... bacterium may
require more energy during bacterial multiplication or for
producing large amounts of beta-lactamases. It may
alternatively lead to variations in the bacterium’s ability to take
up ... Hilbert G, Vargas F, Valentino R, Bebear C, Allery A,
Bebear C, Gbikpi-Benissan G, Cardinaud JP: Rotation and
restricted use of antibiotics in a medical intensive care unit.
Impact...
... value of the
Commentary
Delirium assessment in the intensive care unit:
patient population matters
Margaret A Pisani
Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary & Critical Care Section, and ... delirium
screening instruments need to address are the inability of
intubated patients to participate in a verbal assessment, the
severity of illness, and limitations on sta...
... with
AKI treated with renal replacement therapy (RRT).
We retrospectively analyzed the Riyadh Intensive Care
Program database of 41,972 adult patients admitted to ICUs
in 19 hospitals in the UK and ... from baseline). A total of 797 patients had pre-
existing ESRF and 2,782 patients had advanced AKI, of
Letter
Renal failure in the intensive care unit: acute kidney inju...
... interpretation of the data. MM had sub-
stantial involvement in revising and drafting the article, and in
interpreting the data. All authors contributed to drafting and
revising the article, and approved ... approved the final manuscript.
Key messages
• The majority of units have a standardized approach to
sedation management, using a sedation guideline,
sedation scoring...
... out-
come in clinically meaningful ways. Never theless, the use
of acetaminophen (paracetamol), ibuprofen, and other
oral agents remains a common practice in both out-
patient and inpatient settings. ... situation, the evaluative process for the cause of fever
may result in important modifi cations in treatment,
including initiation or alteration in antimicrobial therap...
... Gilyoma (drgilyoma2@yahoo.com)
Ramesh M Dass (dassramesh@hotmail.com)
Mabula D Mchembe (mabula.mchembe067@gmail.com)
Michael Matasha (mmatasha@yahoo.com)
Joseph B Mabula (drjbmabula@yahoo.com)
Nkinda ... wars and criminal activities [3]. In these countries, major trauma remains a major
cause of hospitalization and intensive care utilization and consumes a significant amount of the...
... 2.
The standard regimen for the treatment of LTBI in
United States and Canada is daily self-administered
therapy with isoniazid (INH) for nine months based on
clinical trial data but the duration ... Jimenez-Fuentes A, De Souza ML,
Garcia JF, Martinez JA, Cayla JA: Is the combination of pyrazinamide plus
rifampicin safe for treating latent tuberculosis infection in persons...
... morbidity, mortality and the quality of care
provided.
Research in the ICU does pose considerable ethical
challenges. Ethical dilemmas may be difficult to anticipate in
this setting and indeed may arise ... standard of disclosure
than required for clinical decision-making prevail? Should
research participation become part of advance care
planning? What happens when the patient...
... family. It is easy to understand that
visual information such as the basic elements of the
neurologic examination, appearance of the skin, appearance
of the abdomen, and appearance of the patient’s ... important visual information that cannot easily be
conveyed by telephone, such as the actual appearance of the
patient, graphical data from a monitor or flowsheet, and body
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