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Providing intensive care [PDF]

BMJ, 1996
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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Predictive factors for severe long-term chronic kidney disease after acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients: an ancillary study of the ELVIS randomized controlled trial

Critical Care, 2022
Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) is a serious complication in the ICU that results in increased mortality and risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Some studies suggest RRT modality may have an impact on long-
Edouard Soum, Jean-François Timsit, Stephane Ruckly, Didier Gruson, Emmanuel Canet, Kada Klouche, Laurent Argaud, Maïté Garrouste-Orgeas, Christophe Mariat, François Vincent, Sophie Cayot, Michael Darmon, Julien Bohé, Carole Schwebel, Lila Bouadma, Claire Dupuis, Bertrand Souweine, Alexandre Lautrette   +17 more
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Esophageal Achalasia: An Unusual Cause of Respiratory Distress

Case Reports in Critical Care
Esophageal achalasia is a rare condition affecting both men and women. It is a motility disorder of the esophagus resulting in the lack of relaxation of the lower sphincter, yielding to food stasis.
Océane Thiry, Marion Schaefer, Aurélie Cravoisy, Lionel Nace, Thibault François, Jacques Allard, Sébastien Gibot   +6 more
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Fungal brain abscesses caused by Acremonium species

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023
Unusual fungal agents that exist environmentally as saprophytes can often lead to opportunistic infections, hyalohyphomycosis is a group of fungal infections caused by fungi characterized by hyaline septate hyphae and can infect both immunocompetent as ...
Hamdy Ibrahim, Mostafa ALfishawy, Attaa Ali, Safwat Abdel Maksod, Magdy Khorshed, Hanan Rady, Ahmed Alsisi, Adel Mohamed, Omar Alkassas, Marwa Haron, Suzan Saied   +10 more
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Investigating Why Clinicians Deviate from Standards of Care: Liberating Patients from Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU [PDF]

Clinical practice guidelines, care pathways, and protocols are designed to support evidence-based practices for clinicians; however, their adoption remains a challenge. We set out to investigate why clinicians deviate from the ``Wake Up and Breathe'' protocol, an evidence-based guideline for liberating patients from mechanical ventilation in the ...
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Bearing witness and being bounded; the experiences of nurses in adult critical care in relation to the survivorship needs of patients and families [PDF]

, 2019
Aim: To discern and understand the responses of nurses to the survivorship needs of patients and family members in adult critical care units. Background: The critical care environment is a demanding place of work which may limit nurses to immediacy of
Birks M., Breckenridge J. P., Charmaz K., Charmaz K., Cody W. K., Fram S. M., Glaser B. G., Intensive Care Society, Webb P. H.   +8 more
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RELAx – REstricted versus Liberal positive end-expiratory pressure in patients without ARDS: protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2018
Background Evidence for benefit of high positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is largely lacking for invasively ventilated, critically ill patients with uninjured lungs.
Anna Geke Algera, Luigi Pisani, Dennis C. J. Bergmans, Sylvia den Boer, Corianne A. J. de Borgie, Frank H. Bosch, Karina Bruin, Thomas G. Cherpanath, Rogier M. Determann, Arjen M. Dondorp, Dave A. Dongelmans, Henrik Endeman, Jasper J. Haringman, Janneke Horn, Nicole P. Juffermans, David M. van Meenen, Nardo J. van der Meer, Maruschka P. Merkus, Hazra S. Moeniralam, Ilse Purmer, Pieter Roel Tuinman, Mathilde Slabbekoorn, Peter E. Spronk, Alexander P. J. Vlaar, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Paolo Pelosi, Ary Serpa Neto, Marcus J. Schultz, Frederique Paulus, for the RELAx Investigators and the PROVE Network Investigators   +29 more
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Use, timing and factors associated with tracheal intubation in septic shock: a prospective multicentric observational study

Annals of Intensive Care, 2020
Background No recommendation exists about the timing and setting for tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation in septic shock. Patients and methods This prospective multicenter observational study was conducted in 30 ICUs in France and Spain.
C. Darreau, F. Martino, M. Saint-Martin, S. Jacquier, J. F. Hamel, M. A. Nay, N. Terzi, G. Ledoux, F. Roche-Campo, L. Camous, F. Pene, T. Balzer, F. Bagate, J. Lorber, P. Bouju, C. Marois, R. Robert, S. Gaudry, M. Commereuc, M. Debarre, N. Chudeau, P. Labroca, K. Merouani, P. Y. Egreteau, V. Peigne, C. Bornstain, E. Lebas, F. Benezit, S. Vally, S. Lasocki, A. Robert, A. Delbove, N. Lerolle   +32 more
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Characteristics and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU: a nationwide cohort study on the comparison between the first and the consecutive upsurges of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

Annals of Intensive Care, 2022
Background To assess trends in the quality of care for COVID-19 patients at the ICU over the course of time in the Netherlands. Methods Data from the National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE)-registry of all COVID-19 patients admitted to an ICU in the ...
Dave A. Dongelmans, Fabian Termorshuizen, Sylvia Brinkman, Ferishta Bakhshi-Raiez, M. Sesmu Arbous, Dylan W. de Lange, Bas C. T. van Bussel, Nicolette F. de Keizer, the Dutch COVID-19 Research Consortium   +8 more
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False arrhythmia alarm reduction in the intensive care unit [PDF]

, 2017
Research has shown that false alarms constitute more than 80% of the alarms triggered in the intensive care unit (ICU). The high false arrhythmia alarm rate has severe implications such as disruption of patient care, caregiver alarm fatigue, and desensitization from clinical staff to real life-threatening alarms. A method to reduce the false alarm rate
arxiv   +1 more source