Báo cáo y học: "Delirium assessment in the intensive care unit: patient population matter" ppsx

... it is unknown whether using an ordinal approach versus a binary one will improve the predictive value of the Commentary Delirium assessment in the intensive care unit: patient population matters Margaret ... also varied. These ICU delirium screening instruments differ in the components of delirium they evaluate, in their threshold for diagnosing delirium, and in th...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... January 2002 Critical Care 2002, 6:9-10 © 2002 BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1364-8535; Online ISSN 1466-609X) Abstract Rotating antibiotics in the intensive care unit may result in less infections ... aureus. Available online http://ccforum.com/content/6/1/009 Raymond et al. from the University of Virginia, USA published work into rotating empirical antibiotics in an intens...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... when they are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Patients with advanced AKI have a reported ICU mortality between 25% and 90%, depending on the specific patient population and the definition ... a rise in serum creatinine by >300% from baseline). A total of 797 patients had pre- existing ESRF and 2,782 patients had advanced AKI, of Letter Renal failure in the i...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... sub- stantial involvement in revising and drafting the article, and in interpreting the data. All authors contributed to drafting and revising the article, and approved the final manuscript. Key messages • ... com- monly used agent. Discussion Sedation scoring The majority of responding ICUs (88%) in our survey use a sedation scoring system. This has increased considerably sin...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... therapy. Although a study by Bernard and colleagues [2] showed that intra venous ibuprofen was eff ective in diminishing the severity of hyperthermia in patients with acute lung injury, there ... decrease the risk of febrile seizures in the predisposed patient, and lower metabolic rate, it remains unclear whether antipyretics actually aff ect patient out- come in clinicall...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:20

... improve the outcome these patients. Understanding the magnitude of the problem and characterizing the patterns of injury in these patients is important in planning programmes targeted at preventing ... Anaesthesia Care Unit (23.4%). (Table 1) The majority of the injuries were unintentional in 232 (74.4%) patients. Intentional injuries were recorded in sixty (19.2%) o...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... were they conceived to meet the unique challenges we face in the ICU. Now, we are asking that the ethical principles be stretched to encompass the uncertainty, the risks, the benefits and the ... quality of these lives saved. At the crossroads of medical and surgical fields, at the forefront of technology, with its capacity for extensive haemodynamic and clinical monitorin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... appearance of the patient s breathing are much easier to appreciate when they are seen directly by the physician rather than being conveyed by a third party. Telepresence is unique in that nurses, patients, ... level intensive care physicians, and conversely it requires the intensivist to have access to the intensive care unit (ICU). The strategic use of information techn...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... or outcomes in those patients where the vital sign data were collected in both the study form and the patient records vs those with data collected in the patient records only. Finally, since the data ... emergency hospital admissions through the emergency department occurred during the s tudy period. Data on 3,104 patients were collected and entered into their study fo...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21