Effect of continuous lateral rotational therapy on the prevalence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients requiring long-term ventilatory care.

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：OBJECTIVE:Acute aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a complex multifaceted disorder that plays out over days to weeks. Many patients with SAH are seriously ill and require a prolonged intensive care unit stay. Cardiopulmonary complications are common. The management of patients with SAH focuses on the anticipat...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Diringer MN

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the reliability of volitional and nonvolitional limb muscle strength assessment in critically ill patients and to provide guidelines for the implementation of limb muscle strength assessment this population. DATA SOURCES:The following computerized bibliographic databases were searched with MeSH...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Vanpee G,Hermans G,Segers J,Gosselink R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the blood discard volume, as a multiple of deadspace, that is required for accurate arterial blood gas and electrolyte testing from arterial catheters. DESIGN:Prospective, controlled, crossover trial. SETTING:Eighteen-bed intensive care unit of a metropolitan teaching hospital. PATIENTS:A tota...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rickard CM,Couchman BA,Schmidt SJ,Dank A,Purdie DM

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Clinical applications of inhaled nitric oxide (NO) therapy resulted in the development of delivery systems and monitoring devices applicable to routine clinical care. This article presents the various components necessary for an adequate clinical use of inhaled NO, and discusses the NO gas mixture cylinders,...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Francoe M,Troncy E,Blaise G

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review current knowledge about the impact of prolonged mechanical ventilation on diaphragmatic function and biology. MEASUREMENTS:Systematic literature review. CONCLUSIONS:Prolonged mechanical ventilation can promote diaphragmatic atrophy and contractile dysfunction. As few as 18 hrs of mechanical ventil...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Powers SK,Kavazis AN,Levine S

更新日期：2009-10-01 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 prospectively evaluate the oxygenation effect of inhaled nitric oxide (INO) delivered during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in adult patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome and oxygenation failure. DESIGN Prospective, clinical study. SETTING:Intensive care unit of a university teachi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mehta S,MacDonald R,Hallett DC,Lapinsky SE,Aubin M,Stewart TE

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To show that subjective estimate of patient's condition is related to objective cognitive and functional outcome in cardiac arrest survivors. DESIGN:Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING:ICU and Neuropsychology Service in two hospitals in Switzerland. PATIENTS:Fifty survivors included from a prospective coho...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Juan E,De Lucia M,Beaud V,Oddo M,Rusca M,Viceic D,Clarke S,Rossetti AO

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To define the hemodynamic and gastric intramucosal PCO2 (PiCO2) changes during the first 48 hrs after burn trauma and to analyze their relationship with outcome. DESIGN:Prospective, observational study in a cohort of consecutively admitted critically ill burn patients. SETTING:Intensive care burn unit in a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Lorente JA,Ezpeleta A,Esteban A,Gordo F,de la Cal MA,Díaz C,Arévalo JM,Tejedor C,Pascual T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary objective of this study was to identify which patient demographic, patient health, and hospital characteristics were associated with in-hospital mortality. A secondary objective was to determine the relative influence of these characteristics on mortality. DESIGN AND SETTING:Public-use data for ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Banta JE,Joshi KP,Beeson L,Nguyen HB

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Guidelines recommend offering family members of critically ill patients the option to attend interdisciplinary team rounds as a way to improve communication and satisfaction. Uncertainty remains around the benefits and risks. DESIGN:We conducted an observational study to describe family participation in ICU...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Au SS,Roze des Ordons AL,Parsons Leigh J,Soo A,Guienguere S,Bagshaw SM,Stelfox HT

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Leucine-rich repeat and immunoglobulin domain-containing protein (LINGO)-1 is expressed in neural stem cells, and its neutralization results in sustained neuronal immaturity. Thus, targeted inhibition of LINGO-1 via RNA interference may enhance transplanted neural stem cell survival and neuronal differentiati...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chen N,Cen JS,Wang J,Qin G,Long L,Wang L,Wei F,Xiang Q,Deng DY,Wan Y

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Periodic diagnostic tests and continuous and intermittent monitoring are integral to critical care medicine. The focus of this article is understanding the impact of existing diagnostic technology, as well as that of new diagnostic technology. DATA SYNTHESIS:We use literature about gastric tonometry to illustr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Keenan SP,Guyatt GH,Sibbald WJ,Cook DJ,Heyland DK,Jaeschke RZ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the effect of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy on platelet function and number and to determine the in vivo survival of transfused platelets during ECMO. DESIGN:Prospective study of all neonates treated with ECMO during a 6-month period. SETTING:Neonatal intensive care unit in ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Robinson TM,Kickler TS,Walker LK,Ness P,Bell W

