Pre-operative medication reconciliation by pharmacy technicians or anaesthesiologists [PDF]
, 2021 Perioperative Medicine: Efficacy, Safety and Outcome (Anesthesiology/Intensive ...
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Markers of acute kidney injury in patients with sepsis: the role of soluble thrombomodulin
Critical Care, 2017 Background Endothelial activation and damage occur early during sepsis, with activated coagulopathy and playing a major role in the pathophysiology of sepsis-induced acute kidney injury (AKI).
Shinshu Katayama +7 more
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Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care, 2023 Critical care practice is constantly evolving. Pressures for bed availability in publicly funded healthcare systems have led to an increase in patients delayed in their discharge from critical care to the wards.
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Military Soft Skills Applicable to the ICU
Critical Care Explorations, 2023 OBJECTIVES:. To describe how soft skills acquired during military service can be applied to the practice of critical care medicine. DATA SOURCES:. A systematic search was performed in PubMed. STUDY SELECTION:.
Julio A. Chalela, MD +1 more
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Learning Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes Using Causal Tree Methods in Medicine [PDF]
In Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference (pp. 146-171). PMLR
2022, 2022 Dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) are used in medicine to tailor sequential treatment decisions to patients by considering patient heterogeneity. Common methods for learning optimal DTRs, however, have shortcomings: they are typically based on outcome prediction and not treatment effect estimation, or they use linear models that are restrictive for ...
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BMC Nephrology, 2018 Background We hypothesized that the use of actual body weight might lead to more frequent misdiagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) than when ideal body weight is used in underweight and/or obese patients.
Shinshu Katayama +7 more
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The use of automated pupillometry to assess cerebral autoregulation: a retrospective study
Journal of Intensive Care, 2020 Background Critically ill patients are at high risk of developing neurological complications. Among all the potential aetiologies, brain hypoperfusion has been advocated as one of the potential mechanisms.
Armin Quispe Cornejo +7 more
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The microcirculation of the critically ill pediatric patient [PDF]
, 2011 textabstractNote: This article is one of eleven reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2011 (Springer Verlag) and co-published as a series in Critical Care.
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Recommendations for core critical care ultrasound competencies as a part of specialist training in multidisciplinary intensive care: a framework proposed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) [PDF]
, 2020 © 2020 The Author(s). Critical care ultrasound (CCUS) is an essential component of intensive care practice. Although existing international guidelines have focused on training principles and determining competency in CCUS, few countries have managed to ...
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Esophageal Achalasia: An Unusual Cause of Respiratory Distress
Case Reports in Critical CareEsophageal 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.
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