Our goal was to describe the epidemiology, clinical profiles, outcomes, and factors that might predict progression of critically ill patients to chronically critically ill (CCI) patients, a still poorly characterized subgroup.
Myocardial dysfunction in the critically ill is characterized by decreased contractility, increased compliance and progressive ventricular dilatation.
Partial secondary adrenal insufficiency might be present in critically ill patients, characterized by a poor cortisol response to ACTH despite normal baseline cortisol.
He acknowledged that looking at the sun could have ill effects, but characterized them as being "always temporary" and in fact the effects of strain in response to sunlight.
These ill effects are characterized by symptoms related to the autonomic nervous system.
All of the ill animals were characterized as having been rescued or having been in rehabilitation (Table 1).
Critically ill patients are characterized by a progressive loss of lean body mass, mainly confined to skeletal muscle mass.
Critically ill patients are characterized as individuals hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and can evolve to sepsis, septic shock or even death.
Previously, we observed that critically ill patients were characterized by a more marked red blood cell membrane and transferrin desialylation (sialic acid removed) [ 1, 2] in septic patients.
