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• Is Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated) for Adults With Severe Sepsis, Cost-Effective in Routine Clinical Practice?
  DrotAA has been evaluated in several large, multicenter randomized controlled trials, but concerns remain about the therapy's cost and effectiveness.

  January 19, 2012

• A National Study of Plasma Use in Critical Care: Clinical Indications, Dose and Effect on Prothrombin Time
  Fresh frozen plasma is widely used as a precautionary treatment in critically ill patients with mild coagulation abnormalities, but practice variations bring up important questions.

  June 03, 2011

• Relationship Between Time to Target Temperature and Outcome in Patients Treated with Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest
  Faster cooling may prove detrimental for comatose patients recovering after cardiac arrest.

  May 27, 2011

• Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training Improves Weaning Outcome in Failure to Wean Patients
  Boot camp for the respiratory muscles may help to wean ventilator-dependent patients.

  April 20, 2011

• Multinational, Observational Study of Procalcitonin in ICU Patients With Pneumonia Requiring Mechanical Ventilation
  Serum procalcitonin may "scalp" the APACHE II  as a method for quantifying severity of illness in patients with pneumonia who are receiving mechanical ventilation.

  April 06, 2011

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2011 - 15 Suppl 3

• Abstracts of Sepsis 2011. Beijing, China. October 26-28, 2011. 

  January 01, 2011

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