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Background In 2012, the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine proposed a definition for acute gastrointestinal injury (AGI) based on current medical evidence and expert opinion.
Bangchuan Hu +17 more
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Feasibility of the modified sequential organ function assessment score in a resource-constrained setting: a prospective observational study. [PDF]
BackgroundSub-Saharan Africa has a great burden of critical illness with limited health care resources. We evaluated the feasibility and utility of the modified Sequential Organ Function Assessment (mSOFA) score in assessing morbidity and mortality in ...
Ejoku, Joseph +8 more
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Background Although outcomes of critically ill patients with haematological malignancies (HMs) have been fully investigated in terms of organ failure and mortality, data are scarce on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in this population.
Franck Ehooman +21 more
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Increasing the reliability of fully automated surveillance for central line–associated bloodstream infections [PDF]
OBJECTIVETo increase reliability of the algorithm used in our fully automated electronic surveillance system by adding rules to better identify bloodstream infections secondary to other hospital-acquired infections.METHODSIntensive care unit (ICU ...
Doherty, Joshua A +5 more
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Background Immunocompromised critically ill patients constitute a population with the high risk of candidemia. This retrospective study aimed to assess the outcome of immunocompromised critically ill patients with candidemia. Secondary objectives were to
Etienne Ghrenassia +9 more
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AKI patients have worse long-term outcomes, especially in the immediate post-ICU period [PDF]
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with worse outcome in the acute phase of acute illness but also in the chronic phase. In a large Danish study in this issue of Critical Care, 1-year mortality was higher in patients with AKI than in patients ...
De Corte, Wouter, Hoste, Eric
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Survivorship after critical illness is an increasingly important health-care concern as ICU use continues to increase while ICU mortality is decreasing. Survivors of critical illness experience marked disability and impairments in physical and cognitive function that persist for years after their initial ICU stay. Newfound impairment is associated with
Sarah E, Jolley +2 more
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Direct admission to the intensive care unit from the emergency department and mortality in critically ill hematology patients [PDF]
Background: The aim of this study was to assess the benefit of direct ICU admission from the emergency department (ED) compared to admission from wards, in patients with hematological malignancies requiring critical care.
Azoulay, Elie +14 more
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Background. This study is aimed at effectively investigating the role of coagulation factor II thrombin receptor like 2 (F2RL2) in myocardial infarction (MI) as well as the upstream regulatory miRNA and lncRNA. Methods.
Zhenhua Wu +6 more
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AbstractCritical illness is a continuum, but patient care is often fragmented. Value-based critical care focuses on the overall health of the patient, not on an episode of care. The “ICU without borders” model incorporates a concept where members of the critical care team are involved in the management of patients from the onset of critical illness ...
Ostermann, Marlies, Vincent, Jean Louis
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