Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey [PDF]
, 2013 Background: On average 7% of patients admitted to intensive-care units (ICUs) suffer from a potentially preventable ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Our objective was to survey attitudes and practices of ICUs doctors in the field of VAP prevention.
Agodi, Antonella +8 more
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Assessment of technology acceptance in intensive care units [PDF]
, 2014 The process of deploy a technology in critical services need to be very careful planned and processed. As an example it is the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Abelha, António +6 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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Resource Re-Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Suburban Hospital System: Implications for Outpatient Hip and Knee Arthroplasty [PDF]
, 2020 The COVID pandemic of 2020 has emerged as a global threat to patients, health care providers, and to the global economy. Owing to this particular novel and highly infectious strain of coronavirus, the rapid community spread and clinical severity of the ...
Meneghini, R. Michael
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The Australian Incident Monitoring Study in Intensive Care: AIMS-ICU. The development and evaluation of an incident reporting system in intensive care [PDF]
, 1996 Publisher's copy made available with the permission of the publisher © 1996 Australian Society of AnaesthetistsIntensive care units are complex, dynamic patient management environments.
Baldwin, I. +7 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 +2 more
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A Survey of Neurology-based Intensive Care Unit Specialists
Türk Nöroloji Dergisi, 2022 Objective: We aimed to evaluate the neurology and intensive care training of neurology specialists who have started and/or completed intensive care subspecialty training and their views on neurological intensive care organizations. Materials and Methods:
Tuğçe Mengi, Hadiye Şirin
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Intestinal constipation in intensive care units [PDF]
, 2009 Constipation is a common complication identified among critically ill patients. Its incidence is highly variable due to lack of definition of such patients. Besides the already known consequences of constipation, in recent years it was observed that this
Azevedo, Rodrigo Palácio De +3 more
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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 +3 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 +4 more
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