Methods We performed a retrospective registry based study on adult patients treated in five Finnish university hospitals’ ICUs between 2003 and 2013. We included patients with admission diagnosis of cardiac arrest according to the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III (APACHE III) and patients with positive value for Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS-76) item “cardiac a...

Objective Acute pancreatitis presents a broad clinical spectrum ranging from cases so mild that symptoms abate before the diagnosis is actively pursued, to cases which progress rapidly to multisystem failure and eventual demise of patient despite current mode of therapy. Methods A retrospective study of 50 patients diagnosed as acute pancreatitis was done. Patients suffering from acute pancreat...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence, risk factors, and outcome of transfusion-related acute lung injury in a cohort of critically ill patients. DESIGN In a retrospective cohort study, patients with transfusion-related acute lung injury were identified using the consensus criteria of acute lung injury within 6 hrs after transfusion. Inclusion criterion was a length of intensive care unit adm...

RATIONALE Hyperglycaemia predicts a poor outcome in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients. Whether this is true for respiratory failure necessitating non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is not known. OBJECTIVES To determine whether hyperglycaemia within 24 h of admission independently predicts outcome of NIV during acute decompensated ventilatory failure complicating chronic obstructive pulmonary dis...

BACKGROUND The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) IV model has not yet been validated in Korea. The aim of this study was to compare the ability of the APACHE IV with those of APACHE II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) 3, and Korean SAPS 3 in predicting hospital mortality in a surgical intensive care unit (SICU) population. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed ele...

Sepsis is associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome, which has a significant impact on the prognosis of patients. Several studies have shown that microbiota plays role in sepsisinduced but relationship between and syndrome not fully understood. We conducted case-control single-center study 19 sepsis-induced patients 36 sepsis-noninduced to investigate clinical features expression. The...

Early and accurate differentiation between infectious and non-infectious fever is vitally important in the intensive care unit (ICU). In the present study, patients admitted to the medical ICU were screened daily from August 2008 to February 2009. Within 24 hr after the development of fever (>38.3℃), serum was collected for the measurement of the procalcitonin (PCT) and high mobility group B 1 ...

BACKGROUND Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is a mode of mechanical ventilation, which has demonstrated potential benefits in trauma patients. We therefore sought to compare relevant pulmonary data and safety outcomes of this modality to the recommendations of the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network. METHODS Patients admitted after traumatic injury requiring mechanical venti...

INTRODUCTION Outcomes following bacterial meningitis are significantly improved by adjunctive treatment with corticosteroids. However, little is known about the levels and significance of intrathecal endogenous cortisol. The aim of this study was to assess cortisol as a biological and diagnostic marker in patients with bacterial meningitis. METHODS Forty-seven consecutive patients with bacter...