Critical care 24 × 7: But,why is critical nutrition interrupted?

Background and Aims:

Adequate nutritional support is crucial in prevention and treatment of malnutrition in critically ill-patients. Despite the intention to provide appropriate enteral nutrition (EN), meeting the full nutritional requirements can be a challenge due to interruptions. This study was undertaken to determine the cause and duration of interruptions in EN.

Materials and Methods:

Patients admitted to a multidisciplinary critical care unit (CCU) of a tertiary care hospital from September 2010 to January 2011 and who received EN for a period >24 h were included in this observational, prospective study. A total of 327 patients were included, for a total of 857 patient-days. Reasons and duration of EN interruptions were recorded and categorized under four groups-procedures inside CCU, procedures outside CCU, gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and others.

Results:

Procedure inside CCU accounted for 55.9% of the interruptions while GI symptoms for 24.2%. Although it is commonly perceived that procedures outside CCU are the most common reason for interruption, this contributed only to 18.4% individually; ventilation-related procedures were the most frequent cause (40.25%), followed by nasogastric tube aspirations (15.28%). Although GI bleed is often considered a reason to hold enteral feed, it was one of the least common reasons (1%) in our study. Interruption of 2-6 h was more frequent (43%) and most of this (67.1%) was related to “procedures inside CCU”.

Conclusion:

Awareness of reasons for EN interruptions will aid to modify protocol and minimize interruptions during procedures in CCU to reach nutrition goals.     

Oxidant-free,three-component synthesis of 7-amino-6H-benzo[c]chromen-6-ones under green conditions

An oxidant-free three-component synthesis of biologically significant 7-amino-6H-benzo[c]chromen-6-ones was established involving a Sc(OTf)₃ catalyzed three-component reaction between primary amines, β-ketoesters and 2-hydroxychalcones under green conditions. In this strategy, both the B and C rings of 6H-benzo[c]chromen-6-ones were constructed simultaneously starting from acyclic precursors by generating four new bonds including two C–C, one C–N and one C–O in a single synthetic operation. The mechanism of this sequential cascade process involves the initial formation of a β-enaminone intermediate followed by Michael addition with 2-hydroxychalcone, intramolecular cyclization, dehydration, lactonization and aromatization steps. Unlike the related literature approaches, this reaction delivered the products without the addition of any external oxidants to achieve the key aromatization step.

Three-component synthesis of 7-amino-6H-benzo[c]chromen-6-ones was achieved under oxidant-free green conditions.     

前哨淋巴结活检判断口腔癌颈部淋巴结转移的系统评价

目的:系统评价前哨淋巴结活检(SLNB)预测口腔癌颈淋巴结转移的临床价值。方法:通过计算机检索CENTRAL、Medline、EMBASE、IFCC、中国生物医学文献数据库系统(CBM)、中国期刊全文数据库(CNKI)、中文科技期刊全文数据库(CQVIP)、万方数据库等,收集应用前哨淋巴结活检判断口腔癌颈淋巴转移的诊断试验,应用统计软件Meta-DiSc 1.4进行数据分析。结果:纳入分析的文献9篇,前哨淋巴结活检判断口腔癌颈淋巴转移的敏感度、特异度、阳性似然比(+LR)、阴性似然比(-LR)、诊断优势比(DOR)及系统接收操作特性曲线(SROC)下面积分别为84%(95%CI 73%～92%)、100%(95%CI97%～100%)、19.16(95%CI 7.65～47.77)、0.22(95%CI 0.10～0.51)、97.72(95%CI 29.69～321.61)和0.99。结论:前哨淋巴结活检可作为临床上判断口腔癌颈淋巴结转移有效可行的方法。     

头颈部侵袭性纤维瘤9例及文献复习

目的:探讨头颈部侵袭性纤维瘤的临床表现、病理特征、治疗方式及预后.方法:根据2005年世界卫生组织的肿瘤类指导原则,回顾性分析2008 ～ 2012年间收治9例头颈部侵袭性纤维瘤的临床资料并复习相关文献.结果:发病部位以颈部(3例)、下颌下区(2例)最为常见,其次是上颌骨、颧部、眶下区、腮腺各1例,对9例患者都实施手术切除,4例患者因肿瘤已侵犯头颈部重要结构,无法获得阴性切缘,其中1例患者发生恶变,接受放射治疗,另2例术后未接受综合治疗,术后复发,所有病例无远处转移,随访时间为6 ～51个月.结论:头颈部侵袭性纤维瘤诊断主要依靠术后病理,彻底手术切除是治疗并减少复发的主要手段,对于复发或难以完整切除的病例可配合放化疗,且术后长时间密切随访.     

