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    Severity of illness and outcome of treatment in alcoholic patients in the intensive care unit (1988)
    Springer
    Intensive care medicine 15 (1988), S. 19-22 
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    ISSN: 1432-1238
    Keywords: Alcoholics ; APACHE ; TISS ; Mortality ; ICU
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract To study whether critically ill alcoholics were more sick and had a worse outcome than other patients treated in the intensive care unit, data were collected during the initial 24 h on 216 consecutive patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Twentysix patients (12%) met the criteria for alcohol abuse. The patients' chronic health 6 months prior to admission and the extent of physiological derangement (Acute Physiology Score and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE)) were recorded just as the type and amount of treatment (Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS)). Alcoholics were found to be significantly more sick and had a higher mortality (50% compared to 26%) than other critically ill patients. However, when analyzing the TISS points, no difference was found between the two groups. All survivors were, every third month up to 1 year after admission, asked to fill in a questionnaire indicating their level of activity. No differences were found between the two groups 1 year after admission, but the alcoholics had lost more time due to death. It is concluded that studies with larger number of patients will reveal whether alcogolics constitute a special category of patients with a different prognosis than other ICU patients.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00255630
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    Increased myocardial contractility in short-term Type 1 diabetic patients: an echocardiographic study (1985)
    Springer
    Diabetologia 28 (1985), S. 822-826 
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    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Echocardiography ; left ventricular function ; Type 1 diabetes ; metabolic control ; diabetic cardiopathy
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Cardiac function was investigated by echocardiography in 24 short-term Type 1 diabetic patients with a mean diabetes duration of 7 years (range 4–14 years) during conditions of ordinary metabolic control. Compared to 24 age and sex matched normal control subjects, measurements of myocardial contractility as left ventricular fractional shortening and mean circumferential shortening velocity were increased by 12% and 20% respectively. Another 8 Type 1 diabetic patients were examined during conditions of poor (hyperglycaemia and ketosis) and good metabolic control. Following improved glycaemic control, left ventricular fractional shortening and mean circumferential shortening velocity decreased by 16% and 24% respectively. Our findings show that short-term Type 1 diabetes is associated with increased myocardial contractility. Furthermore, this condition is related to the state of metabolic control.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00291071
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    Evaluation of a constant-temperature hot-wire anemometer for respiratory-gas-flow measurements (1979)
    Springer
    Medical & biological engineering & computing 17 (1979), S. 211-215 
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    ISSN: 1741-0444
    Keywords: Hot-wire anemometer ; Respiratory-gas-flow measurements
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The performance of a constant-temperature hot-wire anemometer for respiratory-gas-flow measurement has bee investigated. It is shown that the anemometer satisfies common demands with respect to accuracy, response time and to insensitivity to humidity and temperature variations. A calibration method is suggested that permits correction for variation of the flowmeter signal caused by changes of the gas composition. Finally, a procedure for linearisation of the flowmeter signal as a function of flow rate is presented.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02440931
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