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Plasmapheresis in the treatment of myasthenia gravis: retrospective study of 26 patients
- Author
- Anamarli Nucci
- Assessment of plasmapheresis
- Beatriz H.M. Pfeilsticker
- Behan PO
- Carter B
- Clark WF
- Dau PC
- Dias-Tosta E
- Drachaman DB
- Eduardo G. Roveri
- Empaire G
- Jaretzki A III
- José F.C. Marques Jr
- Kiprov DD
- Korach J M
- Kornfeld P
- Lazo-Langener A
- Leonardo de Deus-Silva
- Newson-Davis J
- Newson-Davis J
- Osserman E
- Pinching AJ
- Rodnitzky RL
- Rosana Carandina-Maffeis
- Sanders DB
- Seggia JCB
- Shumak KH
- Solange G. Garibaldi
- Spence PA
- Strauss RG
- Wendell S Neto
- Werneck LC
- Yeh JH
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International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium report, data summary of 50 countries for 2010-2015: Device-associated module
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- A. Ahmad Zaatari
- A. Ahmed
- A. Alves De Oliveira
- A. Anirban Karmakar
- A. Anwar Al Souheil
- A. Argüello-Ruiz
- A. Azim
- A. Bat-Erdene
- A. Bhakta
- A. Borgi
- A. Bouziri
- A. Cerero-Gudino
- A. Chawla
- A. Dagys
- A. Dilek
- A. Dwivedy
- A. Engin
- A. Flores-Alvarado
- A. Florin-Rogobete
- A. Gashi
- A. Gunduz
- A. Kaya
- A. Kubler
- A. Lagares-Guzmán
- A. Lesnakova
- A. Martínez
- A. Molkov
- A. Mubarak
- A. Oncul
- A. Ozgultekin
- A. Palaoro
- A. Patil
- A. Poojary
- A. Ramazanoglu
- A. Romani
- A. Romario-Mendes
- A. Sasidharan
- A. Simic
- A. Solano-Chinchilla
- A. Thakur
- A. Willke
- A. Zamores-Pedroza
- A.A. Zeggwagh
- A.C. Bianchi
- A.M. Elansary
- A.M. Mathew
- A.M. Mohamed
- A.M. Montanini
- A.M. Ríos
- A.N. Manked
- A.N. Yalcin
- A.P. González
- A.R. Vargas-García
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- Abd El Moniem Moustafa
- Abdulrahim Al Khamis
- Abeer A. Omar
- Abeera Ahmed
- Adnan Soliman Alsaadi
- Ahmad Mahmoud Ali
- Ahmed Abdoh Al-Jarie
- Ahmed Hasanin
- Ainul Auzani Othman
- Aisha Hassan Mutwalli
- Alejandra Sepulveda-Chavez
- Ali Pekcan Demiroz
- Aliza Mohamad Yusof
- Amani Ali El-Kholy
- Ameena Isa Alsayegh
- Ana Marcela Quesada-Mora
- Ana P. Dy
- Anahita Sanaei
- Anamma Philip
- Andrew Trotter
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- Thara Francis
- Thejasvini Anand
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- V.J. Dicheva
- V.L. Machado-Silva
- V.M. Moreno-Mejia
- Vaidotas Gurskis
- Valsa Thomas
- Vesna Mioljevic
- Vineya Rai
- Vini Kantroo
- Vladislav Belskiy
- Vo Thi Hong Thoa
- Volkan Yarar
- Víctor Daniel Rosenthal
- W. Chilon
- W. Raigoza-Martinez
- W. Villamil-Gomez
- W.M. Santos Monteiro
- Wael Abdulrahman Abdulatif
- Waleed Mohd Hussain
- Walter Enrique Prudencio Leon
- Wan Fadzlina Wan Mohd Shukeri
- Wan Nazaruddin Wan Hassan
- Wan Nurbayah Wan Yusoff
- Wan Rahiza Wan Mat
- Wieslawa Duszynska
- Wynndale Mae Demotica
- X. Guo
- X. Yang
- Y. Arreza-Galapia
- Y. Ruiz
- Y. Yang
- Y.A. Pardo-Lopez
- Y.M. Abdelhamid
- Y.S. Elkholy
- Yassir Khidir Mohamed
- Yatin Mehta
- Yeliz Oruc
- Yusuf Sahip
- Z. Ariyasuren
- Z. Cruz-Rivera
- Z. Duran-Gil De Anez
- Z. Hammoud
- Z. Kanafani
- Zan Mitrev
- Zaneta Bogoevska Miteva
- Zeinab Salah
- Zeynep Kaya
- Publication venue
- Elsevier Inc
- Publication date
- 01/12/2016
- Field of study
•We report INICC device-associated module data of 50 countries from 2010-2015.•We collected prospective data from 861,284 patients in 703 ICUs for 3,506,562 days.•DA-HAI rates and bacterial resistance were higher in the INICC ICUs than in CDC-NHSN's.•Device utilization ratio in the INICC ICUs was similar to CDC-NHSN's.
