ICU Admission
Influence of ICU-bed availability on ICU admission decisions
... of ICU admission [22, ...units. ICU, day-28, and day-60 mortality rates were not signifi- cantly different between HBA and LBA ...these ICU-admissions is ...inappropriate ...
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Indicators of the need for ICU admission following suicide bombing attacks
... Data was retrospectively collected from the trauma regis- try. The trauma registry is compiled from patient charts and some injuries may not have been recorded, especially in a mass casualty setting when patients suffer ...
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The healthcare costs of intoxicated patients who survive ICU admission are higher than non-intoxicated ICU patients: a retrospective study combining healthcare insurance data and data from a Dutch national quality registry
... to ICU admission (2012), the year of ICU admission (2013) and the year after ICU admission ...different admission diagnoses for intoxication categories within the APACHE ...
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Infective endocarditis requiring ICU admission: epidemiology and prognosis
... On ICU admission, 127 patients exhibited extra‑cardiac involve‑ ...during ICU stay for 186 patients and between ICU and hospital discharges in 5 ...
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The impact of the Sepsis-3 definition on ICU admission of patients with infection
... Our study has certain limitations. Firstly, it was mono- centric and non-interventional. However, our data repre- sent the clinical reality in the management of patients with sepsis. Secondly, we have included only ...
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Effectiveness of ICU Diaries: Improving “Distorted Memories” Encountered during ICU Admission
... the ICU, ICU nurses in Scandinavian medical institutions started using ICU diaries in the 1990s [3], which has been established as a type of care mainly used in ...the ICU to provide ...
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Benefits of ICU admission in critically ill patients: Whether instrumental variable methods or propensity scores should be used
... of ICU admission, then the 2SLS estimator was the only one that was far different from the crude analysis, which is expected to be the most biased ...
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Quality of life before surgical ICU admission
... at ICU admission. Patients who died in the ICU and in hospital had worse QOLSS scores compared to those who ...longer ICU stays (ICU ...
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Decision-making in ICU –An analysis of the ICU admission decision-making process using the 20-Questions Game
... Using a modified ‘20 Questions’ approach, we explored the strategic thought processes used by practitioners to make complex, high-stakes triage decisions. Reframing referrals from the perspective of the receiving ...
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Outcomes 30 days after ICU admission: the 30DOS study
... The results of this study need to be interpreted in the light of the disciplines and populations the study sites served. Half of the sites were general ICUs, admitting patients from a variety of medical and surgical ...
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Skeletal muscle quality as assessed by CT derived skeletal muscle density is associated with 6 month mortality in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients
... Not only the quantity, but also the quality of muscle seems important [11]. Along with a decline in muscle mass, fatty infiltration of muscles or myosteatosis has been identified as a possible cause of loss of muscle ...
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Mortality and detailed characteristics of pre-ICU qSOFA-negative patients with suspected sepsis: an observational study
... pre-ICU admission qSOFA scores in prognosticating high-risk patients before ICU ...the ICU stay on qSOFA ...before ICU admis- ...of ICU arrival using the first measurements of ...
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Prognostic robustness of serum creatinine based AKI definitions in patients with sepsis: a prospective cohort study
... We hypothesized that changing the way to calculate serum creatinine increase could impact the prognostic value of AKI. In this prospective cohort study, we evalu- ated the impact of using three different algorithms to ...
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Nighttime intensivist staffing and the timing of death among ICU decedents: a retrospective cohort study
... from ICU admission to death, whether or not the patient underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery, whether or not the patient underwent an operation, whether or not the patient received active therapy ...
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Original Article Summed score of initial chest radiograph and APACHE II preferably evaluates illness severity and accurately predicts ICU mortality in severe avian influenza H7N9
... on ICU admission and prediction of ICU mortality in avian influenza (AI) ...an ICU in Wuhan, ...on admission and for prediction of ICU mortality in AI ...
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Eosinophil count at intensive care unit admission was not predictor of hospital mortality: results of a case control study
... at ICU admission was a predictor of hospital ...surgical ICU in a university hospital in northern of ...an ICU stay of less than 24 h and those whose information was incomplete were ...
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Procalcitonin kinetics within the first days of sepsis: relationship with the appropriateness of antibiotic therapy and the outcome
... at ICU admission, such as age, gender, type of admission (admission was considered surgical in patients who had undergone surgery within the 30 days preceding the onset of bloodstream ...
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Early mobilization and recovery in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU: a bi national, multi centre, prospective cohort study
... of ICU rehabilitation in Australia, early mobilisation was commenced 5 days after ICU admission and was not associated with improved outcome compared with stand- ard care at ICU discharge, ...
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Community Acquired Severe Sepsis: A Prospective Cohort Study
... to ICU admission of chemotherapy or radiation therapy or the administration of steroid treatment equivalent to ...to ICU admission, haematological disease including chronic neutropenia (≥3 ...
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Patients with preexisting psychiatric disorders admitted to ICU: a descriptive and retrospective cohort study
... with ICU mortality. This finding highlights that ICU outcome mainly depends on physiologic alterations responsible for ICU ...the ICU differed between the two groups of ...the ICU with ...
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