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Epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired sepsis in Italy: results of the SPIN-UTI network [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is the major cause of mortality from any infectious disease worldwide. Sepsis may be the result of a healthcare associated infection (HAI): the most frequent adverse events during care delivery especially in Intensive Care Units ...
Agodi A, Arrigoni C, Auxilia F, Barchitta M, Brusaferro S, D'Errico MM, Fabiani L, Laurenti P, Mattaliano AR, Montagna MT, Mura I, Orsi GB, Pasquarella C, Squeri R, Tardivo S, Torregrossa MV   +15 more
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Severity of acute gastrointestinal injury grade is a predictor of all-cause mortality in critically ill patients: a multicenter, prospective, observational study

Critical Care, 2017
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, Renhua Sun, Aiping Wu, Yin Ni, Jingquan Liu, Feng Guo, Lijun Ying, Guoping Ge, Aijun Ding, Yunchao Shi, Changwen Liu, Lei Xu, Ronglin Jiang, Jun Lu, Ronghai Lin, Yannan Zhu, Weidong Wu, Bo Xie   +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]

, 2017
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, Kizito, Sam, Kruisselbrink, Rebecca, Kwizera, Arthur, Lipnick, Michael S, Nakibuuka, Jane, Obua, Daniel, Sendagire, Cornelius, Ssemogerere, Lameck   +8 more
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Long-term health-related quality of life of critically ill patients with haematological malignancies: a prospective observational multicenter study

Annals of Intensive Care, 2019
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, Lucie Biard, Virginie Lemiale, Damien Contou, Nicolas de Prost, Djamel Mokart, Frédéric Pène, Achille Kouatchet, Julien Mayaux, Alexandre Demoule, François Vincent, Martine Nyunga, Fabrice Bruneel, Antoine Rabbat, Christine Lebert, Pierre Perez, Anne-Pascale Meert, Dominique Benoit, Rebecca Hamidfar, Michael Darmon, Elie Azoulay, Lara Zafrani   +21 more
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Risk factor analysis for fast track protocol failure [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The introduction of fast-track treatment procedures following cardiac surgery has significantly shortened hospitalisation times in intensive care units (ICU).
Bingold, Tobias Michael, Huneke, Patrick, Kiessling, Arndt-Holger, Moritz, Anton, Reyher, Christian, Zierer, Andreas   +5 more
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Triage and Ongoing Care for Critically Ill Patients in the Emergency Department: Results from a National Survey of Emergency Physicians [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction: We conducted a cross-sectional study at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to elicit emergency physician (EP) perceptions regarding intensive care unit (ICU) triage decisions and ongoing management for boarding of ICU patients in ...
Mathews, Kusum S., Nelson, Judith E., Richardson, Lynne D., Rodriguez, Sandra M.   +3 more
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AKI patients have worse long-term outcomes, especially in the immediate post-ICU period [PDF]

, 2012
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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Candidemia in critically ill immunocompromised patients: report of a retrospective multicenter cohort study

Annals of Intensive Care, 2019
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, Djamel Mokart, Julien Mayaux, Alexandre Demoule, Imène Rezine, Lionel Kerhuel, Laure Calvet, Audrey De Jong, Elie Azoulay, Michael Darmon   +9 more
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lncRNA NEAT1 Downregulation Ameliorates the Myocardial Infarction of Mice by Regulating the miR-582-5p/F2RL2 Axis

Cardiovascular Therapeutics, 2022
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, Yunpeng Bai, Yujuan Qi, Chao Chang, Yan Jiao, Yaobang Bai, Zhigang Guo   +6 more
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Increasing the reliability of fully automated surveillance for central line–associated bloodstream infections [PDF]

, 2015
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, Gase, Kathleen A, Goris, Ashleigh J, Leone, Carole L, Snyders, Rachael E, Woeltje, Keith F   +5 more
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