Background: We report the results of International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2010-December 2015 in 703 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific.
Methods: During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare Safety Network (CDC-NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 861,284 patients hospitalized in INICC hospital ICUs for an aggregate of 3,506,562 days.
Results: Although device use in INICC ICUs was similar to that reported from CDC-NHSN ICUs, DA-HAI rates were higher in the INICC ICUs: in the INICC medical-surgical ICUs, the pooled rate of central line-associated bloodstream infection, 4.1 per 1,000 central line-days, was nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.8 per 1,000 central line-days reported from comparable US ICUs, the overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher, 13.1 versus 0.9 per 1,000 ventilator-days, as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection, 5.07 versus 1.7 per 1,000 catheter-days. From blood cultures samples, frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (29.87% vs 10%) and to imipenem (44.3% vs 26.1%), and of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (73.2% vs 28.8%) and to imipenem (43.27% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC ICUs compared with CDC-NHSN ICUs.
Conclusions: Although DA-HAIs in INICC ICU patients continue to be higher than the rates reported in CDC-NSHN ICUs representing the developed world, we have observed a significant trend toward the reduction of DA-HAI rates in INICC ICUs as shown in each international report. It is INICC's main goal to continue facilitating education, training, and basic and cost-effective tools and resources, such as standardized forms and an online platform, to tackle this problem effectively and systematically
Evolution over Time of Ventilatory Management and Outcome of Patients with Neurologic Disease∗
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- Abderrahim Azzouzi
- Abroug F.
- Achille Kouatchet
- Achim Lunkeit
- Adam Mikstacki
- Aguilera García
- Ahmed Sbihi
- Ai-Chin Cheng
- Ainhoa Rosselló
- Alain Mercat
- Alan Javier Zazu
- Alberto Belenguer
- Alberto Deicas
- Alberto Marino
- Alberto Soler
- Alejandro Algora
- Alejandro Arroliga
- Alejandro de la Serna
- Alejandro Gómez
- Alejandro Raimondi
- Alejandro Risso
- Alfonso Moreno
- Alfonso Muñoz
- Alfredo Padrón
- Alfredo Vasquez-Sandoval
- Ali Aydım Altunkan
- Ali Zeggwagh A.
- Aline Camile Yehia
- Alistair Nichol
- Allan Walkey
- Allison Bone
- Aloísio Marques do Nascimento
- Alvaro van Bommel
- Amalia Martínez de la Gandara
- Amber Monson
- Ambrogio Sansone
- Amee Patrawalla
- Amin P.
