Extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal (ECCO2R) is a promising technique for the management of acute respiratory failure, but with a limited level of evidence to support its use outside clinical trials and/or data...
Authors: J. L. Augy, N. Aissaoui, C. Richard, E. Maury, M. Fartoukh, A. Mekontso-Dessap, R. Paulet, N. Anguel, C. Blayau, Y. Cohen, J. D. Chiche, S. Gaudry, S. Voicu, A. Demoule, A. Combes, B. Megarbane…
We investigated if early intensive care unit (ICU) scoring with the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS 3) could be improved using artificial neural networks (ANNs).
Authors: Gustav Holmgren, Peder Andersson, Andreas Jakobsson and Attila Frigyesi
An error occurred during the publication of a number of articles in Journal of Intensive Care. Several articles were published in volume 7 with a duplicate citation number.
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Citation:Journal of Intensive Care
2019
7:43
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2019
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Fluid infusion represents one of the cornerstones of resuscitation therapies in order to increase oxygen delivery during septic shock. Fluid overload as a consequence of excessive fluid administration seems to...
Authors: Xavier Chapalain, Véronique Vermeersch, Pierre-Yves Egreteau, Gwenael Prat, Zarrin Alavi, Eric Vicaut and Olivier Huet
With Sepsis-3, the increase in sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) as a clinical score for the identification of patients with sepsis and quickSOFA (qSOFA) for the identification of patients at risk of ...
Authors: Lucie Probst, Enrico Schalk, Tobias Liebregts, Vanja Zeremski, Asterios Tzalavras, Michael von Bergwelt-Baildon, Nina Hesse, Johanna Prinz, Jörg Janne Vehreschild, Alexander Shimabukuro-Vornhagen, Dennis A. Eichenauer, Jorge Garcia Borrega, Matthias Kochanek and Boris Böll
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Authors: Hendrik Gussen, Philipp Hohlstein, Matthias Bartneck, Klaudia Theresa Warzecha, Lukas Buendgens, Tom Luedde, Christian Trautwein, Alexander Koch and Frank Tacke
Citation:Journal of Intensive Care
2019
7:40
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Commencement of a new academic cycle is presumed to be associated with poor patient outcomes. However, supportive evidence is limited for trauma patients treated in under-resourced hospitals, especially those ...
The length of stay (LOS) in intensive care units (ICUs) has been used as a good indicator not only for resource consumption but also for health outcomes of patients. However, data regarding pediatric LOS in Ja...
Appropriate use of antimicrobials is essential to improve outcomes in sepsis. The aim of this study was to determine whether the use of a rapid molecular blood test—SeptiFast (SF) reduces the antibiotic consumpti...
Authors: Cristhieni Rodrigues, Rinaldo Focaccia Siciliano, Helio Caiaffa Filho, Cecília Eugenia Charbel, Luciane de Carvalho Sarahyba da Silva, Martina Baiardo Redaelli, Ana Paula de Paula Rosa Passetti, Maria Renata Gomes Franco, Flávia Rossi, Rogerio Zeigler, Daniel De Backer, Rafael Alves Franco, Juliano Pinheiro de Almeida, Stéphanie Itala Rizk, Julia Tizue Fukushima, Giovanni Landoni…
The objective of this study was to determine the main risk factors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutation as well as the mechanisms of acquired resistance.
Authors: Stéphanie Druge, Stéphanie Ruiz, Fanny Vardon-Bounes, Marion Grare, François Labaste, Thierry Seguin, Olivier Fourcade, Vincent Minville, Jean-Marie Conil and Bernard Georges
We examined whether high lactate level in septic patients was associated with 90-day mortality based on the patients’ disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) status.
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is a common complication in sepsis. Since DIC not only promotes organ dysfunction but also is a strong prognostic factor, its diagnosis at the earliest possible tim...
The overall result of the randomized controlled double-blinded trial for polymyxin B-immobilized fiber column on septic shock (EUPHRATES trial) was disappointing. However, post hoc analysis showed benefits for...
Enteral nutrition (EN) can maintain the structure and function of the gastrointestinal mucosa better than parenteral nutrition. In critically ill patients, EN must be discontinued or interrupted, if gastrointe...
Outcomes in emergent patients with suspected infection depend on how quickly clinicians evaluate the patients and start treatment. This study was performed to compare the predictive ability of the quantitative...
