Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Aug 1994
Intravenous lorazepam as an amnestic and anxiolytic agent in the intensive care unit: a prospective study.
To assess the efficacy and hemodynamic safety of intravenous lorazepam as an amnestic and anxiolytic agent in patients undergoing critical care procedures. ⋯ This study confirms the beneficial anxiolytic and amnestic effects of lorazepam in a subgroup of patients undergoing critical care procedures. The study also substantiates the safety of this drug in this patient population.
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Critical care medicine · Aug 1994
Brain death in pediatric intensive care unit patients: incidence, primary diagnosis, and the clinical occurrence of Turner's triad.
To determine the incidence and characteristics of children with brain death in the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU), and to assess the incidence of the clinical triad (Turner's triad) of central diabetes insipidus, low glucose demand, and low CO2 production. ⋯ Our series of brain-dead patients in the pediatric ICU showed a 0.9% incidence of brain death. The most common primary diagnosis was trauma, a finding that is similar to other series. We also demonstrated that the clinical triad (Turner's triad) is present in this patient population, although only 12% of study patients demonstrated all three features.