abstract：:The authors have examined cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills retention in a police force initially trained to instructor level performance skills as defined by the 1977 American Heart Association Instructor Manual. In 1977, the entire Winnipeg Police Force received a basic 8-h course of CPR training with recor...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Tweed WA,Wilson E,Isfeld B

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A commercially available gas-chromatograph (Sentorr Gas Analyzer, Ohio Medical Products, Madison, WI) was tested, featuring continuous measurement of in vivo PaO2 and PaCO2 by means of a thin, heparin-coated catheter, inserted through an indwelling arterial line. Gas tensions are displayed every 4 min. The probes had ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Carlon GC,Kahn RC,Ray C Jr,Howland WS

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemodynamic, respiratory, and cerebral variables during 2 h of standard external CPR were studied in 5 dogs. In an additional 12 dogs, possible augmentation of these variables by Military Anti-Shock Trousers (MAST) was evaluated. In 9 dogs, external and internal cardiac massage were compared. During ventricular fibril...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Bircher N,Safar P,Stewart R

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential assessment of renal function in 50 critically ill postoperative patients was done by simultaneous determinants of osmolar, free water, creatinine and sodium clearances, and fractional excretion of sodium. The traumatic and nontraumatic critically ill surgical patients had a characteristic pattern of creatin...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Brown R,Babcock R,Talbert J,Gruenberg J,Czurak C,Campbell M

更新日期：1980-02-01 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：:Factors responsible for determining the position of the oxyhemoglobin equilibrium curve during the neonatal period are briefly reviewed and the clinical implications of these changes are examined. Two clinical trials employing exchange transfusions as an adjunct to conventional therapy of the severe respiratory distre...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Oski FA

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors placed Swan-Ganz catheters in 11 preterm and 2 term infants with severe cardiopulmonary distress. The infants ranged in weight from 1100-4000 g. The procedure was performed in the neonatal ICU by jugular venous cutdown. Intracardiac pressures and oxygen saturations were measured in each chamber entered. Th...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Todres ID,Crone RK,Rogers MC,Shannon DC

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemodynamic response to a dopamine HCl infusion (10 microgram/kg per min) was measured in 25 adult patients with severe sepsis: there were 6 patients with circulatory hyperdynamic states, 9 patients with myocardial failure, and 10 with hypovolemia. Each patient also had acute respiratory failure. Changes of intrap...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Jardin F,Gurdjian F,Desfonds P,Margairaz A

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven cases of renal failure associated with resection of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and requiring hemodialysis are reported. Previously described series have emphasized the extremely high mortality rate in such patients. In our clinical experience, however, 8 of 11 consecutively treated patients with this cl...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Sapir DG,Dandy WE Jr,Whelton A,Cooke CR

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PEEP is the most important therapeutic intervention in the management of acute respiratory failure. Transitory PEEP disconnection to perform clinically relevant maneuvers is often necessary, but its effect upon PaO2 and physiological shunt in patients requiring high-level PEEP is not clear from the literature. Nine ad...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： De Campo T,Civetta JM

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A closed system device with teflon needle, sideholes, and attached stopcock was designed and evaluated for diagnosis and evacuation of neonatal pneumothoraces. Experience with this device has demonstrated specific advantages over existing needles and techniques. Since the system is airtight, diagnosis of pneumothorax ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fox WW,Eavey RD,Shaffer TH

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A difference between potassium concentrations in arterial plasma and venous serum was evaluated. The difference was 0.5 mM/litre, with a range of 0.1 to 1.1 mM/liter. Multiple factors operating primarily upon the venous sample are responsible for this difference. The value for arterial plasma potassium is stable and p...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Ward CF,Arkin DB,Benumof JL,Saidman LJ

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The right atrial pressure (Pra) was compared to the pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (Pcw) in 54 patients. In patients with heart disease, the correlation of Pra with Pcw was poor. However, in patients without clinical heart disease, Pra approximated Pcw, in both absolute number and change. This finding was independ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Risk C,Rudo N,Falltrick R,Feeley T,Don HF

