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Descending aortic calcification increases renal dysfunction and in-hospital mortality in cardiac surgery patients with intraaortic balloon pump counterpulsation placed perioperatively : a case control study [PDF]

, 2012
Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) after cardiac surgery increases length of hospital stay and in-hospital mortality. A significant number of patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures require perioperative intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP ...
Bingold, Tobias Michael, Eltzschig, Holger K., Lawlor, Garrett, Mitani, Aya, Nowak-Machen, Martina, Rawn, James D., Rosenberger, Peter, Shekar, Prem S., Shernan, Stanton K., Tuli, Sagun   +9 more
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How participation in surgical mortality audit impacts surgical practice

BMC Surgery, 2017
Background Surgical mortality audit is an important tool for quality assurance and professional development but little is known about the impact of such activity on professional practice at the individual surgeon level. This paper reports the findings of
Chi-Wai Lui, Frances M. Boyle, Arkadiusz Peter Wysocki, Peter Baker, Alisha D’Souza, Sonya Faint, Therese Rey-Conde, John B. North   +7 more
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The Prognostic Value of Serum Soluble TREM-1 on Outcome in Adult Patients with Sepsis

Diagnostics, 2021
Increased soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (sTREM-1) levels have been reported in patients with sepsis. We tested the hypotheses that serum sTREM-1 levels increase in the early phase of sepsis and decrease after sepsis under ...
Chia-Te Kung, Chih-Min Su, Sheng-Yuan Hsiao, Fu-Cheng Chen, Yun-Ru Lai, Chih-Cheng Huang, Cheng-Hsien Lu   +6 more
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Functional status in ICU survivors and out of hospital outcomes: a cohort study [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVES: Functional status at hospital discharge may be a risk factor for adverse events among survivors of critical illness. We sought to examine the association between functional status at hospital discharge in survivors of critical care and risk ...
Amrein, Karin, Christopher, Kenneth B., Horkan, Clare M., Mogensen, Kris M., Quraishi, Sadeq A., Rydingsward, Jessica E.   +5 more
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Sepsis caused by bloodstream infection in patients in the intensive care unit: the impact of inactive empiric antimicrobial therapy on outcome [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Sepsis is one of the leading causes of death in the UK. Aims: The aims of this study were to identify the rate of inactive antimicrobial therapy (AMT) in the ICU and whether inactive AMT had an effect on in hospital mortality, ICU ...
Booth, M.G., Brooks, Daniel, Polubothu, Padmaja, Smith, A., Young, D.   +4 more
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Comparison of Hospital Mortality, Length of Stay, Renal Recovery, and Needs for Hemodialysis in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Patients due to Septic and Non-septic, and Factors Affecting Patients’ Mortality

Jurnal Penyakit Dalam Indonesia, 2022
Introduction. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a major complication in critically ill patients that affects mortality. Sepsis is a major predisposing factor for AKI and provides a poor prognosis and high mortality rate.
Mochammad Jalalul Marzuki, Nursamsu, Achmad Rifai   +2 more
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Identifying which septic patients have increased mortality risk using severity scores:a cohort study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Early aggressive therapy can reduce the mortality associated with severe sepsis but this relies on prompt recognition, which is hindered by variation among published severity criteria. Our aim was to test the performance of different severity
Davey, Peter G, Evans, Josie Mm, Guthrie, Bruce, Marwick, Charis A, McLeod, Shaun R, Pringle, Jan Ec   +5 more
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Diagnostic error increases mortality and length of hospital stay in patients presenting through the emergency room [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Diagnostic errors occur frequently, especially in the emergency room. Estimates about the consequences of diagnostic error vary widely and little is known about the factors predicting error.
Birrenbach, T., Exadaktylos, A., Hautz, S., Hautz, W., Kämmer, J., Maier, V., Müller, M., Sauter, T., Schauber, S., Zwaan, L.   +9 more
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Preoperative Liver Function Test Abnormalities Were Associated With Short-Term and Long-Term Prognosis in Cardiac Surgery Patients Without Liver Disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021
Aims: To explore the value of preoperative liver function tests (LFTs) for the prognosis of cardiac surgery patients without liver disease.Methods: The Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III (MIMIC-III) database was used to extract the clinical ...
Liqun Shang, Liqun Shang, Yuanhan Ao, Yuanhan Ao, Linhua Lv, Linhua Lv, Lihua Lv, Yubi Zhang, Jian Hou, Jian Hou, Jianping Yao, Jianping Yao, Zhongkai Wu, Zhongkai Wu   +13 more
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Relationship between hospital volume and short-term outcomes: A nationwide population-based study including 75,280 rectal cancer surgical procedures [PDF]

, 2018
There is growing interest on the potential relationship between hospital volume (HV) and outcomes as it might justify the centralization of care for rectal cancer surgery. From the National Italian Hospital Discharge Dataset, data on 75,280 rectal cancer
Barina, Andrea, Bergamo, Francesca, Boso, Caterina, Corti, Maria Chiara, Frambach, Patrick, Gennaro, Nicola, Marchegiani, Francesco, Maretto, Isacco, Perin, Alessandro, Pucciarelli, Salvatore, Rugge, Massimo, Urso, Emanuele Damiano Luca, Zorzi, Manuel, Zuin, Matteo   +13 more
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