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Eye care in the intensive care unit [PDF]

Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 2018
Ocular surface disease is common in the intensive care population with 20–42% of patients developing corneal epithelial defects. The ocular surface is normally protected by the ability to produce tears, to blink and to close the eyes with rest or sleep.
Benjamin J Hearne, Elewys G Hearne, Hugh Montgomery, Susan L Lightman   +3 more
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Factors Affecting Quality of Sleep in Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

, 2020
Background: The etiology of sleep disruption in intensive care unit is poorly known and often ignored complication. It is caused by the environmental factors especially pain, noise, diagnostic testing and human interventions that cause sleep ...
Arif, M. (Muhammad), Hanif, A. (Asif), Iftikhar, A. (Areeba)   +2 more
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Delirium in the intensive care unit

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock, 2017
Delirium is characterized by impaired cognition with nonspecific manifestations. In critically ill patients, it may develop secondary to multiple precipitating or predisposing causes. Although it can be a transient and reversible syndrome, its occurrence in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients may be associated with long-term cognitive dysfunction.
Mohammad Asim, Suresh Arumugam, Hassan Al-Thani, Insolvisagan Natesa Mudali, Ahammed Mekkodithal, Gustav Strandvik, Ammar Al-Hassani, Ayman El-Menyar   +7 more
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Hemoperfusion in the intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine, 2022
Multiple organ failure following a septic event derives from immune dysregulation. Many of the mediators of this process are humoral factors (cytokines), which could theoretically be cleared by direct adsorption through a process called hemoperfusion. Hemoperfusion through devices, which bind specific molecules like endotoxin or theoretically provide ...
ricci Z, Romagnoli S, Reis T, Bellomo R, Ronco C.   +4 more
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Sepsis in the intensive care unit [PDF]

Surgery (Oxford), 2012
Sepsis remains a major cause of mortality in intensive care. The past 15 years has seen a more uniform, world-wide approach to the management of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock with improved survival. Recognizing the early symptoms and signs of sepsis are key: the confused, hypoxic, hypotensive patient with pyrexia, tachycardia, tachypnoea and ...
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Interdisciplinary communication in the intensive care unit [PDF]

, 2007
Background. Patient safety research has shown poor communication among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses and doctors to be a common causal factor underlying critical incidents in intensive care.
B.H. Cuthbertson, Baggs, Baker, Baron, Boyle, Burke, Cohen, Dodek, Edmondson, Edmondson, Flin, Griffin, K. Mearns, Leonard, Lingard, Miller, Pronovost, R. Flin, Reader, Render, Sexton, Shortell, Sutcliffe, T.W. Reader, Thomas, Undre, Zimmerman   +26 more
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Spiritual care in the intensive care unit

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, 2021
The aim of the present paper is to describe the real possibilities of providing spiritual care in intensive care units (ICUs) in Poland. Faced with suffering and death, critically ill patients and their families need a source of comfort and hope. Spiritual care is intended to bring relief to them by responding to their spiritual needs.
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Microbial Air Contamination in an Intensive Care Unit [PDF]

, 2015
Unit layout affects every aspect of intensive care services, including patient safety. A previous study has shown that patients admitted to beds adjacent to the sink and to the door of a large bayroom had the highest number of positive blood cultures and
Chang, C. (Chih-Yi), Tseng, L. (Liang), Yang, L. (Lung-Shih)   +2 more
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Tuberculosis in Intensive Care Unit

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2021
About 3.4% of the hospitalized tubercular patients need admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Patients requiring ICU admission had a poor prognosis and high mortality rate (60 vs 25%) as compared to other causes of severe pneumonia. The most common indication for tuberculosis-related ICU admission is acute respiratory failure due to pneumonia or ...
Diksha Tyagi, Dhruva Chaudhry
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Candidemia in an intensive care unit

Medicina, 2008
Candidemia is becoming more actual because of better survival of even critically ill patients, wide use of antimicrobials, and increased numbers of invasive procedures and manipulations. Diagnosis of candidemia remains complicated, and costs of treatment and mortality rates are increasing. Objective.
Adukauskienė, Dalia, Kinderytė, Aida, Dambrauskienė, Asta, Vitkauskienė, Astra   +3 more
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