- Amine Ali Zeggwagh
- Amparo Ferrandiz
- Amy Waters
- Ana Carolina Caballero
- Ana Esther Trujillo
- Ana Villagrá
- Anders Aneman
- Andrea Gimenez
- Andrea Matte
- Andrea Neville Cracchiolo
- Andreas Schwartz
- Andreas Viehöfer
- Andrei Piontek
- Andrew Bersten
- Andrew Davies
- Andrew Davies
- Andrew Davies
- Andrew Steel
- Andrey Yaroshetskiy
- Anette Mortensen
- Anitha Shenoy
- Ankur Devendra Bhavsar
- Annunziata Mattei
- Anthony Saleh
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- Antonino Giarratano
- Antonio Anzueto
- Antonio Braschi
- Antonio Corcione
- Antonio García-Jiménez
- Antonio Maestre
- Antonio Pesenti
- Antonio Raso
- Antonio Reyes
- Antonio Villa Delgado
- Antonio Viñuales
- Anzueto A.
- Arianna Boggero
- Ariel Chena
- Armando Pedulla'
- Arnaud W Thille
- Ashley Ellis
- Ashley Ellis
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- Auke Reidinga
- Ayed Samia
- Barbara Tamowicz
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- Besbes Mohamed
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- Bo Wang
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- Cameron Knott
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- Carlos André Correia Casado
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- Carlos Robles-Arias
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- Carolina Lorencio
- Cartan Costello
- Catherine Simmonds
- Cayce Strength
- Cayetano Galetti
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- Stambouli Neji
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- Subhash Kumar Todi
- Sujoy Mukherjee
- Susan Gillen
- Susana Alves Ferreira
- Susana Moradillo
- Susana Temprano
- Susanne Andi Iversen
- Sutherasan Y.
- Sutrisno Gunawan
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- Tania Caf
- Tarek Dendane
- Tayfun Adanir
- Tejerina E. E.
- Teresa Mut
- Teresa Sánchez de Dios
- Thille A. W.
- Thomas Bein
- Thomas Lipp
- Thomas Moellhoff
- Thomas Steinke
- Thoralf Kerner
- Tiehe Qin
- Tim Coles
- Tim Houlihan
- Timothy D Girard
- Tom Cowlam
- Tony Sutherland
- Tony Williams
- Travis Parry
- Troy Browne
- Tumbass Volker
- Uli Strauch
- Umesh G
- Unase Büyükkoçak
- V J Cardenas Jr
- Valentín Parra
- Valerio Mangani
- Valery Subbotin
- Valle Pinheiro B.
- Valéria de Carvalho Magela
- Vanesa Ramírez
- Vicente Arraez
- Victoria Goñi
- Vincent John Scott
- Vito Marco Ranieri
- Vivek Joshi
- Wajdi Maazouzi
- Walter Brandt
- Walter Seyde
- Wanxia Li
- Wei He
- Wei Yu
- Wei Zhang
- Weihai Yao
- William Rodriguez-Cintron
- Winfried Schubert
- Wolfgang Baier
- Won-Yeon Lee
- Xi Zhu
- Xianyao Wan
- Xiaobo Huang
- Xue Wang
- Yalin Liu
- Yan Kang
- Yangong Chao
- Yaseen Arabi
- Yi Li
- Yi Yang
- Yogeet Kaur
- Yongjie Yin
- Young Suh G.
