Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care E-Book
... patients and attributed the improved survival to the integration of prehospital and hospital care and subsequent expedi- tious surgery ... improve outcomes ( 15 % -20 % ) , principally measured as hospital survival , after the estab ...
Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
... can improve the condition of patients admitted to ICU . Parke et al showed that trauma patients admitted directly to ... Critical Care How does the civilian experience translate. into. the. field ? The. heightening. of. expectations over ...
Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care E-Book
... improves pediatric transport outcomes: a randomized controlled trial. Pediatrics. 2011;127(1):42-48. 101. Prottengeier J, Moritz A, Heinrich S, Gall C, Schmidt J. Sedation assessment in a mobile intensive care unit: a prospective pilot ...
Geriatric Trauma and Critical Care
... outcome. The underlying concept that physiologic reserve is not necessarily predicted by age or even PECs has been accepted. Following trends in general geriatrics research, more recent studies on patient-specific factors affecting outcomes ...
Critical Care Nursing
... surgery, radiology and intensive care services more seamless, improving the survival of trauma patients in recent ... improve outcomes in the USA, Canada, Australia and UK with an established rela- tionship between trauma centre ...
Complications in Trauma and Critical Care
... outcomes from their injuries . 39 , 45 Increasing death rates correlate di ... improve outcome . Reports demonstrate improved survival and functional ... TRAUMA PATIENT WITH PREEXISTING DISEASE AND THE GERIATRIC TRAUMA PATIENT 99.
Textbook of Critical Care: First South Asia Edition - E-Book
... injury (AKI).24 Mechanistically, the total mass of the HES molecule has been proposed as being directly toxic to renal proximal tubular cells, leading to the pathologic sequence of events that culminates in AKI.25 This is contrary to ...
Imaging in Trauma and Critical Care
... can be challenging even to the most experienced trauma sur- geon under the ... patients with all grades of liver injury , but without associate injuries ... surgery or complications . The nonoperatively managed patients included ...
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
... patients believed to have oxidative stress ( postcardiac surgery , trauma , subarachnoid hemorrhage ) , there was no effect on organ dysfunction or clinical outcomes ( 139 ) . Larger studies are ongoing ( clinicaltrials.gov identifier ...
Anesthesiology, Second Edition
... patients to undergo major procedures without the need for prolonged intensive care following surgery. 3. Critical ... improve outcomes in critically ill patients with acute lung injury. 6 ... trauma systems, with rapid transportation of ...
AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, Fifth Edition
... patients with SCI. Effective secretion clearance requires the ability to ... can be used to clear secretions. This device imitates a physiologic cough by ... trauma, including abdominal or pelvic injury, hemorrhagic shock must be ...
AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, Third Edition
... patients with cervical and thoracic SCI. Ongoing assessment of maxi- mal ... can be used to clear secretions. This device imitates a physiologic cough by ... trauma, including abdominal or pelvic injury, hemorrhagic shock must be ...
AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing, Fourth Edition
... can improve respiratory function in patients with cervical or thoracic SCI ... trauma, including abdominal or pelvic injury, hem- orrhagic shock must be ... outcomes. Neuroprotection There are no currently approved ...
Surgical Patient Safety: A Case-Based Approach
... outcomes . Knowledge of surgical anatomy improves surgical outcomes . No ... surgery . Knowledge and practice of operative techniques improve outcomes . ✓ Adequate exposure is critical ... Getting help can improve outcomes . TIP ...
Surgical Critical Care
... trauma center , J Trauma 26 : 733-737 , 1986 . 3. Scalea TM , Simon HM , Duncan AO , et al : Geriat- ric blunt multiple trauma : improved survival with early invasive monitoring , J Trauma 30 : 129-136 , 1990 . 4. Delquerico LRM , Cohn ...
Critical Care Monitoring
... improving outcome , but the as- sertion that such therapy would ... trauma patients and those in 1931 , and these differences may account for the differences in these studies . Supranormal values In a study by Shoemaker and colleagues , 98 ...
Schwartz's Principles of Surgery, 10th edition
... Trauma . 1996 ; 41 ( 5 ) : 769-774 . 57. Kincaid EH , Miller PR , Meredith JW , Rahman N , Chang MC . Elevated arterial base deficit in trauma patients : a marker of impaired oxygen utilization . J Am Coll Surg . 1998 ; 187 ( 4 ) : 384 ...
Case Files Emergency Medicine, Fourth Edition
... critical for early implementation of strategies that will lead to improved functional outcomes and survival. The benefit of hypothermia therapy for post-cardiac arrest patients is mainly to improve ... trauma patients with hemorrhagic shock.
Trauma Nursing
... Critical care 25-30 kcal / kg 1.2-1.5 g / kg Intermediate 25-30 kcal / kg ... patients , only approximate actual REE and offer little improvement in ... can be used for adults over the age of 65 years and 30 kcal / kg for other ...
Surgical Critical Care
... patients with increased ICP are likely to have small or slit - like ventricles that can ... directly address sources of raised ICP are available : surgery and ... trauma was made by analogy to this cancer model . It was assumed that ...