/kg, predicted body weight) ventilation using volume control benefits patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. Airway pressure release ventilation is an alternative to low tidal volume-volume control ventilation, but the release breaths generated are variable ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hirshberg EL,Lanspa MJ,Peterson J,Carpenter L,Wilson EL,Brown SM,Dean NC,Orme J,Grissom CK

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Conflict is common between physicians and surrogate decision makers around end-of-life care in ICU. Involving experts in conflict management improve outcomes, but little is known about what differences in conflict management styles may explain the benefit. We used simulation to examine potential differences ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chiarchiaro J,White DB,Ernecoff NC,Buddadhumaruk P,Schuster RA,Arnold RM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients (n = 158) who had been respirator-treated and who could remember the treatment were retrospectively (after greater than 2 months) interviewed about their experiences. Of all patients, 47% had felt anxiety and/or fear during the treatment. These feelings were intimately related to the experience of agony/panic...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bergbom-Engberg I,Haljamäe H

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In this study, we evaluated the inflammatory response in patients with severe acute respiratory infection due to the Middle East respiratory syndrome and non-Middle East respiratory syndrome and assessed the presence of distinct inflammatory subphenotypes using latent class analysis. DESIGN:Prospective coho...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Arabi YM,Jawdat D,Hajeer AH,Sadat M,Jose J,Vishwakarma RK,Almashaqbeh W,Al-Dawood A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the thermodilution technique, repeated determination of cardiac index (CI) has become a rapid, easily accomplished, safe procedure. We paired 77 CI determinations measured by direct Fick and thermodilution techniques in 21 patients who underwent myocardial revascularization. Commercially available thermistor-tipp...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Hodges M,Downs JB,Mitchell LA

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) on PaO2 during collapse of a single pulmonary lobe was investigated in seven dogs. Increasing PEEP to the ventilated region of lung increased the proportion of cardiac output flowing to the collapsed lobe and decreased PaO2 and pH. PaCO2 increased at the onset of l...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sánchez De León R,Orchard C,Sykes K,Brajkovich I

更新日期：1985-05-01 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 of a bolus infusion of diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin (DCLHb or hemoglobin crosfumaril) on the ileal mucosal microcirculation in septic rats. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, single-blinded study. SETTING:University-affiliated animal research laboratory. SUBJECTS:Twenty-four male ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sielenkämper AW,Eichelbrönner O,Martin CM,Madorin SW,Chin-Yee IH,Sibbald WJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Pump-driven extracorporeal gas exchange systems have been advocated in patients suffering from severe acute respiratory distress syndrome who are at risk for life-threatening hypoxemia and/or hypercapnia. This requires extended technical and staff support. DESIGN:We report retrospectively our experience with...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bein T,Weber F,Philipp A,Prasser C,Pfeifer M,Schmid FX,Butz B,Birnbaum D,Taeger K,Schlitt HJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute lung injury secondary to smoke inhalation is a major source of morbidity and mortality in burn patients. We tested the hypothesis that nebulized epinephrine would ameliorate pulmonary dysfunction secondary to acute lung injury by reducing airway hyperemia and edema formation and mediating bronchodilatat...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lange M,Hamahata A,Traber DL,Cox RA,Kulp GA,Nakano Y,Traber LD,Herndon DN,Enkhbaatar P

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：: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：: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：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study is to: 1) describe a newly mechanism of blood flow to the brain during cardiopulmonary resuscitation using the impedance threshold device in a piglet model of cardiac arrest, and 2) describe the survival benefits in humans of applying all of the highly recommended changes in the 2005...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Aufderheide TP,Alexander C,Lick C,Myers B,Romig L,Vartanian L,Stothert J,McKnite S,Matsuura T,Yannopoulos D,Lurie K

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of creatinine clearance (CC) in ICU patients was compared using three methods. The reference method (CC 24 h) used measurements of serum creatinine and urinary creatinine after collection of urine over a 24-h period. The other two methods were predictive methods: the Kampmann nomogram and the formula develo...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Martin C,Alaya M,Bras J,Saux P,Gouin F

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Our intent was to evolve a prognosticator that would predict the likelihood that an electrical shock would restore a perfusing rhythm. Such a prognosticator was to be based on conventional electrocardiographic signals but without constraints caused by artifacts resulting from precordial compression. The adver...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Marn-Pernat A,Weil MH,Tang W,Pernat A,Bisera J

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Chronic subdural hematoma is a commonly encountered disease in neurosurgic practice, whereas its increasing prevalence is compatible with the ageing population. Recommendations concerning postoperative thrombosis prophylaxis after burr-hole drainage of chronic subdural hematoma are lacking. The aim of this s...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Licci M,Kamenova M,Guzman R,Mariani L,Soleman J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Acute lung injury with subsequent pneumonia and sepsis represents a major cause of morbidity and mortality in thermally injured patients. Production of nitric oxide by the neuronal and inducible nitric oxide synthase may be critically involved in the pathophysiology of the disease process at different time po...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lange M,Connelly R,Traber DL,Hamahata A,Cox RA,Nakano Y,Bansal K,Esechie A,von Borzyskowski S,Jonkam C,Traber LD,Hawkins HK,Herndon DN,Enkhbaatar P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the long-term outcome of noninvasive ventilation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients who refused intubation for acute hypercapnic respiratory failure. DESIGN:Prospective, observational study. SETTING:Noninvasive ventilation unit in an acute regional hospital in Hong Kong. METHODS...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chu CM,Chan VL,Wong IW,Leung WS,Lin AW,Cheung KF

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Percutaneous cholecystostomy was employed successfully as an alternative to cholecystectomy for the treatment of acute cholecystitis with perforation in an elderly woman. The procedure, performed portably in the cardiac care unit, was selected because progressive cardiac and renal decompensation made the patient an ex...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Longmaid HE 3rd,Bassett JG,Gottlieb H

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：:Ten infants with acquired subglottic stenosis were treated successfully using the anterior cricoid split operation. Eight had been preterm infants who required endotracheal intubation and assisted ventilation for the respiratory distress syndrome. Two had been born at term; 1 required mechanical ventilation for aspira...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Frankel LR,Anas NG,Perkin RM,Seid AB,Peterson B,Park SM

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a neutrophil elastase inhibitor, sivelestat, on lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury through analysis of hemodynamic changes in the pulmonary microcirculation. DESIGN:Randomized animal study. SETTING:Medical school laboratory. SUBJECTS:Twenty-...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Inoue Y,Seiyama A,Tanaka H,Ukai I,Akimau P,Nishino M,Shimazu T,Sugimoto H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00