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Plasma hyaluronan, hyaluronidase activity and endogenous hyaluronidase inhibition in sepsis: an experimental and clinical cohort study

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2021
Background Plasma hyaluronan concentrations are increased during sepsis but underlying mechanisms leading to high plasma hyaluronan concentration are poorly understood.
Jaap van der Heijden, Constantinos Kolliopoulos, Paul Skorup, Marko Sallisalmi, Paraskevi Heldin, Michael Hultström, Jyrki Tenhunen   +6 more
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Costos reales de tratamientos intensivos por paciente y día cama [PDF]

, 2013
Alvear, S (Alvear, Sandra); Rodriguez, P (Rodriguez, Patricia).Univ Talca, Fac Ciencias Empresariales, Talca, ChileReal daily costs of patients admitted to public intensive care units Background: Patient care costs in intensive care units are high and ...
Alvear, S., Canteros, J., Jara, J., Rodriguez, P.   +3 more
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Az intenzív osztályok 2012. évi átalakításának hatása Magyarországon | Impact of reorganization of the Hungarian system of intensive care units in 2012 [PDF]

, 2016
Absztrakt Bevezetés: Magyarországon 2012-ben átalakításra került az intenzív osztályok hálózata. Elkülönítették a multidiszciplináris osztályokat az őrző, megfigyelő jellegű osztályoktól ...
Gresz, Miklós
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European intensive care physicians’ experience of infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria [PDF]

, 2020
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) compromises the treatment of patients with serious infections in intensive care units (ICUs), and intensive care physicians are increasingly facing patients with bacterial infections with limited or no adequate ...
De Waele, Jan, Friggeri, Arnaud, Garnacho-Montero, José, Gustin, Marie Paule, Jean, Astrid, Kohlenberg, Anke, Lepape, Alain, Monnet, Dominique L., Savey, Anne, Vanhems, Philippe   +9 more
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Characterizing the Risk Profiles of Intensive Care Units [PDF]

, 2010
OBJECTIVE: To develop a new method to evaluate the performance of individual ICUs through the calculation and visualisation of risk profiles. METHODS: The study included 102,561 patients consecutively admitted to 77 ICUs in Austria.
Bauer, P, Hochrieser, H, Metnitz, B, Metnitz, P, Moreno, R   +4 more
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Fatal pulmonary embolism following ankle fracture in a 23-year-old man

Emergency Care Journal, 2014
Patients with lower extremity injuries are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism. We report a case of fatal pulmonary embolism following a simple ankle fracture in a 23-year-old man. The diagnosis was confirmed post-mortem.
Stella Charitidou, Theodoros Aslanidis, Stellios Papalexandris   +2 more
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Antimicrobial susceptibility at intensive care units in Sudan, antibiogram development

BMC Microbiology
Antibiograms are statistics on bacterial spectrum and resistance rates. It is of importance to regularly monitor the trends in antimicrobial resistance within the institution through the periodic cumulative resistance to provide the effective empiric ...
Ghada Omer Hamad Abd El-Raheem, Mohamed Elhadi Ahmed Dihesh, Mohamed Elmutaz Babikir Elmardi, Hana Eltayeb Salih Elamin, Latifa Elsir Abas Zeinelabdin, Dalia Omer Suliman Ahmed, Misa Abdelmajid Alhaj Mudather, Omema Abdelkrem Abdelftah Gaber, Hanadie Mustafa Ebrahim Abdalla   +8 more
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Hemodynamic support in the early phase of septic shock: a review of challenges and unanswered questions

Annals of Intensive Care, 2018
Background Improving sepsis support is one of the three pillars of a 2017 resolution according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Septic shock is indeed a burden issue in the intensive care units.
Olivier Lesur, Eugénie Delile, Pierre Asfar, Peter Radermacher   +3 more
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Epidemiology of bloodstream infections and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in ICU and non-ICU wards: A four-year retrospective study in Isfahan, Iran

Advanced Biomedical Research, 2023
Background: Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are one of the causes of morbidity and mortality in hospitalised patients. This study evaluated BSI's incidence, trend, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and mortality in AL Zahra Hospital in Isfahan, Iran ...
Nazila Kassaian, Shadnosh Nematbakhsh, Mohammadreza Yazdani, Soodabeh Rostami, Zary Nokhodian, Behrooz Ataei   +5 more
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Trends and Variation in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries With Severe Chronic Illness [PDF]

, 2011
Provides an updated analysis of regional and hospital variations in end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic illnesses, including percentage of hospital deaths, days in intensive care units, and physician labor per ...
Amos R. Esty, Chiang-hua Chang Phd, David C. Goodman, Elliott S. Fisher, Kristen K. Bronner   +4 more
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