Diagnosis and follow-up of infections in intensive care patients: value of C-reactive protein compared with other clinical and biological variables.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We have previously described a method for the precise delivery of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) via a conventional, continuous-flow, pressure-limited, time-cycled ventilator. Because of the augmented effect of iNO decreasing pulmonary vascular resistance with high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), we de...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Espinosa RM,Marks KH

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of three samples each of six brands of flow-directed pulmonary artery (PA) catheters was evaluated. In vivo studies determined the reproducibility of PA waveforms over a range of controlled heart rates when compared to those obtained from a transducer-tipped catheter. In vitro studies determined their ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rutten AJ,Nancarrow C,Ilsley AH,Runciman WB

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This report examines the frequency, type, and prognostic factors of medical (nonneurologic) complications after subarachnoid hemorrhage in a large, prospective study. The influences of contemporary neurosurgical, neurological, and critical care practice on mortality and morbidity rates after aneurysmal subar...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Solenski NJ,Haley EC Jr,Kassell NF,Kongable G,Germanson T,Truskowski L,Torner JC

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:With the exception of a few single-center descriptive reports, data on critical care organizations are relatively sparse. The objectives of our study were to determine the structure, governance, and experience to date of established critical care organizations in North American academic medical centers. DES...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pastores SM,Halpern NA,Oropello JM,Kostelecky N,Kvetan V

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevalence and causes of sex-based differences in morbidity and mortality secondary to cardiovascular disease remain controversial. Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a sensitive and specific marker for myocardial injury. Serial cTnI measurements have been used to identify perioperative myocardial cell injury. OB...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schwarzenberger JC,Sun LS,Pesce MA,Heyer EJ,Delphin E,Almeida GM,Wood M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A comparison of federal Medicare databases to identify critical care medicine (CCM) use, cost discrepancies, and their possible causes. DESIGN:A 6-yr (1995-2000) retrospective analysis of Medicare hospital and CCM use and cost, comparing the Hospital Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) with Medicare Provi...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Halpern NA,Pastores SM,Thaler HT,Greenstein RJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As of October 1985, 37 candidates have passed the final examination in intensive care for the Diploma of Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FFARACS). In September 1984, 23 of these successful candidates responded to a questionnaire seeking information on their educational e...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Byth PL,Harrison GA

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart rate variability (HRV) of 82 patients exhibiting sinus rhythm and admitted for possible myocardial infarction (MI) was evaluated. Using a simple information entropy measure to quantify the HRV, patients subsequently diagnosed with MI or experiencing significant dysrhythmia (n = 35) exhibited less entropy (0....

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zbilut JP,Lawson L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a cellular phone would interfere with the operation of mechanical ventilators. DESIGN:Laboratory study. SETTING:University medical center. SUBJECTS:Fourteen mechanical ventilators. INTERVENTIONS:We evaluated change in operation and malfunction of the mechanical ventilators. MEASUREME...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Shaw CI,Kacmarek RM,Hampton RL,Riggi V,El Masry A,Cooper JB,Hurford WE

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A growing number of patients survive sepsis hospitalizations each year and are at high risk for readmission. However, little is known about temporal trends in hospital-based acute care (emergency department treat-and-release visits and hospital readmission) after sepsis. Our primary objective was to measure ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Meyer N,Harhay MO,Small DS,Prescott HC,Bowles KH,Gaieski DF,Mikkelsen ME

更新日期：2018-03-01 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：:Trauma is the leading cause of both morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population, and traumatic injury causes > 50% of all childhood deaths. Significant mortality rates have been reported for children with traumatic brain injury. Although children have better survival rates as compared with adults with traumati...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Mazzola CA,Adelson PD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess whether paralysis alters pulmonary deposition of albuterol delivered by metered dose inhaler and spacer to small animals. DESIGN:A parallel group study of intubated and ventilated rabbits. INTERVENTIONS:Animals in group 1 (n = 7) were paralyzed with intravenous pancuronium, and ventilated at a rat...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fok TF,al-Essa M,Monkman S,Dolovich M,Girard L,Coates G,Kirpalani H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe critical illnesses that occur commonly in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. METHODS:We reviewed and summarized the literature on critical illness in HIV infection using a computerized MEDLINE search. SUMMARY:In the last 10 yrs, our perception of HIV infection and acquir...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Rosen MJ,Narasimhan M

更新日期：2006-09-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To determine if prior total body hyperthermia protected against subsequent acute ileitis induced by the cytotoxic lectin, ricin, in rats. The time course of heat shock mRNA and protein expression in the ileum was determined. The effects of heat stress on small intestinal mucosal integrity, arachidonic acid m...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Stojadinovic A,Kiang J,Goldhill J,Matin D,Smallridge R,Galloway R,Shea-Donohue T

