... help refine the best
empiric anti-Candida strategy for ICU patients with sepsis.
Competing interests
YG has received research funding and is on the advisory
board for Merck and Pfizer. YG is also ... age-matched
representatives of the general population [12,13]. These over-
estimations exaggerate the affordability of empiric micafungin.
Nevertheless, the main fin...
... about your thinking style?"
These questions should allow the patient to internalise
the strategy they have used as well as reflect on the tasks in
terms of thinking style. The evaluation ... was obtained from
SLAM and the Institute of Psychiatry Ethics committee.
Patients were informed as to the purpose of the treatment
and that they could withdraw at any stage.
All of...
... included
in the study. The median age of the patients was
58 ± 16 years. The duration of stay of the patients in the ICU
was 7.4 ± 6.78 days. The final, retrospectively confirmed
diagnoses of all patients ... of inflammatory markers for prediction of
tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 in patients with
systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) or...
... ischaemic brain injury [54,66-68].
Profound hyperventilation may also jeopardise oxygen
delivery to the brain tissue at risk. The underlying physio-
logical mechanism is the Bohr effect: In the ... from
infarcted tissue may be detrimental by primarily dehydrating
intact brain, contracting healthy brain tissue volume, thereby
aggravating pressure differentials, and causing devastat...
... AChEIs clearly fit the updated definition of effective
treatment by improving or maintaining all domains of AD
(cognition, ADL, and behavior) in the short term, and by
slowing the decline in these ... [64]
in the treatment of agitation.
Importantly, the potential psychotropic effects of ChEIs
have also been increasingly explored. The cholinergic hy-
pothesis of the 1980s l...
... pseudotypes bearing the T271I
mutant Envs in the entry assay (Fig. 3A and 3B), in the
syncytial assay, the Δ2N mutant Envs showed a marked
reduction in syncytia formation compared with the T271I
mutants. ... removal of the N-linked glyco-
sylation may have enhanced the ability of the Env to
interact with CXCR4, either facilitating partial CD134-
independent entry or...
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patients with ALI will need different therapy from patients with
cardiogenic pulmonary edema, for whom they may be mis-
taken. Second, for the intensivist, the question ... respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is
an inflammatory lung injury involving both endothelial and epi-
thelial layers of the alveolar-capillary membrane, with su...
... reactions in the community. Prescribing clinicians,
nonprescribing clinicians, and informed others such as
pharmacists, should jointly develop and disseminate
appropriate standards for intra-disciplinary ... compromises patient safety and undermines qual-
ityofcareandtheefficiencyofthehealthcaredelivery
system [49-52]. Relying on patients to contact other
physicians on their own break...
... with aim of
instrument:
E. Validation of
instrument
evaluative discriminative predictive planning
Test-retest
yes yes yes yes
Internal
consistency
yes yes yes yes
Validity
longitudinal ... crucial for evaluative instruments.
Conclusion
The large number of available self-efficacy instruments
shows the growing interest in measuring self-efficacy in
patients with chroni...
... received intravenous
therapy instead. The oral rehydration solution given
to the patients was the same as that used in the pilot
study. Following a meal and after 19:00 on the day
before surgery, ... preoper-
ative fasting from the evening before the day of sur-
gery, many patients showed low FENa values, which
rose in response to rehydration by administration of...