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Noise in an intensive care unit [PDF]

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2011
Patients and staff in hospitals are exposed to a complex sound environment with rather high noise levels. In intensive care units, the main noise sources are hospital staff on duty and medical equipment, which generates both operating noise and acoustic alarms.
Salandin, Andrea, Arnold, Jörg, Kornadt, Oliver   +2 more
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Probiotics in the Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

Antibiotics, 2022
The understanding of the gut microbiome in health and disease has shown tremendous progress in the last decade. Shaped and balanced throughout life, the gut microbiome is intricately related to the local and systemic immune system and a multitude of mechanisms through which the gut microbiome contributes to the host’s defense against pathogens have ...
Alex R. Schuurman, Robert F. J. Kullberg, Willem Joost Wiersinga   +2 more
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Scurvy in the Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2021
Scurvy, caused by vitamin C deficiency, is a forgotten disease in the modern era of medicine. The prevalence of vitamin C deficiency in the United States is reported to be 7.1%. We present a case of a 56-year-old man with a history of chronic alcohol use who was admitted to the intensive care unit due to sepsis.
Amarah Baluch, David Landsberg
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Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

Current Anesthesiology Reports, 2021
This narrative review illustrates literature over the last 5 years relating to sedation delivery to mechanically ventilated adult patients in intensive care units.There has been an increase in dexmedetomidine-related publications but although systematic reviews suggest dexmedetomidine reduces delirium, agitation, and length of stay, clinical trials ...
Valerie J. Page, Valerie J. Page, Catherine McKenzie, Catherine McKenzie   +3 more
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Teamwork in the intensive care unit. [PDF]

American Psychologist, 2018
Intensive care units (ICUs) provide care to the most severely ill hospitalized patients. Although ICUs increasingly rely on interprofessional teams to provide critical care, little about actual teamwork in this context is well understood. The ICU team is typically comprised of physicians or intensivists, clinical pharmacists, respiratory therapists ...
Jennifer N. Ervin, Jeremy M. Kahn, Taya R. Cohen, Laurie R. Weingart   +3 more
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Gastroparesis in the intensive care unit [PDF]

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, 2021
Gastroparesis is a common problem in the intensive care unit. Impaired gastric motility in critically ill patients is associated with an increased risk of enteral feeding intolerance, gastric bacterial colonization, pulmonary aspiration and progressive malnutrition leading to adverse outcomes.
Magdalena Stojek, Tomasz Jasiński
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Nurse Driven Early Mobility in the Intensive Care Unit: Mobility Protocol and a Designated Mobility Champion [PDF]

, 2022
Decreased mobility in hospitalized patients can lead to various health consequences, including increased morbidity and mortality. In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), patients are not mobilized as frequently or as often as possible. Barriers to mobilization
Intensive Care Unit, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, Newark, NY
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Nebuliser therapy in the intensive care unit [PDF]

, 1997
The relationship between identity, lived experience, sexual practices and the language through which these are conveyed has been widely debated in sexuality literature.
A Brah, A Ka Tat Tsang, A Konitzer-Smirnov, A Rotkirch, A Temkina, BJ Baer, C Farquhar, C Ramazanoglu, CM Hann, D Altman, D Cameron, D Healey, D Kulick, DP Schluter, E Lewin, E Omel’chenko, E Omel’chenko, EK Sedgwick, EW Said, F Fukuyama, F Stella, F Stella, I Brade, IB Neumann, IS Kon, J Binnie, J Butler, J Butler, J Weeks, JD Brewer, JK Puar, K Plummer, K Sarajeva, K Weston, L Duggan, L Engelstein, L Essig, L Garber, L McCall, L Wolff, M Besemeres, M Foucault, M Müller, M Nemtsev, M Vicinus, MFI Manalansan, N Duncan, N Nartova, N Nartova, N Nartova, NA Naples, R Bleys, S Ashwin, S Seidman, SI Golod, T Boellstorff, T Boellstorff, V Kolossov, W Leap, Y Taylor   +59 more
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The resilient intensive care unit

Annals of Intensive Care, 2022
Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic tested the capacity of intensive care units (ICU) to respond to a crisis and demonstrated their fragility. Unsurprisingly, higher than usual mortality rates, lengths of stay (LOS), and ICU-acquired complications occurred during the pandemic.
Jorge I. F. Salluh, Pedro Kurtz, Leonardo S. L. Bastos, Amanda Quintairos, Fernando G. Zampieri, Fernando A. Bozza   +5 more
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Leptospirosis in Intensive Care Unit

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2021
Tropical infections constitute 20 - 30% of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in developing countries. Leptospirosis is a spectrum with mild form presenting as an acute febrile illness with jaundice, complicating in few as acute kidney injury (AKI), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and multi ...
Niteen D Karnik, Aditi Patankar
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