[PDF] Top 20 Year in review 2013: Critical Care nephrology

... in nephrology and critical care who can promptly evaluate these patients while they are still in the golden hours of this disease prior to irreversible damage to the ... See full document

... Interestingly, Steinvall and colleagues found that approxi- mately one-half of patients developed AKI during the first week and the other half developed AKI during the next week [1]. Apparently, the burn shock ... See full document

... this review is to summarise the relevant find- ings of research articles that were published in 2013 in Critical Care and other relevant ... See full document

... are critical for treatment deci- ...systematic review assessed the accuracy of BG measure- ments in the ICU by using different techniques (by glu- cose meters and arterial blood gas analyzers) with central ... See full document

... Assessment of disease severity in respiratory failure Although a significant number of patients with respiratory failure die or require prolonged mechanical ventilation, the tools for predicting mortality and morbidity ... See full document

... Infectious complications, particularly in the respiratory tract of critically ill patients, are related to increased mortality. Severe infection is part of a multiple system illness and female patients with severe sepsis ... See full document

... in cardiac arrest was likewise called into question, drawing attention to potential shortcomings of existing guidelines. Mode of transportation to the hospital in trauma and its effect on outcomes were evaluated, ... See full document

... in critical care and nephrology along with additional experts in adult and paediatric AKI, participated in a 2-day conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2005 in order to ... See full document

... concentration of serum citrate [27,28]: impaired hepatic citrate metabolism leads to citrate accumulation and in- creases the T/I Ca 2+ ratio with normal Ca ion [29]. The T/I Ca 2+ ratio was analyzed with similar ... See full document

... Th e Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative workgroup [10] recom mended that researchers study technical aspects of RRT and worldwide utilization of diff erent techniques in order to clarify which renal replacement technique ... See full document

... of critical care nephrology published in 2004 or accepted for publication in Critical Care and, when considered relevant or directly linked to this research, in other ... See full document

... Artefact is one of the potential problems of echocardiography, particularly TTE. Karabinis and colleagues [23] conducted an ultrasound study to investigate echocardiographic artefacts in mechanically ventilated patients ... See full document

... Hüter and colleagues therefore compared a second HES preparation (10% HES 200/0.5) and 6% HES 130/0.42 with a balanced crystalloid solution in a porcine isolated renal perfusion model [51]. After hemodilution in vivo, ... See full document

... In the base case analysis, the authors assumed a high attributable mortality of ICU-acquired candidaemia (40%) and an overly optimistic risk reduction (52%) in mortality with appropriate timely therapy. Of note, in the ... See full document

... anemia in various clinical settings and thus to reduce the need for blood transfusions [16]. In addition, despite unchanged transfusion requirements, a recently published study on the use of EPO in critical ... See full document

... intensive care unit; IR = inflammatory response; IVC = inferior vena cava; Lac = lactate; OD = oesophageal Doppler; PA = pulmonary artery; PAC = pulmonary artery catheter; PAOP = pulmonary artery occlusion ... See full document

... HMGB-1 is a fascinating and markedly complex nuclear and cytoplasmic protein that is readily measurable in the systemic circulation in response to severe injury. The protein has the propensity to bind to a variety of ... See full document

... in Critical Care, Pérez-Bárcena and colleagues [12] randomly assigned 44 patients with TBI and refractory intracranial hypertension to receive high-dose thiopental or high-dose pentobarbital ...intensive ... See full document

... In a pig model of ALI induced by lung lavage and high airway pressure ventilation, the difference in lung volume was measured from pressure-volume curves and the changes in EELV were ass[r] ... See full document

... MRSA is an important cause of pneumonia in the commu nity and often is a severe illness, needing ICU management. Moran and colleagues [20] defi ned the incidence and risk factors for this infection in a pros- pective ... See full document