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A Study on Microbial etiology of Ventilator associated Pneumonia.

A Study on Microbial etiology of Ventilator associated Pneumonia.

... the Respiratory intensive care unit of Government Rajaji Hospital attached to Madurai Medical College between May 2008 and December 2008 ( 7 months period) were ...The Respiratory ...

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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

... Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit A W Norrashidah, MMed*, B H 0 Azizi, FRCP**, M A Zulfiqa[.] ...

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Is there a role for mask continuous positive airway pressure in acute respiratory failure due to COPD? Lessons from a retrospective audit of 3 different cohorts

Is there a role for mask continuous positive airway pressure in acute respiratory failure due to COPD? Lessons from a retrospective audit of 3 different cohorts

... acute respiratory failure requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation are associated with mortality of 35% in the intensive care unit, and total in-hospital mortality of 50% (Anon et al ...

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Suspicion of respiratory tract infection with multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae: epidemiology and risk factors from a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

Suspicion of respiratory tract infection with multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae: epidemiology and risk factors from a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

... Infection was defined as the recovery of an Enterobacte- riaceae isolate from the usually sterile respiratory tract. In this setting it was only possible to use the term “infec- tion” to refer to both the ...

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Determinants of weaning success in patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation

Determinants of weaning success in patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation

... the respiratory mechanics was stud- ANOVA: analysis of variance; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; f: spontaneous breathing frequency; FW: failed weaning; ICU: intensive care unit; ...

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Legionella pneumonia in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada: a case series

Legionella pneumonia in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada: a case series

... and respiratory rate >20 breaths per minute (86 ...the intensive care unit or step-down unit, and nine patients (64 %) required ...

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The importance of dental care in hospitalized patients in intensive care unit

The importance of dental care in hospitalized patients in intensive care unit

... abscess, respiratory infections, ophthalmoplegia, endofitalmite, bacteremia, intra-abdominal infections, suppurative otitis media, the abscess ovarian tube, vaginal infections and chronic ...

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Nutrition in the intensive care unit

Nutrition in the intensive care unit

... Glucose can be oxidized to produce adenosine triphos- phate (ATP), water and carbon dioxide; converted to glycogen for storage in the liver and muscles; or converted to fat. The latter process is called lipogenesis and ...

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Early tracheostomy in patient with severe traumatic brain injury clinical experiences in rural and remote areas

Early tracheostomy in patient with severe traumatic brain injury clinical experiences in rural and remote areas

... special care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) room for respiratory control, mechanical ventilation, neurosurgical evaluation, and intracranial pressure monitoring ...

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Admission Patterns and Outcome in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Nepal

Admission Patterns and Outcome in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Nepal

... Results: 230 children were admitted to the PICU with male to female ratio of 1.7:1. Diagnoses included respiratory diseases (n=76, 33%), central nervous system diseases (n=43, 18.6%), infectious diseases (n=26, ...

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Incidence of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children with congenital heart disease undergoing immunoprophylaxis with palivizumab in Pará state, north region of Brazil

Incidence of respiratory syncytial virus infection in children with congenital heart disease undergoing immunoprophylaxis with palivizumab in Pará state, north region of Brazil

... Data from cases that developed LRTI caused by HRSV were retrieved from medical records. Information regard- ing the length of stay during hospitalization, number of doses of palivizumab received, use of supplementary ...

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Noninvasive assessment of airflows by electrical impedance tomography in intubated hypoxemic patients: an exploratory study

Noninvasive assessment of airflows by electrical impedance tomography in intubated hypoxemic patients: an exploratory study

... the intensive care unit with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF) and acute res‑ piratory distress syndrome (ARDS) undergoing pressure support ventilation (PSV, n = 10) and ...

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Center effect in intubation risk in critically ill immunocompromised patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure

Center effect in intubation risk in critically ill immunocompromised patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure

... Different reasons could be argued to explain these dis- crepancies: First, organizational practices and local ad- mission policies. In this study, we found that intubation risk increased with the annual ratio of patient ...

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: hospital and intensive care unit outcomes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: hospital and intensive care unit outcomes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

... Results: During the study period, a total of 119 patients were admitted to the ICU with acute respiratory failure attributed to COPD exacerbation. The mean age was 72 ± 13 years, and 44 (37%) were females. The ...

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Respiratory compliance of newborns after birth and their short-term outcomes

Respiratory compliance of newborns after birth and their short-term outcomes

... Results: During post-resuscitation care in neonatal intensive care unit, 55.5% (30/54) babies required respiratory support. Among them 7.4% (4/54) were supplemented with oxygen for a ...

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Delirium in the intensive care unit

Delirium in the intensive care unit

... In the only study to date to examine whether there is a genetic predisposition to ICU delirium in some patients, Ely and coworkers [38] evaluated the association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype and duration of ...

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Does eosinophilic COPD exacerbation have a better patient outcome than non-eosinophilic in the intensive care unit?

Does eosinophilic COPD exacerbation have a better patient outcome than non-eosinophilic in the intensive care unit?

... Methods: This retrospective observational cohort study was conducted in a thoracic, surgery- level III respiratory ICU of a tertiary teaching hospital for chest diseases from 2013 to 2014. Subjects previously ...

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Predictors of mortality of patients with acute respiratory failure secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admitted to an intensive care unit: A one year study

Predictors of mortality of patients with acute respiratory failure secondary to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admitted to an intensive care unit: A one year study

... ized for each patient and was the sole prerogative of the treating physician. All patients received regular nebulized bronchodilators including salbutamol (as frequently as 5 mg every 15 minutes to every 8 hours), ...

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Time to positivity as a novel predictor of outcome in intensive care unit patients with sepsis

Time to positivity as a novel predictor of outcome in intensive care unit patients with sepsis

... induce respiratory inflam- mation, mice were exposed for 20 minutes to aerosolized LPS (500 μ g/ml saline) in a chamber connected to an air nebulizer (Miko, CA-MI ...

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