[PDF] Top 20 C-reactive protein in critically ill cancer patients with sepsis: influence of neutropenia

... day of ICU stay including main diagnosis for admis- sion, the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) [16], the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score [17], comorbidities, and cancer- and ... See full document

... ability of our ...could influence CRP kinetics during the course of the infection were not ...nature of the study did not allow us to compare CRP kinet- ics with other biomarkers or ... See full document

... prevalence in patients with a diagnosis of pneumonia and high serum levels of C-reactive protein, demonstrating significant negative correlation between serum ... See full document

... Especially in rare and aggressive cancer types, such as ULMS, reliable prognostic parameters are of particular ...grade in patients with ULMS have shown inconsistent ... See full document

... Society of Intensive Care Medicine taskforce has recently proposed a hierarchy of ICU mobilization based on an exercise intensity sequence: decubitus change and functional positioning, passive mobilization, ... See full document

... acceptance of the sputum sample and three had broncho- spasm during induction, which prevented collection of the sputum ...excluded patients. None of the patients had smoked actively ... See full document

... hours in the ICU because these irst measurements were ...factors. In addition, we only studied patients during the postoperative ...evaluation of the luid balance and output during the surgery ... See full document

... use in Brazil for almost a decade. Its formulation is available in vials of 50 mg and 70 ...elimination of the drug occurs by spontaneous hydrolysis and acetylation in the liver; it ... See full document

... goals of severely ill patients receiving EENT are seldom met, was verified in this study, that confirmed that complications and inadequacies during the ENT supply negatively affect the energy ... See full document

... etiologies of VAC in this study were pneumonia, atelectasis, ARDS, and pleural effu- ...identified in this study corresponded to well- known risk factors for each of these etiologies as ... See full document

... Macrolide versus nonmacrolide therapy and mortality in critically ill patients with community-acquired pneumonia: pooled adjusted risk. Use of a macrolide in CAP[r] ... See full document

... 53.2. In Pearson’s correlation analysis, none of the blood glucose level determinations was satisfactory, in relation to Agluc-lab (Table ...was with Cgluc-strip (r = ...Agluc-lab in 26 ... See full document

... decline in the release of acute phase reactants by the liver is observed postopera- tively in non-uremic elderly patients under- going major abdominal surgery ...(16). In these ... See full document

... analysis of a large randomized trial with 1.548 ICU patients, randomized to receive either continuous infusion of regular insulin to maintain glycemia be- tween 80 and 110 mg/dL or ... See full document

... One should be aware that this systematic review presents several limitations. Although the whole protocol that includes all relevant articles was carefully applied, the small number of studies certainly hinders ... See full document

... MIC of 100% ...decrease in hos- pital mortality with continuous infusion of β-lactam an- tibiotics, despite higher microbiological ...60 patients treated with piperacillin/ ... See full document

... groups of sub- jects: sex, age, length of the disease, age when the disease was diagnosed, smoking habit and family medical ...state of metabolic regulation in diabetes the values of ... See full document

... results of the mean 5-year follow-up of a small cohort of 73 individuals, regarding the occurrence of death, infarction, coronary angioplasty and surgical revascularization, dividing the ... See full document

... addition, with regard to the occurrence of DINDs, the unadjusted and adjusted predictive values of inlammatory parameters in the early phase (days 3-7) were evaluated by unconditional ... See full document

... mon in patients admitted to the intensive care unit ...associated with VRE colonisation among ICU patients, active surveillance cultures for VRE faecal carriages were carried out in ... See full document