120 datasets found for "Mortality"
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Federal
Acute respiratory distress syndrome: estimated incidence and mortality rate in a 5 million-person population base
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Various estimates of the incidence and mortality rate of the acute (adult) respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been published. The studies that led... -
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Intensive care management of organophosphate insecticide poisoning
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction Organophosphate (OP) insecticides inhibit both cholinesterase and pseudo-cholinesterase activities. The inhibition of acetylcholinesterase causes... -
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ICUs worldwide: Results of a nationwide survey of Colombian intensive care units
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Sixty-three of 89 identified intensive care units in Colombia (Evaluation of Intensive Care in Colombia) participated in this voluntary study. A convenience sample of... -
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Comparison of APACHE II, MEES and Glasgow Coma Scale in patients with nontraumatic coma for prediction of mortality
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction: There are numerous prehosital descriptive scoring systems, and it is uncertain whether they are efficient in assessing of the severity of illness and... -
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Sepsis-related organ failure assessment and withholding or withdrawing life support from critically ill patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: We studied the incidence of withholding or withdrawing therapeutic measures in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, as well as the possible implications of... -
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Severe community-acquired meningitis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Community-acquired meningitis is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The epidemiology of community-acquired meningitis has changed over the past 15 years... -
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Mechanical ventilation: lessons from the ARDSNet trial
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory disease of the lungs characterized clinically by bilateral pulmonary infiltrates, decreased... -
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia in a surgical intensive care unit: epidemiology, etiology and comparison of three bronchoscopic methods for microbiological specimen sampling
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (VAP) is a important intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired infection in mechanically ventilated patients. Early and... -
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Survival of patients transferred to tertiary intensive care from rural community hospitals
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Accessibility to tertiary intensive care resources differs among hospitals within a rural region. Determining whether accessibility is associated with... -
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Need for critical care in gynaecology: a population-based analysis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction The purpose of this study was to note potential gynaecological risk factors leading to intensive care and to estimate the frequency, costs and outcome of... -
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Lactoferrin and free secretory component of human milk inhibit the adhesion of enteropathogenic
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Diarrhoea caused by Escherichia coli is an important cause of infant morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli... -
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Cardiac rehabilitation: a comprehensive review
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a commonly used treatment for men and women with cardiovascular disease. To date, no single study has conclusively demonstrated a... -
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Managing Obstetric Emergencies and Trauma (MOET) structured skills training in Armenia, utilising models and reality based scenarios
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Mortality rates in Western Europe have fallen significantly over the last 50 years. Maternal mortality now averages 10 maternal deaths per 100,000 live... -
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Acetaminophen toxicity: suicidal vs accidental
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction Acetaminophen toxicity, which can lead to hepatotoxicity, is a burden on our health care system and contributes significantly to intensive care unit... -
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Association of MHC and rheumatoid arthritis:HLA polymorphisms in phenotypic variants of rheumatoid arthritis
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Genes in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region remain the most powerful disease risk genes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Several allelic variants of HLA-DRB1 genes... -
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Autologous stem-cell transplantation in refractory autoimmune diseases after
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Autoimmune diseases that are resistant to conventional treatment cause severe morbidity and even mortality. In the present study we demonstrate that complete... -
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Performance of the score systems Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II and III at an interdisciplinary intensive care unit, after customization
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Mortality predictions calculated using scoring scales are often not accurate in populations other than those in which the scales were developed because of... -
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Clinical review: Status epilepticus
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Status epilepticus (SE) has an annual incidence exceeding 100,000 cases in the United States alone, of which more than 20% result in death. Thus, increased awareness... -
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Sex differences in risk factors for coronary heart disease: a study in a Brazilian population
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background In Brazil coronary heart disease (CHD) constitutes the most important cause of death in both sexes in all the regions of the country and interestingly, the... -
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Tumour Fas ligand:Fas ratio greater than 1 is an independent marker of relative resistance to tamoxifen therapy in hormone receptor positive breast cancer
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The objective of the present study was to examine the prognostic and predictive significance of the apoptosis-related marker Fas ligand (FasL):Fas ratio in...
120 datasets found for "Mortality"