Year Book of Critical Care 2013

1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Airways/Lungs - p. 8 5. Acute Lung Injury/Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome - p. 9 6. Early alveolar and systemic mediator release in patients at different risks for ARDS after multiple trauma - p. 10 7. Association Between Use of Lung-Protective Ventilation With Lower Tidal Volumes and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients Without Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Meta-analysis - p. 11 8. Airway - p. 12 9. Measurement of forces applied during Macintosh direct laryngoscopy compared with GlideScope® videolaryngoscopy - p. 13 10. Difficult airway management in the emergency department: GlideScope videolaryngoscopy compared to direct laryngoscopy - p. 14 11. A Comparison of the C-MAC Video Laryngoscope to the Macintosh Direct Laryngoscope for Intubation in the Emergency Department - p. 15 12. Other - p. 16 13. Early Administration of Systemic Corticosteroids Reduces Hospital Admission Rates for Children With Moderate and Severe Asthma Exacerbation - p. 17 14. Burns, inhalation injury and ventilator-associated pneumonia: Value of routine surveillance cultures - p. 18 15. Review of Burn Injuries Secondary to Home Oxygen - p. 19 16. Cardiovascular - p. 20 17. Cardiac Arrest - p. 21 18. Hypothermia in Comatose Survivors From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Pilot Trial Comparing 2 Levels of Target Temperature - p. 22 19. High prevalence of corrected QT interval prolongation in acutely ill patients is associated with mortality: Results of the QT in Practice (QTIP) Study - p. 23 20. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation/Other - p. 24 21. Effectiveness of the LUCAS device for mechanical chest compression after cardiac arrest: systematic review of experimental, observational and animal studies - p. 25 22. Effects of fluid resuscitation with synthetic colloids or crystalloids alone on shock reversal, fluid balance, and patient outcomes in patients with severe sepsis: A prospective sequential analysis - p. 26 23. Myocardial Infarction/Cardiogenic Shocks - p. 27 24. 2-Hour Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol to Assess Patients With Chest Pain Symptoms Using Contemporary Troponins as the Only Biomarker: The ADAPT Trial - p. 28 25. Ultrafiltration in Decompensated Heart Failure with Cardiorenal Syndrome - p. 29 26. Long-Term Prognosis Following Resuscitation From Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Role of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Therapeutic Hypothermia - p. 30 27. Prevalence of acute myocardial infarction in patients with presumably new left bundle-branch block - p. 32 28. Bedside Monitoring to Adjust Antiplatelet Therapy for Coronary Stenting - p. 35 29. Rivaroxaban in Patients with a Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome - p. 38 30. Intraaortic Balloon Support for Myocardial Infarction with Cardiogenic Shock - p. 41 31. Fast-track practice in cardiac surgery: results and predictors of outcome - p. 44 32. The Cardiopulmonary Effects of Vasopressin Compared With Norepinephrine in Septic Shock - p. 45 33. Percutaneous Coronary Intervention at Centers With and Without On-Site Surgery: A Meta-Analysis - p. 46 34. Pulmonary Embolism/Pulmonary Artery - p. 47 35. Pulmonary Embolism: The Weekend Effect - p. 48 36. Usefulness of Preemptive Anticoagulation in Patients With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism: A Decision Analysis - p. 49 37. Creation and Validation of a Simple Venous Thromboembolism Risk Scoring Tool for Thermally Injured Patients: Analysis of the National Burn Repository - p. 50 38. Hemodynamics and Monitoring - p. 51 39. Comparison of hemodynamic measurements from invasive and noninvasive monitoring during early resuscitation - p. 52 40. Comparison of hemodynamic measurements from invasive and noninvasive monitoring during early resuscitation - p. 53 41. The Deleterious Effect of Admission Hyperglycemia on Survival and Functional Outcome in Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage - p. 54 42. Multimodality Monitoring for Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Optimization in Comatose Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage - p. 55 43. Accuracy of an expanded early warning score for patients in general and trauma surgery wards - p. 56 44. Infectious Disease - p. 57 45. Nosocomial/Ventilator-Acquired Pneumonia - p. 58 46. Linezolid in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Nosocomial Pneumonia: A Randomized, Controlled Study - p. 59 47. Other - p. 60 48. Hospital Admission Decision for Patients With Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Variability Among Physicians in an Emergency Department - p. 61 49. Cerium nitrate treatment prevents progressive tissue necrosis in the zone of stasis following burn - p. 62 50. The