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Transient hyperlactatemia during intravenous administration of glycerol: a prospective observational study

Journal of Intensive Care, 2018
Background Intravenous glycerol treatment, usually administered in the form of a 5% fructose solution, can be used to reduce intracranial pressure.
Shinshu Katayama, Ken Tonai, Yuya Goto, Kansuke Koyama, Toshitaka Koinuma, Jun Shima, Masahiko Wada, Shin Nunomiya   +7 more
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Direct discharge from the intensive care unit improved patient flow in a resource-pressured health system

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care, 2023
Critical care practice is constantly evolving. Pressures for bed availability in publicly funded healthcare systems have led to an increase in patients delayed in their discharge from critical care to the wards.
E. O’Riordan, K. Maher, Z. O’Hagan, I. Martin-Loeches   +3 more
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Monitoring asthma in childhood : symptoms, exacerbations and quality of life [PDF]

, 2015
Acknowledgements The Task Force members and their affiliations are as follows. Paul L.P. Brand: Princess Amalia Children’s Centre, Isala Hospital, Zwolle, and UMCG Postgraduate School of Medicine, University Medical Centre and University of Groningen ...
Brand, Paul L P, ERS Task Force Monitoring Asthma in Children, Frischer, Thomas, Mäkelä, Mika J, Price, David, Szefler, Stanley J   +5 more
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Markers of acute kidney injury in patients with sepsis: the role of soluble thrombomodulin

Critical Care, 2017
Background Endothelial activation and damage occur early during sepsis, with activated coagulopathy and playing a major role in the pathophysiology of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury (AKI).
Shinshu Katayama, Shin Nunomiya, Kansuke Koyama, Masahiko Wada, Toshitaka Koinuma, Yuya Goto, Ken Tonai, Jun Shima   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optimization of the treatment with beta-lactam antibiotics in critically ill patients—guidelines from the French Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Société Française de Pharmacologie et Thérapeutique—SFPT) and the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Société Française d’

Critical Care, 2019
BackgroundBeta-lactam antibiotics (βLA) are the most commonly used antibiotics in the intensive care unit (ICU). ICU patients present many pathophysiological features that cause pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) specificities, leading to the ...
R. Guilhaumou, S. Benaboud, Y. Bennis, C. Dahyot-Fizelier, E. Dailly, P. Gandia, S. Goutelle, S. Lefeuvre, N. Mongardon, C. Roger, J. Scala-Bertola, F. Lemaitre, M. Garnier   +12 more
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Carbon monoxide in intensive care medicine—time to start the therapeutic application?!

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2020
Carbon monoxide (CO) is not only known as a toxic gas due to its characteristics as an odorless molecule and its rapid binding to haem-containing molecules, thus inhibiting the respiratory chain in cells resulting in hypoxia.
U. Goebel, Jakob Wollborn
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Body weight definitions for evaluating a urinary diagnosis of acute kidney injury in patients with sepsis

BMC Nephrology, 2018
Background We hypothesized that the use of actual body weight might lead to more frequent misdiagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) than when ideal body weight is used in underweight and/or obese patients.
Shinshu Katayama, Kansuke Koyama, Yuya Goto, Toshitaka Koinuma, Ken Tonai, Jun Shima, Masahiko Wada, Shin Nunomiya   +7 more
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The use of automated pupillometry to assess cerebral autoregulation: a retrospective study

Journal of Intensive Care, 2020
Background Critically ill patients are at high risk of developing neurological complications. Among all the potential aetiologies, brain hypoperfusion has been advocated as one of the potential mechanisms.
Armin Quispe Cornejo, Carla Sofía Fernandes Vilarinho, Ilaria Alice Crippa, Lorenzo Peluso, Lorenzo Calabrò, Jean-Louis Vincent, Jacques Creteur, Fabio Silvio Taccone   +7 more
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Awareness and knowledge of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome: results of an international survey [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Surveys have demonstrated a lack of physician awareness of intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome (IAH/ACS) and wide variations in the management of these conditions, with many intensive care units (ICUs) reporting ...
De Keulenaer, Bart L, De laet, Inneke, De Waele, Jan, Debergh, Dieter, Kirkpatrick, Andrew W, Malbrain, Manu LNG, Roberts, Derek J, Vandervelden, Stefanie, Wise, Robert   +8 more
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Covid-19 in China: ten critical issues for intensive care medicine

Critical Care, 2020
In December 2019, a newly identified coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) major outbreak appeared in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, and it is now termed the Covid-19. The SARS-CoV-2 infection moved rapidly through China [1, 2] and spread to more than 90 countries.
Li Li, S. Gong, Jing Yan
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