Medicina intensiva
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Intensive medicine has the opportunity to create an interactive virtual community using Web 2.0. The main feature of this new web generation is to convert the user into an active element of the virtual world, allowing the passive, information-searching user to become one who creates, shares, participates and closely relates to it. These features make it possible for the clinical sphere, the researcher and the innovator to coincide, thus providing interaction not only among the members of the virtual community but also with citizens and patients. The creation of a Web 2.0-based
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Review Comparative Study
[Intermittent versus continuous renal replacement techniques: pro intermittent].
After an introduction that summarizes the new definitions and risk classification of acute kidney injury, along with the consequences on its epidemiology, available evidence in the literature is reviewed in order to compare intermittent and continuous renal replacement therapy in terms of survival, renal function recovery, hemodynamic stability, transferences between the different techniques and major complications.
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Evaluate moment of extubation in maxillofacial post-operative patients admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) and analyze early complications during their stay. ⋯ In our series, late extubation and the need for cervical lymph node extraction were independent risk factors for complications in ICU. Although early extubation may be hazardous in some cases in the first hours, we have no consistent data to maintain mechanical ventilation longer than needed to recover from the anesthesia.
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Tracheal intubation (TI) guided by fibrobronchoscopy (FB) is one of the essential techniques in the approach to the difficult airway (DAW). Few works have been published on the possible causes of TI failure with this procedure. This study aims to discover which factors could predict TI failure with FB. ⋯ TI guided by FB performed by bronchoscopist is successful in more than 90% of the cases with DAW. The skill and experience of the bronchoscopist is one of the primary determining factors of success of the procedure. Profound sedation may condition TI guided by FB failure.