Medicina intensiva
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The purpose of this presentation is to report three adult patients with aortoenteric fistula whose initial presentation was abdominal pain and digestive bleeding. We stress the low incidence of this disease as a cause of digestive bleeding, its high mortality and the need of high clinical suspicion for its diagnosis. We discuss the different sites of the aortoenteric fistulas, probable physiopathological mechanisms that generate them and their elevated association with the presence of vascular prostheses.
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Multicenter Study
[Degree of public awareness regarding intensive care units (ICUs) and intensive care physicians in Castilla y León].
To determine degree of public awareness regarding the activities and health care professionals that comprise intensive care units (ICUs) in the autonomous community of Castilla y León. ⋯ In the described scope, of the citizens of Castilla y León, 27.7% know as it is a ICU, 25.5% know what type of patients usually is entered there, and 48.4% recognize their doctors like ICU specialists specifically. These knowledge improve significantly after having some relative entered in ICU for more than 2 days.
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Multicenter Study
[Prognosis for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in mechanically ventilated patients].
To determine the variables associated with prognosis for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) in mechanically ventilated patients. ⋯ Mortality in the studied cohort of patients with AECOPD was associated with cardiovascular dysfunction, renal dysfunction and prolonged mechanical support.