Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con ethics debate: Should mechanical ven

Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con ethics debate: Should mechanical ventilation be continued to allow for progression to brain death so that organs can be donated" pdf

... October 2002 Vol 6 No 5 Parker and Shemie Con: no, mechanical ventilation should not be continued to allow for progression to brain death so that organs can be donated Michael Parker The number ... and benefits associated with this option? What are the ethical issues raised by this? Commentary Pro/con ethics debate: Should mechanical ventilation be...

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Báo cáo y học: "Pro/Con debate: Should 24/7 in-house intensivist coverage be implemente" pptx

... such adverse outcomes may not necessarily be related solely to differences in intensivist staffing but may also be related to lower levels of staffing in nursing, respiratory therapy, or other medical ... this notion may not be entirely true; the higher mortality observed in teaching institutions may not be related to care delivery by in-training physicians but rather to great...

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 11:22

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Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con debate: Should antimicrobial stewardship programs be adopted universally in the intensive care unit" potx

... approximately 50% of antimicrobial usage being unnecessary or suboptimal in hospital, community or ambulatory settings [3,4]. A recent study showed that approximately 20% of patients admitted to the ... is likely due to its infancy: antimicrobial stewardship programs today are where infection control programs were roughly 30 years ago [40,41]. Because antimicrobials are widely pr...

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Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con debate: Is the scoop and run approach the best approach to trauma services organization" doc

... of prehospital interventions [14]. Efforts to simply dichotomize prehospital systems into either ALS type or BLS type do not sufficiently take into account this heterogeneity. The methodological challenges ... benefit for ALS with two major caveats. First, risk adjustment poses significant challenges in analyses that need to be better addressed. More importantly, ALS – and stay and...

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Báo cáo y học: "Alveolar instability caused by mechanical ventilation initially damages the nondependent normal lung" ppt

... the computed tomography scan has recently been called into question. Hubmayr sug- gests that the increased density seen by computed tomography scan in ARDS patients is caused by open alveoli ... size may therefore not be totally accurate but the qualitative changes are very dra- matic, allowing us to adequately answer our experimental question and to test our hypothesis. In summary,...

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Báo cáo y học: " Principles and Practice of Mechanical Ventilation" ppsx

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Báo cáo y học: "More intrinsic parameters should be used in assessing degeneration of articular cartilage with quantitative ultrasound" doc

... study, should be interpreted more carefully as they can be affected by many experimental and physical factors. In this editorial, we offer our opinion that more intrinsic material parameters should ... techniques. In comparison with conventional ultrasonography for imaging joints, quantitative ultrasound measurements using higher frequencies not only achieve better resolution f...

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Báo cáo y học: "More intrinsic parameters should be used in assessing degeneration of articular cartilage with quantitative ultrasound" ppt

... study, should be interpreted more carefully as they can be affected by many experimental and physical factors. In this editorial, we offer our opinion that more intrinsic material parameters should ... techniques. In comparison with conventional ultrasonography for imaging joints, quantitative ultrasound measurements using higher frequencies not only achieve better resolution f...

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Báo cáo y học: " Free cortisol levels should not be used to determine adrenal responsiveness" pptx

... unnecessary use of glucocorticoid therapy. Commentary The incidence of “adrenal insufficiency” in sepsis and septic shock is believed to be between 30 to 70%. Adrenal insufficiency is frequently ... frequently characterized clinically as hypotension resistant to volume resuscitation and dependent on vasopressors. Two studies in the 1990’s showed that the use of stress dos...

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Báo cáo y học: " Pro/Con Debate: Does recombinant factor VIIa have a role to play in the treatment of patients with acute nontraumatic hemorrhage" ppt

... could be beneficial. Since most indications for rFVIIa remain largely untested, we should struggle to enroll patients into clinical trials that will eventually define which patients do benefit ... perfect efficacy described by many case reports, particularly in upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The reasons to avoid rFVIIa in this patient are as follows: it has not previously been u...

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