Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Jun 1993
Practice Guideline GuidelineGuidelines for the transfer of critically ill patients. Guidelines Committee of the American College of Critical Care Medicine; Society of Critical Care Medicine and American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Transfer Guidelines Task Force.
The development of practice guidelines for the conduct of intra- and interhospital transport of the critically ill patient. ⋯ The available data have allowed us to develop an evidence-based practice policy for the intra- and interhospital transport of the critically ill.
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Critical care medicine · Jun 1993
Continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration therapy for Staphylococcus aureus-induced septicemia in immature swine.
The goals of this study were: a) to evaluate the efficacy of controlled, continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration in improving morbidity and mortality rates in an immature swine model of Staphylococcus aureus-induced septicemia; b) to determine if ultrafiltrate from septic animals contained mediators that produce pathophysiologic changes observed in untreated S. aureus septic pigs. ⋯ Continuous arteriovenous hemofiltration significantly improved survival rates in swine with S. aureus-induced sepsis. Resultant ultrafiltrate concentrate contained mediators responsible for some pathophysiologic responses observed in this animal model.