High protein intake during the early phase of critical illness: yes or no?

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Lung protective ventilation requires low tidal volume and suitable positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). To date, few methods have been accepted for clinical use to set the appropriate PEEP. The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of PEEP titration guided by ventilation homogeneity using the g...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Zhao Z,Steinmann D,Frerichs I,Guttmann J,Möller K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite quick implementation of reperfusion therapies, a few patients with high-risk, acute, massive, pulmonary embolism (PE) remain highly hemodynamically unstable. Others have absolute contraindication to receive reperfusion therapies. Venoarterial-extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) might lower ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Corsi F,Lebreton G,Bréchot N,Hekimian G,Nieszkowska A,Trouillet JL,Luyt CE,Leprince P,Chastre J,Combes A,Schmidt M

更新日期：2017-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The intestinal microbiota plays a crucial role in human health, which could affect host immunity and the susceptibility to infectious diseases. However, the role of intestinal microbiota in the immunopathology of invasive candidiasis remains unknown. METHODS:In this work, an antibiotic cocktail was used to ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Li M,Li C,Wu X,Chen T,Ren L,Xu B,Cao J

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) was introduced in 1971 for the assessment of heart function at the bedside. Since then it has generated much enthusiasm and controversy regarding the benefits and potential harms caused by this invasive form of hemodynamic monitoring. This review discusses all clinical studies condu...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Hadian M,Pinsky MR

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The purpose of this study was to perform a descriptive, content-based analysis on the different forms of documentation for in-flight medical emergencies that are currently provided in the emergency medical kits on board commercial airlines. METHODS:Passenger airlines in the World Airline Directory were co...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Sand M,Morrosch S,Sand D,Altmeyer P,Bechara FG

更新日期：2012-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Great white sharks are responsible for about 10 cases of death annually worldwide, as compared with millions of deaths caused by sepsis. However, the basic principles of avoiding shark attacks and fighting sepsis seem to be similar: avoidance, attention, and speed, if necessary. The present review discusses the curren...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Westphal M,Kampmeier T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Despite recent interest in measurement of central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2), there are no published data describing the pattern of ScvO2 changes after major general surgery or any relationship with outcome. METHODS:ScvO2 and other biochemical, physiological and demographic data were prospectively m...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Pearse R,Dawson D,Fawcett J,Rhodes A,Grounds RM,Bennett ED

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (vv-ECMO) has been classically employed as a rescue therapy for patients with respiratory failure not treatable with conventional mechanical ventilation alone. In recent years, however, the timing of ECMO initiation has been readdressed and ECMO is often started earlier i...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Langer T,Santini A,Bottino N,Crotti S,Batchinsky AI,Pesenti A,Gattinoni L

更新日期：2016-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of sepsis-induced multiple organ failure may crucially depend on the development of mitochondrial dysfunction and consequent cellular energetic failure. According to this hypothesis, interventions aimed at preventing or reversing mitochondrial damage may have major clinical relevance, although the tim...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Protti A,Singer M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) may damage the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal gland (HPA) axis and disturb cortisol metabolism. There are no available data that relates to the response of the HPA axis in the acute phase of SAH. We aimed to characterise the behavior of serum adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Bendel S,Koivisto T,Ruokonen E,Rinne J,Romppanen J,Vauhkonen I,Kiviniemi V,Uusaro A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stridor is one of the most frequent causes of early extubation failure. The cuff-leak test may help to identify patients at risk to develop post-extubation laryngeal edema. However the discrimination power of the cuff-leak test is highly variable and can be use, at best, to detect patients at risk to develop edema but...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： De Backer D

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the previous issue of Critical Care, Ma and colleagues perform a meta-analysis of five randomized, clinical trials of endothelin antagonists in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. There are four trials using clazosentan and one trial with TAK-044. These studies show that endothelin plays an important ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Macdonald RL

更新日期：2012-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Some guidelines to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) do not establish a recommendation for the preferential use of either heat and moisture exchangers (HMEs) or heated humidifiers (HHs), while other guidelines clearly advocate the use of HMEs. The aim of this study was to determine the incidenc...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Lorente L,Lecuona M,Jiménez A,Mora ML,Sierra A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanically ventilated, intubated patients are at increased risk for tracheal colonization with bacterial pathogens that may progress to heavy bacterial colonization, ventilator-associated tracheobronchitis (VAT), and/or ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Previous studies report that 10 to 30 % of patients with V...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Craven DE,Hudcova J,Lei Y,Craven KA,Waqas A

更新日期：2016-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION AND METHODS:Dynamic fluorescence quenching is a technique that may overcome some of the limitations associated with measurement of tissue partial oxygen tension (PO2). We compared this technique with a polarographic Eppendorf needle electrode method using a saline tonometer in which the PO2 could be contro...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Shaw AD,Li Z,Thomas Z,Stevens CW

