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A Study on Acute Kidney Injury in Intensive Care Setting
... Abosaif NY et al 27 did a study on the outcome of AKI patients in intensive care setting according to RIFLE. They had 60 patients in risk category, 56 in injury category, 43 in failure category. They ...
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Hyperammonemia due to urea cycle disorders: a potentially fatal condition in the intensive care setting
... adulthood, mainly in the presence of an acute injury [2]. In most cases in the intensive care setting, underlying UCDs are difficult to recognize because patients are in a critical condition for ...
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Ethical reflections on end-of-life signs and symptoms in the intensive care setting: a place for neuromuscular blockers?
... the intensive care setting, and on the use of neuromuscular blockade in this context, with presentations on the subject by two philosophers and members of the SRLF Ethics Commission, Ms Lise Haddad ...
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Risk factors for excessively prolonged meropenem use in the intensive care setting: a case control study
... In the present study, we analysed retrospectively pa- tients treated with meropenem in a large centre for in- tensive care medicine in a German university hospital. We sought to describe the characteristics of ...
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Safety and Effectiveness of Continuous Aerosolized Albuterol in the Non–Intensive Care Setting
... METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of children ages 2 to 18 treated in the non – intensive care, inpatient setting on a standardized treatment protocol for status asthmaticus from ...
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Sedation in the intensive care setting
... Abstract: Critically ill patients are routinely provided analgesia and sedation to prevent pain and anxiety, permit invasive procedures, reduce stress and oxygen consumption, and improve synchrony with mechanical ...
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A program for sustained improvement in preventing ventilator associated pneumonia in an intensive care setting
... Many hospitals have achieved the goal of getting VAP to zero [14,15], while others have managed to substan- tially reduce VAP rates, but believe that eliminating VAP in the intensive care unit may be an ...
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NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF A CUTE GA STROENTERITIS: A REVIEW OF 45 PATIENTS IN THE INTENSIVE CARE SETTING
... month to 14 years of age having AGE along with neurologic presentations, i.e. either convulsion or encephalopathy alone or together who had been admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of the ...
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Sedation with dexmedetomidine in the intensive care setting
... Dexmedetomidine was administered without a loading infu- sion to maintain a target RASS starting at 0.8 mcg/kg/hour then adjusted stepwise to 0.25 mcg/kg/hour, 0.5 mcg/kg/hour, 0.8 mcg/kg/hour, 1.1 mcg/kg/hour, or 1.4 ...
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Comparison of complaints to the intensive care units and those to the general wards: an analysis using the Healthcare Complaint Analysis Tool in an academic medical center in Taiwan
... the intensive care setting as suggested by the HCAT may provide valuable insights into the clin- ical, managerial, and relationship problem raised by complaints in the intensive care ...
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The protocol for the Be Our Ally Beat Smoking (BOABS) study, a randomised controlled trial of an intensive smoking cessation intervention in a remote Aboriginal Australian health care setting
... health care set- tings is needed if good policy is to be developed and ...sional, intensive smoking cessation intervention, which is provided by trained Aboriginal researchers in a remote Australian ...
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Predisposing factors for delirium in the surgical intensive care unit
... The objective of our study was to investigate the predisposing factors for delirium in a surgical intensive care unit ICU setting.. Method Between January 1996 and 1997, we screened pros[r] ...
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International survey of De implementation of initiating parenteral nutrition early in Paediatric intensive care units
... Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies (WFPICCS) by newsletter and Twitter, and to specific members of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care ...
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Improving delirium care in the intensive care unit: The design of a pragmatic study
... In 2005, we utilized the information technology infra- structure at WMH to develop a patient-specific compu- terized decision support system (CDSS). This system targeted hospitalized older adults with cognitive impair- ...
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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>
... Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed using data extracted from a freely accessible critical care database (MIMIC-III). Adult ( ≥ 18 years) patients of fi rst ICU admis- sion in the database were ...
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Application of Different Genotyping Methods forPseudomonas aeruginosa in a Setting of Endemicity in an Intensive Care Unit
... in intensive care units (ICUs), many studies have been directed at this ...a setting of endemicity have been available. That is a setting in which ...
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Retrospective analysis of pulse oximeter alarm settings in an intensive care unit patient population
... the pulse oximeter being just one of them. Devices ideally should provide an early notification of a change in patient status to nurses. Unfortunately, medical de- vices are not without their errors and can trigger ...
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Challenges in Setting Up Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units in a Resource-Limited Country
... However, 3 months of training is by no means sufficient for optimum manage- ment in intensive care medicine, espe- cially with the attrition of trained staff to which we alluded earlier. Ongoing training ...
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How to Make a Mudsparkler
... Changes in vital signs, mentation, and urine output are all signs of physiological decline in septic patients. Vanzant and Schmelzer (2011) report the ten symptoms of instability to include: temperature changes, heart ...
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Why physiology will continue to guide the choice between balanced crystalloids and normal saline: a systematic review and meta analysis
... and PLUS. Both studies are carried out in the setting of intensive care medicine. Table 2 shows that for sample size estimation they assumed baseline mortal- ity/relative risk reduction to be 35%/10% ...
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