Potential Critical Illness Patients
Circulating retinol binding protein 4 in critically ill patients before specific treatment: prognostic impact and correlation with organ function, metabolism and inflammation
... ICU patients, independently of sepsis, as compared to healthy controls (P < ...0.001). Patients with liver cirrhosis as the primary underlying diagnosis for ICU admission had significantly lower RBP4 ...
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Sleep and Circadian Rhythm in Critical Illness
... of potential neurobiological mechanisms including accumulation of beta-amyloid pathology, abnormalities of tau, synaptic abnormalities, changes in hippocampal long-term potentiation, im- paired hippocampal ...
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Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) in neurological early rehabilitation: clinical and neurophysiological features
... Results: CIP diagnosis was correct in 159 cases (83%). In this study, systemic inflammation, sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), multiple organic failure (MOF), chronic renal failure, liver ...
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Early treatment with IgM enriched intravenous immunoglobulin does not mitigate critical illness polyneuropathy and/or myopathy in patients with multiple organ failure and SIRS/sepsis: a prospective, randomized, placebo controlled, double blinded trial
... The gold standards used to diagnose CIPNM are elec- trophysiological stimulation (EPS) and muscle biopsy. Characteristically, electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction velocity (NCV) studies demonstrate the ...
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Application Progress of Modified Early Warning Score in General Departments
... “potential critical illness” at an early stage and effectively reduce the death ...ill patients” in general ...of patients in general departments remains to be ...
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Protocols in the management of critical illness
... liberating patients from mechanical ventila- tor support already exist, although studies demonstrate mixed results with regards to their performance, possibly related to their application in inappropriate patient ...
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Predicting late anemia in critical illness
... of patients whose hemoglobin concentrations actually fell to the thresh- old, such a group does not exist, even among the 5,170 ICU patients in our ...miss potential predictors that were not recorded ...
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The effect of light on critical illness
... real potential to alter the course of disease and the behavior of persons providing ...of critical illness. How does illness alter the neural and endocrine pathways governing the biological eff ...
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What is the diagnostic accuracy of single nerve conduction studies and muscle ultrasound to identify critical illness polyneuromyopathy: a prospective cohort study
... Our study has a number of limitations. The physician performing the electrophysiologic tests was unblinded, although muscle ultrasound was always performed before NCS/EMG at each weekly visit so that electrophysiologic ...
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Critical illness outcome study: an observational study of protocols and mortality in intensive care units
... several potential limitations to this ...study patients (eg, ventricu- lostomy ...ICU patients simply because the “right” protocols have not been developed ...
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Gut integrity in critical illness
... Therapeutic approaches targeting the intestine Gut epithelial integrity and permeability — basic research No current therapy exists to target the gut epithelium, per- meability, or mucus at the bedside of critically ill ...
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Survivors of intensive care with type 2 diabetes and the effect of shared care follow-up clinics: study protocol for the SWEET-AS randomised controlled feasibility study
... Eligible patients will be approached before ICU discharge and randomised to the intervention (attending a shared care follow-up clinic 1 month after hospital discharge) or standard ...visit, patients will ...
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Understanding the process of recovery from critical illness from the patient perspective: A constructivist grounded theory
... encouraging patients can be just as beneficial as any other evidence-informed treatment because it’s simply what they needed at that ...of patients with critical illness, could that inform ...
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Ebola virus disease and critical illness
... vere illness with hemorrhagic complications, shock, mul- tiorgan dysfunction, and ...after illness onset and can lead to hypovolemia and shock with multisystem organ dys- ...severe illness and may be ...
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Volume 9 | Issue 1 - 2019
... Ultrasound was used to obtain muscle images on days 7 and 14 using a 9 to 13 MHz probe real-time linear array scanner (Siemens). The device settings included gain of 90 & width of 40 mm, and were kept constant during ...
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Risk factors in critical illness myopathy during the early course of critical illness: a prospective observational study
... of Critical-Care Nurses, American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Emergency Physicians, Canadian Critical Care Society, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ...
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<p>Indicators of Critical Illness and Predictors of Mortality in COVID-19 Patients</p>
... of patients with COVID-19 was associated with ...4103 patients in New York City with laboratory-con fi rmed Covid-19 disease, 1999 of them needed hospital admission while 650 of them needed ICU, respiratory ...
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Electrical muscle stimulation prevents critical illness polyneuromyopathy: a randomized parallel intervention trial
... in patients with severe COPD [12,13,23] and CHF [11]. In these patients who could not perform any form of active exercise due to respiratory or cardiac insuf- ficiency, EMS was well tolerated and resulted ...
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Circulating cell death biomarker TRAIL is associated with increased organ dysfunction in sepsis
... A strength of our study comes from the evaluation of TRAIL in patients from 3 independent ICUs with differing practice patterns and baseline characteristics. Using the WC-BOCI cohort as the derivation cohort to ...
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Muscle ultrasound for early assessment of critical illness neuromyopathy in severe sepsis
... Ultrasonography was performed using a 9 to 13 MHz probe real-time linear array scanner (Siemens Acuson, Erlangen, Germany). The initial settings (as contrast) were kept constant during all examinations excluding the ...
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