... becoming important incriticalcare Infectious Diseases inCriticalCareMedicine (third edition) remains the only book exclusively dedicated to infectious diseases incriticalcare Importantly, Infectious ... 19 Infections in Cirrhosis inCriticalCare Laurel C Preheim 20 Severe Infections in Asplenic Patients inCriticalCare Mohammed S Ahmed and Nancy Khardori 21 Infections in Burns inCriticalCare ... Diseases inCriticalCare Medicine, written by clinicians for clinicians, remains the only major text exclusively dealing with the major infectious disease syndromes encountered incriticalcare medicine...
... icine are published in journals other than those included in the 'criticalcaremedicine' category Furthermore, a proportion of articles published in journals included in the 'criticalcaremedicine' ... example, in order to search for articles published in 'intensive caremedicine' originating from Europe, the following phrase was used (where 'AD' means 'address'): intensive caremedicine [journal] ... economics and costeffectiveness of criticalcaremedicine Intensive Care Med 1995, 21:952-961 Halpern NA, Pastores SM, Greenstein RJ: Criticalcaremedicinein the United States 1985–2000: an...
... Outcomerea Database Investigators: Reliability of diagnostic coding in intensive care patients Crit Care 2008, 12:R95 Martin GS: Epidemiology studies incriticalcare Crit Care 2006, 10:136-137 ... CriticalCare Vol 12 No Martin many healthcare databases, their use has expanded from the original intent to permit novel research investigations for important areas in healthcare For ... to the OutcomeRea database, to local coding practices or training, to national effects specific to France, or to influences of criticalcare or criticalcare medical conditions Regardless, the...
... CriticalCare Vol 13 No Collinson occurs in a range of other clinical conditions other than cardiac dysfunction, including sepsis [11] Values are frequently raised in the intensive care ... R, Barnes S, Boa F, Grounds R, Collinson P, Bennet E: A prospective study into the use of NT-proBNP measurements in critically ill patients Clin Intensive Care 2004, 15:31-36 13 Almog Y, Novack ... measurement should form part of routine monitoring of the patient once they have been admitted Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing interests References Coquet I, Darmon...
... hospital stay, and mortality of central line-associated bloodstream infection in intensive care departments in Argentina: a prospective, matched analysis Am J Infect Control 2003, 31:475-480 Soufir ... in critically ill patients had no excess mortality after adjustment for disease severity! Overall, nosocomial bloodstream infections seem to be associated with an intrinsic excess mortality In ... this burden in the future Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References Melamed A, Sorvillo FJ: The burden of sepsis-associated mortality in the United...
... accord with the findings of a recent report that found low rates of efficacy in trials incriticalcare medicine, a finding the authors attributed to the use of mortality as an endpoint [1] We extend ... of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine) for titles containing the keywords (and variations thereof ) critically ill, intensive care, ICU, ... documented argues against this [24,33,34] The insistence on mortality as the gold standard outcome measure incriticalcare research combined with funding constraints may pressure investigators to...
... Core Knowledge inCriticalCareMedicine Wolfgang Krüger • Andrew James Ludman Core Knowledge inCriticalCareMedicine Wolfgang Krüger Medizinische Universitätsklinik Kantonsspital Aarau ... mechanism involved in the possible reduction in CO Increases pulmonary vascular resistance [362] and decreases pulmonary blood flow [363] due to the increase in lung inflation following the increased ... occur as well during inspiration, indicated by an abrupt increase in inspiratory flow (in PC mode) or transient abrupt decrease in airway pressure (VC mode) [89, 95] Dynamic hyperinflation, limited...
... criticalcaremedicinein particular Can criticalcare survive in South Africa? There is no easy answer There is no doubt that there is a strong place for criticalcaremedicinein South Africa Critical ... criticalcarein Africa CriticalCare Clin 1997, 13:255265 NIH Consensus Development Conference on criticalcaremedicine Crit Care Med 1983, 11:466-469 Marik PE, Kraus P, Lipman J: Intensive care ... online http://ccforum.com/content/6/1/022 In 1999, a faculty of CriticalCareMedicine was established in the College of Medicine of South Africa With effect from September 2001, the critical care...
... Telemedicine An infrastructure for providing intensivist-led care from a distance is receiving much attention Two years ago a report examined the poor uptake of information technology into medicine ... Healthcare Innovations in Technology Systems Partnerships Awards in 2001 Intensivists remain a scarce resource in many centres [11,12] Further data regarding the efficacy of remote monitoring as ... Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment: Issues in Emerging Health Technologies: Hand-carried Ultrasound Units for Point-of -care Cardiac Examinations Canadian Coordinating Office...
... humanistic culture incriticalcare where several disciplines with differing opinions and agendas may be involved in caring for a critically ill child For example, in a PICU many disciplines (pulmonology, ... recognized by leaders in paediatric intensive care and incorporated into the daily routines of the PICU Caring for children in the PICU also involves responding to the needs of dying patients It is ... his report pertains primarily to physicians, the characteristics of mindful practice (Table 2) are pertinent to all involved incriticalcaremedicine Epstein’s dissertation on mindful practice...