- Younsuck Koh
- Yu Bai
- Yuan Xu
- Yuhong Guo
- Yun Seong Kim
- Yunxuan Yue
- Zafer Dogan
- Zalatiel Maycotte Luna
- Zaza Cohen
- Zhengxuan Lv
- Zhenjie Hu
- Zhenyang He
- Zhicheng Zhang
- Zhihua Hu
- Zhixiang Li
- Zoltan Szentkereszty
- Zoraida Parra
- Zsolt Molnar
- Ángela Alonso
- Publication venue
- 'Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)'
- Publication date
- 01/11/2021
- Field of study
OBJECTIVES: To describe the changes in ventilator management over time in patients with neurologic disease at ICU admission and to estimate factors associated with 28-day hospital mortality. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of three prospective, observational, multicenter studies. SETTING: Cohort studies conducted in 2004, 2010, and 2016. PATIENTS: Adult patients who received mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Among the 20,929 patients enrolled, we included 4,152 (20%) mechanically ventilated patients due to different neurologic diseases. Hemorrhagic stroke and brain trauma were the most common pathologies associated with the need for mechanical ventilation. Although volume-cycled ventilation remained the preferred ventilation mode, there was a significant (p < 0.001) increment in the use of pressure support ventilation. The proportion of patients receiving a protective lung ventilation strategy was increased over time: 47% in 2004, 63% in 2010, and 65% in 2016 (p < 0.001), as well as the duration of protective ventilation strategies: 406 days per 1,000 mechanical ventilation days in 2004, 523 days per 1,000 mechanical ventilation days in 2010, and 585 days per 1,000 mechanical ventilation days in 2016 (p < 0.001). There were no differences in the length of stay in the ICU, mortality in the ICU, and mortality in hospital from 2004 to 2016. Independent risk factors for 28-day mortality were age greater than 75 years, Simplified Acute Physiology Score II greater than 50, the occurrence of organ dysfunction within first 48 hours after brain injury, and specific neurologic diseases such as hemorrhagic stroke, ischemic stroke, and brain trauma. CONCLUSIONS: More lung-protective ventilatory strategies have been implemented over years in neurologic patients with no effect on pulmonary complications or on survival. We found several prognostic factors on mortality such as advanced age, the severity of the disease, organ dysfunctions, and the etiology of neurologic disease
International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortiu (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module
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- Abdullah Mufareh Assiri
- Abeer Ahmed Mohmed
- Abeer Aly Omar
- Abhijeet Raha
- Abizer Nuruddin Manked
- Achilleas Gikas
- Adela Arguello Ruiz
- Adem Karbuz
- Adrian M. Puello Guerrero Glenny Mirabal
- Adriana Montanini
- Adriana Romani
- Afzal Azim
- Agamenon Alves Oliveira
- Agreta Gecaj-Gashi
- Ahmed Hakawi
- Ahmet Dilek
- Aisha Mubarak
- Ajoy Krishna Sarkar
- Alexander Molkov
- Alexander Tchekulaev
- Alfredo Lagares Guzman
- Alfredo Paucar
- Algirdas Dagys
- Ali Kaya
- Ali Metin Otkun
- Ali Omer Abdul Aziz
- Ali Pekcan Demiroz
- Aline Besen
- Aliye Yasayacak
- Alka Thool
- Alka Thool
- Alper Sener
- Altaf Ahmed
- Alysia Faye Giani
- Alzbeta Marcekova
- Amani Ali El-Kholy
- Amani Fouad Sayed
- Amaury Mielle Filho
- Ameurfina Curioso Silo
- Amine Ali Zeggwagh
- Amjad Mahboob
- Amna Mostafa Mohamed
- Amol Harshe
- Ana Lucía Bonilla Escudero
- Ana Marãa Perez Fernandez
- Ana Paula Fontes Pinheiro
- Ana Paula Vasconcelos Carneiro
- Ana Silvia Rearte
- Anahita Sanaei
