Critical Care, 2023 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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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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Haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units. [PDF]
, 2007 Hutchison and colleagues report a 10-year experience of dialysis patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the UK excluding Scotland. Their study is the largest published so far and raises issues of interest to both ICU physicians and ...
Arulkumaran, N +2 more
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Follow-up services for improving long-term outcomes in intensive care unit (ICU) survivors [PDF]
, 2017 This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: Our main objective is to assess the effectiveness of follow-up services for ICU survivors that aim to identify and address unmet health needs related to the ICU ...
Alderson, Phil +5 more
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Ruptured arterial aneurysm in Wegener’s granulomatosis: a case report
Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2021 Background Aneurysm formation is a possible, but rare, complication of granulomatosis with polyangiitis, known as Wegener’s granulomatosis. Urgent diagnosis and therapy is very important because a ruptured aneurysm could be life threatening.
A. Gravos +12 more
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Treatment of International Human Rights Violations in the United States [PDF]
, 2013 INTRODUCTION: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients treated in intensive care has been reported to be lower compared with age- and sex-adjusted control groups.
Fredrikson, Mats +4 more
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Antidepressant Use and Depressive Symptoms in Intensive Care Unit Survivors [PDF]
, 2017 Nearly 30% of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors have depressive symptoms 2-12 months after hospital discharge. We examined the prevalence of depressive symptoms and risk factors for depressive symptoms in 204 patients at their initial evaluation in the
Boustani, Malaz +8 more
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European intensive care physicians’ experience of infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria [PDF]
, 2020 Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) compromises the treatment of patients with serious infections in intensive care units (ICUs), and intensive care physicians are increasingly facing patients with bacterial infections with limited or no adequate ...
De Waele, Jan +9 more
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High-dose methotrexate in ICU patients: a retrospective study
Annals of Intensive Care, 2020 Background High-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX) is commonly used in the treatment of solid tumors and hematological malignancies. Severe toxicities are frequent, leading to organ dysfunction and death.
Sandrine Valade +3 more
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Application of the PDCA cycle for standardized nursing management in sepsis bundles
BMC Anesthesiology, 2022 Background To explore the application effect of plan, do, check and action circulation management mode in improving the compliance of sepsis bundle treatment.
Chunxia Liu +6 more
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