[The yeast-like fungi infections in medical intensive care patients in years 1996 - 2000].

The aim of this study was to analyse, taking into consideration the infection risk factors, the incidence of fungal infections occurrence in Medical Intensive Care Units. Yeast-like fungi strains isolated from various clinical materials underwent mycological examination. Mycological diagnosis was performed in compliance with compulsory laboratory methods.

The effect of anti-L-selectin (aselizumab) in multiple traumatized patients--results of a phase II clinical trial.

Objective: The objectives of this study were to evaluate safety (primary) and clinical efficacy (secondary) of the humanized monoclonal anti-L-selectin antibody aselizumab in severely injured patients.

Design: Prospective phase II, parallel group, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Setting: Fourteen medical intensive care units or trauma units in level I trauma centers in Belgium, Germany, and Poland.

[Clinical evaluation of hemofiltration in perioperative medicine].

Haemofiltration (HF) in perioperative period is used in order to improve the function of circulatory system by means of: elimination of cytokines in patients with increased inflammatory cascade activation; improvement of gas exchange conditions by decreasing the amount of lungs extravascular fluid; reduction of high levels of metabolism products; compensation of electrolyte disequilibrium and decreasing of right ventricle afterload as well as right and left ventricles preload. The aim of the study was clinical evaluation of usefulness of continuous vein-to-vein haemofiltration (CVVH) technique used in multiprofile adults intensive care. The analysis included 20 patients aged 24-73 (mean age 48.

[Patient satisfaction with anesthesia as a measure of quality of anesthesia care].

Patient satisfaction with anaesthesia is very important as a expectancy satisfaction in perioperative care. It is simultaneously patient opinion about the anaesthetic care prior to and during anaesthesia, and shortly after the operation. The aim of the research was to evaluate the patient satisfaction and to determine the factors connected with satisfaction in the perioperative period Out of a total of 250 patients, 155 women (62%) and 95 men (48%) underwent general and local anaesthesia due to the operations.

[Perioperative sedation and analgesia for complications from arthroscopy and arthrotomy of the knee joint].

Estimation of the quality of the epidural anaesthesia of the patients sedated with Alprazolam and Midazolam in premedication before arthroscopy or arthrotomy of the knee was the goal of our study. Forty six (34 men and 12 women) ASA physical status 1-2 patients were divided into groups depending on the drugs orally applied in premedication (Alprazolam 0.5 mg, n = 29 or Midazolam 15 mg, n = 17) and of the kind of analgesia.