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Prevention and Management of Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020
Delirium is a debilitating form of brain dysfunction frequently encountered in the intensive care unit (ICU). It is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, longer lengths of stay, higher hospital costs, and cognitive impairment that persists ...
M. Mart, S. W. Roberson, S. W. Roberson, B. Salas, P. Pandharipande, E. W. Ely   +5 more
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Impact of exposure time in awake prone positioning on clinical outcomes of patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory failure treated with high-flow nasal oxygen: a multicenter cohort study

Critical Care, 2022
Background In patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory failure (ARF), awake prone positioning (AW-PP) reduces the need for intubation in patients treated with high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO).
Mariano Esperatti, Marina Busico, Nora Angélica Fuentes, Adrian Gallardo, Javier Osatnik, Alejandra Vitali, Elizabeth Gisele Wasinger, Matías Olmos, Jorgelina Quintana, Santiago Nicolas Saavedra, Ana Inés Lagazio, Facundo Juan Andrada, Hiromi Kakisu, Nahuel Esteban Romano, Agustin Matarrese, Mariela Adriana Mogadouro, Giuliana Mast, Claudia Navarro Moreno, Greta Dennise Rebaza Niquin, Veronica Barbaresi, Alejandro Bruhn Cruz, Bruno Leonel Ferreyro, Antoni Torres, Argentine Collaborative Group on High Flow and Prone Positioning   +23 more
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Delirium as a predictor of mortality in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2004
CONTEXT In the intensive care unit (ICU), delirium is a common yet underdiagnosed form of organ dysfunction, and its contribution to patient outcomes is unclear.
E. Ely, A. Shintani, B. Truman, T. Speroff, S. Gordon, F. Harrell, S. Inouye, G. Bernard, R. Dittus   +8 more
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Clinical features and short-term outcomes of 18 patients with corona virus disease 2019 in intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine, 2020
1 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cao et al. Clinical Features and Short-term Outcomes of 18 Patients with Corona Virus Disease 2019 in Intensive Care Unit.
Jianlei Cao, Xiaorong Hu, Wenlin Cheng, Lei Yu, W. Tu, Qiang Liu   +5 more
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Epidural analgesia in ICU chest trauma patients with fractured ribs: retrospective study of pain control and intubation requirements

Annals of Intensive Care, 2020
Background Nonintubated chest trauma patients with fractured ribs admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are at risk for complications and may require invasive ventilation at some point. Effective pain control is essential.
Konstantinos Bachoumas, Albrice Levrat, Aurélie Le Thuaut, Stéphane Rouleau, Samuel Groyer, Hervé Dupont, Paul Rooze, Nathanael Eisenmann, Timothée Trampont, Julien Bohé, Benjamin Rieu, Jean-Charles Chakarian, Aurélie Godard, Laura Frederici, Stephanie Gélinotte, Aurélie Joret, Pascale Roques, Benoit Painvin, Christophe Leroy, Marcel Benedit, Loic Dopeux, Edouard Soum, Vlad Botoc, Muriel Fartoukh, Marie-Hélène Hausermann, Toufik Kamel, Jean Morin, Roland De Varax, Gaetan Plantefève, Alexandre Herbland, Matthieu Jabaudon, Thibault Duburcq, Christelle Simon, Russell Chabanne, Francis Schneider, Frederique Ganster, Cedric Bruel, Ahmed-Saïd Laggoune, Delphine Bregeaud, Bertrand Souweine, Jean Reignier, Jean-Baptiste Lascarrou   +41 more
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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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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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Fungal brain abscesses caused by Acremonium species

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023
Unusual fungal agents that exist environmentally as saprophytes can often lead to opportunistic infections, hyalohyphomycosis is a group of fungal infections caused by fungi characterized by hyaline septate hyphae and can infect both immunocompetent as ...
Hamdy Ibrahim, Mostafa ALfishawy, Attaa Ali, Safwat Abdel Maksod, Magdy Khorshed, Hanan Rady, Ahmed Alsisi, Adel Mohamed, Omar Alkassas, Marwa Haron, Suzan Saied   +10 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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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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