Articles Tagged With: trauma
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Special Feature: Critical Care Issues in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
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Critical Care Plus: Special Beds: Boon to Patients or High-Profit Boondoggle?
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Critical Care Plus: Respiratory Isolation Measures Underused, Researcher Finds
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Critical Care Plus: Unsanitary Conditions Lead to Shakeup in Kansas City
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Special Feature: Analgesic Considerations in the Critically Ill and Injured Patient
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The ‘Sigh’ as a Recruitment Maneuver in ARDS?
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Full August 2007 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Ventilator Modes Old and New
A few weeks ago a technical representative of one of the leading ICU ventilator manufacturers gave an "in-service" presentation to the leaders of the respiratory care department at my institution. -
Diagnosing Adrenal Insufficiency in Sepsis
In an attempt to clarify criteria for diagnosing adrenal insufficiency in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, this group of French investigators serially performed both the cosyntropin stimulation test and the metyrapone stimulation test in 2 cohorts of such patients, and compared the findings with those from concurrent ICU patients without sepsis as well as a group of healthy volunteers.