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP) will only reflect left atrial pressure (LAP) if continuity of fluid exists from the catheter tip to the left atrium. Either increased airway pressure or decreased hydrostatic pressure may lead to discontinuity of the fluid column and midinterpretation of PAWP. Simultaneous measur...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kane PB,Askanazi J,Neville JF Jr,Mon RL,Hanson EL,Webb WR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxygen availability during cardiopulmonary bypass was assessed in 22 patients under hypothermic and relatively normothermic conditions. The patients were divided into two groups, 17 of whom received ACD blood and 5, CPD blood. The mean P50 for all patients fell from a preoperative value of 25.9 +/- 2.4 (SD) to 15.6 +/...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Fisher A,Foëx P,Emerson PM,Darley JH,Rauscher LA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The educational objectives in use in our Pediatric ICU are described. These have importance for educational programs in critical care medicine, in particular, where patient care needs can easily overwhelm educational needs. It is important not to overlook our role as teachers in the development of proper attitudes and...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kravath RE

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A safe, simple, reliable technique for sampling uncontaminated peripheral bronchial secretions in patients with endotracheal tubes has been developed. It is easily performed and requires no special training or equipment. This report summarizes the techniques's usefulness in providing diagnostic samples of peripheral a...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Matthew EB,Holstrom FM,Kaspar RL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seizures in the neonatal period are usually concomitants of serious neurological disease. The convulsive phenomena take certain distinctive and often subtle forms because of the status of the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological development of the neonatal brain. The predominant etiological process is hypoxic-ischem...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Volpe JJ

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation (IMV) provides an alternative method of support to assisted and controlled mechanical ventilation in neonates with acute respiratory failure. Specific advantages include the use of only the level of mechanical support which is required on an individual basis. Because intrapleural pre...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Kirby RR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in prenatal and neonatal care have increased the number of live births and extended the life expectancy of critically ill premature infants. These infants represent a formidable therapeutic challenge in that multisystem involvement and previously uncommon conditions, such as intravascular coagulation, ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Aschinberh LC,Zeis PM,Hageman JR,Vidyasagar D

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients who underwent cardiopulmonary bypass for myocardial revascularization received postoperatively controlled mechanical ventilation (CMV) or intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV), with or without positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). Functional residual capacity (FRC), right-to-left intrapulmona...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Downs JB,Mitchell LA

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doppler ultrasound has been used extensively in assessing adequacy of circulation. We have found it to be convenient in the identification of blood flow, particularly in hypotensive states where percutaneous radial artery cannulation of the vessel is tedious and difficult to perform. The technique is simple, atraumati...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Nagabhushan S,Colella JJ Jr,Wagner R

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arterial catheterization for blood gas analysis and direct monitoring of blood pressure in infants and children can be attended by a variety of complications, which limit its use to short periods of time. An improved technique, consisting of elimination of stopcocks, the use of a continuous flushing system adapted for...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Galvis AG,Donahoo JS,White JJ

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thromboembolic disease ranks among the most dangerous and common complication in the postoperative or post-traumatic patient. As previously mentioned, the incidence is increasing and fatalities from this complication have also risen substantially. The pathogenesis of thromboembolic disease and the predictability of it...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Evarts CM

更新日期：1976-03-01 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：: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：:Clinical impressions about the problem of defibrillation during states of acid-base imbalance and hypoxia have been influenced by studies involving the effect of these derangements on the ventricular fibrillation threshold. Based on body weight, energy requirements for defibrillation in normal dogs were compared to re...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Yakaitis RW,Thomas JD,Mahaffey JE

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newer pulmonary function instruments make measurement of small airway function possible as a routine, inexpensive part of preoperative preparation of patients with obstructive lung disease. Patients with early stages of chronic obstructive lung disease have maldistribution of ventilation and perfusion producing an inc...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Chodoff P,Margand PM,Knowles CL

更新日期：1975-07-01 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：:Pulmonary barotrauma developed in 18/430 patients receiving respirator support for longer than 12 hours. Pneumothorax occurred in 15 of these patients and was treated with tube thoracostomy and 15-20 cm H2O pleural suction. Full reexpansion of the lungs were achieved in all but three patients, two of whom had bronchop...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： Zimmerman JE,Dunbar BS,Klingenmaier CH

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes an unusual hemolytic transfusion reaction. A group O donor was inadvertently transfused with 100 ml of group A red cells during the course of plasmapheresis. Granulocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, hypofibrinogenemia and low levels of factors V, VIII, and IX developed immediately after the infusion. ...

journal_title：Critical care medicine

authors： McKenna PJ,Scheinman HZ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00