prevalence of genes encoding leukocidins in Staphylococcus aureus strains resistant and sensitive to methicillin isolated from burn patients in Taleghani hospital, Ahvaz, Iran - p. 63 51. Prevalence and Outcomes of Antimicrobial Treatment for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in Outpatients with ESRD - p. 64 52. Prospective Observational Study Comparing Three Different Treatment Regimes in Patients with Clostridium difficile Infection - p. 65 53. Performance of Candida Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction, β-d-Glucan Assay, and Blood Cultures in the Diagnosis of Invasive Candidiasis - p. 66 54. The Frequency of Autoimmune N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis Surpasses That of Individual Viral Etiologies in Young Individuals Enrolled in the California Encephalitis Project - p. 67 55. Chlorhexidine Bathing to Reduce Central Venous Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infection: Impact and Sustainability - p. 68 56. Fidaxomicin Versus Vancomycin for Clostridium difficile Infection: Meta-Analysis of Pivotal Randomized Controlled Trials - p. 69 57. Variability of antibiotic concentrations in critically ill patients receiving continuous renal replacement therapy: A multicentre pharmacokinetic study - p. 70 58. Estimated global mortality associated with the first 12 months of 2009 pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus circulation: a modelling study - p. 71 59. Impact of Treatment Strategy on Outcomes in Patients with Candidemia and Other Forms of Invasive Candidiasis: A Patient-Level Quantitative Review of Randomized Trials - p. 72 60. Concurrent Use of Warfarin and Antibiotics and the Risk of Bleeding in Older Adults - p. 73 61. Procalcitonin usefulness for the initiation of antibiotic treatment in intensive care unit patients - p. 74 62. Limiting Severe Outcomes and Impact on Intensive Care Units of Moderate-Intermediate 2009 Pandemic Influenza: Role of Infectious Diseases Units - p. 75 63. Validation of a Clinical Score for Assessing the Risk of Resistant Pathogens in Patients With Pneumonia Presenting to the Emergency Department - p. 76 64. Effect of Empirical Treatment With Moxifloxacin and Meropenem vs Meropenem on Sepsis-Related Organ Dysfunction in Patients With Severe Sepsis: A Randomized Trial - p. 77 65. The utility of procalcitonin in critically ill trauma patients - p. 78 66. Comparison of Oligon catheters and chlorhexidine-impregnated sponges with standard multilumen central venous catheters for prevention of associated colonization and infections in intensive care unit patients: A multicenter, randomized, controlled study - p. 79 67. Association between systemic corticosteroids and outcomes of intensive care unit–acquired pneumonia - p. 80 68. Infections Caused by Multidrug Resistant Organisms Are Not Associated with Overall, All-Cause Mortality in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit: The 20,000 Foot View - p. 81 69. Postoperative Management - p. 82 70. Cardiovascular Surgery - p. 83 71. Pilot Implementation of a Perioperative Protocol to Guide Operating Room–to–Intensive Care Unit Patient Handoffs - p. 84 72. Comparative Effectiveness of Preventative Therapy for Venous Thromboembolism After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery - p. 85 73. Variability in Surgeons’ Perioperative Practices May Influence the Incidence of Low-Output Failure After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery - p. 86 74. Temporary biventricular pacing decreases the vasoactive-inotropic score after cardiac surgery: A substudy of a randomized clinical trial - p. 87 75. Standardized postoperative handover process improves outcomes in the intensive care unit: A model for operational sustainability and improved team performance - p. 88 76. Institutional Factors Beyond Procedural Volume Significantly Impact Center Variability in Outcomes After Orthotopic Heart Transplantation - p. 89 77. Advanced care nurse practitioners can safely provide sole resident cover for level three patients: impact on outcomes, cost and work patterns in a cardiac surgery programme - p. 90 78. Frequency, characteristics, and outcomes of pediatric patients readmitted to the cardiac critical care unit - p. 91 79. Blood Transfusion and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation - p. 92 80. In Vivo Molecular Imaging of Murine Embryonic Stem Cells Delivered to a Burn Wound Surface via Integra® Scaffolding - p. 93 81. Miscellaneous - p. 94 82. Association Between Hospital Intraoperative Blood Transfusion Practices for Surgical Blood Loss and Hospital Surgical Mortality Rates - p. 95 83. Acute abdomen in pregnancy requiring surgical management: a 20-case series - p. 96 84. Postoperative Complications in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea - p. 97 85. Haloperidol prophylaxis decreases delirium incidence in elderly patients after noncardiac