The Effects of Increased Physiological Severity of Surgical Intensive Care Patients on Protein Loss through Sputum, Bile, Lung Blood and Respired Water
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Authors
Ketslakh, Michael
Issue Date
1991
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
Protein loss was analyzed in sputum (collected from Naso-Gastric cavity), respired
water, chest tubes and bile (collected from the liver) from 14 Surgical Intensive care
patients at the University of Michigan Hospitals. The patients in the study were afflicted
with various respiratory dysfunctions and liver cirrhosis. The aim of the study was to
determine a relationship between severity score of the patient and protein lost through these
various viscera. The severity score of the patients was detennined using the APACHE IT (a severity of disease classification system). The specimens of sputum, lung blood, bile and
respired water were analyzed using a pyro-chemiluminescence technique; a variation of the
Kjeldahl technique. It was concluded that only protein loss through the lung viscera
showed a correlation to the increasing severity score of the patients. Protein losses through
bile, sputum, and respired water showed no correlation to the increase in the patients
severity score.
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v, 27 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo College
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