ICU: Intensive Care Unit
PREVALENCE OF THE ADMISSION CAUSE IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU)
... This study aimed to identify the causes of admission to ICU among patients. Previous studies confirmed that the age has a relationship with the reason of admission to intensive care unit ...
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Artificial speech for intensive care unit (ICU) patients and laryngectomees
... The limitations of these techniques suggests that there is a need for a device that produces natural sounding speech pitch variation and glottal sound source that resembles the actual gl[r] ...
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Neonatal Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System: A Therapy-Based Severity-of-Illness Index
... ICU, intensive care unit; LOS, length of stay; NICU, neonatal intensive care unit; NTISS, Neonatal Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System; TISS, Therapeutic Intervention Scor- ing Syste[r] ...
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Assessment of delirium in the intensive care unit
... The awareness and assessment of delirium should be an important feature in ICU care. The use of an ICU scoring system is advocated for this purpose. The CAM-ICU and ICDSC systems are both well ...
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Health-related quality of life and nursing-sensitive outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients in an Intensive Care Unit: a study protocol
... the Intensive Care Unit Environmental Stressor Scale (ICUESS), which allows us to perform a global evalu- ation of the ICU but does not take into account prob- lems secondary to tracheal ...
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Study of outcomes of intensive care
... The STudy of Outcomes of Intensive Care STOIC was designed to compare the long-term functional, neuropsychological and psychosocial recovery of intensive care unit {ICU survivors ICU pat[r] ...
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Emergence of KPC producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Italy
... gastroenterology ward. The second was isolated from a urine sample collected from an indwelling urinary catheter in an intensive care unit (ICU) patient with a subdural haematoma. The patients ...
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Long-term outcome and health-related quality of life in difficult-to-wean patients with and without ventilator dependency at ICU discharge: a retrospective cohort study
... the ICU with placement of a tracheostomy because of difficult wean- ing: the first cohort was still dependent on mechanical ventilation at ICU discharge, while the second cohort was weaned in the ...Medical ...
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Clinical Review: Communication and logistics in the response to the 1998 terrorist bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland
... in intensive care after 21 ...adult intensive care unit (ICU) beds and two paediatric ICU beds were filled in the ...general intensive care ...
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Preoperative information for ICU patients to reduce anxiety during and after the ICU-stay: protocol of a randomized controlled trial [NCT00151554]
... the intensive care unit (ICU) is strongly associated with uncertainty, unpredictability and anxiety for the ...Thus, ICU specific information could have a high clinical ...designed ...
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Environmental colonization and onward clonal transmission of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) in a medical intensive care unit: the case for environmental hygiene
... 160 ICU patients who had at least one positive clinical culture found that a combination of four swabs from tracheal aspirates, rectum, sternal skin and urine identified up to 85% of patients known to have CRAB ...
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A comparison of the CAM ICU and the NEECHAM Confusion Scale in intensive care delirium assessment: an observational study in non intubated patients
... of intensive care delirium without the need for consulting a ...in intensive care is not always able to communicate verbally, the CAM was adapted for screening intubated or artificially ...
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Improving delirium care in the intensive care unit: The design of a pragmatic study
... of care in the ICU environment is rapid and changes quickly, the con- stantly present computerized component described below will be activated for each study patient enrolled in the intervention ...
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Bedside dressing changes for open abdomen in the intensive care unit is safe and time and staff efficient
... We recognize that this study has limitations. This was a retrospective study and there was no predefined proto- col to decide where to perform the DCs. Therefore, a bias may have been introduced as the surgical team 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>
... and ICU mortality for SICU patients, which seems ...of ICU mortality in the study, because we deter- mined ICU mortality only according to the fi rst ICU admission Table 2 Association between ...
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Validation of the Intermountain patient perception of quality (PPQ) survey among survivors of an intensive care unit admission: a retrospective validation study
... PPQ ICU survey adminis- tered to inpatients or their surrogates discharged from Intermountain Medical Center (IMC) from 2008–2012, ...84 ICU beds dis- tributed across five adult ICUs. The Intermountain ...
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Frequency of Decreased Susceptibility and Resistance to Echinocandins among Fluconazole Resistant Bloodstream Isolates of Candida glabrata
... Candida bloodstream infections: comparison of species distribution and resistance to echinocandin and azole antifungal agents in intensive care unit ICU and non-ICU settings in the SENTR[r] ...
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Epidemiology and risk factors for invasive candidiasis
... in intensive care unit (ICU) interventions and organ transplantation, many diseases no longer pose a threat to humans and life expectancy is ...
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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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Maternal near miss and death among women with severe hypertensive disorders: a Brazilian multicenter surveillance study
... Among the maternal socio demographic, obstetric, and clinical variables, older maternal age was identified as a risk factor for severe maternal outcome, a finding that is in agreement with results in the literature [32]. ...
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