[PDF] Top 20 The outcomes and prognostic factors of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation

... cohort of 1,821 patients requiring PMV, and the overall incidence of PMV for patients with acute respiratory failure requiring MV was ...total of 320 ... See full document

... group of patients who need to be managed individ- ...For patients with substantial weaning potential, a protocolized weaning process of daily SBTs integrated with early rehabilitation ... See full document

... with mechanical ventilation has been advocated as a therapeutic trial for critically ill cancer patients, but failure of such care might signal a need for a transition from curative to ... See full document

... effect of acupuncture outweighed topiramate treatment in patients with ...all patients. With CM being a disabling and rather difficult condition to treat, it is worth exploring patient ... See full document

... 415 patients with buccal SCC represents the largest series to focus on survival and prognostic factors in surgically treated ...highlights the importance of tumor stage, ... See full document

... population of patients diagnosed with stage I and II ...To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate a significant benefit of a specific number ... See full document

... DISCUSSION The expression levels of MMP2 and MMP9 have been shown to be correlated with colorectal cancer initiation, progression, angiogenesis, metastasis, and recurrence ...their ... See full document

... Measurement of cognitive disability using the FIM in patients requiring PMV has not been ...reported. The results of our study show that the mean baseline cogni- tive ... See full document

... regarding the effects of inadvertent extubation on the outcomes of the translaryngeal intubated group, tracheostomy complications, the incidence of extubation ... See full document

... possibility of coding errors and ...feeds, and the burden of ...in the claims database; thus, we were unable to assess the possibility of residual confounding ...to ... See full document

... Strengths and limitations The major strengths of this study include use of a large and nationally representative sample of PMV patients, and the long ... See full document

... 29% of patients receive EGFR TKI for rescue or maintenance therapy but others did not? The main reason may be that clinicians expect EGFR TKIs to be effective by the status of ... See full document

... showing the decreased total cost and increased number of MV days, LOS, and survival months of the PMV ...one of the important limitations for the ... See full document

... be the major cause of death in Taiwan adult population. The hospitalization rate was ...men and has little change for women in Taiwan before 1995, but the trend has declined beyond ... See full document

... worse outcomes: the mortality rate was approximately 50% for patients with at least one poor prognostic factor, and >75% for patients with at least ...risk factors ... See full document

... significant male-to-female ratio of HCC observed in almost all countries may be explained partly by the higher prevalence of cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking[r] ... See full document

... Conclusions The number of PMV patients in Taiwan has increased during the past ...decade. Patients with different underly- ing diseases showed different median survival and life ... See full document

... Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes of Reintubation in Unplanned Extubation 275 外科病患的非預期性拔管：危險因子及預後分析 呂明憲 * 鄭宇凱 ** 王定中 ** 黃文詩 *** 邱麗櫻 **** 黃耀廣 * 蔡熒煌 ***** ... See full document

... in the setting of ARF, its physiologic benefits have been recently shown in both children and adults with NMD who are in the stable ...subjects and adult patients with ... See full document

... composed of parallel, nonlinear computational elements (“neurons”) arranged in highly interconnected layers with a structure that mimics biologic neural ...networks. The ANN can be trained with data from ... See full document