Posture Recognition in the Critical Care Settings using Wearable Devices [PDF]
Low physical activity levels in the intensive care units (ICU) patients have been linked to adverse clinical outcomes. Therefore, there is a need for continuous and objective measurement of physical activity in the ICU to quantify the association between physical activity and patient outcomes.
arxiv
Background To evaluate the association between ventilator type and hospital mortality in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) related to COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2 infection), a single-center prospective observational study in France ...
Alexis Ferré+14 more
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Mortalidade e o tempo de internação em uma unidade de terapia intensiva cirúrgica [PDF]
JUSTIFICATIVA E OBJETIVOS: Em cuidados intensivos os resultados podem ser relacionados aos índices de mortalidade ou morbidade. Quando avaliada de forma isolada, a mortalidade é uma medida insuficiente do resultado na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI ...
Fernando José Abelha+4 more
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Investigating Why Clinicians Deviate from Standards of Care: Liberating Patients from Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU [PDF]
Clinical practice guidelines, care pathways, and protocols are designed to support evidence-based practices for clinicians; however, their adoption remains a challenge. We set out to investigate why clinicians deviate from the ``Wake Up and Breathe'' protocol, an evidence-based guideline for liberating patients from mechanical ventilation in the ...
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Intensive care unit discharge to the ward with a tracheostomy cannula as a risk factor for mortality: A prospective, multicenter propensity analysis [PDF]
To analyze the impact of decannulation before intensive care unit discharge on ward survival in nonexperimental conditions. DESIGN: Prospective, observational survey.
Fernandez, R. (Rafael)+10 more
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Case report: Typhoid fever complicated by hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and rhabdomyolysis [PDF]
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and rhabdomyolysis are rare complications of typhoid fever from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Herein, we describe the clinical features in a 21-year-old female from India who presented to the intensive care ...
Despotovic, Vladimir+3 more
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Sepsis Prediction and Vital Signs Ranking in Intensive Care Unit Patients [PDF]
We study multiple rule-based and machine learning (ML) models for sepsis detection. We report the first neural network detection and prediction results on three categories of sepsis. We have used the retrospective Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC)-III dataset, restricted to intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
arxiv
Neonatal intensive care and its application in Malta [PDF]
The introduction of neonatal techniques has proved vital in the reduction of infant mortality rates. This article describes 4 important and basic techniques in neonatal intensive care; ventilation, nutrition, monitoring and cerebral assessment.
Azzopardi, Denis
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Repeated sleep-quality assessment and use of sleep-promoting interventions in ICU [PDF]
© 2017 British Association of Critical Care Nurses To describe sleep quality using repeated subjective assessment and the ongoing use of sleep-promoting interventions in intensive care. It is well known that the critically ill experience sleep disruption
Elliott, R+4 more
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Burnout in the intensive care unit professionals
Background:Burnout has been described as a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stress on the job that is often the result of a period of expending excessive effort at work while having too little recovery time.
Chien-Huai Chuang+4 more
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