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Rapid and beneficial hemodynamic effects of activated protein C in septic shock patients
Because recombinant human activated protein C (rhAPC) reduces NO production during sepsis, it could improve the vascular tone. We tested whether rhAPC reduces the dose of norepinephrine required to maintain me...
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Effects of tidal volume reduction in acute respiratory distress syndrome on gastric mucosal perfusion
Objective: This study was conducted with the aim of testing the effects of a reduction in tidal volume (VT) on gastric mucosal perfusion using laser-Doppler flowmetry in patients with acute resp...
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Relation between dicrotic notch and mean pulmonary artery pressure studied by using a Swan-Ganz catheter in critically ill patients
Objective: It has been recently shown that there is a match between dicrotic notch and mean pulmonary artery (PA) pressures in spontaneously breathing patients studied by means of high-fidelity p...
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Tissue hypoxia
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Acute Left Ventricular Dysfunction During Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation
Mechanical ventilation (MV) is commonly required in patients with acute respiratory failure. The beneficial effects of MV on lung mechanics and pulmonary gas exchange have been extensively developed. During th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Oxygen Derived Parameters in Acute Heart Failure
Regulation of gas exchange at the peripheral level is a phenomenon essential to life, which is linked to a physiological interrelationship between heart, lung and circulation. Thus, any alteration in pulmonary...
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Comparison of non-protected lower respiratory tract secretions and protected specimen brush samples in the diagnosis of pneumonia
The aim of this prospective study was to compare the results obtained with the non-protected lower respiratory tract secretions samples (LRS) with the protected specimen brushes (PSB) performed through a fiber...
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Co-infection or early superinfection of pneumococcal pneumonia
Two cases of co-infection or very early superinfection of pneumococcal pneumonia with Staphylococcus aureus in one case, and Enterobacter cloacae in the other, are reported. The two patients were not fully immuno...
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Two cases of shoshin beri beri with hemodynamic and plasma catecholamine data
Two fulminant forms of beri beri (“shoshin beri beri”) have been the subject of detailed study; circulating catecholamines reached very high levels. The evolution of hemodynamic parameters after treatment with...