Medicina intensiva
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Review Case Reports
[Tetanus treated with continuous baclofen intrathecal perfusion].
After making a bibliographic search in our country and demonstrating the lack of original articles or communications on treatment with intrathecal baclofen for the generalized forms of tetanus, our objective is to present this treatment based on the successful experience of one clinical case. In relationship to the case, we review baclofen pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic effects and its possible utility in the treatment of tetanus.
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To determine whether the oxygen cost of breathing (VO2 resp) may predict successful weaning from mechanical ventilation. ⋯ The oxygen cost of breathing has no clinical utility in predicting weaning outcome.
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To assess the efficacy and safety of a treatment with clopidogrel when associated or not to the treatment with tirofiban and aspirin for high-risk non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (non-STEMI), without early angioplasty. ⋯ In the early course of high-risk non-STEMI with a conservative management strategy, the addition of clopidogrel to tirofiban does not change the rate of ischemic events, death, need of urgent catheterism or hemorrhagic events.