intensive care unit admission and protocols

... assessing costs and relevant outcomes as well as follow-up period vary considerably ICU, intensive care unit and resource consumption, the trade-off between input and output, costs and outcome, ... post -intensive care unit of 25% and 50%, respectively (bold solid line) Moreover, the remaining life years were modelled, again considering an increase and a decrease of 25% (fine line) and 50% ... Figure admitted to the medical intensive 2001, a (ICU) From January 1999 to December care unittotal of 2,806 patients were admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) Of those patients,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Critical Care April 2004 Vol No Hawryluck REBs are currently asked to ensure that research protocols they approve are ethically conducted The logistics and practicalities of this mandate, ways ... of researchers and those of a for-profit player (to each other, to the participants and to the wider society) abound How these conflicting views, values and beliefs are weighed and balanced is ... intrusiveness and to maximize effectiveness, have not been clearly elucidated At the same time, issues of accountability and even liability in cases of harm are starting to arise for researchers, REBs and...

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... an intensive care unit population Crit Care Med 1999, 27:1466-1471 Rivera-Fernandez R, Sanchez-Cruz JJ, Abizanda-Campos R, Vazquez-Mata G: Quality of life before intensive care unit admission and ... on admission to the intensive care: can we query the relatives? Intensive Care Med 2003, 29:974-979 Capuzzo M, Grasselli C, Carrer S, Gritti G, Alvisi R: Quality of life before intensive care admission: ... 2004 Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2005, 171:537-544 Reis Miranda D, Gyldmark M: Evaluating and Understanding of Costs in the Intensive Care Unit In Current practice in Critical Illness Edited by:...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... Papanikolaou MN, et al.: Vacuum-assisted closure device in intensive care unit patients and dissemination of Gram-negative bacteria Critical Care 2010, 14:413 ... challenge in the ICU and in complicated abdominal surgery The use of prophylactic procedures (hand washing, gloves, disposable dresses, and dedicated portable devices) by nurses and physicians can ... bacterial diffusion reported by Papanikolaou and Page of colleagues cannot be attributed to a correct use of a VAC device Abbreviations ICU, intensive care unit; VAC, vacuum-assisted closure Competing...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Details 1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, The Netherlands and 2Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Academic ... statistical analysis and MJS and JH coached the analysis and supervised the project All authors contributed in the writing and the critical appraisal of the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... ICU admission temperature on outcome was adjusted for age, presenting heart rhythm, APACHE II and SOFA scores on ICU admission Data are presented as median and interquartile range (IQR) and as...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... Nosocomial bacteremia in a medical-surgical intensive care unit: epidemiologic characteristics and factors influencing mortality in 111 episodes Intensive Care Med 1994, 20:94-98 Vallés J, León C, ... Hansen TK, Van den Berghe G: Polymorphisms in innate immunity genes predispose to bacteremia and death in the medical intensive care unit Crit Care Med 2009, 37(192-201):192-201, e1-e3 23 Garner ... Studley Road, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia 6Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Commercial Rd, Prahran,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... psychopathology and views on follow up Intensive and Critical Care Nursing 2006, 22:49-55 Rees G, Gledhill J, Garralda ME, Nadel S: Psychiatric outcome following pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission: ... admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2004, 5:547-553 Board R, Ryan-Wenger N: Long-term effects of pediatric intensive care unit hospitalization on families ... that the health care team provide every family with general information and basic support, and regularly screen for acute stress symptoms and risk factors to determine which children and families...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... factors and time-dependent factors Time-independent factors included demographic (age, sex), hospital (admission location, admission ICU, weekend admission, night admission) , clinical (admission ... laboratory values and level of care (full care, full care without cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), comfort care) Severity of illness at inception (within the first day of ICU admission) was ... Proportion the normal range unit (ICU) patients with ICU stay* ues outside of intensive care during the first 50 days ofserum sodium Proportion of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with serum...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... resolution of critical illness and shorter intensive care unit and hospital lengths of stay and interpretation, and drafting of the manuscript WIJ participated in data acquisition and drafting of the manuscript ... (DIS and SA 6), tracheostomy (DIS and SA 0), and study withdrawal (DIS and SA 1) Patients randomly assigned to DIS were more likely to withdraw from the study (P = 0.03) Five patients (4 DIS and ... EW: Efficacy and safety of a paired sedation and ventilator weaning protocol for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care (awakening and breathing controlled trial): a randomised controlled...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... days intensive care Nutrition administered toto all 504 patients during the firstdays of of intensive care Feeding at represents the administration of nutrition between admission and a.m., and ... the treatment and investigation were unaware of the randomised schedule and the block size Interventions Patients were randomly assigned to receive either standard insulin therapy or intensive insulin ... [1-4] A randomised trial of 1548 patients hospitalised in a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) showed that maintaining normal glucose levels reduces morbidity and mortality [5] In another randomised...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... prospectively look for all missed prescriptions, standard care was for the pharmacist to review admissions and note discrepancies between ward and ICU prescriptions This error occurred during the ... Pharmacist participation on physician rounds and adverse drug events in the intensive care unit JAMA 1999, 282:267-270 British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great ... decision support, in several ways We compare the rates and types of MEs and the potential outcome of intercepted and non-intercepted errors Materials and methods In April 2002, University College Hospitals...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39

