ABSTRACT BACKGROUND The cardiopulmonary test has demonstrated its role in predicting long term prognostic of patients with heart failure, but only few data are available regarding its utility on short term period. METHODS During 2011-2013, the study enrolled 55 patients over 18 years, with different cardiovascular, metabolic and/or pulmonary pathologies, and 10 control patients matched for...

INTRODUCTION Influenza A(H1N1) infection affected Indian population in 2009. Patients needed ICU admission and monitoring. Simple demographic, clinical and radiological variables are described in this article in mechanically ventilated and nonventilated patients. OBJECTIVES To describe and correlate demographic, clinical, radiographic characteristics and comorbidities in mechanically ventilat...

Patients and methods Hundred and one patients admitted to the ICU for sepsis, septic shock, acute cardio respiratory failure or other organ supportivecare. A trained cardiologist conducted transthoracic echocardiography within 48 hours of admission to ICU. Echocardiographic parameters of both right and left heart along with demographic, prognosis, hemodynamic, ventilator, and laboratory paramet...

In the context of a healthcare facility, external noise includes traffic, deliveries and sirens. Internal noise can include ventilator noise and alarms, suctioning, heart monitor alarms, nebulizers, pulse oximeter tones and alarms, telephones ringing, air conditioning, television, radio, banging, rubbish bin or trolley noises, intercoms, staff bleeps, talking (staff, nurses), visitors, fellow-p...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ALI: Acute Lung Injury; ARDS: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome; PEEP: Positive End Expiratory Pressure; CST: Static Lung Compliance; MHI: Manual Hyperinflation; VHI: Ventilator Hyperinflation; MABP: Mean Arterial Blood Pressure; HR: Heart Rate Pulse Oximetric Saturation (SpO2) S/F ratio: Ratio Fraction of Inspired Oxygen (FiO2) Int...

background: transport of the critically ill patient is potentially risky and the transport team should be careful in making decision and be prepared to deal with them in any condition. our physicians are not qualified in safe transport. we want to evaluate the effect of small group teaching method for promotion of physicians' skills in transport of critically ill patients. methods: in an interv...

concomitant coronary artery bypass surgery (cabg) in patients undergoing mitral valve replacement (mvr) has been shown to be an important risk factor for hospital mortality. we evaluated preoperative characteristics, postoperative complications, in-hospital mortality rate, and length of stay in hospital for patients undergoing concurrent cabg with mvr. preoperative and postoperative clinical da...

  Background: Controlling the hemodynamic situation of patients who have spinal operation is of prime importance, and maintaining the heart rate and blood pressure in normal or low- normal levels in these patients can reduce their bleeding loss. One of the commonly used drugs for this purpose is remifentanil. Another sedative-hypnotic-analgesic drug, with acceptable effects is dexmedetomidine. ...