Early isovolaemic haemofiltration in oliguric patients with septic shock.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of early short-term, isovolaemic haemofiltration at 45 ml/kg/h on physiological and clinical outcomes in patients with septic shock.

Design: Retrospective study before and after a change of unit protocol (study period 8 years).

Setting: Intensive care unit of metropolitan hospital.

Effect of insemination time of frozen semen on incidence of uterine fluid in mares.

Ninety five mares were inseminated with frozen semen either within 12 h before ovulation or within 8 h after ovulation. The effect of preovulatory versus postovulatory insemination (AI) on the subsequent detection of uterine fluid was studied. The overall pregnancy rate was 43% and this was not significantly influenced by preovulatory or postovulatory insemination.

Deaths with acute cerebral lesion and heart-beating potential organ donors in the Veneto region.

Background: The study was aimed at describing the clinical characteristics of dead patients with acute cerebral lesion and analyzing reasons of the shortage of heart-beating potential organ donors in the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the Veneto Region.

Methods: Data have been prospectively recorded in 23 ICUs over six months for deceased patients with acute cerebral lesion (clinical data, death diagnosis) and for any potential organ donor (medical suitability, family interview, organ retrieval).

Results: In the ICUs of the Veneto Region in 1998 deceased patients with acute cerebral lesion were 187 per million population (p.

Bioethical issues related to continuous renal replacement therapy in intensive care patients.

Objective: To examine the ethical approach of intensivists and nephrologists to continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).

Design: A questionnaire.

Setting: The First International Course on Critical Care Nephrology.