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... Abstract Application of extracorporeal blood purification in children is increasing with the improvement of technology and the broadening of indications in critically ill patients. Furthermore, novel devices are being made available with a miniaturized design to be applicable to pediatric...

... such as severity of illness (e.g., extreme prematurity) and/or isolated congenital anomalies that prevent enteral nutrition. The second half of the chapter will focus on IFALD. IFALD is defined as a disease process manifested by cholestasis in infants requiring prolonged PN, and have established intestinal failure...

... Abstract Nutrition therapy provided early in the critical care setting has been shown to improve outcome. Appropriate and early nutrition interventions can attenuate the hyperdynamic systemic response and depressed immune reaction to injury, serious illness and major surgery. Controversies...

.../physiologic factors’. Sexual function/ dysfunction seems to almost perfectly fit into the biopsychosocial model of illness. It could be also argued that the sexual function/dysfunction area is quintessentially psychosomatic. Second, Fava and Sonino [ 3 ] and Lipowski [ 4 ] postulated that psychosomatic...

... a dualistic analysis when diagnosing primary versus secondary disorders. With this background, this review on rating scales for anxiety and depression in the medically ill is developed to be of practical use at the phenomenological level of measuring severity of affective states. The symptoms are thus...

... Abstract In critically ill patients, fluid balance management is an integral part of the process of care. In patients in shock or severe sepsis, aggressive initial fluid resuscitation has been shown to improve overall prognosis. However, in critically ill patients, cumulative fluid accumulation...

... evidence for and against the use of diuretics in the critically ill, including cardiorenal syndromes. Administration of diuretics for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains controversial. We have to acknowledge that, regarding diuretics, there is still an important gap between current...

... modalities satisfy the requirement for both accuracy and speed. The chest x-ray is insensitive for volume overload, B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is inaccurate in critically ill patients, and the volume assessment gold standard (radioisotopic measurement) is neither rapid nor inexpensive. Bioimpedance...

... algorithm to aid in the decision on when to initiate RRT in adult critically ill patients. This algorithm was developed using available clinical evidence, recognizing the inherent limitations of observational studies. It aims to provide a starting point for clinicians and future prospective studies. We also...

... to the syndromeof septic AKI, especially in critically ill patients. In such patients, several assumptionsassociated with the ‘pre-renal azotemia paradigm’ are violated. In particular, there is no evidencethat ATN is the histopathological substrate of septic AKI, there is no evidence thaturine tests can...