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Appraising extracorporeal life support - current and future roles in adult intensive care
Despite advances in conventional intensive care, patients continue to die of cardiorespiratory failure. Many of them could be bridged to recovery, longer term destination devices or thoracic organ transplantation, with the timely use of extracorporeal ...
Fraser, J +3 more
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Are We Being Informed Correctly During the Patient Transfer to the Intensive Care Units?
Objective: We aimed to demonstrate to what extent do the right information in patients’ inter-hospital transfers due to the intensive care indications Material and Method: In this study, 38 patients who applied to our general intensive care unit (ICU ...
Eyüp Horasanlı +5 more
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Optimal productive size of hospital’s intensive care units [PDF]
Hospital, Intensive Care Units, Returns to Scale, Optimal ...
James Moises +2 more
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Objectives: To identify intensive care nurses’ perceptions of oral care according to Coker et al.'s (2013) conceptual framework and to contribute to the knowledge base of oral care in intensive care.
Wilde-Larsson, Bodil, +2 more
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Palliative care in intensive care
Martin Neukirchen +2 more
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Economic evaluation in intensive care: The case of SDD
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.The aim of this thesis was to examine the use of modelling techniques in the economic evaluation of selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD ...
Elliott, Rachel, Elliott, R
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Intensive Care Unit Infections and Antibiotic Use
Burn wound infections is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in burn trauma patients. Although burn wound is sterile at the beginning, because of risk factors such as prolonged hospital stay, immunesuppression and burn affecting large body ...
Ayşegül Yeşilkaya, Hande Arslan
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Facing the unfamiliar : Nurses' transcultural care in intensive care - A focus group study
INTRODUCTION: Western Europe today is a culturally diverse society and expected to become more so in the future. When patients from unfamiliar cultures become critically ill and require intensive care, this places considerable demands on the cultural and
Lindahl, Berit, +2 more
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Background: Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) affects over half of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors, impairing their long-term health and quality of life. Although the Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Questionnaire (PICSQ) was developed to measure PICS,
Jiyeon Kang, Jiwon Hong
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Invasive fungal infections present with a rising incidence and high morbidity and mortality rates. Among these infections are those due to moulds which draw particular attention per the diagnostic difficulties and higher mortality rates. While a relative
Arikan Akdagli, Sevtap, Sig, Ali Korhan
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