surgery: A randomized controlled trial - p. 98 86. Other - p. 99 87. Rates and patterns of death after surgery in the United States, 1996 and 2006 - p. 100 88. Physical Fitness in People After Burn Injury: A Systematic Review - p. 101 89. Outcomes and Predictors in Burn Rehabilitation - p. 102 90. Sepsis/Septic Shock - p. 103 91. Prognostic Value of Incremental Lactate Elevations in Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Infection - p. 104 92. Can changes in arterial pressure be used to detect changes in cardiac index during fluid challenge in patients with septic shock? - p. 105 93. Multiplex polymerase chain reaction pathogen detection in patients with suspected septicemia after trauma, emergency, and burn surgery - p. 106 94. Advances in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Research in Sepsis - p. 107 95. A multicenter trial to compare blood culture with polymerase chain reaction in severe human sepsis - p. 108 96. Diagnostic value of positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography for evaluating patients with septic shock of unknown origin - p. 109 97. Early goal-directed therapy (EGDT) for severe sepsis/septic shock: which components of treatment are more difficult to implement in a community-based emergency department? - p. 110 98. Antibiotic strategies in severe nosocomial sepsis: Why do we not de-escalate more often? - p. 111 99. Etomidate is associated with mortality and adrenal insufficiency in sepsis: A meta-analysis - p. 112 100. Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock in Pregnancy - p. 113 101. The effectiveness of hypertonic saline and pentoxifylline (HTS–PTX) resuscitation in haemorrhagic shock and sepsis tissue injury: Comparison with LR, HES, and LR–PTX treatments - p. 114 102. Transfusion of packed red blood cells is not associated with improved central venous oxygen saturation or organ function in patients with septic shock - p. 115 103. Dopamine versus norepinephrine in the treatment of septic shock: A meta-analysis - p. 116 104. Red blood cell transfusions are associated with lower mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock: A propensity-matched analysis - p. 117 105. Red blood cell transfusions are associated with lower mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock: A propensity-matched analysis - p. 118 106. Initial resuscitation guided by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations and early echocardiographic assessment of hemodynamics in intensive care unit septic patients: A pilot study - p. 119 107. Fever Control Using External Cooling in Septic Shock: A Randomized Controlled Trial - p. 120 108. Fever Control Using External Cooling in Septic Shock: A Randomized Controlled Trial - p. 121 109. Physical and Mental Health in Patients and Spouses After Intensive Care of Severe Sepsis: A Dyadic Perspective on Long-Term Sequelae Testing the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model - p. 122 110. An evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of the 1991 American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine and the 2001 Society of Critical Care Medicine/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/American Thoracic Society/Surgical Infection Society sepsis definition - p. 123 111. Septic Shock Attributed to Candida Infection: Importance of Empiric Therapy and Source Control - p. 124 112. Effect of Bedside Ultrasonography on the Certainty of Physician Clinical Decisionmaking for Septic Patients in the Emergency Department - p. 125 113. C1-esterase inhibitor infusion increases survival rates for patients with sepsis - p. 126 114. An evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of the 1991 American College of Chest Physicians/Society of Critical Care Medicine and the 2001 Society of Critical Care Medicine/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/American College of Chest Physicians/American Thoracic Society/Surgical Infection Society sepsis definition - p. 127 115. Metabolism/Gastrointestinal/Nutrition/Hematology-Oncology - p. 128 116. Fibrinogen function after severe burn injury - p. 129 117. Five-Year Outcomes after Oxandrolone Administration in Severely Burned Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Safety and Efficacy - p. 130 118. Red blood cell transfusion is associated with increased rebleeding in patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding - p. 131 119. Outcome of Patients Who Refuse Transfusion After Cardiac Surgery: A Natural Experiment With Severe Blood Conservation - p. 132 120. Impact of Blood Product Transfusion on Short and Long-Term Survival After Cardiac Surgery: More Evidence - p. 133 121. Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the AABB - p. 134 122. Is fresh-frozen plasma clinically effective? An update of a systematic review of randomized controlled trials - p. 135 123. Bacterial Sepsis after Living Donor Liver Transplantation: The Impact of Early Enteral Nutrition - p. 136 124. Neurologic: Traumatic and Non-traumatic - p. 137 125. Continuous electroencephalography monitoring for early prediction of neurological outcome in postanoxic patients after cardiac arrest: a prospective cohort study - p. 138 126. Implementation of Adapted PECARN Decision Rule for Children With Minor Head Injury in the Pediatric Emergency Department - p. 139 127. Cognitive and Neurologic Outcomes after Coronary-Artery Bypass Surgery - p. 140 128. Timing of neuroprognostication in postcardiac arrest therapeutic hypothermia - p. 141 129. Acute lung injury in critical neurological illness - p. 142 130. Magnesium for aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (MASH-2): a randomised placebo-controlled trial - p. 143 131. Anemia and brain oxygen after severe traumatic brain injury - p. 144 132. Will Delays in Treatment Jeopardize the Population Benefit From Extending the Time Window for Stroke Thrombolysis? - p. 145 133. Decompressive Hemicraniectomy in Patients With Supratentorial Intracerebral Hemorrhage - p. 146 134. Tight glycemic control increases metabolic distress in traumatic brain injury: A randomized controlled within-subjects trial - p. 147 135. Placebo-Controlled Trial of Amantadine for Severe Traumatic Brain Injury - p. 148 136. Factors influencing intracranial pressure monitoring guideline compliance and outcome after severe traumatic brain injury - p. 149 137. A Randomized Trial of Tenecteplase versus Alteplase for Acute Ischemic Stroke - p. 150 138. Poststroke delirium incidence and outcomes: Validation of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) - p. 151 139. Delirium in Acute Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - p. 152 140. A Randomized and Blinded Single-Center Trial Comparing the Effect of Intracranial Pressure and Intracranial Pressure Wave Amplitude-Guided Intensive Care Management on Early Clinical State and 12-Month Outcome in Patients With Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage - p. 153 141. An evaluation of three measures of intracranial compliance in traumatic brain injury patients - p. 154 142. Cardiac and central vascular functional alterations in the acute phase of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage - p. 155 143. Closure or Medical Therapy for Cryptogenic Stroke with Patent Foramen Ovale - p. 156 144. Midlevel practitioners can safely place intracranial pressure monitors - p. 157 145. A Trial of Intracranial-Pressure Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury - p. 158 146. Blast-related mild traumatic brain injury is associated with a decline in self-rated health amongst US military personnel - p. 159 147. Performance of the Canadian CT Head Rule and the New Orleans Criteria for Predicting Any Traumatic Intracranial Injury on Computed Tomography in a United States Level I Trauma Center - p. 160 148. Renal - p. 161 149. Predicting Acute Kidney Injury Among Burn Patients in the 21st Century: A Classification and Regression Tree Analysis - p. 162 150. Body mass index and acute kidney injury in the acute respiratory distress syndrome - p. 163 151. Association Between a Chloride-Liberal vs Chloride-Restrictive Intravenous Fluid Administration Strategy and Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Adults - p. 164 152. Trauma and Overdose - p. 165 153. Embolization for Multicompartmental Bleeding in Patients in Hemodynamically Unstable Condition: Prognostic Factors and Outcome - p. 166 154. Debunking the survival bias myth: Characterization of mortality during the initial 24 hours for patients requiring massive transfusion - p. 167 155. Debunking the survival bias myth: Characterization of mortality during the initial 24 hours for patients requiring massive transfusion - p. 168 156. Stress-Induced Hyperglycemia, Not Diabetic Hyperglycemia, Is Associated With Higher Mortality in Trauma - p. 169 157. Long-Term Propranolol Use in Severely Burned Pediatric Patients: A Randomized Controlled Study - p. 170 158. The effects of prehospital plasma on patients with injury: A prehospital plasma resuscitation - p. 171 159. Benchmarking Outcomes in the Critically Injured Trauma Patient and the Effect of Implementing Standard Operating Procedures - p. 172 160. Early Platelet Dysfunction: An Unrecognized Role in the Acute Coagulopathy of Trauma - p. 173 161. The changing pattern and implications of multiple organ failure after blunt injury with hemorrhagic shock - p. 174 162. Mortality by Decade in Trauma Patients with Glasgow Coma Scale 3 - p. 175 163. The impact of BMI on polytrauma outcome - p. 176 164. Ballistic Fractures: Indirect Fracture to Bone - p. 177 165. Hyperfibrinolysis at admission is an uncommon but highly lethal event associated with shock and prehospital fluid administration - p. 178 166. The impact of antiplatelet drugs on trauma outcomes - p. 179 167. Hypotension is 100 mm Hg on the battlefield - p. 180 168. Clinical and biomarker profile of trauma-induced secondary cardiac injury - p. 181 169. