Effect of admission time on mortality in an intensive care unit in Mainland China: a propensity score matching analysis.

Introduction: The relationship between admission time and intensive care unit (ICU) mortality is inconclusive and influenced by various factors. This study aims to estimate the effect of admission time on ICU outcomes in a tertiary teaching hospital in China by propensity score matching (PSM) and stratified analysis.

Methods: A total of 2,891 consecutive patients were enrolled in this study from 1 January 2009 to 29 December 2011.

Predictive value of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in combination with the sequential organ failure assessment score in sepsis.

Background: The prognostic power of n-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in sepsis is disputable and unstable among different models. We attempt to evaluate the prognostic potential of NT-proBNP in combination with the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score in sepsis.

Methods: In this retrospective study, 100 consecutive sepsis patients were enrolled.

[Application of enhanced recovery program after surgery(ERAS) in patients undergoing radical resection for colorectal cancer].

Objective: To compare the enhanced recovery program after surgery (ERAS) with conventional perioperative management in patients undergoing radical resection for colorectal cancer.

Methods: The ERAS protocol included a combination of evidence-based and consensus methodology. A total of 597 consecutive patients undergoing elective colorectal resection were randomized to either the ERAS(n=299) or the control group(n=298).

[Application of the protocol of enhanced recovery after surgery in colorectal surgery].

Objective: To evaluate enhanced recovery after surgery(ERAS) protocol in colorectal surgery.

Methods: From september 2006 to February 2007, 74 patients with colorectal cancer were randomly assigned to ERAS group and control group. The stress index, nutrition and metabolism index, intraoperative index and postoperative index were evaluated.

Perioperative artificial nutrition in malnourished gastrointestinal cancer patients.

Aim: To investigate the potential role of perioperative nutrition in reducing complications and mortality in malnourished gastrointestinal cancer patients.

Methods: Four hundred and sixty-eight elective moderately or severely malnourished surgical patients with gastric or colorectal cancers defined by the subjective global assessment (SGA) were randomly assigned to 7 d preoperative and 7 d postoperative parenteral or enteral nutrition vs a simple control group. The nutrition regimen included 24.

[Effect of glutamine and growth hormone on adaptation in short bowel syndrome].

Objective: To assess the effects of parenteral glutamine and growth hormone supplementation on gut adaptation for patients with short bowel syndrome.

Methods: Twenty-six patients [male 15, female 11, aged (39 +/- 23) years] with short bowel syndrome received parenteral nutrition (PN) 3-52 months after surgical resection. The median length of remnant small intestine was 42.

Glutamine supplemented parenteral nutrition prevents intestinal ischemia- reperfusion injury in rats.

Aim: To examine whether glutamine prevents the injury to the intestinal mucosa after intestinal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in rats.

Methods: Thirty male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomly divided into 3 groups: a standard parenteral nutrition (PN) group (n = 10); an I/R-PN group (n = 10); an I/R-glutamine enriched PN (I/R-Gln) group (n = 10). The superior mesenteric artery (SMA) was clamped.

Effects of bowel rehabilitation and combined trophic therapy on intestinal adaptation in short bowel patients.

Aim: To evaluate the effects of bowel rehabilitation and combined trophic therapy on intestinal adaptation in short bowel patients.

Methods: Thirty-eight patients with severe short-bowel syndrome (SBS) were employed in the present study, whose average length of jejunum-ileum was 35.8+/-21.