动态心电图对体表心电图P-R间期延长的诊断价值

目的 探讨动态心电图对体表心电图P．R间期延长的诊断价值,分析P—R间期延长的临床意义和预后。方法选择2008年1月至2011年8月在昆明医学院第二附属医院住院和门诊心电图有P-R间期延长的患者90例为研究对象．监测其动态心电图。分析P．R间期的变化及阵发性心房颤动、房室结双径路传导、第二度I型房室阻滞、间歇性左右束支阻滞4类心律失常。并且根据P—R间期延长程度分为3组,对比其与上述4类心律失常的关系。结果动态心动图结果中伴发第二度I型房室阻滞2l例（23．33％）、房室结双径路传导17例（18．89％）、间歇性左右束支阻滞9例（10％）、阵发性心房颤动7例（7．78％）。在所有的患者中,P．R间期延长伴发上述4类心律失常发生率为60％。心电图结果中,P-R间期延长50例,显著延长29例,过度延长11例。动态心动图结果中。P。R间期延长32例,显著延长38例,过度延长20例。结论P—R间期延长不应均视为良性和无须干预的心律失常,相反,需要进行进一步动态心动图监测及电生理检查和追踪观察,争取早期发现病变、消除病变,为临床早期诊断、早期治疗提供辅助手段。     

Recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from L?wenstein-Jensen media contaminated with other organisms

Growth of contaminating organisms along with Mycobacterium tuberculosis on L?wenstein-Jensen (LJ) medium is common. However, there is no documented evidence on the decontamination procedure adopted in mycobacteriology laboratories to recover M. tuberculosis from the contaminants grown on LJ medium. At the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, of 1048 LJ slopes with M. tuberculosis received from intermediate reference laboratories, 98 (9%) were contaminated. Of these, 87 (89%) M. tuberculosis cultures were retrieved after decontamination with 1% cetrimide. The use of cetrimide as a decontaminating agent to retrieve M. tuberculosis cultures grown with contaminants is documented.     

住院患者入院时血糖水平与医疗费用、疾病预后的相关研究

目的探讨住院患者人院时不同血糖水平与住院时间、医疗费用及疾病预后的关系。方法选取2009年11月至2011年7月期间人院的4868例患者,按入院24h内测得的血糖水平分为非高血糖组3429例、高血糖组1439例,后者包括糖尿病和应激性高血糖患者;根据患者年龄分为非老年组（年龄〈60岁）2532例和老年组（年龄≥60岁）2336例;其中278例冠心病患者再分为高血糖组120例和非高血糖组158例。各组间进行有关数据比较。结果高血糖组患者的住院天数、医疗费用和总病死率均显著高于非高血糖组（中位数住院日：15vs10d,P〈0．01;中位数医疗费用：14064．7vs8980．9元,P〈0．01;死亡率：2．92％vs0．61％,P〈0．01）。按年龄分组后,无论是非老年组还是老年组中糖尿病和应激性高血糖患者的医疗费用均明显高于非高血糖患者,住院日明显延长;应激性高血糖患者的医疗费用明显高于糖尿病患者;非老年组中应激性高血糖患者的死亡率明显高于非高血糖患者,但与糖尿病患者相比无明显差异,老年组糖尿病和应激性高血糖患者的死亡率无明显差异,但均明显高于非高血糖患者。冠心病患者中糖尿病和应激性高血糖患者与非高血糖患者的年龄无明显差异,前两组的医疗费用明显高于非高血糖组,住院日更长（分别为14,15和12d）、死亡率更高（分别为6．41％,7．14％和0．63％）。结论入院时高血糖水平预示患者有更高的医疗花费、更长的住院时间和更高的死亡率。