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Malaria in the Intensive Care Unit

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2021
Most cases of severe malaria are caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Severe malaria is characterized by severe organ dysfunction. Both peripheral smear examination and rapid diagnostic test have a role in the diagnosis. Parenteral artesunate is clearly the drug of choice for the management of severe malaria. Parenteral artesunate should always be followed
openaire   +4 more sources

Aging‐Driven Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction and Its Impact on CNS Cancer Susceptibility: A Comprehensive Narrative Review

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Aging weakens the blood–brain barrier (BBB), increasing susceptibility to CNS cancers and complicating treatment. This review examines BBB deterioration, its impact on drug delivery, and potential interventions like targeting neuroinflammation and advanced therapies.
Quang La, Aiman Baloch, David F. Lo
wiley   +1 more source

INVASIVE MYCOSES IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

Žurnal Grodnenskogo Gosudarstvennogo Medicinskogo Universiteta, 2020
Background: The number of patients of ICU with invasive mycoses has increased in recent years. This is due to the introduction of invasive methods of treatment, immunosuppressive therapy, organ transplantation, as well as success in the treatment of ...
Yakubtsevich R. E.
doaj   +1 more source

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

arXiv, 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  

Parenting very preterm infants and stress in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

, 2015
Background Assessment of parental stress in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) may help to plan individualized interventions. This study aims to identify sources of stress in mothers and fathers of very preterm infants hospitalized in NICU, and their
I. Baía, M. Amorim, Susana Silva, C. D. Freitas, E. Alves   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Review of Visiting Policies in Intensive Care Units

Global Journal of Health Science, 2015
Admission to intensive care units is potentially stressful and usually goes together with disruption in physiological and emotional function of the patient. The role of the families in improving ill patients’ conditions is important.
Shiva Khaleghparast, S. Joolaee, B. Ghanbari, M. Maleki, H. Peyrovi, N. Bahrani   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Extracorporeal Blood Purification in the Intensive Care Units [PDF]

, 2007
peer reviewedMortality remains high in intensive care patients with renal failure requiring extra corporeal blood purification. This article reviews the recent data that have led to the improvement of the care for such patients.
Augustine, Bellomo, Bellomo, Bellomo, Bent, Bernard Emile Dubois, Bernard Lambermont, Brivet, Brophy, Chenoweth, Chew, Clark, Conger, Davenport, de Pont, Delanaye, Dorval, Elahi, Evanson, Fischer, Fliser, Gastaldello, Gettings, Gillum, Guerin, Guerin, Gupta, Hakim, Herget-Rosenthal, Himmelfarb, Honore, Hoste, Ikizler, Jaber, Jean Marie Krzesinski, Ji, Joannes-Boyau, Jorres, Kanagasundaram, Kaplan, Kaplan, Kellum, Kierdorf, Kleinknecht, Kruczynski, Kurtal, Kutsogiannis, Lameire, Lautrette, Le Bricon, Manns, Manns, McCarthy, Mehta, Mehta, Mehta, Mehta, Metnitz, Mishra, Misset, Monchi, Neveu, Paganini, Palsson, Parsons, Phu, Piccinni, Pierre Delanaye, Ponikvar, Ronco, Samuelsson, Schiffl, Schiffl, Schiffl, Schortgen, Schulman, Storck, Subramanian, Swartz, Tan, Teschan, Tonelli, Uchino, Uchino, Uchino, Uehlinger, Van Laecke, Vanholder, Vargas, Vinsonneau, Waikar, Xue   +91 more
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Multi‐institutional study on image quality for a novel CBCT solution on O‐ring linac

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction This work presents a multi‐institutional study on image quality provided by a novel cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). The main goal is to investigate the consistency of imaging performance across multiple institutions.
Luis Agulles‐Pedrós, R. Lee MacDonald, Amanda Jean Cherpak, Nayha Dixit, Lei Dong, Tianyu Zhao, Kundan Thind, Anthony Doemer, Boon‐Keng Teo, Shiqin Su, Alexander Moncion, James L. Robar   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Worrisome trends in incidence and mortality of candidemia in intensive care units (Paris area, 2002–2010)

Intensive Care Medicine, 2014
PurposeTo analyze trends in incidence and mortality of candidemia in intensive care units (ICUs) vs. non-ICU hospitalized patients and to determine risk factors for infection by specific species and for death.MethodsActive hospital-based surveillance ...
O. Lortholary, C. Renaudat, K. Sitbon, Y. Madec, Lise Denoeud-Ndam, M. Wolff, A. Fontanet, S. Bretagne, F. Dromer   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The provision of adult intensive care in Northern Ireland with reference to the role of high dependency care. [PDF]

, 1996
In 1991 an audit of Intensive Care Services was carried out by the Northern Ireland Intensive Care Group. In conjunction with this regional overview, all patients in the Regional Intensive Care Unit, (RICU) in the Royal Victoria Hospital were assessed ...
Ball, I. M., Blackwood, B. M., Fee, J. P., Lavery, G. G., McLeod, H. N., Morrow, B. C.   +5 more
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