... contributed to study design and concept and writing and editing of the manuscript VT: contributed to the study design and concept, writing and editing of the manuscript and provided financial support ... medical intensive care unit between June 2004 and February 2006 Group samples were drawn during the subject's hospital day, which was a mean of 12.8 days Critically ill subjects (groups and 2) ... K23AR054334 and #5T32DK007298 The authors responsibilities were as followed LJ, LVY and SEJ: contributed to the study design and concept, statistical analysis, and writing of the manuscript HMB, GM and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... outcome following paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission: a cohort study Intensive Care Med 2004, 30:1607-1614 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... Rowan K, Parry GJ: Outcome at months after admission for pediatric intensive care: a report of a national study of pediatric intensive care units in the United kingdom Pediatrics 2006, 118:2101-2108 ... Taylor A, Butt W, Ciardulli M: The functional outcome and quality of life of children after admission to an intensive care unit Intensive Care Med 2003, 29:795-800 Ambuehl J, Karrer A, Meer A,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... neonates hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) face many challenges to adapt to the new environment Heat loss [1], weight loss [2], respiratory distress and cardiac instability [3] are ... functions of postcontudes regression (and coefficients of correlation) for ampliLinearandage Linear regression (and coefficients of correlation) for amplitudes and amplitude indexes of PR as functions ... contributions EB and MB participated in all data collection, in the analysis and discussion of the results, and in the writing of the manuscript MO participated in clinical data collection and advised...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... threatening and violent behaviour in an Acute Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based on patient and environment characteristics BMC Psychiatry 2011 11:44 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... Psychiatr Scand Suppl 2003, 106:133-141 Walker Z, Seifert R: Violent incidents in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit Br J Psychiatry 1994, 164:826-828 Zealberg JJ, Brady KT: Substance abuse and emergency ... Palmstierna T, Huitfeldt B, Wistedt B: The relationship of crowding and aggressive behavior on a psychiatric intensive care unit Hosp Community Psychiatry 1991, 42:1237-1240 32 Palmstierna T, Wistedt...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... better standardized management would be useful to physicians in charge of patients with severe haemoptysis to improve outcomes and should preferably take place in or nearby the intensive care unit ... bronchoscopy and CT scan findings when performed, severity of haemoptysis, and pre-ICU and in-ICU management The persistence or recurrence of bleeding, the patients' ICU and hospital lengths of stay and ... cardiovascular and pulmonary comorbidities The cumulated amount of bleeding on admission was assessed from the onset of bleeding until the first hours of admission to our unit using the following standardized...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... et al.: Lack of agreement between bioimpedance and continuous thermodilution measurement of cardiac output in intensive care unit patients Critical Care 1997 1:71 ... was -0.16 l/min/m2, but with a standard deviation (precision) of ± 1.16 l/min/m2 The lower and upper limits of agreement were -2.48 and 2.16 l/min/m respectively Bland–Altman analysis of individual ... (measured by the mean) and precision (± 2SD) are shown Barry et al Critical Care 1997, 1:71 http://ccforum.com cardiac output in patients in the ICU and upon which much of our understanding of the cardiovascular...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... supplements and other agents Seven hundred and six handwritten and 723 computer-assisted drug entries were analysed in this category Ninety percent of entries for both handwritten and CAP groups ... dilutions and infusion rates to be specified By adding and storing the order at this point (mandatory and requiring entry of a unique six digit alpha/numeric password) the clinician's name and initials ... fluids and entail/parenteral feeds Entries monitored in this section included all feeds, blood, blood derivatives, colloids and crystalloids One hundred and ninety-four individual handwritten and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... therapy staffs of the Intermountain Respiratory Intensive Care Unit and of the ShockTrauma/Intermountain Respiratory ICU, and to the Respiratory Care Department of the LDS Hospital, for collaboration ... surgical intensive care unit Intensive Care Med 2001, 27:1029-1036 Miller R, Goodman K: Ethical challenges in the use of decisionsupport software in clinical practice In Ethics, Computing, and Medicine: ... role in medical practice and of the potential disenchantment of physicians with medicine that could follow the widespread mandatory use of guidelines and protocols [15] Standardization might be...

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