Narrative Medicine In Intensive Care
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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The faculty of intensive care medicine workforce survey – What impacts on our working lives? [PDF]
The Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine distributes an annual survey to its Consultants, allowing the evaluation of workforce profile, working patterns and the opportunity for analysis of key information on issues affecting these.
KE Grailey +5 more
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M2c Macrophages Protect Mice from Adriamycin-Induced Nephropathy by Upregulating CD62L in Tregs
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) and M2c macrophages have been shown to exert potentially synergistic therapeutic effects in animals with adriamycin-induced nephropathy (AN), a model chronic proteinuric renal disease.
Junyu Lu +8 more
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Long-stay patients in pediatric intensive care unit: Diagnostic-specific definition and predictors.
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
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The craft of intensive care medicine [PDF]
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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The future of intensive care medicine
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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Consensus on circulatory shock and hemodynamic monitoring. Task force of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. [PDF]
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 +57 more
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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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Identifying Priorities in Intensive Care : a description of a system for collecting intensive care data, an analysis of the data collected, a critique of aspects of severity scoring systems used to compare intensive care outcome, identification of priorities in intensive care and proposals to improve outcome for intensive care patients. [PDF]
MDThis thesis reviews the requirements for intensive care audit data and describes the development of ICARUS (Intensive Care Audit and Resource Utilisation System), a system to collect and analyse intensive care audit information.
Goldhill, David Raymond
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