Trauma intensive care unit
Glycated Haemoglobin (HbA1C) as a predictor of outcome in trauma patients in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
... important intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired infections in mechanically ventilated ...in Intensive Care (EPIC) study found that VAP was the most common Hospital Acquired Infection ...
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Low HDL levels in sepsis versus trauma patients in intensive care unit
... sepsis, trauma is also associated with a systemic inflammatory response ...during trauma. We sought to compare lipid profiles between sepsis and trauma patients in intensive care ...
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Monitoring trauma and intensive care unit resuscitation with tissue hemoglobin oxygen saturation
... In this 16-month observational study, there were 381 patients who met entry criteria; 114 (30%) received MT (defined as >10 units in the first 24 hours). The MT cohort versus the non-MT cohort had similar ...
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Multiple organ failure after trauma affects even long term survival and functional status
... Multiple organ failure (MOF) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients [1]. Recent studies report an incidence of MOF of between 5% and 25% for trauma patients admitted to the ...
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Validation of the Thorax Trauma Severity Score for mortality and its value for the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome
... TTSS, intensive care unit stay, days on ventilation, thorax trauma-related complications (eg, acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS]), total hospital stay, and ...
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Delirium in the intensive care unit
... coworkers [44] reported that patients treated with benzo- diazepines were more likely to have postoperative delirium than were those not treated with benzodiazepines (OR = 2.7, 95% CI = 1.3 to 5.5). Meperidine also ...
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Nutrition in the intensive care unit
... Exogenous lipid is needed to prevent essential free fatty acid deficiency, so it is recommended that patients receiv- ing TPN receive lipid emulsion infusion (500 ml 10% LCT emulsion) two to three times a week. It is ...
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Epidemiology, prognostic factors, and outcome of trauma patients admitted in a Brazilian intensive care unit
... hand, trauma due to falls of own height typically affects older individuals; in the present study, the median age was 55 years, and 20% were older than 70 ...of trauma due to falls in the geriatric ...
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New automated analysis to monitor neutrophil function point-of-care in the intensive care unit after trauma
... after trauma included neutrophil C5aR expression [13, 14], neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) [17], neutrophil CD64 expression [18, 19], neutrophil cell size [20], and neutrophil ...
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Antibiotic stewardship in the intensive care unit
... major trauma, surgery, acute respiratory distress syn- drome, multiorgan failure, post-transplantation rejection, cardiogenic shock, severe burns, heat stroke, and so ...
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Trauma admissions to the Intensive care unit at a reference hospital in Northwestern Tanzania
... In agreement with previous studies [5-8,11], trauma patients admitted to our ICU were mostly young males, and had a better previous health status than most other ICU patients. However, the mortality was higher ...
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Cardiac biomarkers in the intensive care unit
... The evolving story of cTn to diagnose acute myocardial damage is as fascinating as it is beguiling. The troponin era began with the development of a double antibody, two-step enzyme immunoassay for TnT in 1989 [7]. ...
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Argininemia and plasma arginine bioavailability – predictive factors of mortality in the severe trauma patients?
... critical trauma patients non-electively admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal was ...
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1628.pdf
... ventilated trauma patients in a Level I Trauma Center Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to determine the utility of tracheostomy in this specific ...
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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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Visitation to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
... Relation of Child and Family Status Variables to Visitation. Having no visitors on a given day in the first 3[r] ...
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Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Relatives of Intensive Care Unit Patients and the Perceived Need for Support.
... With regard to the attitudes of family members toward the ICU stay of their relatives and the treatment procedure, the present study showed that families thought of having control over the care at a rate of 31.5%. ...
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Detection and Management of Delirium in the Neonatal Unit: A Case Series
... patient was started on quetiapine 0.5 mg/kg 8 hourly by nasogastric tube. Her electrocardiogram (ECG) was checked at baseline, and again after 48 hours, excluding prolonged QTc interval. No other changes were made in her ...
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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 ...
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1946.pdf
... orthopedic trauma complaints or ...or care at any point after the initial injury were included in the ...health care and increase of access for the population, I chose only to include a time frame ...
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