Critical illness
Developing a theory of family care during critical illness
... Another purpose of the theory is directly related to the concept of empowerment, as both FMs and HCPs can equip them with the resources (physical and psychological) to deal effectively with the critical ...
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Glucose absorption and gastric emptying in critical illness
... The number of subjects recruited was relatively small. Never- theless, highly significant differences were observed between healthy subjects and critically ill patients, suggesting that a study with greater numbers is ...
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Being in limbo: The experience of critical illness in intensive care and beyond
... Numerous studies have examined the experience of critical illness [3-5]. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the experiences of patients have been consistent over time [6] despite advances in technology and ...
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Differences in hospital glycemic control and insulin requirements in patients recovering from critical illness and those without prior critical illness
... The present study failed to find a difference in average daily blood glucose in patients recovering from critical illness and those without prior critical illness. This refutes our initial ...
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Monitoring and optimising outcomes of survivors of critical illness
... In regard to many aspects of outcome after critical illness we have a thorough understanding of the extent of the problems that survivors experience. We have identified some of the factors that relate to ...
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Clinical review: Critical illness polyneuropathy and myopathy
... of critical illness is characterised by prominent myonecrosis, with vacuolisation and phagocytosis of muscle fibres, visible on optical microscopy as sparse, diffuse, or massive ...
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Endotoxemia in pediatric critical illness a pilot study
... The gut provides a second and major potential source of systemic LPS. The indigenous flora of the gastroin- testinal tract contains large amounts of endotoxin, and translocation of both endotoxin and viable bacteria from ...
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Science review: Natriuretic peptides in critical illness
... Critical illness, such as sepsis, trauma and major surgery, is accompanied by an activation of the immune system and mediator cells; that is, macrophages elaborating soluble inflammatory products such as ...
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Context-sensitive fluid therapy in critical illness
... Common to critically ill patients who undergo major sur- gery or suffer from trauma or sepsis are microcirculatory disturbances from capillary leakage due to inflammation. Although fluid administration is useful for ...
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Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) in neurological early rehabilitation: clinical and neurophysiological features
... rehabilitation, critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) and/or myopathy (CIM) are frequent ...of critical care patients ...because critical care patients after failure of weaning accu- mulate in ...
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Extreme Dysbiosis of the Microbiome in Critical Illness
... MODS (5, 6). Our analysis of microbiome data from 115 subjects indicates that the composition of the microbiome in many ICU patients is derived from unexpected sources and differs significantly from that of a healthy ...
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Parenteral glutamine supplementation in critical illness: a systematic review
... following illness and injury, GLN plays a vital role in inducing cellular protection pathways, modulation of the inflammatory response, and prevention of organ injury ...prolonged critical illness, ...
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Hormonal status in protracted critical illness and in hospital mortality
... protracted critical illness ...after critical illness [1-4] and play a major role not only in the response to stress [9,10] but also with regard to patient outcomes ...
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Clinical review: Special populations critical illness and pregnancy
... Critical illness is an uncommon but potentially devastating complication of ...related critical care admissions occur ...Alternatively, critical illness may result from ...
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Tissue Doppler in critical illness: a retrospective cohort study
... We are unaware of any previously published correlations between echocardiographic indices of ventricular filling in crit- ically ill patients. Because of anticipated feasibility and ease of measurement in the critically ...
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Serum chloride levels in critical illness—the hidden story
... Hyperchloremia in critical illness most often results from iatrogenic chloride overload (e.g., 0.9% NaCl infusion with 154 mmol/l CL − ) [1, 12, 27 – 30]. Normal saline has a theoretical SID of zero [1] and ...
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The Association of Vitamin D Status With Pediatric Critical Illness
... pediatric critical illness occurrence, intensity, duration, and associated chronic ...in critical illness, there are no published studies investigating the po- tential role of vitamin D de fi ...
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Influenza virus related critical illness: pathophysiology and epidemiology
... known to occur with a frequency of 30–50% in both adult and pediatric populations [64–67]. Interestingly, it would be more intuitive to assume that CAP would be the most severe manifestation of these co-infections, but ...
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Erythropoietin mimics the acute phase response in critical illness
... inflammatory response, referred to as the anaemia of chronic disease. In this latter category, a relative deficiency in erythro- poietin (EPO) or resistance to the action of EPO has been identified in several studies ...
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External validation of a prehospital risk score for critical illness
... was critical illness during hospitalization, defined as an intensive care unit stay with delivery of organ support (mechanical ventilation or vasopressor ...and critical illness using ...
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