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The Consistency and Clinical Significance between Bronchoscopic Samples and Endotracheal or Tracheostomic Aspirates in Severe Pneumonia Under Mechanical Ventilation
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Hye Sung Park, Seo Woo Kim, Yun Su Sim, Ji Hye Kim, Yon Ju Ryu, Jin Hwa Lee, Jung Hyun Chang
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Korean J Crit Care Med. 2011;26(2):83-88.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2011.26.2.83
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Distal airway bacterial colonization occurs more frequently in patients with endotracheal tubes or tracheostomy of intensive care units (ICU) care. In general, bronchoscopic samples are considered more accurate than transtracheal aspirates. In this study, we evaluated the consistency and clinical significance between bronchoscopic samples and transtracheal aspirates (TTA) in severe pneumonia under mechanical ventilation.
METHODS
We investigated the consistency between bronchoscopic samples and transtracheal aspirates among patients with endotracheal tubes or tracheostomy, retrospectively. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy was performed in 212 patients with mechanical ventilation via endotracheal tube or tracheostomy between January 1st, 2004 and December 31th, 2008 in ICU at Ewha Womans University Hospital. We evaluated consistency in terms of true pathogen according to the arbitrary ICU days progress.
RESULTS
Among the 212 enrolled patients, 113 (53%) had consistency between bronchoscopic samples and transtracheal aspirates. When evaluated alteration trends in consistency according to ICU stay, the consistency was maintained for 5 to 9 ICU days with statistical significance (p< 0.05) since adjusting for age, sex, and combined risk factors.
Consistency in sampling status between the endotracheal tube and tracheostomy was also evaluated, however, there was no statistical significance (OR 1.9 vs. 1, 95% CI = 0.997-3.582, p = 0.051).
CONCLUSIONS
Shorter hospital stay (within 9 days of ICU stay) had higher probability of consistency between bronchoscopic samples and TTA samples. TTA may be as confident as bronchoscopic samples in patients of pneumonia under mechanical ventilation with shorter ICU stays, especially less than 10 days.
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Jiwoong Oh, Kum Whang, Hyenho Jung, Jongtaek Park
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine.2012; 27(2): 70. CrossRef
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Outcome after Admission to Intensive Care Unit Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Comparison between Cardiac Etiology and Non-Cardiac Etiology
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Hwan Seok Kang, Hun Jae Lee, Jae Hwa Cho, Jin Hui Paik, Ji Hye Kim, Jun Sig Kim, Seung Baik Han
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Korean J Crit Care Med. 2010;25(4):212-218.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4266/kjccm.2010.25.4.212
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To evaluate the post-resuscitation intensive care unit outcome of patients who initially survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
METHODS
We retrospectively analyzed patients who were admitted to the ICU after OHCA in a tertiary hospital between January, 2005 and December, 2009. We compared the patients' clinical data, the factors associated with admission and the prognosis of patients in cardiac and non-cardiac groups.
RESULTS
Sixty-four patients were included in this study.
Thirty-four patients were in the cardiac group and thirty patients were in the non-cardiac group. The mean age was 57.3 +/- 15.1 years of age in the cardiac group and 61.9 +/- 15.7 years of age in the non-cardiac group (p = 0.235). The collapse-to-start of the CPR interval was 5.9 +/- 3.8 min in the cardiac group and 6.0 +/- 3.2 min in the non-cardiac group (p = 0.851). The complaint of chest pain occurred in 12 patients (35.3%) in the cardiac group and 1 patient (3.3%) in the non-cardiac group (p = 0.011). The time duration for making a decision for admission was 285.2 +/- 202.2 min in the cardiac group and 327.7 +/- 264.1 min in the non-cardiac group (p = 0.471). The regional wall motion abnormality and ejection fraction decrease were significant in the cardiac group (p = 0.002, 0.030). Grade 5 CPC was present in 8 patients (23.5%) in the cardiac group and 14 patients (46.7%) in the non-cardiac group.
CONCLUSIONS
The key symptom that could initially differentiate the two groups was chest pain. The time duration for making an admission decision was long in both groups. The CPC score of the cardiac group was lower than that for the non-cardiac group.
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Citations to this article as recorded by - Management of post-cardiac arrest syndrome
Youngjoon Kang
Acute and Critical Care.2019; 34(3): 173. CrossRef
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