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In a cohort of 91 ICU patients without known causes for hemoglobin decline other than blood draws and critical illness, serum hemoglobin levels declined by an average of 0.52 g/dL/d. The decline was more rapid during the first 3 days in the ICU and among patients who were septic.
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In this study of a large nationwide database, mortality during hospitalization for acute exacerbation of COPD was 2.5%, which is substantially lower than that reported in previous studies.
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Inhaled drugs are commonly used during mechanical ventilation. The physiologic effects of bronchodilators delivered by nebulizer or pressurized metered dose inhaler (pMDI) are virtually equivalent.
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Two severely ill patients in the emergency department of your hospital need admission to the ICU, but only one bed is available. Who gets admitted first? Another critical care patient is severely ill, with several coexisting conditions.
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When does critical care become just another emergency department (ED) visit? When you fail to document it properly. You may do all the right things and have a patient in crisis, but if the paperwork isnt done properly, you dont get paid for your efforts.
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This study examined whether consumption of fish had any effect on the risk of developing Alzheimers disease.
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Berger and colleagues studied 103 patients presenting with a clinically isolated demyelinating syndrome, positive findings on brain MRI, and positive oligoclonal bands in the CSF.
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Sixty-four patients with alcoholic neuropathy (ALN), comprising 36 without thiamine deficiency and 28 with thiamine deficiency (ALN-TD), were compared to 32 nonalcoholic, thiamine-deficiency neuropathy patients to establish whether clinical and pathological features were similar in the 2 groups and to determine how thiamine deficiency related to ALN.
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Homeobox genes comprise a family of highly conserved genes responsible for developmental patterning by regulating expression of target genes in a temporal, spatial, and tissue-specific fashion.
