Year in Review 2006: The Critically Ill Patient in the Pediatric ICU
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Email : [email protected] The care of the critically ill patient in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) has remained an important topic for those health care providers dealing with children. The purpose of this article is to introduce to the reader a summary of selected papers which we consider relevant to the care of the pediatric critically ill patient and that were published Review Article Crit Care & Shock (2007) 10 : 117-121
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Effects of High-dose Selenium Supplementation on the Oxidative Stress Status and Inflammatory Markers in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients after Gastrointestinal Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol.
Introduction: Oxidative stress and inflammation could occur after major gastrointestinal surgeries. Selenium is a micronutrient with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, which could improve the inflammatory markers in the children admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after gastrointestinal surgeries. Due to the lack of evidence on the potential effects of high-dos...
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Backgrounds. We examined the effect on the prognosis of critically ill pediatric patients after a closed ICU policy was implemented into an adult ICU that admitted children. Materials and Methods. We assessed the Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) score of pediatric patients (≤15 y.o.) admitted to the ICU from 2001 to 2009. In our teaching hospital, the department for intensive care was esta...
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Microalbuminuria is thought to reflect the severity of inflammation-induced systemic vascular permeability. The present study investigated the effect of early administration of metformin or insulin on microalbuminuria in traumatized critically ill patients. Between April 2006 and October 2007, thirty-one non-diabetics traumatized patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and ...
متن کاملMicroalbuminuria in Hyperglycemic Critically Ill Patients Treated with Insulin or Metformin
Microalbuminuria is thought to reflect the severity of inflammation-induced systemic vascular permeability. The present study investigated the effect of early administration of metformin or insulin on microalbuminuria in traumatized critically ill patients. Between April 2006 and October 2007, thirty-one non-diabetics traumatized patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and ...
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