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ICU Imaging

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2008
Chest radiography serves a crucial role in imaging of the critically ill. Its uses include diagnosis and monitoring of commonly encountered pulmonary parenchymal and pleural space abnormalities. It is also important in evaluating monitoring and support devices and associated complications.
Joshua R, Hill   +2 more
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Sedation in the ICU

Intensive Care Medicine, 1991
The effect of midazolam on the induction dose-response curve for alfentanil was studied in non-premedicated ASA physical status I or II patients. The response to the verbal command was used as an end point of anaesthesia. Dose-response curves for midazolam, alfentanil, and their combination were determined with a probit procedure, and compared with ...
H R, Vinik, I, Kissin
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Design of ICUs

Pediatrics, 1992
To the Editor.— Most newborn intensive care units (NICUs) today stand as monuments to the technology and efficiency that dramatically improved survival of premature newborns during the last two decades. Beginning as small "premie nurseries" which held five or six newborns per room, NICUs evolved in the late 70s and the early 80s into ...
R, White, T, Whitman
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Ethics in the ICU

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2002
The power to heal and create "good" in intensive care also stimulates great ethical conflict and discourse. Palliation and end of life issues in intensive care are beginning to be clearly defined and enhanced for the good of the patients. After decades of striving to save life to the very extreme, we are now providing that same effort toward end of ...
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Vasopressin in the ICU

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2004
Vasopressin is one of the most important endogenously released stress hormones during shock. In this review, studies published in the past year that add to our understanding of the use of vasopressin in the ICU are discussed.Endogenous vasopressin levels are inappropriately low in adults with severe sepsis but not in children with meningococcal septic ...
Cheryl L, Holmes, Keith R, Walley
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Communication in the ICU

Intensive Care Medicine, 1997
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Antifungals in the ICU

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases, 2008
Invasive fungal infections remain a serious complication for critically ill ICU patients. The aim of this article is to review recent efficacy data of newer antifungal agents for the treatment of invasive candidiasis. The influence that recent epidemiological trends, advances in diagnostic testing, and risk prediction methods exert on the optimization ...
Playford, Elliott Geoffrey   +2 more
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Candida in the ICU

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2009
Invasive Candida infections are becoming increasingly recognized in critically ill patients. These infections result in serious morbidity, can be life threatening, and are expensive to manage. Early suspicion of Candida infection and the use of timely and proper antifungal treatment can improve outcome.
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Noise in the ICU

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2014
Editor's note: This is part of an ongoing series of columns from nurses at the University of Washington that will examine in depth the research related to critical care practices.
Amy, Stafford   +2 more
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ICU Delirium

Neurologic Clinics
Delirium is not a harmless transient event during ICU hospitalization; rather, it is a severe complication of critical illness associated with increased mortality, morbidity, and persistent disability. Despite being recognized for decades, it remains underdiagnosed. Employing validated tools for detection helps reduce missed cases.
Amra, Sakusic, Alejandro A, Rabinstein
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