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Characteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to the first psychiatric intensive care unit in Egypt

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Background: Psychiatric intensive care units (PICU) have become an essential part of psychiatric hospital design worldwide, there are few published data about their effectiveness.
Tarek A. Okasha, Walaa M. Sabry, Nivert H. Zaki, Menan A. Rabie, Yomna A. Elhawary   +4 more
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Neonatal gastrointestinal involvement and congenital cytomegalovirus

La Pediatria Medica e Chirurgica, 2016
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital viral infection, affecting 0.2 to 2.3% of all live births in developed countries. Very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight newborns are at higher risk of symptomatic CMV infection ...
Alessandro Porta, Adriana Avanzini, Marta Bellini, Rosa Maria Crossignani, Stefano Fiocchi, Stefano Martinelli, Luciana Parola   +6 more
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Candidemia in an intensive care unit

Medicina, 2008
Candidemia is becoming more actual because of better survival of even critically ill patients, wide use of antimicrobials, and increased numbers of invasive procedures and manipulations. Diagnosis of candidemia remains complicated, and costs of treatment and mortality rates are increasing. Objective.
Adukauskienė, Dalia, Kinderytė, Aida, Dambrauskienė, Asta, Vitkauskienė, Astra   +3 more
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Delirium in the intensive care unit [PDF]

Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2013
Delirium is a serious complication that commonly occurs in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Delirium is frequently unrecognized or missed despite its high incidence and prevalence, and leads to poor clinical outcomes and an increased cost by increasing morbidity, mortality, and hospital and ICU length of stay.
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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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Bronchoscopy in the intensive care unit [PDF]

Intensive Care Medicine, 1992
The development of the flexible, fiberoptic bronchoscope has made bronchoscopic examinations possible in ICU patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. Over the years, the number of such procedures has greatly increased, with both diagnostic and therapeutic objectives, such as performing difficult intubation, management of atelectasis and hemoptysis ...
Jean-Claude Chevrolet, Ph. Jolliet
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Circulating histones as clinical biomarkers in critically ill conditions

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Circulating histones are emerging as promising biomarkers in critical illness due to their diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic potential. Detection methods such as ELISA and mass spectrometry provide reliable approaches for quantifying histone levels in plasma samples.
José Luis García‐Gimenez, Juan Carlos Ruiz‐Rodríguez, Ricard Ferrer, Raquel Durá, Antonio Artigas, Iván Bajaña, David Bolado López de Andujar, Irene Cánovas‐Cervera, Adrián Ceccato, Luis Chiscano‐Camón, Elena Climent‐Martinez, Georgia García Fernández, Gemma Goma, Verónica Monforte, Beatriz Quevedo‐Sánchez, Adolf Ruiz‐Sanmartín, Antonio Sierra‐Rivera, Nieves Carbonell Monleón   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aβ42 promotes the aggregation of α‐synuclein splice isoforms via heterogeneous nucleation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The aggregation of amyloid‐β (Aβ) and α‐synuclein (αSyn) is associated with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. This study reveals that Aβ aggregates serve as potent nucleation sites for the aggregation of αSyn and its splice isoforms, shedding light on the intricate interplay between these two pathogenic proteins.
Alexander Röntgen, Zenon Toprakcioglu, Michele Vendruscolo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning for Sepsis Treatment: Tackling Variable-Length Episodes with Sparse Rewards

Human-Centric Intelligent Systems
In critical medicine, data-driven methods that assist in physician decisions often require accurate responses and controllable safety risks. Most recent reinforcement learning models developed for clinical research typically use fixed-length and very ...
Rui Tu, Zhipeng Luo, Chuanliang Pan, Zhong Wang, Jie Su, Yu Zhang, Yifan Wang   +6 more
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Can hypnosis and virtual reality reduce anxiety, pain and fatigue among patients who undergo cardiac surgery: a randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2020
Background Different non-pharmacological techniques, including hypnosis and virtual reality (VR) are currently used as complementary tools in the treatment of anxiety, acute and chronic pain.
Floriane Rousseaux, Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, Anne-Sophie Nyssen, Nadia Dardenne, Didier Ledoux, Paul B. Massion, Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse   +6 more
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