[PDF] Top 20 Year in review 2012: Critical Care respiratory infections

... 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

... Transpulmonary thermodilution is frequently used to determine cardiac output and to evaluate extravascular lung water (EVLW) volume and intravascular volumes (global end diastolic volume (GEDV)). A new trans- pulmonary ... See full document

... a 2012 article in Critical Care , Lossius and col- leagues completed a meta-analysis to review physician versus nonphysician ETI success rates in the prehospital setting ...prehospital ... See full document

... As far as citrate is concerned, three groups examined specific aspects of this regional anticoagulation tech- nique in 2012. Regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA) is an effective and safe alternative to heparin; ... See full document

... endotracheal tube or oronasal mask. Negative airway pressures may be accompanied by an abdominal thrust to enhance expiratory flow. Gonçalves and colleagues [37] hypothesized that MIE might reduce the rate of ... See full document

... Medical emergency teams are used to provide expert critical care services for clinical deterioration promptly in non-ICU wards. Th ere is a large variability in the roles of, composition of and services ... See full document

... the respiratory tract of critically ill patients, are related to increased ...acute respiratory distress syndrome, may cause VACs, and not all patients with VACs may have ventilator- associated ...on ... See full document

... outcomes [35,36]. The use of supports under the ribcage and the pelvis of patients in the prone position (thoraco-pelvic supports) has been proposed as a method to improve the effectiveness of prone positioning by ... See full document

... treat infections, and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, carbapene- mase-producing Gram-negative pathogens, and imipenem- resistant Acinetobacter baumannii emerged as a direct ... See full document

... Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) study limiting tidal volume, three randomized controlled trials failed to demonstrate further improvement in mortality by higher PEEP levels ... See full document

... SVV and pulse-pressure variation, however, necessitate a relatively large tidal volume [25,26] and an absence of respiratory movements [27]. In addition, large pulse- pressure variation can be observed in patients ... See full document

... bloodstream infections (OR ...catheter-related infections in relation to the access site [42], these findings are consistent with many studies concerning central venous catheter-related infections, ... See full document

... patients suffering from ARF and requiring continuous RRT, match controlled by two groups of patients without ARF. Those investigators found that ICU patients with ARF had a mild acidaemia (mean pH 7.30 ± 0.13) secondary ... See full document

... percentage). Respiratory PPV increased significantly during cardiac ...the respiratory fluctuations of stroke volume and PPV decrease in the failing heart in mechanically ventilated ...the ... See full document

... A number of studies in 2013 attempted to improve our prediction of severity of disease, duration of mech- anical ventilation, and mortality from respiratory failure. Supinski and Callahan [74] studied the effects ... See full document

... in Critical Care during this ...with respiratory involvement was characterised by early secretion of specifi c cytokines usually associated with cell-mediated immunity but also commonly linked to the ... See full document

... injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome consensus criteria [1], the epidemiology of AKI, as defined by RIFLE criteria (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss and End-stage kidney disease), is becoming ... See full document

... Kimberger and colleagues therefore investigated the impact of a skin warming system and/or a medium dose of meperidine on thermoregulatory thresholds in healthy volunteers infused with 4°C lactated Ringer’s solution to ... See full document

... unnecessary risks. Recently, in an interesting retro- spective analysis of 1,847 critically ill patients with AKI requiring RRT, Ostermann and Chang [5] evaluated the relationship between biochemical, physiological, and ... See full document

... in Critical Care in ...acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Th e present review summarizes the key results of these studies and discusses them in the context of the relevant scientifi c ... See full document