Acute respiratory
A prospective investigation of interleukin 8 levels in pediatric acute respiratory failure and acute respiratory distress syndrome
... IL-8 levels on each individual day. Due to the skewed distribution of plasma IL-8 levels, a natural log trans- formation was used for the analyses. Basic univariate (in- cluding frequency distributions or means, medians ...
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The role of hypercapnia in acute respiratory failure
... with acute respiratory failure almost always develop gas exchange derange- ments that may result in hypercapnia ...correct respiratory acidosis by slow bicarbonate infusion for blood ...
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Correlation of oxygenation with vascular permeability surface area but not with lung water in humans with acute respiratory failure and pulmonary edema
... We used a single-pass multiple tracer technique to measure cardiac output, extravascular lung water (EVLW) and lung vascular [14C]urea permeability-surface area (PSu) in 14 patients with acute respiratory ...
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Critical care ultrasonography in acute respiratory failure
... Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is a leading indication for performing critical care ultrasonography (CCUS) which, in these patients, combines critical care echocardiography (CCE) and chest ...
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A comparison of four different models of acute respiratory distress syndrome in sheep
... Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is character- ized by the acute onset of bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and severe hypoxemia with respiratory failure, in the ab- sence of ...
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Relationship of Pre Existing Maternal/Caregiver Acute Respiratory Infection in the Pattern and Risk of Acute Respiratory Infection among Infants in Rivers State, Nigeria
... of acute respiratory infection among in- fants and exposure to pre-existing maternal/caregiver acute respiratory infec- tion, was observed in this study, noting that infants exposed to ...
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Viral Etiology of acute respiratory tract infections in hospitalized children and adults in Shandong Province, China
... causing acute respiratory infection are a significant source of morbidity and mortality, espe- cially in children under 5 ...of respiratory viruses among the children throughout the world, but study ...
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Complement Activation Contributes to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Pathogenesis
... evere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) emerged in 2002 and 2003 from coronaviruses circulating in animal markets in China ...of respiratory disease, with over 8,000 human cases and ...
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A randomised controlled trial of an open lung strategy with staircase recruitment, titrated PEEP and targeted low airway pressures in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
... 14. Meade MO, Cook DJ, Guyatt GH, Slutsky AS, Arabi YM, Cooper DJ, Davies AR, Hand LE, Zhou Q, Thabane L, Austin P, Lapinsky S, Baxter A, Russell J, Skrobik Y, Ronco JJ, Stewart TE, Lung Open Ventilation Study ...
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ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASES
... The measles viruses and the various types of influenza viruses have been recognized for some time as primary respiratory tract infections commonly corn- plicated by secondary bacterial i[r] ...
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Outcome after acute respiratory failure is more dependent on dysfunction in other vital organs than on the severity of the respiratory failure
... In a large ARF incidence study from Scandinavia, Luhr and coworkers [1] found an overall 90-day mortality rate among patients with ARF of 41.0%, with no significant difference between patients with ALI or ARDS (42.2% and ...
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Acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: lessons learned from acute respiratory distress syndrome?
... 2. Collard HR, Moore BB, Flaherty KR, Brown KK, Kaner RJ, King TE Jr, Lasky JA, Loyd JE, Noth I, Olman MA, Raghu G, Roman J, Ryu JH, Zisman DA, Hunninghake GW, Colby TV, Egan JJ, Hansell DM, Johkoh T, Kaminski N, Kim DS, ...
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Severe varicella zoster virus pneumonia: a multicenter cohort study
... having acute respiratory failure (ARF) if they met the following criteria: severe dys- pnea at rest; a respiratory rate greater than 30 breaths/min or clinical signs of respiratory distress; ...
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Automatic protective ventilation using the ARDSNet protocol with the additional monitoring of electrical impedance tomography
... lavage-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome ...standard respiratory, arterial blood gas analysis and electrical impedance tomography (EIT) ...
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The effect of diabetes mellitus on organ dysfunction with sepsis: an epidemiological study
... All estimates are presented according to accepted guidelines for the accuracy of NHDS data, restricting use to absolute, unweighted samples of more than 60 patients with relative standard error (RSE) measures of less ...
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Year in review in Critical Care, 2003 and 2004: respirology and critical care
... Although the most obvious clinical abnormalities in ALI and ARDS are referable to the lung, the most common cause of death is dysfunction of remote organs. In a single, medical- surgical intensive care unit (ICU), ...
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Root causes and outcomes of postoperative pulmonary complications after abdominal surgery: a retrospective observational cohort study
... Results: Sixty patients (75% male) with a median age of 64.5 [47 – 81] years who were submitted to urgent or elective abdominal surgery were included in the analysis. Thirty-six patients (60%) developed PPCs within 48 h ...
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Year in review 2012: Critical Care respiratory infections
... ALI, acute lung injury; AMP, antimicrobial peptide; ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; ARI, acute respiratory infection; ASP, antimicrobial stewardship program; ATS, American ...
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Incidence of Outpatient Visits and Hospitalizations Related to Influenza in Infants and Young Children
... specific acute respiratory illnesses and for influenza-associated outpa- tient-visit and hospitalization rates among healthy in- fants and children in a Massachusetts health mainte- nance ...
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Study and interest of cellular load in respiratory samples for the optimization of molecular virological diagnosis in clinical practice
... However, our work has yielded interesting results con- cerning the factors influencing the cellularity of samples and the impact of cellularity on the result of molecular detection of respiratory viruses. We have ...
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