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To study thyroid hormone levels (FT3, FT4, and TSH levels) in critically ill children and their correlation with disease severity and clinical outcome in Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Introduction: There are manifold effects on neuro-endocrine and metabolic systems due to critical illness. Abnormalities in thyroid hormone levels in a critically-ill patient with no pre-existing hypothalamo-pituitary-thyroid dysfunction is seen in ...
Upendra Prasad Sahu, Sunanda Jha, Olie Mitra, Apeksha Pathak, Kamal Narayan Prasad   +4 more
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Covering All Bases: A Simulated, Longitudinal Case-Based Approach to Teaching Critical Care Fellows

MedEdPORTAL, 2013
Introduction Any method to enhance patient care and safety is of great significance to those putting their trust in physicians charged with caring for the ill.
Patrick Mailloux
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Chronic Critical Illness [PDF]

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2010
Although advances in intensive care have enabled more patients to survive an acute critical illness, they also have created a large and growing population of chronically critically ill patients with prolonged dependence on mechanical ventilation and other intensive care therapies.
Aluko A. Hope, Judith E. Nelson, Christopher E. Cox, Shannon S. Carson   +3 more
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Acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with COVID-19

Intensive Care Medicine, 2020
Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been reported in up to 25% of critically-ill patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially in those with underlying comorbidities.
P. Gabarre, G. Dumas, Thibault Dupont, M. Darmon, É. Azoulay, L. Zafrani   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Interventions for preventing critical illness polyneuropathy and critical illness myopathy [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2007
Critical illness polyneuro-and/or myopathy (CIP/CIM) is an important and frequent complication in the intensive care unit (ICU), causing delayed weaning from mechanical ventilation. It may increase ICU stay and mortality.To examine the ability of any intervention to prevent the occurrence of CIP/CIM.We searched the Cochrane Neuromuscular Disease Group ...
Hermans, Greet, De Jonghe, Bernard, Bruyninckx, Frans, Van den Berghe, Greet   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Detectable serum SARS-CoV-2 viral load (RNAaemia) is closely correlated with drastically elevated interleukin 6 (IL-6) level in critically ill COVID-19 patients

medRxiv, 2020
Background: Although the SARS-CoV-2 viral load detection of respiratory specimen has been widely used for novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) diagnosis, it is undeniable that serum SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid (RNAaemia) could be detected in a fraction of ...
Xiaohua Chen, Binghong Zhao, Y. Qu, Yurou Chen, J. Xiong, Yong Feng, Dong Men, Qianchuan Huang, Y. Liu, Bo Yang, Jinya Ding, Feng Li   +11 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Risk factors for severe and critically ill COVID‐19 patients: A review

Allergy. European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2020
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has caused an unprecedented global social and economic impact, and high numbers of deaths.
Ya-dong Gao, M. Ding, Xiang Dong, Jin-Jin Zhang, A. K. Azkur, D. Azkur, H. Gan, Yuan-li Sun, Wei Fu, Wei Li, Hui-ling Liang, Yiyuan Cao, Qi Yan, Can Cao, Hong-yu Gao, M. Brüggen, W. van de Veen, M. Sokolowska, M. Akdiş, C. Akdis   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Obstetric patients admitted to the intensive care unit of Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa

Southern African Journal of Critical Care, 2017
Background. Pregnancy is a natural physiological process that normally ends uneventfully. However, there are instances where admission to an intensive care (ICU) is required. Objectives.
M Motiang
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Focused liquid ultrasonography in dropsy protocol for quantitative assessment of subcutaneous edema

Critical Care, 2023
Background Although subcutaneous edema is a common symptom of critically ill patients, it is still underreported due to the lack of a systematic method for evaluating it.
Weiqing Zhang, Yanting Gu, Yujin Zhao, Jun Lian, Qian Zeng, Xiaoting Wang, Jun Wu, Qiuying Gu, Chinese Critical Care Ultrasound Study Group (CCUSG)   +8 more
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Utility of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the critical care unit: how far-reaching are the complications and outcomes?

Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2020
Background Fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) is standard as a pre-eminent technique for diagnostic, palliative, and curative purposes in variable pulmonary insults.
Amr Darwish, Rana El-Helbawy, Ahmed El-Esdoudy, Marwa D Khedr   +3 more
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