Medicina intensiva
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Observational Study
[Hemodynamic and antipyretic effects of paracetamol, metamizol and dexketoprofen in critical patients].
The objective was to study the antipyretic and hemodynamic effects of three different drugs used to treat fever in critically ill patients. ⋯ Dexketoprofen was the most effective antipyretic agent at the doses tested. Although all three drugs reduced mean arterial pressure, the reduction with paracetamol was less pronounced.
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Flexible bronchoscopy (FB) has been of great help in the management of critically ill patients. Its safety and usefulness in the hands of experienced professionals, with the required measures of caution, has resulted in the increasingly widespread use of the technique even in unstable critical patients subjected to mechanical ventilation and with high oxygen demands. ⋯ The accreditation process seeks to stimulate good learning practice and quality in training. Both specialists in Intensive Care Medicine and other specialists, and the patients, will benefit from the commitment and control afforded by such accreditation, and from the learning and training which the mentioned process entails.