To examine the relative roles of passive factors (flow; filling pressures of left side of heart)
and active factors (acidosis; arterial unsaturation) in the genesis of pulmonary hypertension …

PURPOSE We wanted to assess the effectiveness of intensive education for physicians
compared with a traditional session on communicating with breast cancer patients. METHODS A …

The effect of the Trendelenburg position on systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics in critically
ill patients is not generally appreciated. This study examined the hemodynamic effect of …

Although a primary route of breast cancer metastasis is believed to be via lymphatics, the
molecular factors involved are poorly understood. We hypothesized that one such factor may …

Current evidence suggests that pulmonary edema accompanying human sepsis may result
either from changes in the serum oncotic and hydrostatic pressures or an increase in the …

MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of 353 patients treated at University and
Victoria Hospitals in London, Ontario, from 1965 to 1975 were studied. Iso-lated minor chest …

The relationship of baseline nutritional test values to clinical outcome was prospectively
studied in 55 consecutive surgical and critically ill patients referred for nutritional support. Eight …

Seventy-seven patients who had sustained multisystem trauma, including severe blunt
chest injury, were prospectively evaluated to assess the frequency of associated traumatic …

Myocardial dysfunction may result from severe trauma. Therefore, left (LV) and right ventricular
(RV) function were prospectively assessed by ECG-gated blood pool radionuclide (RN) …

… Figure l. This diagram demonstrates the flow dependency of total systemic oxygen
consumption seen in critically ill patients. Since local factors needed to assist in providing …