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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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    Pulmonary hypertension in a patient with ARDS—a possible side-effect of dopamine treatment (1982)
    Springer
    Intensive care medicine 8 (1982), S. 155-158 
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    ISSN: 1432-1238
    Keywords: Pulmonary hypertension ; ARDS ; Dopamine ; Isoproterenol ; Ejection fraction ; Cardiac failure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract A patient with severe acute pulmonary failure developed pulmonary hypertension with worsening of right ventricular failure during treatment with dopamine. Ventricular failure was demonstrated by changes in cardiac filling pressures, pulmonary vascular resistance and ventricular volumes. By changing from dopamine to isoproterenol infusion central hemodynamic parameters normalized within a few hours.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01693437
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    The influence of ethnicity and social and demographic factors on Swedish suicide rates (1997)
    Springer
    Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology 32 (1997), S. 165-170 
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    ISSN: 1433-9285
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The aim of this follow-up study, based on individual data, was to analyse the influence of ethnicity and other demographic and social factors on suicide rates between 1986 and 1989 for the Swedish population according to the 1985 census. The data were analysed by sex and age using a Poisson regression model. During the study period there were 8,310 cases of suicide and undetermined death. The main finding in this study was that ethnicity, defined as being foreign-born, was a significant risk factor for suicide in both sexes and in all age groups except for males aged 30 to 49 years. Not being married was a significant risk factor in all age groups for both males and females. Form of tenure, i.e. living in rented flats, was a significant risk factor for suicide in middle-aged males and females, while overcrowding was a risk factor for middle-aged males and for the over 50's of both sexes. As ethnicity, defined as foreign-born, was an important variable related to suicide, the association between different ethnic groups and suicide will be evaluated in forthcoming studies.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00794616
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