Cardiac intensive care unit
Establishing Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in a Low Resource Setting: Bangladesh Perspective and Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital Paediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Model
... in cardiac care in ...tertiary care hospitals run under supervision of paediatric cardiologist and paediatric cardiac surgeons but very few of them have paediatric cardiac ...
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Hypoxic hepatitis in cardiac intensive care unit: a study of cardiovascular risk factors, clinical course, and outcomes
... intensive care unit and reported a prevalence of ...low cardiac output, which was double the percentage found in our ...low cardiac output and HH and those with low cardiac ...
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An audit of blood and blood product use in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
... Methods and results: Over the past 2 years, nine patients presented for anaesthesia to one of the authors (JCB) for cardiac surgery, with both morbid obesity (body mass index ranged from 40.3 to 45.7) and obese ...
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Evaluation of a protocol to control methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a surgical cardiac intensive care unit
... The data obtained were entered into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets as coded data and, where necessary, subsequently imported into Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 15.0 for further analysis. Descriptive ...
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Predictors of temporary epicardial pacing wires use after valve surgery
... This study is a retrospective review of the clinical, opera- tive, and outcome data that is part of the prospectively recorded cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) database. We excluded patients ...
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Family-Member Presence During Interventions in the Intensive Care Unit: Perceptions of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Providers
... Family-centered care adds another dimen- sion to the traditional patient-health care provider inter- ...patient care that have previously been reserved only for health care ...
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Assessment Of Nurses Performance During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation In Intensive Care Unit And Cardiac Care Unit At The Alexandria Main University Hospital.
... skills [23, 24, 25]. these highlight the need for continuous training. in relation to nurse's performance regarding to cardiac arrest &nursing care during CPR. it is found that the majority of nurses ...
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Cardiac biomarkers in the intensive care unit
... Blood cardiac biomarkers (CB) have become increasingly accurate for evaluating cardiac abnormalities during the past 40 ...highly cardiac-specific biomar- ker. The introduction of cardiac ...
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INCIDENCE OF DIURETICS INDUCED ADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS IN AN INTENSIVE CARDIAC CARE UNIT OF A TERTIARY CARE TEACHING HOSPITAL
... the intensive cardiac care unit and prescribed with diuretics were included and data on demographics, past medical and medication history, allergies to food/drugs, laboratory parameters, ...
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Admission Patterns and Outcome in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Nepal
... requiring intensive care ...post- cardiac surgery (34%) to be the most common condition ...pediatric intensive care admissions vary within the same region of different countries and one ...
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Characteristics, course and outcomes of children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit after cardiac arrest
... Results. Of 2 501 PICU admissions, 110 (4.4%) had preceding cardiac arrest. The median (interquartile range (IQR)) age of children was 7.2 (2.5 - 21.6) months. In-hospital arrests accounted for 80.6% of the ...
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Hemodynamic variables and mortality in cardiogenic shock: a retrospective cohort study
... after intensive care unit admission, levosimendan (no bolus injec- tion, ...pressure, cardiac index, mixed venous oxygen saturation, and peripheral capillary per- fusion following repetitive ...
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Delirium in the intensive care unit
... postoperative cardiac surgical patients, Maldonado and colleagues [68] described a significant reduction in the incidence of delirium associated with dexmedetomidine; 8% of patients sedated with dex- medetomidine ...
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Drug Utilization Study in Intensive Cardiac Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital
... that Intensive lipid-lowering therapy with 80 mg of atorvastatin per day in patients with stable CHD provides significant clinical benefit beyond that afforded by treatment with 10 mg of atorvastatin per ...
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<p>Association Between Comorbid Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Prognosis of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit for Non-COPD Reasons: A Retrospective Cohort Study</p>
... failure, cardiac arrhythmias, valv- ular disease, pulmonary circulation disorder, peripheral vas- cular disorder, hypertension, paralysis, other neurological disease, uncomplicated diabetes, complicated diabetes, ...
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Role of Echocardiography in the Intensive Care Unit: Overview of the Most Common Clinical Scenarios
... diagnostic information for several clinical scenarios (Table 1), which we will classify according to the most evident symptom at patient presentation to the ICU (Figure 1). In addition to the invaluable information ...
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Patient satisfaction, patients leaving hospital against medical advice and mortality in Italian university hospitals: a cross sectional analysis
... In order to improve results’ comparability among dif- ferent regional and hospital contexts, we controlled for some potential distortions. Firstly, by excluding the PLHAMA of patients died within 2 days after discharge, ...
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Vol 32, No 12 (2019)
... an intensive care unit acquired pneumonia, correspond- ing to ...for intensive care unit mortality in the group of patients with non-intensive care unit ...
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Study of troponin-t elevation in critically ill patients-incidence and outcome
... nonfatal cardiac arrest, and cardiogenic shock), need for advanced life support (mechanical ventilation, inotropes and hemodialysis), and ischemic cardiac symptoms were ...
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Improving delirium care in the intensive care unit: The design of a pragmatic study
... The CAM-ICU will detect delirium among patients receiving ICU care at both the time of ICU admission and during their ICU stay. The CAM-ICU was chosen because of its practical use in the ICU wards, its accepta- ...
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