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Posture Recognition in the Critical Care Settings using Wearable Devices [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
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  

Association of ventilator type with hospital mortality in critically ill patients with SARS-CoV2 infection: a prospective study

open access: yesAnnals of Intensive Care, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Mortalidade e o tempo de internação em uma unidade de terapia intensiva cirúrgica [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Anestesiologia, 2006
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
doaj   +3 more sources

Investigating Why Clinicians Deviate from Standards of Care: Liberating Patients from Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU [PDF]

open access: yes
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 ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Intensive care unit discharge to the ward with a tracheostomy cannula as a risk factor for mortality: A prospective, multicenter propensity analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
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
core  

Case report: Typhoid fever complicated by hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and rhabdomyolysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core   +2 more sources

Sepsis Prediction and Vital Signs Ranking in Intensive Care Unit Patients [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2018
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]

open access: yes, 1990
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
core  

Repeated sleep-quality assessment and use of sleep-promoting interventions in ICU [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
© 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
core   +3 more sources

Burnout in the intensive care unit professionals

open access: yesMedicine, 2016
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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