- Analen Fabros Cabato
- Andrea Peña Padilla
- Andres Eduardo Mindiola Rochel
- Andres H. Corchuelo Martinez
- Andrzej Kubler
- Angel Gonzalez Vargas
- Angel Orlando Flores Alvarado
- Angelina Mendonca
- Anil Bilolikar
- Anil Karlekar
- Anirban Karmakar
- Anis Shiham Zainal Abidin
- Anju Mathew
- Anna Lesnakova
- Annalyn Amor Malificio
- Antigona Hasani
- Antonio Claudio do Amaral Baruzzi
- Antonio Martinez Mulia
- Antonio Solano Chinchilla
- Anu Kurian
- Anucha Apisarnthanarak
- Anuja Kedar Kulkarni
- Anuradha Agarwal
- Anwar Al Souheil
- Anzar Thair
- Aparajita Panda
- Aparecida Camacho
- Apsia Musa Molano
- Araceli Martinez Martinez
- Areej Dhafer Alshehri
- Arifa Hafeez
- Arjun Rajalakshmi
- Arlu Marie Casuyon Pahilanga
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- Swathy Sathish
- Sweta Shah
- Syed Faisal Mahmood
- Syed Zahid Bukhari
- Tahsine Mahfouz
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- Tamiris Moreira
- Tanıl Kendirli
- Tanja Anguseva
- Tanu Singhal
- Tao Lili
- Tarek Dendane
- Tarquino Eristidesg Sanchez
- Tatiane T. Rodrigues
- Tenzin Zompa
- Teodora Atencio-Espinoza
- Tereza De Jesus Pinheiro Gomes Bandeira
- Thara Francis
- Thejas Vini
- Tomas Kondratas
- Tomasz Lazowski
- Tran Thi My Hanh
- Tran Thi Thuy Hang
- Trudell Mapp
- Truong Anh Thu
- Tânia Mara Lima De Barros Araújo
- Ufuk Cakir
- Umesh Gupta
- V. Raut
- V.R. Ramanan
- Vaibhavi R. Subhedar
- Vaidotas Gurskis
- Valentina Tulupova
- Valter Furlan
- Vanessa A. Marquez Mondalgo
- Vanessa Bermudez
- Vatsal Kothari
- Velmira Angelova Velinova
- Velu Pandi Suresh Kumar
- Vempati Venkateshwar
- Victor Dumitrascu
- Victoria D. Villanueva
- Vikram Padbidri
- Vineya Rai
- Violeta Jivkova Dicheva
- Visanu Thamlikitkul
- Vladimir Kretov
- Vladimir Shalapuda
- Vladislav Belskiy
- Vo Thi Hong Thoa
- Víctor Daniel Rosenthal
- Walter Enrique Prudencio Leon
- Walter Enrique Prudencio Leon
- Wan Nurbayah Wan Yusoff
- Wania Vasconcelos de Freitas
- Wieslawa Duszynska
- Wilmer Villamil-Gomez
- Wong Kang Kwong
- Wu Kangxiong
- Xihua Geng
- Xiuqin Guo
- Xu Ziqin
- Xuesong Yang
- Yasemin Gelebek
- Yassir Khidir Mohammed
- Yatin Mehta
- Yazmin Leon Vega
- Yiang Shumei
- Yuet-Meng Cheong
- Yuri Mariela Perez Hernandez
- Yvis Ruiz
- Zan Mitrev
- Zaneta Bogoevska-Miteva
- Zeina Kanafani
- Zeinab Salah Seliem
- Zenaida Durán Gil De Añez
- Zeynel Gokmen
- Zeynep Kaya
- Ziad Ahmed Memish
- Zoila Rosa Diaz Tavera
- Zoila Rosa Diaz Tavera
- Çağlar Ödek
- Publication venue
- Elsevier Inc
- Publication date
- 01/09/2014
- Field of study
We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care–associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 605,310 patients hospitalized in the INICC's ICUs for an aggregate of 3,338,396 days. Although device utilization in the INICC's ICUs was similar to that reported from ICUs in the U.S. in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals: the pooled rate of central line–associated bloodstream infection in the INICC's ICUs, 4.9 per 1,000 central line days, is nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.9 per 1,000 central line days reported from comparable U.S. ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher (16.8 vs 1.1 per 1,000 ventilator days) as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.5 vs 1.3 per 1,000 catheter days). Frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (42.8% vs 10%) and imipenem (42.4% vs 26.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (71.2% vs 28.8%) and imipenem (19.6% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC's ICUs compared with the ICUs of the CDC's NHSN