[PDF] Top 20 The incretin effect in critically ill patients: a case–control study

... in patients and control sub- jects during the OGTT despite the presence of much higher blood glucose levels in critically ill patients throughout the ...fact, patients’ blood ... See full document

... in critically ill patients with anemia has not been unequivo- cally successful ...in critically ill, such as supplementation of recombinant erythropoietin, have shown benefit [16], but ... See full document

... (36 patients) or hemodiafiltration (42 patients), did not differ between ...periods. Patients were more severely ill in the period 2003 to 2004, as assessed by higher SAPS II and SOFA scores ... See full document

... thrombocytopenic patients required more blood product ...in patients who received blood transfusions [31]. Another study [32], however, did not confirm this relation- ...control ... See full document

... ventilated patients of a combined medical and surgical ICU ...trauma patients transported for diagnostic studies, a change in blood pressure (of more than 20 mmHg) and in pulse rate (of more than 20 ... See full document

... present study, it was found that the mean Nosocomial Infection Manifestation Score was higher ...in patients who were resistant to antibiotics and ...present study reveals that Nosocomial Infection ... See full document

... in patients with higher SOFA scores is not well ...the effect of carnitine infusion in vasopressor-dependent septic shock patients based on this hypothesis ...this study, early infusion of L ... See full document

... exclude patients with predicted difficult airways in every case except in the trial performed by Lacarrou et ...this study [10], meta-analyses [11, 12] were ... See full document

... of critically-ill ...hospitalized patients should be a routine part of patients assessment because the patients sleep quality may reveal more information about the patients ... See full document

... acutely ill patients [58]. In a study published after this review, light therapy did not reduce the incidence of delirium in the critically ill and it is possible that it was less ... See full document

... Efferent control of heart rate is through the autonomic nervous ...variable effect of input from one limb of the autonomic nervous system depending upon the input from the opposing ... See full document

... nonobese patients (≤ 115 kg) and to 200 mg/24-h for those with body weight > 115 ...obese patients [5, 15, 31, 32] due to inadequate exposure with standards doses, as described with micafun- gin [26, ... See full document

... significant increase in post-myocardial infarction mortality among patients with diabetes compared with those without diabetes both during the acute hospital stay (25% versus 16%; P , 0.02) and over the year ... See full document

... our study confirms this association between hypoglycemia and mortality, at least when considering patients with severe hypoglycemia and multiple hypoglycemic events (Tables 3 and ...present study, ... See full document

... of patients, target for dosing, and eff ect of treatment are often not very well ...motivated. Critically ill patients included in studies of exogenous glutamine supplementation are usually ... See full document

... Data was taken from a database of previously collected SAPS 3 scores of all ICU patients admitted during the stated period. A standardized data collection form was used (see Additional file 1), which included all ... See full document

... in critically ill patients is almost associated with bad prognosis and its early detection may improve the ...these patients depending on the traditional markers of infection or inflammatory ... See full document

... To monitor for ongoing seizure activity after convul- sions may have ceased, cEEG is crucial. Second-line ther- apy for SE should be initiated within 30 min if first-line treatment has failed. Agents used as second-line ... See full document

... this study we found an elevation in serum AST of 38 % and 35 %, and an elevation in serum ALT of 33 % and 29 %, in patients treated with anidulafungin or micafungin, ...this study is much higher, but ... See full document

... Another study showed that both metoclopramide and erythromycin decreased GRV in a similar efficacy ...in patients with high risk of aspiration or those with intolerance to gastric ... See full document