Authors: Oi Yasufumi, Naoto Morimura, Aya Shirasawa, Hiroshi Honzawa, Yutaro Oyama, Shoko Niida, Takeru Abe, Shouhei Imaki and Ichiro Takeuchi
Accurate and early identification of infection sites might help to drive crucial decisions regarding the treatment of sepsis. We aimed to determine the clinical and etiological features of infection according ...
Accidental hypothermia is a serious condition that requires immediate and accurate assessment to determine severity and treatment. Currently, accidental hypothermia is evaluated using the Swiss grading system ...
Circulating levels of soluble urokinase plasminogen activation receptor (suPAR) have been proposed as a prognostic biomarker in patients with critical illness and sepsis. However, the origin of suPAR in sepsis...
Authors: Hendrik Gussen, Philipp Hohlstein, Matthias Bartneck, Klaudia Theresa Warzecha, Lukas Buendgens, Tom Luedde, Christian Trautwein, Alexander Koch and Frank Tacke
While understanding of critical illness and delirium continue to evolve, the impact on clinical practice is often unknown and delayed. Our purpose was to provide insight into practice changes by characterizing...
Authors: Gary D. Owen, Joanna L. Stollings, Shayan Rakhit, Li Wang, Chang Yu, Morgan A. Hosay, James W. Stewart, Fernando Frutos-Vivar, Oscar Peñuelas, Andres Esteban, Antonio R. Anzueto, Konstantinos Raymondos, Fernando Rios, Arnaud W. Thille, Marco González, Bin Du…
The study by Ogura et al. investigated the association between the structures of intensive care units (ICUs) affecting patient outcomes. A major limitation of this study is that the types of ICUs had not clear...
Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) is a signaling lipid essential in regulating processes involved in sepsis pathophysiology, including endothelial permeability and vascular tone. Serum S1P is progressively reduced...
Authors: Martin Sebastian Winkler, Konstantin B. Märtz, Axel Nierhaus, Günter Daum, Edzard Schwedhelm, Stefan Kluge and Markus H. Gräler
Early and accurate diagnosis of sepsis is challenging. Although procalcitonin and presepsin have been identified as potential biomarkers to differentiate between sepsis and other non-infectious causes of syste...
Cardiac output measurements may inform diagnosis and provide guidance of therapeutic interventions in patients with hemodynamic instability. The FloTrac™ algorithm uses uncalibrated arterial pressure waveform ...
Authors: Thomas Kaufmann, Ramon P. Clement, Bart Hiemstra, Jaap Jan Vos, Thomas W. L. Scheeren, Frederik Keus and Iwan C. C. van der Horst
Currently, the appropriate method of management of patients with refractory septic shock remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the factors associated with response to epinephrine in norepinephrine-refr...
Red blood cell (RBC) transfusions are common procedures performed in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, conservative transfusion approaches have been recommended to avoid RBC transfusions that are not cli...
Authors: Lesley J. J. Soril, Tom W. Noseworthy, Henry T. Stelfox, David A. Zygun and Fiona M. Clement
The gut is hypothesized to be the “motor” of critical illness. Under basal conditions, the gut plays a crucial role in the maintenance of health. However, in critical illness, all elements of the gut are injur...
Catecholamines are commonly used in septic shock but face limitations of their hypo-responsiveness and adverse events due to high dose. Terlipressin is a synthetic vasopressin analog with greater selectivity f...
Authors: Yibing Zhu, Huibin Huang, Xiuming Xi and Bin Du
Nutritional therapy is one of the important treatments in critically ill patients. How to estimate calorie consumption and how to determine an optimal calorie dose are clinical questions of great importance. A...
Differentiating sepsis from the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in critical care patients is challenging, especially before serious organ damage is evident, and with variable clinical presentati...
Authors: Bert K. Lopansri, Russell R. Miller III, John P. Burke, Mitchell Levy, Steven Opal, Richard E. Rothman, Franco R. D’Alessio, Venkataramana K. Sidhaye, Robert Balk, Jared A. Greenberg, Mark Yoder, Gourang P. Patel, Emily Gilbert, Majid Afshar, Jorge P. Parada, Greg S. Martin…
Guidelines for grading diastolic dysfunction poorly categorize septic patients. We compared how well the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) 2009 and 2016 definitions and a simplified definition categor...
Authors: Michael J. Lanspa, Troy D. Olsen, Emily L. Wilson, Mary Louise Leguyader, Eliotte L. Hirshberg, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Samuel M. Brown and Colin K. Grissom
One of the main pathophysiological manifestations during the acute phase of sepsis is massive production of proinflammatory mediators. Clinical trials involving direct suppression of inflammatory mediators to ...
