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Equipment review: Intrahospital transport of critically ill patients
... of critically ill sur- gical patients for reasons such as suspected abdominal focus (74%), acute necrotizing pancreatitis (12%) or sus- pected delayed intra-abdominal organ lesion after trauma (14%) [17] ...
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Glutamine supplementation to critically ill patients?
... motivated. Critically ill patients included in studies of exogenous glutamine supplementation are usually patients admitted to the ICU, sometimes confi ned to only those receiving mechanical ...
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Frailty in the critically ill: a novel concept
... stratify critically ill patients based on frailty and intervene in a similarly-styled multidisciplinary way that targets multiple facets of the vicious cycle of ...the critically ill ...
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Insulin therapy in critically ill patients
... 700 critically ill patients admitted to the pediatric ICU found that intensive insulin therapy resulted in a statistically significant reduction in blood glucose levels, duration of pediatric ICU stay, and ...
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Urinary neprilysin in the critically ill patient
... Critically ill patients (n = 90) fulfilling sepsis criteria [29] at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Department of Medicine III and the Department of Nephrology, Medical University of Vienna have been ...
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Acute kidney injury outcome in critically ill patients
... critically ill. This result is supported by many other study results: One of the earliest studies evaluating the epidemiology of AKI was by Abosaif and coworkers 2005(Abosaif et al., 2005), who studied 247 ...
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Cotrimoxazole - optimal dosing in the critically ill
... The volume of distribution (Vd) for each drug has been determined in healthy subjects with TMP having a much larger volume of distribution than SMX based on differences in lipid solubility [1]. There are only very ...
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Difficult tracheal intubation in critically ill
... In order to address the prediction of difficult airway in critically ill patients, De Jong et al. developed and vali- dated a score (MACOCHA) in a multicentre study in- cluding 1000 intubations in 42 ICUs ...
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Enteral tolerance in critically ill patients
... In critically ill patients, various factors, including diseases; general condition; administration of drugs, such as antibiotics; presence or absence of EN administration; EN administration method; and the ...
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CARE OF THE CRITICALLY ILL CHILD: THE PROBLEM OF DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION
... products of fibrin in human renal disease. : Care of the critically ill child: Endotoxin shock[r] ...
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Advances in antibiotic therapy in the critically ill
... in critically ill patients and their management can be challenging for various reasons, including delayed diagnosis, difficulties identifying causative microorganisms, and the high prevalence of ...
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The vulnerable microcirculation in the critically ill pediatric patient
... The MC consists of vessels with a diameter smaller than 100 μm: arterioles, capillaries, and venules [50]. An optimally functioning macrocirculation does not guaran- tee adequate microcirculatory perfusion if therapeutic ...
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Fetal outcome in the critically ill pregnant woman
... the critically ill pregnant patient is com- plicated by the presence of the ...in critically ill mothers admitted to the ...of critically ill pregnant ...
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Control of hypertension in the critically ill: a pathophysiological approach
... Severe acute arterial hypertension can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. After excluding a reversible etiology, choice of therapeutic intervention should be based on evaluation of a number of ...
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Understanding urine output in critically ill patients
... (UNa) and excretion fraction of Na + (FeNa), to separate prerenal from intrarenal causes of AKI is questionable. First, these urinary markers have been poorly studied among critically ill patients. Recent ...
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Optimizing antimicrobial therapy in critically ill patients
... reported that the serum ceftazidime concentration was ,5 × MIC of the targeted pathogen in 15.7% of patients, and with a target of 40 ± 10 mg/L (P. aeruginosa breakpoint MIC of 8 mg/L), the serum level was insufficient ...
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The critically ill patient after hepatobiliary surgery
... Once admitted to the critical care unit, postoperative mor- tality increased with increasing duration of stay, with patients whose SCU stays exceeded 4.5 days doing signifi- cantly worse. Beyond this association of ...
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Vitamin A deficiency in critically ill children with sepsis
... In conclusion, we found that VAD was associated with se- vere sepsis, septic shock, and higher PRISM score. Our study indicated that VAD may be a marker of mortality in critically ill children with sepsis. ...
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Metabolic support in the critically ill: a consensus of 19
... The individualized approach to nutrition also applies to micronutrients, in particular those that cannot be economized and reutilized. Supplementation of micro- nutrients to ensure adequate daily dietary intake (as ...
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Evaluation of Heart Rate Variability in Critically-ill Neonates
... (30) critically-ill neonates according to Score for Neonatal Acute Physiology with Perinatal Extension II (SNAPPE-II score) were enrolled in this ...from critically-ill cases admitted at ...
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