Safety and efficacy of colistin in Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas infections: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To assess renal dysfunction and outcome in patients treated exclusively with colistin vs. other antibiotics.

Design And Setting: Prospective cohort study in a mixed ICU in a university-affiliated hospital.

Shock on admission day is the best predictor of prolonged mechanical ventilation in the ICU.

Study Objectives: To determine the incidence of prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV), which is associated with increased health-care costs and risks of adverse events, and to identify its early predictors.

Design: Retrospective cohort.

Setting: A medical-surgical ICU in a university-affiliated hospital.

Impact of positive end-expiratory pressure on the definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Objective: We examined whether PEEP during the first hours of ARDS can induce such a change in oxygenation that could mask fulfillment of the AECC criteria of a PaO(2)/FIO(2)
Design And Setting: Observational, prospective cohort in two medical-surgical ICU in teaching hospitals.

Patients: 48 consecutive patients who met AECC criteria of ARDS on 0 PEEP (ZEEP) at the moment of diagnosis.

Incidence, clinical course, and outcome in 217 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Objective: To assess prospectively acute respiratory distress syndrome incidence, etiologies, physiologic and clinical features, and mortality and its predictors in four intensive care units in Argentina.

Design: Prospective inception cohort.

Setting: Four general intensive care units in teaching hospitals.