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Outcome of bedside percutaneous tracheostomy with bronchoscopic guidance
Objective: To determine the morbidity and mortality of percutaneous dilational tracheostomy with bronchoscopic guidance when performed by medical intensivists. Design: A retrospective analysis. ...
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Study of prognostic factors in severe comunity-acquired pneumonia (SCAP)
With logistic regression the mortality of the SCAP is related with characteristics of the patient at admission to the ICU (Previous state of health, APACHE II > 15) and the developement of complications (MOF a...
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Nosocomial pneumonia prophylaxis
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Infections
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ICU organization and management I
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Infections II
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Acute/Chronic respiratory failure III
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Contact phase of blood coagulation in cardiogenic pulmonary oedema (CPO) and adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
In order to assess the role of the kallikreinkinin (k-k) system in the pathogenesis of pulmonary oedema, we studied the contact phase factors of blood coagulation, as well as the haemodynamics and blood gas ch...