[The impact of early restrictive positive fluid balance strategy on the prognosis of patients with severe trauma].

Objective: To observe the impact of early restrictive positive fluid balance strategy on the prognosis of patients with trauma.

Methods: A prospective controlled study was conducted. The patients with severe post-trauma capillary leak syndrome (PTCLS) admitted to department of critical care medicine of the Fifth Center Hospital in Tianjin were considered as study object.

[The application of "expiration holding" in measuring end expiration pulmonary artery wedge pressure in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation].

Objective: To find an accurate and convenient method of measuring end expiratory pulmonary artery wedge pressure (eePAWP) by "expiration holding" function of ventilator and "pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP) Review" software of monitor.

Methods: Twelve patients with introduction of pulmonary artery catheter and undergoing mechanical ventilation were selected. Fifty measurements were randomly selected for the comparison of the differences between automatic measurement and expiration holding method in each patient.