Intensive Medical Care Unit
A Study on Acid Base Status among Intensive Medical Care Unit Patients
... AMONG INTENSIVE MEDICAL CARE UNIT PATIENTS ” is done by me at Madras Medical College & Government General Hospital, Chennai, during 2006 – 2007 under the guidance and supervision of ...
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A Study on Nosocomial Infection in Intensive Medical Care Unit-incidence, pattern and etiology
... Nosocomial infection is defined as an infection which develops 48 hours after hospital admission or within 48 hours after being discharged [1,36] and the infectious agent or toxin should not be incubating at the time of ...
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Study of Seizures in Intensive Medical Care Unit
... in intensive medical care unit” submitted by ...M.G.R. Medical University, ...M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India ...
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Study of clinical profile of stroke patients in rural tertiary health care centre
... and intensive medical care unit of Indian Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Medical College and Noor Hospital, Badnapur, ...
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The importance of dental care in hospitalized patients in intensive care unit
... dental care (Abidia, ...oral care of patients admitted to the ICU be of utmost importance, this practice is still scarce and the amount of plaque increases, leading to the appearance of periodontal disease ...
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Admission Patterns and Outcome in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Nepal
... Results: 230 children were admitted to the PICU with male to female ratio of 1.7:1. Diagnoses included respiratory diseases (n=76, 33%), central nervous system diseases (n=43, 18.6%), infectious diseases (n=26, 11.3%), ...
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Clinical data needs in the neonatal intensive care unit electronic medical record
... Methods: A web-based survey to evaluate 98 data items was created and distributed to NICU providers. Participants were asked to rate the importance of each data item in helping them make routine clinical decisions in the ...
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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>
... A total of 29,499 patients were enrolled fi nally, among which 3,332 patients (11.30%) had COPD comorbidity. The average age of the study population was 63.88 ±17.07 years, and patients with COPD comorbidity had a signi fi ...
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Risk factors and clinical outcomes of arrhythmias in the medical intensive care unit
... After Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval from the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, we performed a retrospective and prospective evaluation of patient records from patients older than 21 years of ...
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Rate of colonization of Internal Jugular and Femoral Central Venous Catheters in Medical Intensive Care Unit and Medical High Dependency Unit
... cutaneous antisepsis to prevent central venous catheter associated infections. They studied three antiseptics for disinfection of patients' catheter insertion sites - 10% povidone-iodine, 70% alcohol, or 2% aqueous ...
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Parent stress in neonatal intensive care unit: an unattended aspect in medical care
... The second specific area that caused stress for parents in this study was how the baby looked and behaved. These findings were consistent with studies by Miles and Miles et al, but inconsistent with Shields-Poe and ...
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Physicians’ Experience With Allegations of Medical Malpractice in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... difference in the rate of malpractice allegations for practitioners of obstetrics/gynecology, internal med- icine, and surgery—women were sued significantly less often than men, all other things being equal. These ...
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A Simple System to Predict Mortality in Medical Intensive Care Unit
... Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care, Pain and Palliative Care, Dr BRAIRCH, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, ...Critical Care Department, Hospital Universitario Fundación ...
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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with mortality in the medical intensive care unit
... modified by PTH or calcium levels [6,47,50]. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with cardiovascular mor- tality and all-cause mortality in patients with CKD [44-47,50-52]. There is no conclusive data regarding ...
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Delirium in the intensive care unit
... In the only study to date to examine whether there is a genetic predisposition to ICU delirium in some patients, Ely and coworkers [38] evaluated the association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype and duration of ...
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Clinical review: Treatment of new onset atrial fibrillation in medical intensive care patients: a clinical framework
... the medical intensive care unit (MICU) [1], with up to about 15% of MICU patients showing periods of AF ...other medical conditions, this reduction results in decreased cardiac ...
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Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Relatives of Intensive Care Unit Patients and the Perceived Need for Support.
... patient’s care; the support of the families by medical and nursing staff; and the time schedule for the visits to the patient and the relatives’ waiting ...
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Epidemiology of Elderly Patients Hospitalized in Intensive Care Unit for Severs Medical Illnesses
... earlier medical treatment for both patients and physicians, resulting in subsequent intensive care ...high medical costs, and all-cause mortality in community-dwelling elderly people ...
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PREVALENCE OF THE ADMISSION CAUSE IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU)
... Intensive care is an important unit for the care of patients suffering from serious ...integrated medical team headed by a specialized physician (head of the department), a nurse, a ...
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Medical Futility in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Hope for a Resolution
... Although the Texas Advance Directives Act is less than perfect, the process it provides for has been quite effective. It has been most widely used in adult medicine but also has its place in the NICU. When the law was ...
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