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- 1From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Introduction Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) is a clinical condition frequently seen in patients being treated in critical care units in the final stage of sepsis. The etiopathology of CIP is still...
- 2From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Decreases in oxygen saturation (SO.sub.2 ) and lactate concentration [Lac] from superior vena cava (SVC) to pulmonary artery have been reported. These gradients ([DELTA]SO.sub.2 and [DELTA][Lac]) are...
- 3From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground Recombinant human activated protein C (rhAPC) has been reported to be cost-effective in severely ill septic patients in studies using data from a pivotal randomized trial. We evaluated the...
- 4From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Many innovative cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) systems have recently been proposed by the industry. With few differences, they all share a philosophy based on priming volume reduction, closed circuit with...
- 5From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Several studies have shown that maximizing stroke volume (or increasing it until a plateau is reached) by volume loading during high-risk surgery may improve post-operative outcome. This goal could be...
- 6From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Metabolic acidosis during hemorrhagic shock is common and conventionally considered to be due to hyperlactatemia. There is increasing awareness, however, that other nonlactate, unmeasured anions...
- 7From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground Trauma is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity, with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and uncontrolled hemorrhage responsible for the majority of these deaths. Recombinant activated factor VIIa (rFVIIa)...
- 8From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Various cohort studies have shown that acute (short-term) mortality rates in unselected critically ill patients may have improved during the past 15 years. Whether these benefits also affect acute and...
- 9From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Positive pressure ventilation with large tidal volumes has been shown to cause release of cytokines, including macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2), a functional equivalent of human IL-8, and...
- 10From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The clinical and economic burden of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is uncontested. We conducted the present study to determine whether low nurse-to-patient ratio increases the risk for VAP and...
- 11From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Protective ventilatory strategies have been applied to prevent ventilator-induced lung injury in patients with acute lung injury (ALI). However, adjustment of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) to...
- 12From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Prediction of death and prolonged mechanical ventilation is important in terms of projecting resource utilization and in establishing protocols for clinical studies of acute lung injury (ALI). We aimed...
- 13From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction We sought to determine and compare the effects of vasopressin, fluid resuscitation and saline placebo on haemodynamic variables and short-term survival in an abdominal vascular injury model with...
- 14From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedBackground The aim of the present study was to evaluate the C-reactive protein level, the body temperature and the white cell count in patients after prescription of antibiotics in order to describe the clinical...
- 15From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The present study compared measurements of cardiac output by an arterial pressure-based cardiac output (APCO) analysis method with measurement by intermittent thermodilution cardiac output (ICO) via...
- 16From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The objective of the present study was to compare postoperative cardiac troponin I (cTnI) release and the thresholds of cTnI that predict adverse outcome after elective coronary artery bypass graft...
- 17From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Sepsis is the main cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units and its early diagnosis is not straightforward. Many studies have evaluated the usefulness of various markers of infection,...
- 18From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Introduction Methadone, the most widely delivered maintenance therapy for heroin addicts, may be responsible for life-threatening poisonings with respiratory depression. The toxicokinetics and the...
- 19From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Accurate and timely diagnosis of community-acquired bacterial infections in patients with systemic inflammation remains challenging both for clinician and laboratory. Combinations of markers, as opposed...
- 20From: Critical Care. (Vol. 11) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Recombinant human activated protein C (APC) therapy has been shown to reduce short-term mortality in patients with severe sepsis. However, survivors of sepsis may have long-term complications affecting...