Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · May 2018
Impact of intravascular thrombosis on failure of radial arterial catheters in critically ill patients: a nested case-control study.
The patency of arterial catheters is essential for reliable invasive blood pressure monitoring. We sought to determine whether radial catheter failures were associated with intravascular thrombosis in critically ill adult patients. ⋯ Most failing radial arterial catheters had no luminal obstruction, but were associated with an intravascular thrombosis. Among predictive factors, arterial blood sampling frequency is the most susceptible to intervention.
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Intensive care medicine · May 2018
Correction to: Impact of intravascular thrombosis on failure of radial arterial catheters in critically ill patients: a nested case-control study.
Owing to an error in typesetting, Table 2 was not structured correctly.
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Intensive care medicine · May 2018
Preoperative right heart hemodynamics predict postoperative acute kidney injury after heart transplantation.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently occurs after heart transplantation (HTx), but its relation to preoperative right heart hemodynamic (RHH) parameters remains unknown. Therefore, we aimed to determine their predictive properties for postoperative AKI severity within 30 days after HTx. ⋯ Preoperative PAPi and RAP strongly predict the development of AKI early after HTx and can be used as early AKI predictors.
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Intensive care medicine · May 2018
Impact of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or receptor blockers on post-ICU discharge outcome in patients with acute kidney injury.
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with the activation of the renin-angiotensin system. Whether angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEi) or angiotensin-receptor blockers (ARB) improve outcome in patients recovering from AKI remains unexplored. The purpose was to investigate the association between prescription of ACEi/ARB at intensive care unit (ICU) discharge and 1-year outcome in patients recovering from AKI. ⋯ In patients discharged alive from the ICU after experiencing AKI, ACEi/ARB prescription at discharge is associated with a decrease in 1-year mortality.