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Vitamin D deficiency is associated with mortality in the medical intensive care unit
... 50% to 60% of the older population in North America and worldwide [1]. Recent evidence suggests that the role of vitamin D is broader than the regulation of cal- cium metabolism. Vitamin D has been shown to have ...
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Noise Levels in a Medical Intensive Care Unit
... Abstract: This study was undertaken to investigate and analyze noise pollution in a large Chinese governmental hospital’s medical intensive care unit and compare to the WHO guidelines.This ...
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A Simple System to Predict Mortality in Medical Intensive Care Unit
... critical care have increased survival chances and the demand for a scientific approach to outcome ...a medical intensive care unit ...a medical ICU at the Botucatu Medical School ...
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Carboxyhemoglobin levels in medical intensive care patients: a retrospective, observational study
... The observed differences in COHb levels between sur- vivors and non-survivors in our study were statistically significant and indicate that this may be an important pathway. On the other hand, given the relative minute- ...
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Therapeutic intervention scoring system in medical intensive care
... Therapeutic intervention scoring system in medical intensive care Med J Malaysia Vol 44 No 2 June 1989 Therapeutic intervention scoring system in medical intensive care Basheer A Adam, MBBS, FRCP Asso[.] ...
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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
... A. baumannii in the Asia-Pacific region, with hospitals reporting rates of CRAB infection from 50% to over 90% in countries such as Vietnam and Singapore [3]. A survey of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) across ...
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Monitoring of sedation depth in intensive care unit by therapeutic drug monitoring? A prospective observation study of medical intensive care patients
... ICU: Intensive care unit; LC-MS/MS: Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry; OAA/ S: Observers ’ Assessment of Alertness/Sedation; RASS: Richmond Agitation- Sedation Scale; SOFA: Sequential Organ ...
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Clinical spectrum of severe community acquired infections in patients under General Medicine requiring admission to medical intensive care unit and medical high dependency unit in a tertiary care hospital in South India
... warranting intensive or high dependency care with regard to the clinical spectrum of common infectious syndromes, the clinical outcome with reference to morbidity and mortality, implications of co-existing ...
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Readmission to Medical Intensive Care Units: Risk Factors and Prediction
... Of the 343 patients discharged from ICU alive and trans- ferred to the general ward, 33 (9.6%) were readmitted to the ICU. To discover who is likely to be readmitted to the ICU, we compared medical records from ...
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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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Glucose control in intensive care: usability, efficacy and safety of Space GlucoseControl in two medical European intensive care units
... High-quality GC can best be achieved with a protocol combining continuous intravenous insulin with frequent blood glucose measurements. In the last decade, most ICUs have implemented nurse-based protocols, but their use ...
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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
... This single-center retrospective study, conducted at Ghent University Hospital, reports on the post-ICU trajectory, long-term outcome and QOL in two cohorts of patients that were discharged from the ICU with placement of ...
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Simultaneous use of traditional Chinese medicine (Si Ni Tang) to treat septic shock patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... a medical collection from ancient China, is used for treating patients with sepsis and septic ...our medical intensive care units with the diagnosis of septic shock, defined as persistent ...
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... in Medical Intensive Care unit of Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital between April 2016 to September 2017 was performed considering recovery or death (poor outcome) as outcome ...
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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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Physicians’ Experience With Allegations of Medical Malpractice in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... for medical malpractice allegations can be envi- ...true medical malpractice is relatively rare, occurs virtually at ran- dom, and is widely distributed across most physi- cians’ ...improper medical ...
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PREVALENCE OF THE ADMISSION CAUSE IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (ICU)
... In addition, the deterioration of the economic situation, health and security in general, the absence of law and awareness which is increased the incidence of accidents, especially among adults, and this negatively ...
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Noncompliance With Medical Follow-up After Pediatric Intensive Care
... for medical follow-up were collected after hospital ...ordered medical follow-up appointments at their discretion, and these data were obtained from the medical record at ...
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Organophosphate poisoning at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital 2012 - 2015
... the medical high care unit (HCA) and intensive care unit (ICU) with organophosphate poisoning, and to illustrate the clinical profiles of these patients on ...
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Education Research: Variation in priorities for neurocritical care education expressed across role groups
... Our study has many strengths including good sample size, geographic representation, and diversity of role groups surveyed. The relative dearth of nonacademic respondents may result in a reporting bias that ...
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