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Extracorporeal lung assist, an extreme resource in patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF), is expanding its indications since knowledge about ventilator-induced lung injury has increased and protective ventilation has become the standard in ARF. METHODS:A prospective study on seven adult sheep was ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Livigni S,Maio M,Ferretti E,Longobardo A,Potenza R,Rivalta L,Selvaggi P,Vergano M,Bertolini G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2019. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2019 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Milford EM,Reade MC

更新日期：2019-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Inter-hospital transport of critically ill patients is increasing. When performed by specialized retrieval teams there are less adverse events compared to transport by ambulance. These transports are performed with technical equipment also used in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). As a consequence technical pr...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Droogh JM,Smit M,Hut J,de Vos R,Ligtenberg JJ,Zijlstra JG

更新日期：2012-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary indices are classically believed to allow differentiation of transient (or pre-renal) acute kidney injury (AKI) from persistent (or acute tubular necrosis) AKI. However, the data validating urinalysis in critically ill patients are weak. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Pons and colleagues demonstrate i...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Schneider AG,Bellomo R

更新日期：2013-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Dynamic predictors of fluid responsiveness, namely systolic pressure variation, pulse pressure variation, stroke volume variation and pleth variability index have been shown to be useful to identify in advance patients who will respond to a fluid load by a significant increase in stroke volume and cardiac ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Benes J,Giglio M,Brienza N,Michard F

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The endothelial specific angiopoietin (Ang)-Tie2 ligand-receptor system has been identified as a non-redundant mediator of endothelial activation in experimental sepsis. Binding of circulating Ang-1 to the Tie2 receptor protects the vasculature from inflammation and leakage, whereas binding of Ang-2 antago...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Kümpers P,Lukasz A,David S,Horn R,Hafer C,Faulhaber-Walter R,Fliser D,Haller H,Kielstein JT

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical care medicine in China has made great advances in recent decades. This has led to an unavoidable issue: end-of-life ethics. With advances in medical technology and therapeutics allowing the seemingly limitless maintenance of life, the exact time of death of an individual patient is often determined by the dec...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Li LB

更新日期：2013-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neurocritical illness is a growing healthcare problem with profound socioeconomic effects. We assessed differences in healthcare costs and long-term outcome for different forms of neurocritical illnesses treated in the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS:We used the prospective Finnish Intensive Care Consort...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Raj R,Bendel S,Reinikainen M,Hoppu S,Laitio R,Ala-Kokko T,Curtze S,Skrifvars MB

更新日期：2018-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The goal of the current study was to investigate the effect of aging on the development of endothelial dysfunction in a murine model of sepsis, and to compare it with the effect of genetic deficiency of the endothelial isoform of nitric oxide synthase (eNOS). METHODS:Cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) was ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Coletta C,Módis K,Oláh G,Brunyánszki A,Herzig DS,Sherwood ER,Ungvári Z,Szabo C

更新日期：2014-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:A major pathophysiologic mechanism in sepsis is impaired host immunity which results in failure to eradicate invading pathogens and increased susceptibility to secondary infections. Although many immunosuppressive mechanisms exist, increased expression of the inhibitory receptor programmed cell death 1 (PD...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Chang K,Svabek C,Vazquez-Guillamet C,Sato B,Rasche D,Wilson S,Robbins P,Ulbrandt N,Suzich J,Green J,Patera AC,Blair W,Krishnan S,Hotchkiss R

更新日期：2014-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mobilisation of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) is an area of growing research. Currently, there is little data on baseline mobilisation practises and the barriers to them for patients of all admission diagnoses. METHODS:The objectives of the study were to (1) quantify and benchmark baseline lev...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Harrold ME,Salisbury LG,Webb SA,Allison GT,Australia and Scotland ICU Physiotherapy Collaboration.

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with COVID-19 (COVID) may develop acute respiratory distress syndrome with or without sepsis, coagulopathy and visceral damage. While chest CT scans are routinely performed in the initial assessment of patients with severe pulmonary forms, thymus involvement and reactivation have not been investigat...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Cuvelier P,Roux H,Couëdel-Courteille A,Dutrieux J,Naudin C,Charmeteau de Muylder B,Cheynier R,Squara P,Marullo S

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care a...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Pepe PE,Roppolo LP,Fowler RL

更新日期：2015-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in the critically ill and is associated with adverse outcomes. Although there are plausible benefits from conversion and maintenance of sinus rhythm (the so-called 'rhythm-control' strategy), recent randomized trials have failed to demonstrate th...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： Lim HS,Hamaad A,Lip GY

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The great majority of infections caused by the pandemic variant of the influenza virus (nvH1N1) are self-limited, but a small percentage of patients develop severe symptoms requiring hospitalization. Bermejo-Martin and colleagues have presented a pilot study describing the differences in the early immune response for ...

journal_title：Critical care (London, England)

authors： de Castro IF,Guzmán-Fulgencio M,García-Alvarez M,Resino S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00