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The craft of intensive care medicine [PDF]

open access: yesSociology of Health & Illness, 2012
AbstractThe practice of medicine is often represented as a dualism: is medicine a ‘science’ or an ‘art’? This dualism has been long‐lasting, with evident appeal for the medical profession. It also appears to have been rhetorically powerful, for example in enabling clinicians to resist the encroachment of ‘scientific’ evidence‐based medicine into core ...
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European society of intensive care medicine study of therapeutic hypothermia (32-35 °C) for intracranial pressure reduction after traumatic brain injury (the Eurotherm3235Trial). [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of death and severe disability worldwide with 1,000,000 hospital admissions per annum throughout the European Union.Therapeutic hypothermia to reduce intracranial hypertension may improve patient ...
Mascia, L   +89 more
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Association between hypomagnesemia and coagulopathy in sepsis: a retrospective observational study

open access: yesBMC Anesthesiology, 2022
Background Hypomagnesemia reportedly has significant associations with poor clinical outcomes such as increased mortality and septic shock in patients with sepsis. Although the mechanism underlying these outcomes mostly remains unclear, some experimental
Ken Tonai   +6 more
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Sharing ICU Patient Data Responsibly Under the Society of Critical Care Medicine/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Joint Data Science Collaboration: The Amsterdam University Medical Centers Database (AmsterdamUMCdb) Example* [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Critical care medicine is a natural environment for machine learning approaches to improve outcomes for critically ill patients as admissions to ICUs generate vast amounts of data. However, technical, legal, ethical, and privacy concerns have
Kaplan, Lewis   +34 more
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Long-stay patients in pediatric intensive care unit: Diagnostic-specific definition and predictors.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
AIMS:To stipulate a new definition for long-stay patients (LSPs) in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). We defined LSPs as the 10% of patients with the longest PICU length-of-stay (LOS) for each age and diagnostic group.
Angelo Polito   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The future of intensive care medicine

open access: yesMedicina Intensiva, 2013
Intensive care medical training, whether as a primary specialty or as secondary add-on training, should include key competences to ensure a uniform standard of care, and the number of intensive care physicians needs to increase to keep pace with the growing and anticipated need.
Critical Care Center, Hospital de Sabadell, Corporacio Sanitaria Universitària Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain ( host institution )   +10 more
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ESICM guidelines on acute respiratory distress syndrome: definition, phenotyping and respiratory support strategies.

open access: yes, 2023
The aim of these guidelines is to update the 2017 clinical practice guideline (CPG) of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). The scope of this CPG is limited to adult patients and to non-pharmacological respiratory support strategies ...
Piquilloud, L.   +63 more
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Narrative Medicine In Intensive Care

open access: yesAnesthesia & Clinical Care, 2019
Narrative Medicine fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to interpret the stories of illness. The histories of illness pass through a process of listening and empathic understanding aimed at the therapeutic objective. Storytelling is an inherent behavior in humans. This becomes more important in intensive care where technology often
E. Primerano, D. Alampi
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Training in Intensive Care Medicine

open access: yesAcute Medicine Journal, 2011
Training in Intensive Care Medicine is currently undergoing extensive changes, with the introduction of a new curriculum and new examinations. This article explains the new pathways for training in Intensive Care, with specific reference to trainees in Acute Medicine.
A, Whiteside, C, Booth
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Gender distribution in boards of intensive care medicine societies.

open access: yes, 2022
PURPOSE The established gender gap in intensive care medicine is larger compared to other medical specialties. The aim of this study was to evaluate gender distribution in boards of intensive care medicine societies worldwide.
Pfortmüller, Carmen   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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