..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. 2024 Critical care Extracorporeal therapy Intensive care Multiple organ failure Pharmacokinetics Renal replacement therapy NIH Extracorporeal life support (ECLS), which includes extracorporeal membrane...

...Silvia De Rosa; Massimiliano Greco; Michela Rauseo; Maria Giuseppina Annetta Muscle wasting (sarcopenia) is one of the hallmarks of critical illness. Patients admitted to intensive care unit develop sarcopenia through increased protein catabolism, a decrease in protein syntheses, or both. Among...

... ill patients were included in this study. The median APACHE 2 score was 22.2 ± 7.49 and median SOFA score 9.6 ± 5.44 on intensive care unit admission. SOFA scores were significantly decreased on the 3rd day of HA 330 treatment, compared to 2nd day scores ( p = 0.017). Median leukocyte value...

...Meint Volbeda; Martha Oord; Jacqueline Koeze; Eric Keus; Iwan C.C. van der Horst; Casper F.M. Franssen Introduction: In intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute kidney injury, specific recommendations to guide the decision to cease continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) are lacking...

... for this information. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were determined a priori. All studies comparing extracorporeal therapy as blood purification for patients with sepsis in the intensive care unit (ICU) were considered. The control group consisted of sepsis patients not treated with extracorporeal blood...

..., CytoSorb ® hemoadsorption might be another treatment option. We report on an 81-year-old female patient treated in our intensive care unit (ICU) with severe digitoxin intoxication, acute renal failure, and urinary tract infection (UTI). As physiological digitoxin elimination kinetics are known to appear...

...Emanuele Rossetti; Linda Appierto; Antonella Meschini; Giovanna Leone; Stefania Lazzaro; Giovanna Del Principe; Roberto Bianchi; Sergio Picardo We describe a 2 weeks corrected gestational age infant admitted in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome...

...Rinaldo Bellomo; Johan Mårtensson; Serigne Lo; Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen; Alan Cass; Martin Gallagher; for the RENAL study investigators and the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Clinical Trials Group Aims: The study aims to describe the use of dialysis catheters in critically ill patients...

... care Acute kidney injury Fluid overload Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common ailment in the critically ill, with varying incidence depending on the criteria used to define it and the population studied [ 1,2,3,4 ]. Both admission to intensive care unit (ICU) (21-50%) [ 4 ] and hospital...

... to in the content or advertisements. Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin Acute kidney injury Intensive care Inflammation Fig. 2 Nature and source of NGAL in plasma and urine during AKI. Systemic inflammation induces NGAL synthesis by extrarenal tissues and the release of NGAL from...

.... Volume assessment in the intensive care unit (ICU) is thus of great importance, but there are currently few methods to obtain an accurate and timely assessment of hydration status. Our aim was to evaluate the hydration status of ICU patients via bioelectric impedance vector analysis (BIVA...

... 2012 17 04 2012 13 6 2012 This observational prospective study was approved by our local institutional review board which waived the need of an informed consent from patients or closest relatives. It was carried out in our Medical Intensive Care Unit admitting an average of 350 patients...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide Left ventricular function Intensive care Echocardiography Acute renal...

...) at an effluent rate of 40 ml/kg/h will increase survival compared to CVVHDF at 25 ml/kg/h of effluent dose. Results: This trial is currently randomizing critically ill patients in 35 intensive care units in Australia and New Zealand with a planned sample size of 1,500 patients. This trial will be the largest...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Continuous veno-venous haemofiltration Coagulation Nadroparin Heparin Pre-dilution Post-dilution Intensive care Original Paper Blood Purif 2005;23:175 180 DOI: 10.1159/000083938 Accepted...

...S.H.A. Lawman; S.L. Cohen; S.D. Batson 2,683 cardiothoracic operations were carried out over a 3-year period. Patients requiring haemofiltration after surgery had a much greater mortality than those not haemofiltered. Of the 1,177 cardiothoracic intensive care unit (ICU) patients, 91 required...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hemofiltration Adsorption Plasma filtration Septic shock Multi-organ failure Critical illness Intensive care Sorbents Resins Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on CRRT Blood Purif 2002;20:289 292 Coupled Plasma...

... Adsorption W Toxins W Disseminated intravascular coagulation W Intensive care Abstract During sepsis toxins released from, e.g., bacteria induce reactions of various cascade systems that may cause progression of the patient into septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, multiorgan dysfunction...