Medicina intensiva
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Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a neurologic emergency and often a neurologic catastrophe. Nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage is characterized by the extravasation of blood into the spaces covering the central nervous system. The leading cause of SAH is rupture of an intracranial aneurysm, which accounts for about 80-85% of cases. ⋯ Intensive care plays a more important role in the management of SAH than in any other neurological disorder. Excellence in neurologic diagnosis, in operative neurosurgery or neuroradiologic procedures must be accompanied by excellence in Intensive Care. This review emphasizes treatment in the Intensive Care Unit, surgical and endovascular therapeutic options and the current state of treatment of major complications such as rebleeding, cerebral vasospasm and acute hydrocephalus.
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To study de prognostic value and the difference between genders in the injury mechanism and pattern of multiple trauma patients. ⋯ Gender does not play a role in mortality adjusted to severity at admission. Wo - men are one fifth of all admissions but are more severe and suffer more craniocerebral injuries and these are more severe. There are few differences in injury mechanism and pattern between men and women.
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Review Comparative Study
[Patient data management systems or unit data management systems. Two clinical management perspectives in Intensive Medicine].
The need of availability of information able to describe the activity performed in ICU has two different sides. The first related with the monitoring of the patient himself, his clinical situation changes and the checking of attitudes and reactions of the clinical team related to these changes. ⋯ Industry tried to develop potent instruments (informatized) able to
information from patient monitoring systems in order to cope with the first quoted need (the so called patient data management systems [PDMS]), but has not yet be able to cross the line between the individual patient and the global unit activity. Authors emphasize the need of having the unit data management systems (UDMS), a not solved problem, as a complement on real time on line information obtained from patients.