Cardiac transplantation has become limited by a critical shortage of suitable organs from
brain-dead donors. Reports describing the successful clinical transplantation of hearts donated …

Background Studies that have evaluated the use of intravenous vitamin C in adults with
sepsis who were receiving vasopressor therapy in the intensive care unit (ICU) have shown …

Background Guidelines recommend normocapnia for adults with coma who are resuscitated
after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, mild hypercapnia increases cerebral blood …

Over the past two decades, the demand for donor organs continues to outpace the number
of organs available for transplantation. Parallel with this has been a change in the …

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an intensive care unit. Crit Care Med 1998; 26: 266–71 … Rocker, G; Cook, D; Sjokvist, P; …

… In conclusion, administration of ART-123 at a dose of 0.06 mg/kg/d for a 6-day treatment
period was associated with clear pharmacologic effects (lower D-dimer, F1.2, and TATc levels) …

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0.01 0.214 0.065–0.712 … DJ Kutsogiannis, I. Mayers, WD Chin, RT Gibney …

Objective. To describe the substitute decision-makers' perspectives related to decision-making
in the intensive care unit (ICU) and to determine those variables associated with their …

Background: Critically ill patients commonly experience skeletal muscle wasting that may
predict clinical outcome. Ultrasound is a noninvasive method that can measure muscle …

Optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) ultrasound is becoming increasingly more popular for
estimating raised intracranial pressure (ICP). We performed a systematic review and analysis …