... work Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests References Laporta D, Burns J, Doig C: Bench to bedside review: Dealing with increased intensive care unit ... S, Heffner J, Carson S: Attitudes and perceptions of internal medicine residents regarding pulmonary and criticalcare subspecialty training Chest 2005, 127:630-636 423 ... recruit and retain staff [11] The other key factor in this process is the use of a team work approach Team work training in the areas of conflict resolution, learning styles and giving feedback...
... survivors had never been trained how to use them [9] In essence, technology has now made the average person readily capable of delivering life-saving criticalcare Considering that sudden cardiac ... center-stage in resuscitation research efforts [8] In addition to evaluating the concept of markedly abbreviating the time taken to provide effective training for the masses [13], recent investigations ... use of AEDs by the average person may be considered one of the greatest advances incriticalcaremedicine during the past decade Similarly, recent technology has also enhanced the quality of...
... therapy in a medical school in mainland China in 2002 [24] Future development of criticalcaremedicinein mainland China The lack of a national accredited criticalcare training program is believed ... of the China CriticalCare Clinical Trial Group: Natural disaster In Intensive and CriticalCare Medicine: WFSICCM World Federation of Societies of Intensive and CriticalCareMedicine Edited ... refused to set up a criticalcare society in 1996, the first national criticalcare society in mainland China was established in 1997, called the Chinese Society of CriticalCareMedicine (CSCCM), and...
... error interception Intensivist participation in ICU care Adequate staffing Pharmacist participation in ICU care Incorporation of quality assurance into academic education ICU, intensive care unit ... errors involving continuously infused medications in a surgical intensive care unit Crit Care Med 2004, 32:428-432 80 Stambouly JJ, McLaughlin LL, Mandel FS, Boxer RA: Complications of carein a ... Impact of a clinical pharmacist in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit Crit Care Med 1994, 22:10441048 66 Baldinger SL, Chow MS, Gannon RH, Kelly ET 3rd: Cost savings from having a clinical pharmacist...
... paraformaldehyde in NaCl/Pi for for extracellular staining or with methanol chilled at )20 °C for for intracellular staining After blocking with NaCl/Pi containing 2% BSA (blocking solution) for 30 min, the ... dehydrated in a series of ethanol (50–100%), critical- point dried in a CO2 system After being platinum/palladium-coated in a spattering devise, the specimens were observed with a scanning electron ... XbaI site and inserted into a cloning vector pBluescript KS(+) (Stratagene) As a result of the ligation, the domain to be deleted was replaced by two amino acids, serine and arginine, which were...
... ADP needed to induce half-maximal respiration in isolated mitochondria, were determined by measuring respiration at increasing [ADP] in mitochondrial medium containing 10 mm succinate, 10 lm rotenone, ... performance and adenine nucleotide handling in creatine kinase-deficient mice Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 281, 619–625 Saupe KW, Spindler M, Hopkins JC, Shen W & Ingwall JS (2000) Kinetic, thermodynamic, ... in line with these findings at the protein level In addition, experiments on VDAC-1 deficient mouse gastrocnemius have clearly shown VDAC to be a important determinant in setting K 50ADP , giving...
... Following the development of the Statement on Competence, a working group met in 2009 to develop guidelines for training incriticalcare ultrasonography Representatives from major criticalcare ... Training Standards serve as useful guides both for the intensivist who seeks training and for faculty intensivists who will be training their colleagues in this important skill Competing interests ... cardiologist who is trained in echocardiography It includes training in transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) Competence in advanced level CCE is not a key element of competence incriticalcare ultrasonography...
... (O), and Italy and Spain none TRAINING IN INTENSIVE CAREMEDICINEIN THE UK An increasing number of appointments in ICM are now available to trainees in general internal medicine at senior house ... rehabilitation.9 TRAINING IN INTENSIVE CAREMEDICINE Improved training of medical and nursing staff and organisational changes have undoubtedly played their part in improving the outcome of critical illness ... the growing numbers of respiratory physicians who pursue a subspecialty interest in this clinical arena T EVOLUTION OF INTENSIVE CAREMEDICINE AS A SPECIALTY In Europe intensive caremedicine (ICM)...
... block of tissue (incorporating AF and NP in continuity) was fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin and processed to paraffin wax Sections were taken for haematoxylin and eosin staining to score the ... results differ in that we found no staining in non-degenerate NP cells However, as in these previous studies, with degeneration, there was increased SA-βgal staining Because these discs (in our study) ... Jayson MI: Age related changes in the structures within and bordering the intervertebral foramen: associations with low back pain In The Ageing Spine Edited by: Hukins DW, Nelson MA Manchester:...