These interactions directionally guide cells toward increasing concentrations of chemokines and act as a primary defense to remove pathogens or to begin repair responses after trauma, transplant, or injury [1] [5].
Ophthalmology, gynaecology, paediatric, maxillofacial and other (trauma, transplant and oncology) specialties (33 cases) were excluded from this analysis due to low numbers of clinical issues (<35).
The Geneva University Hospitals ICU is a 36-bed unit taking care of medical, surgical, trauma, and transplant patients (n = 2,600 admissions/yr).
For example, tertiary care referral centers, where trauma and transplant surgery is more common, likely have different patterns of RBC utilization and could require adjustments to the model.
An expensive clotting drug approved to treat only hemophilia has become extremely popular in hospitals to stem bleeding during heart surgery, brain hemorrhages, trauma, liver transplants, and prostate removal.
These include complications directly related to malignant diseases, multiple trauma, organ transplants, specific burns, and HIV related disorders.
This may sound like a remote possibility, but in fact I have already lost four friends who survived the trauma of a transplant, only to succumb to infection soon after.
SICU patients include trauma, gastrointestinal, vascular, transplant, urology, orthopedics, otolaryngology and gynecology services.
Cases on the cardiac, thoracic, transplant, trauma, and vascular surgery services were excluded, as were cases with no recorded service.
There was significant heterogeneity in the micro-biologic etiology of patients with sepsis and control patients (transplant, trauma, and neurologic devastation).
We prospectively collected data for all patients admitted to an ICU from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a tertiary hospital with > 120 ICU beds serving medical, surgical, trauma, neurologic, and transplant patients.