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the multiple biological, metabolic, and pharmacologic effects of supplemental arginine, much effort has been devoted to defining its role in numerous clinical conditions. Herein, we review the multiple pathways of arginine metabolism with its various enzyme systems; the effect of arginine on nutrition, healing, ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Barbul A,Uliyargoli A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The randomized two-way factorial Dressing Study (1,636 patients, 28,931 catheter days) showed that a chlorhexidine-impregnated sponge decreased the incidence of major catheter-related infections from 1.4‰ to 0.6‰ catheter days, and that scheduled dressing changes every 7 days was not inferior to scheduled ch...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Schwebel C,Lucet JC,Vesin A,Arrault X,Calvino-Gunther S,Bouadma L,Timsit JF

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium chloride is administered frequently to critically ill patients to improve cardiac output and BP. However, Ca has been implicated in the pathophysiology of shock and ischemic disorders. To test the hypothesis that Ca may be deleterious to shock outcome, we studied the effects of CaCl and Ca chelator (EGTA) infu...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Malcolm DS,Zaloga GP,Holaday JW

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Goal-directed nutritional support is essential to improving morbidity and mortality. Open abdominal decompression is similarly crucial to the successful treatment of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome. The open abdomen, however, places the patient at risk for potentially significa...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Cheatham ML,Safcsak K,Brzezinski SJ,Lube MW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new device has been developed to estimate continuously and noninvasively cardiac output from the thoracic electrical bioimpedance (CObi). CObi was compared to cardiac output by thermodilution (COtd) in five anesthetized dogs. Blood pressure, blood volume, and blood flow were manipulated by hemorrhage and infusions o...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tremper KK,Hufstedler SM,Barker SJ,Zaccari J,Harris D,Anderson S,Roohk V

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of 56 patients (24 uncomplicated postoperative and 32 septic patients), neopterin and elastase alpha 1 protease inhibitor complex (E-alpha 1 PI) plasma levels were measured daily. The clinical course of each patient was evaluated with the Multiple Organ Failure (MOF) score according to Goris. Neopterin cou...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Pacher R,Redl H,Frass M,Petzl DH,Schuster E,Woloszczuk W

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the limitations of high-dose diuretics and vasodilators and the increasing literature showing that inotropes, regardless of the dose used, have a detrimental effect on mortality, a variety of new agents are under investigation for the treatment of pulmonary and systemic congestion and restoration of cardiac outp...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tavares M,Rezlan E,Vostroknoutova I,Khouadja H,Mebazaa A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Radial artery applanation tonometry allows completely noninvasive continuous cardiac output estimation. The aim of the present study was to compare cardiac output measurements obtained with applanation tonometry (AT-CO) using the T-Line system (Tensys Medical, San Diego, CA) with cardiac output measured by i...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Wagner JY,Sarwari H,Schön G,Kubik M,Kluge S,Reichenspurner H,Reuter DA,Saugel B

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Fever is common and associated with increased mortality among patients admitted to adult ICUs, yet recent literature suggests that the incidence of fever may be decreasing. The objective of this study was to determine whether the incidence of fever in adult ICUs changed over time and the factors responsible ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Niven DJ,Stelfox HT,Shahpori R,Laupland KB

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Initial success with chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia is leading to expanded use through multicenter trials. Cytokine release syndrome, the most severe toxicity, presents a novel critical illness syndrome with limited data regarding diagnos...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fitzgerald JC,Weiss SL,Maude SL,Barrett DM,Lacey SF,Melenhorst JJ,Shaw P,Berg RA,June CH,Porter DL,Frey NV,Grupp SA,Teachey DT

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In acute respiratory distress syndrome, conservative fluid management increases ventilator-free days without affecting mortality. Response to fluid management may differ based on patients' initial central venous pressure. We hypothesized that initial central venous pressure would modify the effect of fluid m...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Semler MW,Wheeler AP,Thompson BT,Bernard GR,Wiedemann HP,Rice TW,National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network.

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the control period in this study, small premature infants, 1500 g in birth weight, had insensible water loss (IWL) of 2.28 g/kg/hr (equivlaent to 54 ml/kg/day), which is considerably higher than in full term infants. Under phototherapy, there was a significant increase in IWL (3.14 g/kg/hr) associated with incr...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Yeh TF,Vidyasagar D,Pildes RS

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the cardiopulmonary effects of the novel endothelin receptor antagonist tezosentan in endotoxin-induced lung injury in sheep and to assess the dose response to tezosentan and endothelin-1 in healthy sheep. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, controlled experimental study. SETTING:University animal l...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kuklin VN,Kirov MY,Evgenov OV,Sovershaev MA,Sjöberg J,Kirova SS,Bjertnaes LJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the accuracy of a technique using capnography to prevent inadvertent placement of small-bore feeding tubes and Salem sump tubes into the lungs. SETTING:Twelve-bed medical intensive care unit (MICU) in a 557-bed teaching hospital. PATIENTS:A total of 25 ventilated adult MICU patients were studie...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Burns SM,Carpenter R,Truwit JD

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00