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    Matthew Jankowich, Eric Gartman, editors.
    Summary: Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit explores the current state of evidence supporting use of bedside ultrasound for procedural guidance and for the critical care-focused assessment of a variety of organ systems. This text covers standard practice areas, such as ultrasound guidance for vascular access in the ICU, as well as novel, less well-known applications such as the use of ultrasound for assessment of diaphragm function in patients with respiratory failure. As current ultrasound education is often dependent on widely varying local expertise, this book serves as a standard reference in what is at present a fragmented and challenging field of study for busy clinicians. By providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of critical care ultrasonography, with content contributed by experts in the field, this text will serve as a valuable resource that will allow education in critical care ultrasound to keep pace with the rapid technological growth that has driven this vital area of critical care medicine. Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit is essential reading for pulmonologists, practitioners in internal, hospitalist, and critical care medicine; educators and instructors in critical care ultrasound; and medical students, residents, and critical care trainees.

    Contents:
    1. Principles of Ultrasound for the Intensivist
    2. Critical Care Ultrasound Education
    3. Ultrasound for Vascular Access
    4. Ultrasound Evaluation of Shock and Volume Status in the Intensive Care Unit
    5. Ultrasound Evaluation of Shock and Volume Status in the Intensive Care Unit
    6. Critical Care Echocardiography: Right Ventricular Dysfunction
    7. Critical Care Echocardiography: Pericardial Disease, Tamponade, and Other Topics
    8. Ultrasound and Airway Management
    9. Lung Ultrasound in Respiratory Failure and Pneumonia
    10. Pleural Ultrasound
    11. Diaphragm Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit
    12. Abdominal Ultrasound and Genitourinary Ultrasound in the Intensive Care Unit
    13. Intensive Care Unit Ultrasound for Venous Thromboembolism
    14. Ultrasound in Trauma Critical Care
    15. Ultrasound in the Neurointensive Care Unit
    16. Ultrasound in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
    Digital Access Springer 2015
  • Article
    Wegrzynowicz Z, Heczko PB, Jeljaszewicz J, Neugebauer M, Pulverer G.
    J Clin Microbiol. 1979 Jan;9(1):15-9.
    A total of 245 strains of staphylococci isolated from various pathological specimens derived from cases of human infections was tested for staphylocoagulase activity. Test systems employing normal citrated rabbit plasma and the same substrate supplemented with inhibitors of thrombin and proteolytic enzymes (but not influencing the staphylocoagulase activity) were used for testing suspensions of bacteria and cell-free culture supernatants. A total of 237 strains clotted normal rabbit plasma; however, addition of Trasylol and heparin resulted in positive results in 222 strains, whereas plasma supplemented with Trasylol and hirudin was coagulated definitely by only 173 strains. It is postulated that proteolytic enzymes of staphylococci interfere with staphylocoagulase-induced clotting and may simulate coagulase-positive activity of staphylococci. To avoid such false results, a test system for detection of staphylocoagulase should include proteolytic enzyme inhibitors. Possible mechanisms of these findings are discussed.
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