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Delirium in Intensive Care [PDF]
Delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU) has become increasingly acknowledged as a significant problem for critically ill patients affecting both the actual course of illness as well as outcomes. In this review, we focus on the current evidence and the gaps in knowledge.This review highlights several areas in which the evidence is weak and further ...
Lone Musaeus Poulsen+3 more
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Monitoring in the Intensive Care [PDF]
In critical care, the monitoring is essential to the daily care of ICU patients, as the optimization of patient’s hemodynamic, ventilation, temperature, nutrition, and metabolism is the key to improve patients' survival. Indeed, the decisive endpoint is the supply of oxygen to tissues according to their metabolic needs in order to fuel mitochondrial ...
Kipnis, Eric+8 more
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Metabonomics and intensive care
This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency medicine 2016. Other selected articles can be found online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2016. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series ...
Antcliffe, D, Gordon, AC
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ABC of intensive care: Organisation of intensive care
Intensive care dates from the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952. Doctors reduced the 90% mortality in patients receiving respiratory support with the cuirass ventilator to 40% by a combination of manual positive pressure ventilation provided through a tracheostomy by medical students and by caring for patients in a specific area of the hospital ...
David L.H. Bennett, Julian Bion
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Intensive Care Nutrition and Post–Intensive Care Recovery
Intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired weakness frequently complicates critical illness, which prolongs intensive care dependency and causes long-term burden. Observational studies have suggested that prolonged underfeeding could aggravate ICU-acquired weakness and impair outcome.
Gunst, Jan, Van den Berghe, Greet
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Intensive care in rehabilitation and rehabilitation in intensive care
The history of rehabilitation post-intensive care can be illustrated by the links between PRM and aneasthesia/intensive care in the centre of Cerbere, as soon as it was created, in 1976, at the instigation of Dr Bouffard-Vercelli and Pr. Louis Serre, in charge of the emergency department in Montpellier.
B. Prévoteau+4 more
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Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135559/1/ijgo1 ...
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I am a 27 year old French woman and have lived in London since 2002. I came here to learn English, to meet people from other countries and to work. I had never been ill in my life, never been allergic to anything, and had no worries about my health.
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Providing intensive care [PDF]
The recent deaths of two severely ill patients being transferred from one hospital to another in search of specialised intensive care have caused public alarm in Britain and have raised questions about the resourcing and organisation of adult and paediatric intensive care.
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The Anaesthetist and Intensive Care [PDF]
Intensive care and its development is part of an evolutionary process in the general organization of hospital medical practice. No new disease process is involved, and this alone should be sufficient to support our view that intensive care does not call for the creation of a new specialty.
William W. Mushin, J.N. Lunn
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