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... a brain CT was at the discretion of the attending neurologist, neurosurgeon or ...the brain CT completed a standardized radiological request form, specifying the indi- cation for the brain CT, the ... See full document

... parisons of median NT-proBNP levels between survivors and those who died were made by nonparametric testing. In order to analyze the prognostic influence of NT-proBNP in the ICU, receiver operating characteristic ... See full document

... the patients from Day 3 and in two-thirds at the end of the first week of ICU ...of patients with urinary concentrations > 1 mg/L in ...our patients. The presence of tobramycin in urine in ... See full document

... Rana study, those authors conclude that no level of BNP adequately ruled out a diagnosis of cardiogenic ...our cohort would result in 40 to 50% of test results fall- ing in an intermediate and ... See full document

... present study, fatigue seemed to improve over time in fe- male CCI patients whereas men showed a rather stable ...CCI patients with an even distribution of male/female patients and a higher ... See full document

... The study has a number of limitations that must be considered in order to assess the relevance of the find- ...observational study with a heterogeneous ...of patients, possibly compromising the ... See full document

... ICU patients with sus- pected or confirmed 2009 H1N1 influenza have included between 16 and 52 patients, and, accordingly, they have major inherent limitations ...in patients with influenza ... See full document

... in patients with DM admitted to an ICU ...many patients may not be aware of this condition on ICU admission ...spective study, preexisting hyperglycemia affected the rela- tionship between acute ... See full document

... a prospective cohort study of 197 consecutive critically ill patients aged 50 – ...197 patients in the study, mean (SD) age was ...nonfrail patients in ... See full document

... exclusion of cardiac dysfunction at ICU admission. However, our study also confirms the variability of NT-proBNP in critically ill patients and illustrates the limits to its interpretation. ... See full document

... of patients admitted to ICU for sepsis or cardiovascular failure were 80 years or over and a minor- ity ...multicenter cohort study about the admission of patients older than 80 years to ICU ... See full document

... Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) has been established as a useful and safe method to improve gas exchange for crit- ically ill patients with different etiologies of acute re- spiratory failure (ARF) [1, 2]. ... See full document

... 128 patients met inclusion criteria and were evalu- ated during the study ...the study patients enrolled are shown in Table ...the study population was ...the patients according ... See full document

... This cohort study used data from the Toronto Acute Kidney Injury ...of patients who started RRT for AKI at two university- affiliated hospitals (April 2007 to October 2012 at St Mi- chael’ s Hospital ... See full document

... our study. First, this study was performed in two tertiary centers in the Netherlands and may thus not reflect general ICU prac- tice in other ...the study period, which may also limit ... See full document

... Conclusion We found ACR incidences for central venous catheter, arterial catheter, endotracheal tube, nasogastric tube and urinary catheter that are similar to those reported in previous studies. We could not find ... See full document

... The need for intensive care treatment is accompanied by several physical, psychological and environmental sources of distress. Physical sources of distress such as invasive mechanical ventilation, may lead to ... See full document

... Permanent repository link: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/14734/ Link to published version: /10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2016.05.007 Copyright and reuse: City Research Online aims to make research [r] ... See full document

... observational study was at the discretion of each attending ...in patients with scores equal to 2, 3, 4, and 5, ...most patients with highly improbable invasive candidiasis did not receive antifungal ... See full document

... ventilated patients, with the highest risk of being early in the course of ...predispose patients to either colonization of the respiratory tract with pathogenic microorganisms or aspiration of contaminated ... See full document