Authors: Ken Kuwajima, Kyungho Chang, Ai Furuta, Masahiko Bougaki, Kanji Uchida, Shigehito Sawamura and Yoshitsugu Yamada
For patients treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), employing a well-coordinated, multidisciplinary team specializing in ECMO has reportedly been effective in delivering better clinical outco...
Authors: Atthasit Komindr, Ryuzo Abe, Yoshihisa Tateishi, Yuka Takahashi, Jun Goto, Keita Wada, Yutaka Furukawa, Atsushi Sugiura, Taro Imaeda, Natsumi Suga, Noriyuki Hattori and Shigeto Oda
Management of fluid therapy in an intensive care unit (ICU) tends to be volume restriction after initial fluid resuscitation, since it has been the consensus that volume overload is associated with complicatio...
Authors: Kenichiro Morisawa, Shigeki Fujitani and Yasuhiko Taira
This review is a “Pro-Con” discussion about the optimal fluid volume in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). This article argues that fluids should be aggressively managed in critically il...
Although it has been reported that high hospital patient volume results in survival and cost benefits for several diseases, it is uncertain whether this association is applicable in burn care.
We have read the study about the association between high red blood cell distribution width and higher ward mortality after intensive care unit discharge. The study increases the evidence that RDW may be a mar...
Authors: Tiago Antonio Tonietto, Marcio Manozzo Boniatti, Thiago Costa Lisboa, Marina Verçoza Viana and Gustavo Adolpho Moreira Faulhaber
To determine if real-time compression feedback using a non-automated hand-held device improves patient outcomes from in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA).
Authors: Reza Goharani, Amir Vahedian-Azimi, Behrooz Farzanegan, Farshid R. Bashar, Mohammadreza Hajiesmaeili, Seyedpouzhia Shojaei, Seyed J. Madani, Keivan Gohari-Moghaddam, Sevak Hatamian, Seyed M. M. Mosavinasab, Masoum Khoshfetrat, Mohammad A. Khabiri Khatir and Andrew C. Miller
Mechanical ventilation can initiate ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) and contribute to the development of multiple organ dysfunction. Although a lung protective strategy limiting both tidal volume and ...
Mechanically ventilated patients often develop muscle weakness post-intensive care admission. Current evidence suggests that early mobilisation of these patients can be an effective intervention in improving t...
Authors: Catherine Clarissa, Lisa Salisbury, Sheila Rodgers and Susanne Kean
Heat stroke induces coagulofibrinolytic activation, which leads to life-threatening disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). However, treatment strategies for DIC in heat stroke have not yet been establis...
Authors: Hironori Matsumoto, Jun Takeba, Kensuke Umakoshi, Yuki Nakabayashi, Naoki Moriyama, Suguru Annen, Muneaki Ohshita, Satoshi Kikuchi, Norio Sato and Mayuki Aibiki
Despite the evidence for calibrated cardiac monitored devices to determine fluid responsiveness, there is minimal evidence that the use of cardiac output monitor devices leads to an overall change in IV fluid ...
Authors: Timothy G. Scully, Robert Grealy, Anthony S. McLean and Sam R. Orde
Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is a known risk factor for increased mortality in cardiac surgery. However, the association between RV performance and ICU morbidity is largely unknown.
Authors: Inge T. Bootsma, Thomas W. L. Scheeren, Fellery de Lange, Johannes Haenen, Piet W. Boonstra and E. Christaan Boerma
Based on promising results over the past 10 years, the method of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has developed from being used as a ‘rescue therapy’ to become an accepted treatment option for patien...
Authors: Norbert Banjas, Hans-Bernd Hopf, Ernst Hanisch, Benjamin Friedrichson, Julia Fichte and Alexander Buia
In patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), an association between hypocapnia and poor clinical outcomes has been reported. However, the optimal arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO2) remains unkn...
Authors: Shota Yokoyama, Toru Hifumi, Tomoya Okazaki, Takahisa Noma, Kenya Kawakita, Takashi Tamiya, Tetsuo Minamino and Yasuhiro Kuroda
The western Japan rainstorm disaster on July 6, 2018, was one of the most serious natural catastrophes in Japan, excluding earthquake events. Its main characteristics were severe and widespread flooding and la...
Authors: Shinichiro Ohshimo, Takuma Sadamori and Nobuaki Shime
Data regarding trends of muscle loss on ultrasonography (USG) and its relationship with various outcomes among critically ill patients is limited. This study aimed to describe the trends of loss of muscle thic...
