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Haemodynamic assessment and support in sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Recommendations for haemodynamic assessment and support in sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings are largely lacking. Methods: A task force of six international experts in critical care medicine, all of them members of the ...
Baker, Tim, Dondorp, Arjen M., Dünser, Martin W., Global Intensive Care Working Group†, of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, Thailand, Misango, David, Pattnaik, Rajyabardhan, Schultz, Marcus J.   +6 more
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Steroid use in PROWESS severe sepsis patients treated with drotrecogin alfa (activated) [PDF]

, 2005
INTRODUCTION: In a study conducted by Annane, patients with septic shock and unresponsive to adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulation receiving low-dose steroid therapy had prolonged survival but not significantly improved 28-day mortality.
16th Annual Congress of the European-Society-of-Intensive-Care-Medicine, Bates, B, Laterre, Pierre-François, Levy, H, Qualy, RL   +4 more
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Lung and diaphragm ultrasound as predictors of success in weaning from mechanical ventilation

Critical Ultrasound Journal, 2018
Background Lung and diaphragm ultrasound methods have recently been introduced to predict the outcome of weaning from mechanical ventilation (MV).
Eva Tenza-Lozano, Ana Llamas-Alvarez, Enrique Jaimez-Navarro, Javier Fernández-Sánchez   +3 more
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Teicoplanin pharmacokinetics in critically ill patients on extracorporeal organ support: a retrospective analysis

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental
Background Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can alter the pharmacokinetics of diverse antimicrobials, posing challenges in achieving therapeutic drug levels.
Giovanni Camen, Pedro David Wendel-Garcia, Rolf Erlebach, Mattia Müller, Caroline John, Alix Buhlmann, Rea Andermatt, Reto A. Schuepbach, Sascha David, Daniel A. Hofmaenner   +9 more
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About adaptive state knowledge extraction for septic shock mortality prediction [PDF]

, 2010
The early prediction of mortality is one of the unresolved tasks in intensive care medicine. This contribution models medical symptoms as observations cased by transitions between hidden markov states.
Brause, Rüdiger W.
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Analysis of High Dimensional Data from Intensive Care Medicine [PDF]

, 1998
As high dimensional data occur as a rule rather than an exception in critical care today, it is of utmost importance to improve acquisition, storage, modelling, and analysis of medical data, which appears feasable only with the help of bedside computers.
AFM Smith, D Michie, F Tatens, G Miller, JH Friedmann, JW Tukey, K Morik, M Bauer, M Daumer, M Imhoff, M Imhoff, M Imhoff, PJ Huber, R Dahlhaus   +13 more
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Axillary vein as an alternative venous access site for VV-ECMO cannulation: a case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Ultrasound-guided percutaneous axillary vein cannulation can reduce cannulation failure and mechanical complications, is as safe and effective as internal jugular vein cannulation, and is superior to subclavian vein cannulation using landmark ...
Tao Pan, Xiaoyang Zhou, Jianneng Pan, Bixin Chen, Chang Xu, Zhaojun Xu, Pingping Dong, Tingting Yu   +7 more
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Visual TASK: A Collaborative Cognitive Aid for Acute Care Resuscitation [PDF]

10th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (Pervasive Health), pp. 1-8, May, 2016, 2016
Preventable medical errors are a severe problem in healthcare, causing over 400,000 deaths per year in the US in hospitals alone. In acute care, the branch of medicine encompassing the emergency department (ED) and intensive care units (ICU), error rates may be higher to due low situational awareness among clinicians performing resuscitation on ...
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Reducing the global burden of sepsis: a positive legacy for the COVID-19 pandemic? [PDF]

, 2021
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), Global Sepsis Alliance (GSA), Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)   +2 more
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The value of right ventricular to pulmonary arterial coupling in the critically ill: a National Echocardiography Database of Australia (NEDA) substudy

Annals of Intensive Care
Background Right ventricular (RV) function is tightly coupled to afterload, yet echocardiographic indices of RV function are frequently assessed in isolation.
Emma Bowcock, Stephen Huang, Rachel Yeo, Deshani Walisundara, Chris F. Duncan, Faraz Pathan, Geoffrey Strange, David Playford, Sam Orde   +8 more
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