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Respiratory effects of dexmedetomidine in the surgical patient requiring intensive care
... Sedation continued over the extubation period, has been shown to reduce haemodynamic disturbances and myocardial ischaemia [13]. We have previously shown [1] that dexmedetomidine provides cardiovascular stability, with a ...
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Mortality among patients with tuberculosis requiring intensive care: a retrospective cohort study
... To our knowledge this is the first study in Brazil that described TB cases and their outcomes in patients requiring intensive care. While effective treatment is available on an outpatient basis, TB ...
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Survey of ethical dilemmas facing intensivists in South Africa in the admission of patients with HIV infection requiring intensive care
... critical care and who is likely to be involved in the admission of patients with HIV infection to intensive ...Critical Care Society of Southern Africa (CCSSA), South African Thoracic Society (SATS), ...
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Severe imported falciparum malaria among adults requiring intensive care: a retrospective study at the hospital for tropical diseases, London
... This paper suggests that most adult patients with severe malaria who are managed in a specialist centre survive. Cerebral malaria and AKI tend to occur early in the dis- ease, while ARDS develops later. Patients who die ...
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Outcome and prognostic factors of patients with right sided infective endocarditis requiring intensive care unit admission
... Several prognosis factors have been described in other reports assessing outcome of RSIE patients. Vege- tation length > 20 mm and fungal origin were the main predictors of death in a recent retrospective study [27]. ...
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A prospective observational study to develop a Paediatric Acute Care Score (PACS) for early prediction of clinical deterioration requiring intensive care
... ICU Care as per the Physician’s opinion at admission itself and neonates were excluded from the study The primary outcome of “Clinical Deterioration” was defined as ...shock requiring > 10 mcgm/kg/min ...
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Pandemic H1N1 in Children Requiring Intensive Care in Australia and New Zealand During Winter 2009
... with certainty that all deaths caused by H1N1-09 are captured in our study. The final limitation of this study relates to our inability to quantify the demand (rather than occupancy) for PICU beds. Thus, although our ...
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Improvement in process of care and outcome in patients requiring intensive care unit admission for community acquired pneumonia
... critical care and infectious disease experts included initial resusci- tation, diagnostic studies, sepsis source control, antibiotic delivery, fluid administration, inotropic and vasopressor therapies, blood ...
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Imported falciparum malaria among adults requiring intensive care: analysis of the literature
... Background: Malaria is the most important imported tropical disease. Infection with Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for most of the morbidity and mortality. There are differences in both the epidemiology of imported ...
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Legionella pneumonia in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada: a case series
... pneumonia requiring intensive care unit admission, prior to laboratory confirmation of diagnosis, especially when a clinical suspicion of Legionella infection ...
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Is there a role for mask continuous positive airway pressure in acute respiratory failure due to COPD? Lessons from a retrospective audit of 3 different cohorts
... failure requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation have high morbidity and ...failure requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission according to modality of initial therapy: mask ...
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AGREEMENT BETWEEN CENTRAL VENOUS AND ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS VALUES IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
... This prospective study conducted in 31 bedded, intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital and teaching medical college in India, from March to April 2013. Approval from institutional ethical ...
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Clinical outcomes of patients requiring ventilatory support in Brazilian intensive care units: a multicenter, prospective, cohort study
... in Intensive Care Network; CI: Confidence interval; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; ERICC: Epidemiology of Respiratory Insufficiency in Critical Care; ICU: Intensive care ...
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Role of newer technologies in wound bed preparation in Fournier’s gangrene
... shock requiring prolonged intensive care - a multidisciplinary management experience over 6 months with experiences of some newer investigational modalities of advanced wound management in the ...
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Effects of pH, lactate, hematocrit and potassium level on the accuracy of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in pediatric intensive care unit
... for monitoring glucose changes in pediatric or adult in- tensive care units [10-14]. CGM could be an appropriate additional device of PICU toolbar, but its use is limited by the lack of convincing data on its ...
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Prospective Pricing System for Tertiary Neonatal Intensive Care
... Florida Neonatal Care Groups (NCGs) for Neonates Requiring Tertiary Intensive Care. NCG* Description No[r] ...
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Five year risk of end stage renal disease among intensive care patients surviving dialysis requiring acute kidney injury: a nationwide cohort study
... Our estimates of long-term ESRD risk are also consis- tent with the Swedish study by Bell et al. [11]. They found that 3.4% (34/998) of ICU patients with D-AKI developed ESRD in the period from 90 days up to seven years ...
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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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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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Comparison of Sedative and Hemodynamic Effects of Remifentanil and Propofol in Patients with Pulmonary Disease Requiring Mechanical Ventilation in Intensive Care Unit
... Materials and Methods: This study was conducted as a randomized controlled clinical trial. All patients with pulmonary disease requiring mechanical ventilation in the ICU were randomly divided into two groups. The ...
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