The aim of this Intensive Care Medicine Rapid Practice Guideline (ICM‑RPG) was to formulate evidence‑based guidance for the use of dexmedetomidine for sedation in invasively mechanically ventilated adults in the intensive care unit (ICU). We adhered to the methodology for trustworthy clinical practic...
Timsit, Jean-François;
Baleine, Julien;
Bernard, Louis;
Calvino-Gunther, Silvia;
Darmon, Michael;
Dellamonica, Jean;
Desruennes, Eric;
Leone, Marc;
Lepape, Alain;
Leroy, Olivier;
Lucet, Jean-Christophe;
Merchaoui, Zied;
Mimoz, Olivier;
Misset, Benoit;
Parienti, Jean-Jacques;
Quenot, Jean-Pierre;
Roch, Antoine;
Schmidt, Matthieu;
Slama, Michel;
Souweine, Bertrand;
Zahar, Jean-Ralph;
Zingg, Walter;
Bodet-Contentin, Laetitia;
Maxime, Virginie.
The French Society of Intensive Care Medicine (SRLF), jointly with the French-Speaking Group of Paediatric Emer‑
gency Rooms and Intensive Care Units (GFRUP) and the French-Speaking Association of Paediatric Surgical Inten‑
sivists (ADARPEF), worked out guidelines for the management of central venous...
Mechanical ventilation is life-saving for patients with acute respiratory insufficiency. In a German prevalence study, 13.6% of patients in intensive care units received mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours; 20% of these patients received mechanical ventilation as treatment for acute respiratory...
Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea/enfermería,
Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea/instrumentación,
Oxigenación por Membrana Extracorpórea/métodos,
Respiración Artificial/instrumentación,
Respiración Artificial/enfermería,
Respiración Artificial/métodos,
Insuficiencia Respiratoria/prevención & control,
Insuficiencia Respiratoria/enfermería,
Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos/organización & administración,
Desconexión del Ventilador/instrumentación,
Desconexión del Ventilador/enfermería
Kasotakis, G;
Hasenboehler, EA;
Streib, EW;
Patel, N;
Patel, MB;
Alarcon, L;
Bosarge, PL;
Love, J;
Haut, ER;
Como, JJ.
"BACKGROUND:
Rib fractures are identified in 10% of all injury victims and are associated with significant morbidity (33%) and mortality (12%). Significant progress has been made in the management of rib fractures over the past few decades, including operative reduction and internal fixation (rib ORIF); ...
Cho, Young-Jae;
Cho, Young-Jae;
Moon, Jae Young;
Shin, Ein-Soon;
Kim, Je Hyeong;
Jung, Hoon;
Park, So Young;
Kim, Ho Cheol;
Sim, Yun Su;
Rhee, Chin Kook;
Lim, Jaemin;
Lee, Seok Jeong;
Lee, Won Yeon;
Lee, Hyun Jeong;
Kwak, Sang Hyun;
Kang, Eun Kyeong;
Chung, Kyung Soo;
Choi, Won-Il.
Since the first description of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a series of 12 patients in 1967 by Ashbaugh
et al.1
, it still remains a major public health problem that incurs
high health care costs and causes major mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) despite improvements in outcomes...
Álvarez Lerma, F;
Sánchez, García, M;
Lorente, L;
Gordo, F;
Añón, JM;
Álvarez, J;
Palomar, M;
García, R;
Arias, S;
Vázquez-Calatayud, M;
Jam, R.
"BACKGROUND:
""Zero-VAP"" is a proposal for the implementation of a simultaneous multimodal intervention in Spanish intensive care units (ICU) consisting of a bundle of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention measures.
METHODS/DESIGN:
An initiative of the Spanish Societies of Intensive Care Med...
Stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) is commonly used in the intensive care unit (ICU), and is recommended in the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines 2012. The present guideline from the Danish Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Danish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine sums up curr...
Barr, J;
Fraser, G. L;
Puntillo, K;
Ely, E. W;
Gélinas, C;
Dasta, J. F;
Davidson, J. E;
Devlin, J. W;
Kress, J. P;
Joffe, A. M;
Coursin, D. B;
Herr, D. L;
Tung, A;
Robinson, B, R;
Fontaine, D. K;
Ramsay, M. A;
Riker, R. R;
Sessler, C. N;
Pun, B;
Skrobik, Y;
Jaeschke, R.
OBJECTIVE: To revise the "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Sustained Use of Sedatives and Analgesics in the Critically Ill Adult" published in Critical Care Medicine in 2002. METHODS: The American College of Critical Care Medicine assembled a 20-person, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional task for...