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Screening Criteria for Blunt Cerebrovascular Injuries - p. 182 170. Base deficit as a marker of survival after traumatic injury: Consistent across changing patient populations and resuscitation paradigms - p. 183 171. Use of computed tomography in the initial evaluation of anterior abdominal stab wounds - p. 184 172. Complications following thoracic trauma managed with tube thoracostomy - p. 185 173. Fracture stabilisation in a polytraumatised African population–A comparison with international management practice - p. 186 174. Factor IX complex for the correction of traumatic coagulopathy - p. 187 175. Autotransfusion of hemothorax blood in trauma patients: is it the same as fresh whole blood? - p. 188 176. Are Certain Fractures at Increased Risk for Compartment Syndrome After Civilian Ballistic Injury? - p. 189 177. AIS > 2 in at least two body regions: A potential new anatomical definition of polytrauma - p. 190 178. Military Application of Tranexamic Acid in Trauma Emergency Resuscitation (MATTERs) Study - p. 191 179. Critical Role of Activated Protein C in Early Coagulopathy and Later Organ Failure, Infection and Death in Trauma Patients - p. 192 180. Early complementopathy after multiple injuries in humans - p. 193 181. Tympanic Membrane Rupture in the Survivors of the July 7, 2005, London Bombings - p. 194 182. Multiple Organ Failure as a Cause of Death in Patients With Severe Burns - p. 195 183. Ethics/Socioeconomic/Administrative Issues - p. 196 184. Other - p. 197 185. Patient Understanding of Emergency Department Discharge Instructions: Where Are Knowledge Deficits Greatest? - p. 198 186. A systematic review of the evidence for telemedicine in burn care: With a UK perspective - p. 199 187. Predictors of health-care needs in discharged burn patients - p. 200 188. Evaluation of long term health-related quality of life in extensive burns: a 12-year experience in a burn center - p. 201 189. Burn size and survival probability in paediatric patients in modern burn care: a prospective observational cohort study - p. 202 190. Impact of Intensive Care Unit Organ Failures on Mortality during the Five Years after a Critical Illness - p. 203 191. Quality of Life/End of Life/Outcome Prediction - p. 204 192. Do-not-resuscitate order: a view throughout the world - p. 205 193. Family Factors Affect Clinician Attitudes in Pediatric End-of-Life Decision Making: A Randomized Vignette Study - p. 206 194. Withdrawal of care: A 10-year perspective at a Level I trauma center - p. 207 195. Palliative Surgery in the Do-Not-Resuscitate Patient: Ethics and Practical Suggestions for Management - p. 208 196. Law ethics and clinical judgment in end-of-life decisions–How do Norwegian doctors think? - p. 209 197. Religio-ethical discussions on organ donation among Muslims in Europe: an example of transnational Islamic bioethics - p. 210 198. Pediatric ventilation in a disaster: Clinical and ethical decision making - p. 211 199. Use of the Medical Ethics Consultation Service in a Busy Level I Trauma Center: Impact on Decision-Making and Patient Care - p. 212 200. Denying a Patient’s Final Will: Public Safety vs. Medical Confidentiality and Patient Autonomy - p. 213 201. End-of-Life Care Decisions: Importance of Reviewing Systems and Limitations After 2 Recent North American Cases - p. 214 202. Attitudes Towards End-of-Life Decisions and the Subjective Concepts of Consciousness: An Empirical Analysis - p. 215 203. The role of the principle of double effect in ethics education at US medical schools and its potential impact on pain management at the end of life - p. 216 204. Death and legal fictions - p. 217 205. The Ethics and Reality of Rationing in Medicine - p. 218 206. Early Withdrawal of Life Support in Severe Burn Injury - p. 219 207. Does Admission During Morning Rounds Increase the Mortality of Patients in the Medical ICU? - p. 220 208. Refusal of Intensive Care Unit Admission Due to a Full Unit: Impact on Mortality - p. 221 209. The Epidemiology of Intensive Care Unit Readmissions in the United States - p. 222 210. A systematic review of silver-containing dressings and topical silver agents (used with dressings) for burn wounds - p. 223 211. Pathogenic alteration in severe burn wounds - p. 224 212. Pharmacology/Sedation-Analgesia - p. 225 213. Anticoagulation management around percutaneous bedside procedures: Is adjustment required? - p. 226 214. Hydroxyethyl Starch or Saline for Fluid Resuscitation in Intensive Care - p. 227 215. Early Intensive Care Sedation Predicts Long-Term Mortality in Ventilated Critically Ill Patients - p. 228 216. Dexmedetomidine vs Midazolam or Propofol for Sedation During Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation: Two Randomized Controlled Trials - p. 229