Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common and serious problem that develops after more than 48 h of mechanical ventilation. Improving the activity of immune system with vitamin D, and its consequent impact on prognostic biomarkers of VAP was studied in the current study. A randomized double blind placebo controlled clinical trial was designed. A total of 46 patients with VAP, who were s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To evaluate the significance of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (MDRAB)-related ventilator-associated pneumonia at a medical center in southern Taiwan. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients with MDRAB isolated from sputum and described the characteristics of these patients. Patients were divided into 2 groups according to their ...

MOTIVATION Computational prediction of compound-protein interactions (CPIs) is of great importance for drug design and development, as genome-scale experimental validation of CPIs is not only time-consuming but also prohibitively expensive. With the availability of an increasing number of validated interactions, the performance of computational prediction approaches is severely impended by the ...

Reports of sleep-onset and nocturnal (EEG Stage 1, rapid eye-movement [REM] period) mentation, CPIs, and thematic fantasy responses were collected from 32 young-adult Ss. In confirmation of recent findings by Foulkes and Vogel, dreamlike mental activity was found to occur with fairly substantial frequency at sleep onset, albeit with wide individual differences. Patterning of personality correla...

Panel unit root tests show that intranational purchasing power parity (PPP) cannot be rejected across major cities in Australia over the period from 1972 to 1999. The persistence of deviations in response to shocks is low, as measured by the estimated exact half-life of 5 to 7 quarters. This is much lower than results for similar tests done on US cities, and for international PPP tests. The foo...

Dear Editor I read with interest the review fromHellweg [1]. However the findings of Ntoumenopoulos et al. [2] were in-accurately reported. Ntoumenopoulos et al. [2] investigated the effect of chest physiotherapy in sixty adult patients intubated and mechanically ventilated for at least 48-hours. There were no differences in the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay in ICU or morta...

Background. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is one of the most common causes of hospital morbidity and mortality, but has been poorly studied in the South African context. Objective. To evaluate the incidence and outcome of VAP in the intensive care units (ICUs) of two major centres in the Durban metropolitan area. Methods. The study was conducted over a period of 6 months with all intuba...

background: ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap) increases the cost of intensive care unit (icu) treatment and the chance of mortality. due to the increasing use of proton pump inhibitors (ppi) and h2 receptor inhibitors for stress ulcer prophylaxis, the purpose of the study was to investigate the differences of vap in two groups of patients receiving ppi or h2 blocker. methods: in the retrosp...

Respiratory support in critically ill children is crucial and often mechanical ventilation (MV) needed for lifesaving intervention. MV can lead to complications with, ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) being one of the most serious has been with prolonged length (LOV) stay hospital (LOS), morbidity mortality. Despite importance VAP, definition (both clinically epidemiologically) limited. Som...