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Venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to treat hypercapnia in a morbidly obese patient
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018 Morbid obesity plays an increasingly important role in healthcare. Patients who are severely obese often suffer from a range of medical problems. One problem is obesity-related hypoventilation syndrome with its resulting hypercapnia.
Heidi Lederer +11 more
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Medical Journal of Australia, 2020 To assess the capacity of intensive care units (ICUs) in Australia to respond to the expected increase in demand associated with COVID‐19.
E. Litton +12 more
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Nursing workload in intensive care units and the influence of patient and nurse characteristics.
Nursing Critical Care, 2020 BACKGROUND Understanding factors that can potentially influence patient care and nursing workload in intensive care units is important. Previous studies have shown contradictory outcomes about the relationships between nursing workload and patient and ...
Kolsoom Nasirizad Moghadam +6 more
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The resilient intensive care unit
Annals of Intensive Care, 2022 Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic tested the capacity of intensive care units (ICU) to respond to a crisis and demonstrated their fragility. Unsurprisingly, higher than usual mortality rates, lengths of stay (LOS), and ICU-acquired complications occurred during the pandemic.
Jorge I. F. Salluh +5 more
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Mediators of Inflammation, 2020 Sepsis-evoked acute lung injury (ALI) and its extreme manifestation, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), constitute a major cause of mortality in intensive care units.
Hongchao Zhou, Xinhui Wang, Bin Zhang
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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 +3 more
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Leptospirosis in Intensive Care Unit
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2021 Tropical infections constitute 20 - 30% of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions in developing countries. Leptospirosis is a spectrum with mild form presenting as an acute febrile illness with jaundice, complicating in few as acute kidney injury (AKI), acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and multi ...
Niteen D Karnik, Aditi Patankar
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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 +4 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 +7 more
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The apelinergic system as an alternative to catecholamines in low-output septic shock
Critical Care, 2018 Catecholamines, in concert with fluid resuscitation, have long been recommended in the management of septic shock. However, not all patients respond positively and controversy surrounding the efficacy-to-safety profile of catecholamines has emerged ...
David Coquerel +6 more
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