Intensive Care
Metabonomics and intensive care
... in intensive care patients to date, common to all are the finding that a large number of metabolites and metabolic pathways are deranged in critical ...critical care should focus on addressing ...
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Intensive Care/ Case Management
... community care reforms in the 1990s was the introduction of care management ...social care away from institution based services towards care at ...within care management arrangements. A ...
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The Danish Intensive Care Database
... The DID currently includes five quality indicators, including two process indicators and three outcome indicators. Each indicator has a quality standard cut point that is reconsidered annually in order to secure ...
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Sedation with dexmedetomidine in the intensive care setting
... dexmedetomidine 0.2–0.7 mcg/kg/hour or haloperidol continuous infusion 0.5–2 mg/hour to determine the time of study drug to extubation or tracheostomy. Secondary endpoints included delirium defined by the ...
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A German national prevalence study on the cost of intensive care: an evaluation from 51 intensive care units
... of intensive care therapy based on the individual patient's resource usage ...ICU care is often difficult due to the use of varying methods of cost calculation ...maximal care facili- ties and ...
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Love, Pain, and Intensive Care
... 28. Als H, Gilkerson L. The role of relationship-based developmen- tally supportive newborn intensive care in strengthening out- come of preterm infants. Semin Perinatol. 1997;21(3):178 –189 29. Wielenga ...
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Difficulties in Providing Intensive Care
... experience that ethical issues are important to pe- diatricians and others, but we do not know the details of how providing intensive care affects phy- sicians’ feelings and behavior, th[r] ...
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Management of pneumonia in intensive care
... to intensive care as well as being the most common secondary infection acquired whilst in the intensive care unit ...the Intensive Care clinician are community-acquired, ...
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Technology in Intensive Care and Surgery
... Intensive care: Technical systems and clinical applications regarding intensive care, anaesthesia, ventilation, monitoring of vital ...monitoring, intensive care stations, ...
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Assessment of delirium in the intensive care unit
... the intensive care unit (ICU) at an increased risk for developing this ...the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) and the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist ...
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Continuous haemofiltration in the intensive care unit
... Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) was first described in 1977 for the treatment of diuretic-unresponsive fluid overload in the intensive care unit (ICU). Since that time this treatment has ...
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Guidelines and Levels of Care for Pediatric Intensive Care Units
... critical care has ma- tured dramatically throughout the past 3 de- ...pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), in which special needs of critically ill or injured children and their families can be met ...
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Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Survival Guide
... Visiting a patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) may be an unfamiliar experience for many families and friends.What you may notice first is a room filled with complicated and strange equipment.Take ...
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Portable Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... need intensive medical attention are often admitted into a special area of the hospital called the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ...health care professionals to provide specialized care ...
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Life sustaining treatment decisions in Portuguese intensive care units: a national survey of intensive care physicians
... health care workers in 37 ICUs, in which nurses were involved in only 16% of the decisions ...of Intensive Care Medi- cine, 53% of the respondents stated that nurses were involved in the decisions ...
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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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The Intensive Care Lifeboat: a survey of lay attitudes to rationing dilemmas in neonatal intensive care
... One difference between this and previous rationing surveys is the requirement for respondents to choose be- tween two individual patients in need of life-saving treat- ment, rather than choosing between two groups of ...
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Noise and Hypoxemia in the Intensive Care Nursery
... Vidyasagar D, Joseph ME, Hamilton LR: Noise levels in the neonatal intensive care unit. Noise pollution: neonatal aspects[r] ...
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Intensive Care For Cancer Patients: An Overview
... receiving intensive care, but none has sufficient precision to be used reliably to determine whether to admit an individual patient to intensive ...
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Intensive care for the adult population in Ireland: a multicentre study of intensive care population demographics
... of intensive care is reserved for the most critically ill in Irish ...Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group data [15] over the past 6 ...Scottish Intensive Care Society ...
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