[PDF] Top 20 Antipyretic therapy in critically ill patients with established sepsis: a trial sequential analysis.

... studies, in which six studies investigated hypo- thermia in patients with brain injury, three involved infants or children, and five were observation- al ...final analysis (Fig. ... See full document

... 154 critically ill septic cancer patients, 86 with neutropenia and 68 without, were included in the present ...neutropenic patients was significantly higher than in ... See full document

... significance in disease remains an ...of antipyretic therapy in critically ill ...antipyresis in critically ill patients. The meta-analysis was ... See full document

... controlled trial, the optimal event size requirement for this meta-analysis was calculated ba- sed on an intubation rate of 20% in the control group, a relative risk reduction of 25%, 90% power, and ... See full document

... estimated with the Kaplan-Meier ...groups with the log- rank test. Additional analysis was done with logistic and Cox regression models that adjusted for the main baseline factors that predict ... See full document

... Therapy with various antimicrobial agents may con- tribute to increasing colonisation by vanC VRE and oth- ers multiresistant microorganisms (Neves et ...2002). In our casuistic study, the use of ... See full document

... of patients with LHTC had a history of renal disease ...LHTC patients had higher mean APACHE II (11 vs 8, p < ...increase in HTC value, the APACHE II score decreases ...0.001). In ... See full document

... characteristic analysis, which indicated that the PRISM III score showed acceptable discrimination ...the patients who survived compared to those who died and that the PELOD score showed good discrimination ... See full document

... excluded patients who had unstable bladder, neurogenic bladder, preoperative urethral stricture, history of bladder cancer, or previous history of bladder neck cancer surgery); (2) randomized controlled studies ... See full document

... piperacillin/tazobactam in critically ill patients with microbiologically documented infections is currently ...study in 7 Portuguese intensive care units (ICU). We included 569 ... See full document

... factor in the determination of urinary pH and the excretion of ...is established by active sodium transport in renal tubular ...along with sodium, thereby decreasing this diference in ... See full document

... 4431 Patients with decreased level of consciousness and hemodynamically unstable require mostly invasive ventilatory support and equipment to stabilize and preserve the vital ...combined with the ... See full document

... physical therapy has proven to be a feasi- ble and safe therapy that can minimize the deleterious efects of prolonged immobilization in ...for critically ill patients in- ... See full document

... conducted in an intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital between 2012 and ...included in this study, the patients were between 18 and 90 years old, diagnosed with AKI, and were on ... See full document

... effects in ALI (Singleton et ...However, in these studies, glutamine was admin- istered before (Ding and Li 2003, Doruk et ...injury. In this context, Gln could prevent neutrophil recruitment and ... See full document

... Statistical analysis was performed using STATA (Version ...medians with interquartile range (IQR) and compared using the Kruskal-Wallis test for non-normally distributed ...included in the model one ... See full document

... Objectives: To assess the frequency of primary multiple organ failure and the role of sepsis as a causative agent in critically ill pediatric patients; and calculate and evaluate the [r] ... See full document

... antibiotic therapy, multiresistant bacteria, and mortality rate, suggest the need of a urgent review of nosocomial infection preventive and control measures, as well as the prescription of antibiotics being used ... See full document

... reduction in blood concentrations of insulin takes place; in response to this, glucagon release increases, which then stimulates fat and muscle catabolism to form ...loss in muscular mass, water, and ... See full document

... response in the face of a chloride load could constitute another manifestation of a more severe ...feature in critically ill patients with metabolic acidosis and could be the ... See full document