... regular rhythm, and ventilatory
settings similar to those in the original studies. e
current studies add another limitation and importantly
indicate that indiscriminant use of these indicators ... determines the response, there are important
limitations to their use. Two papers in a previous
volume add pulmonary hypertension as limitations.
Uncritical use of vent...
... unusual
neurological injuries, including focal brain injury due to
vascular disruption, spinal cord injury and global anoxic injury
following asphyxial cardiac arrest. In these conditions, any
Commentary
New indications ... and there were numerous anecdotal reports of the
use of TH in the treatment of neurological injury following
head injury, stroke and anoxic brain injury...
... experience with the management of disseminated
disease is very limited in the literature
6
, therefore,
attention to the therapy strategy of this neoplasm in
the future may allow a more reasonable ... might in turn result in the uncertainty of the
strategy for its treatment. While further delineati n g
the clinicopathological and radiological features, and...
... review.
Interventions
The interventions included (a) hydrotherapy, which was prima-
rily of low intensity and involved walking, leg swinging, and
mobility exercises; (b) land-based swinging, mobility, and
stretching ... sufficiently on exercise. The infor-
mation relating to each article included in the review, is shown
in Table 2.
Quality
The scores related to the quality...
... may bring the patient’s
attention to an existing lesion.
TheuseofthesimpleacronymABCDE[19]isause-
ful tool in remembering the main clinical signs of a
potential melanoma (See Table 2) but may ... skin types and is frequently observed in darker skin
types and represents about half of the melanoma occur-
ring on the hands and feet. In the early stages, the clini-
cal sym...
... because barriers to the use of
the CME internet activities for German GPs still exists
[33]. Secon d, the minority of the part icipating GPs
who self-reported that they had actually used the
online ... used the online modules
(’users’ respectively ‘per protocol’) and 37 ind icated that
had not used them (’non-users’). Most of the users
found the online-modules usef...
... Organ-
isation, the Departments of Health and care standard set-
ting agencies in the participating countries including the
practicalities of incorporating the toolkit into existing
review systems for institutional ... delineate the main, independent predictors in the
toolkit of service users' perceived autonomy, dignity, sat-
isfaction with care and markers of...
... included
thosewith:useofinhaledsteroidsatanytimeduring
the study; use of systemic steroids at any time during
the study; use of long-acting bronchodilators at any
time during the study; past smokers at baseline; ... locally for Gram stain
and culture. For the following organisms, defined in the
protocol as potential respiratory pathogens in COPD,
moxiflo xacin suscep...
... therapy before aerosolized colis-
tin for 7 days and continued to receive the intravenous therapy
after the end of aerosolized therapy (for 32 days).
The pneumonia was observed to respond to treatment ... susceptibility of the pathogen(s) to commonly
tested antimicrobial agents, as well as the outcome of the
infection and of the patient.
The mean age of t...
... non-susceptibility among
organisms such as Acinetobacter spp., the necessity to
explore other therapeutic avenues has led investigators to
consider older agents, including the tetracyclines and
polymixins. The ... with the intravenous administration
of colistin include mainly nephrotoxicity and neurotoxicity,
specifically neuromuscular blockade. The latter is particularly
note...