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Views of Critical Care Nurses Participating in an Adult Intensive Care Nursing Certification Program [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Objective:This descriptive study aimed to reveal the views of nurses who participated in an intensive care nursing certification program regarding the process of planning and implementing care.Materials and Methods:The sample comprised 218 voluntary ...
Yayik, Aycan Kelez   +15 more
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Consensus on circulatory shock and hemodynamic monitoring. Task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
OBJECTIVE: Circulatory shock is a life-threatening syndrome resulting in multiorgan failure and a high mortality rate. The aim of this consensus is to provide support to the bedside clinician regarding the diagnosis, management and monitoring of shock.
Vitón-Castillo, Adrián Alejandro   +52 more
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Monitoring in the Intensive Care [PDF]

open access: yesCritical Care Research and Practice, 2012
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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Intensive caring [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2008
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/135559/1/ijgo1 ...
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Simple prognostic markers to predict mortality in intensive care unit: Red cell distribution width

open access: yes, 2021
Background: We tried to examine association between the prognostic intensive care unit (ICU) scores and red cell distribution width (RDW) for prediction of mortality in a cohort of ICU patients at a single centre in Turkey.Methods: This is a ...
Erdogan, Ahmet   +3 more
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Predicting death and readmission after intensive care discharge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background: Despite initial recovery from critical illness, many patients deteriorate after discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU). We examined prospectively collected data in an attempt to identify patients at risk of readmission or death after ...
B.H. Cuthbertson   +11 more
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ABC of intensive care: Organisation of intensive care

open access: yesBMJ, 1999
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 ...
D, Bennett, J, Bion
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Hyperglycemia in the Intensive Care Unit

open access: yes, 2014
Hyperglycemia is frequently encountered in the intensive care unit. In this disease, after severe injury and during diabetes mellitus homeostasis is impaired; hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia and glycemic variability may ensue.
Ozan Akca, Rainer Lenhardt
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Intensive Care Nutrition and Post–Intensive Care Recovery

open access: yesCritical Care Clinics, 2018
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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Benefitting From Monitorization in Intensive Care Unit

open access: yes, 2011
The most essential matter about following a patient in intensive care unit is a fine and correct monitorization. While benefitting from monitorization is the main objective of every intensive care physician, it should be discussed how successful we are ...
Mois Bahar
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