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:An increasing number of ICU patients survive and develop mental, cognitive, or physical impairments. Various interventions support recovery from this postintensive care syndrome. Physicians in charge of post-ICU patients need to know which interventions are effective. DATA SOURCES:Systematic literature searc...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mehlhorn J,Freytag A,Schmidt K,Brunkhorst FM,Graf J,Troitzsch U,Schlattmann P,Wensing M,Gensichen J

更新日期：2014-05-01 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:To investigate the relationship between nitric oxide production, endotoxemia, and hemodynamic alterations in human septic shock. DESIGN:Prospective study. SETTING:A 32-bed intensive care unit in a university referral hospital. PATIENTS:Two groups of septic patients with shock (n = 13) or without shock (n =...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Gómez-Jiménez J,Salgado A,Mourelle M,Martín MC,Segura RM,Peracaula R,Moncada S

更新日期：1995-02-01 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:To compare urea nitrogen removal by continuous hemodiafiltration vs. functional native kidneys in critically ill, septic patients receiving > 2 g of amino acids/kg body weight per day. DESIGN:Prospective, comparative, unblinded study. SETTING:Trauma critical care units of a Level I adult trauma hospital. P...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Frankenfield DC,Reynolds HN,Wiles CE 3rd,Badellino MM,Siegel JH

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the physiologic mechanisms of ventilator-induced lung injury and to define the major ventilator and host-dependent risk factors that contribute to such injury. DATA SOURCE:Basic science and clinical studies related to ventilator-induced barotrauma and lung pathophysiology. STUDY SELECTION:Empha...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Parker JC,Hernandez LA,Peevy KJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：BACKGROUND AND METHODS:A study was performed to examine the effects of the calcium-channel blocker levemopamil on neurologic outcome and neuropathology in a clinically relevant model of complete global cerebral ischemia (ventricular fibrillation in cats). Levemopamil was administered to cats starting 5 mins after resus...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fleischer JE,Nakakimura K,Drummond JC,Scheller MS,Zornow MH,Grafe MR,Shapiro HM

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that nebulized nitroprusside and inhaled nitric oxide would not differ in producing selective pulmonary vasodilation during hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension in piglets. SETTING:University laboratory. SUBJECTS:Five piglets. INTERVENTIONS:Piglets (n = 5) were anesthetized and ins...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schreiber MD,Dixit R,Rudinsky B,Hipps R,Morgan SE,Keith RRT A,Meadow W

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hemoccult slide test is used frequently to test for the presence of occult blood in samples of gastric juice obtained from critically ill patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the accuracy of this test to determine the presence of blood in human gastric juice at various pH values. Gastric aspirate...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Long PC,Wilentz KV,Sudlow G,Skillman JJ

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The validity of the urinary urea nitrogen (UUN) estimate of total urinary nitrogen (TUN) was tested in patients who required iv nutrition. UUN and TUN were determined in 120 urine collections from ten preoperative, 13 postoperative, and 11 stressed patients. The relationship between TUN and UUN was examined by linear ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Loder PB,Kee AJ,Horsburgh R,Jones M,Smith RC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Swallowing disorders may be associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients following invasive mechanical ventilation. We investigated the incidence of dysphagia, its time course, and association with clinically relevant outcomes in extubated critically ill patients. DESIGN:Prospective observational t...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schefold JC,Berger D,Zürcher P,Lensch M,Perren A,Jakob SM,Parviainen I,Takala J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To review the rationale for adenosine triphosphate-magnesium chloride (ATP-MgCl2) administration in shock, ischemia, and sepsis; the beneficial effects on cellular and organ functions and survival; and possible mechanisms of these effects. DATA SOURCES:Current literature review. STUDY SELECTION:Articles deeme...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Harkema JM,Chaudry IH

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the cardiopulmonary and peripheral circulatory effects of the nonselective nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) to the more selective inducible NOS inhibitor S-methylisothiourea (SMT) and to phenylephrine (PE) in endotoxic and normal swine. DESIGN:Prospec...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cohen RI,Shapir Y,Davis A,Loona R,Scharf SM

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00