Does quality of life affect outcome?
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Critical Care
2001
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Hyperchloraemic acidosis and outcome
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Non-touch fittings and X-infection
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Who gets decubitous ulcers?
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Immunonutrition in the critically ill
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Prone positioning does not affect survival in patients with ARDS
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Do differences in probability of survival affect study design in ICU?
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UTI rates from catheter systems in the ICU
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Let your ventilated patients breathe!
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C-spine examination with dynamic fluoroscopy
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Transfusing prior to extubation
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Is TEE useful to assess lung density changes?
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Choosing optimal PAW during high-frequency oscillation
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Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
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Candidain the critically ill
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Dopamine raises ICP
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'No' to starch in sepsis
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Do cellular phones really interfere with monitoring?
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Renal and respiratory failure in Scottish ICUs
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Noninvasive ventilation for the immunosuppressed patient?
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Earlier palliative care in ITU nonsurvivors
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Caution-closed suction systems!
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Statistics review 1: Presenting and summarising data
The present review is the first in an ongoing guide to medical statistics, using specific examples from intensive care. The first step in any analysis is to describe and summarize the data. As well as becoming...
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Eighth World Congress of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine, 28 October-1 November 2001, Sydney, Australia: Harm minimization and effective risk management
The 8th World Congress saw the presentation of several late-breaking findings, such as the role of insulin in reducing mortality, and technologies such as vital microscopy. There were heated debates for and ag...
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Bench-to-bedside review: Genetic influences on meningococcal disease
This review discusses the possible involvement of a variety of genetic polymorphisms on the course of meningococcal disease. It has been shown that several common genetic polymorphisms can either influence the...
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Clinical review: Severe asthma
Severe asthma, although difficult to define, includes all cases of difficult/therapy-resistant disease of all age groups and bears the largest part of morbidity and mortality from asthma. Acute, severe asthma,...
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Effects of intravenous furosemide on mucociliary transport and rheological properties of patients under mechanical ventilation
The use of intravenous (IV) furosemide is common practice in patients under mechanical ventilation (MV), but its effects on respiratory mucus are largely unknown. Furosemide can affect respiratory mucus either...
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Use of a rapid arterial blood gas analyzer to estimate blood hemoglobin concentration among critically ill adults
To evaluate whether measurement of the hemoglobin (Hb) concentration with a blood gas analyzer approximates that determined by a conventional coulter counter in critically ill adults.
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Clinical review: A paradigm shift: the bidirectional effect of inflammation on bacterial growth. Clinical implications for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome
Clinical studies have shown positive associations among sustained and intense inflammatory responses and the incidence of bacterial infections. We hypothesized that cytokines secreted by the host during acute ...
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Paper reports overview: Cranberry juice, fluid replacement and bad innovations
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Toronto Critical Care Medicine Symposium, 18–20 October 2001, Canada: Research breakthroughs are not enough
At the 2001 Toronto Critical Care Medicine Symposium, exciting new research results were presented, including a randomized trial of peri-operative pulmonary-artery catheter use and evidence-based guidelines fo...
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Oesophageal Doppler monitoring of descending aortic blood flow velocity during off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery
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Measurement of respiratory nitric oxide in patients undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass
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'Alveolar recruitment strategy' improves arterial oxygenation after cardiopulmonary bypass
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A comparison of two methods of estimating systemic carbon dioxide production during cardiopulmonary bypass
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Methylprednisolone exacerbates porcine pulmonary dysfunction induced by infrarenal aortic ischaemia-reperfusion
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Fentanyl and myocardial protection: is there a preconditioning mechanism?
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Insensible fluid loss during cardiac surgery
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Serum N-terminal pro brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP) in perioperative cardiac surgical patients
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The World Trade Center Attack Disaster preparedness: health care is ready, but is the bureaucracy?
When a disaster occurs, it is for governments to provide the leadership, civil defense, security, evacuation, and public welfare. The medical aspects of a disaster account for less than 10% of resource and per...
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The World Trade Center Attack: Is critical care prepared for terrorism?
This commentary on the World Trade Center attack is written from the perspective of a New York City critical care service, with a long history of activity in disaster management, which is located at the Montef...
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The World Trade Center Attack: Lessons for disaster management
As the largest, and one of the most eclectic, urban center in the United States, New York City felt the need to develop an Office of Emergency Management to coordinate communications and direct resources in th...
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The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?
On 7 December 1988, a severe earthquake hit in Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union (USSR); on 11 September 2001, a manmade attack of similar impact hit New York City. These events share similar impl...
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The World Trade Center Attack: Eye witness: observations of a physician on the outside looking in
Having personally witnessed the destruction at the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, this paper presents my personal feelings and observations as an observer of both disaster and terror. Aside from the ...
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The World Trade Center Attack: Observations from New York's Bellevue Hospital
This report describes selected aspects of the response by Bellevue Hospital Center to the World Trade Center attack of 11 September 2001. The hospital is 2.5 miles (4 km) from the site of the attack. These fir...
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The World Trade Center Attack: Doctors in the fire and police services
The World Trade Center attack cast some physicians in roles outside their usual hospital practice. The incident required several physicians to function in the dangerous environment of the disaster. Priorities ...
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The World Trade Center Attack: The paramedic response: an insider's view
The World Trade Center attack and collapse is the first time an aircraft has been used as a weapon of mass effect. The scale and magnitude of this manmade disaster can only be compared with a natural catastrop...
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The World Trade Center Attack: Lessons for all aspects of health care
The attack on the World Trade Center had the potential to overwhelm New York's health services. Sadly, however, the predicted thousands of treatable patients failed to materialize. Horror and sadness has now b...
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Protocol-driven care in the intensive care unit: a tool for quality
Advances in organization and patient management in the intensive care unit (ICU) have led to reductions in the morbidity and mortality suffered by critically ill patients. Two such advances include multidiscip...
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Systemic inflammatory response to cardiac surgery: does female sex really protect?
Sex hormones have important interactions with the immune system and modulate the inflammatory response. In this regard, oestrogen inhibits the transcription of proinflammatory cytokines and confers tissue prot...
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