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What do we know about experiencing the end-of-life in burn intensive care units? a scoping review [PDF]
Objectives: To review and synthetize the evidence on end-of-life in burn intensive care units about (i) the characteristics of end-of-life in burn intensive care units, (ii) the symptom control provided to burned patients facing dying and death in this ...
Hernández-Marrero, Pablo+3 more
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Making co-enrolment feasible for randomised controlled trials in paediatric intensive care. [PDF]
Enrolling children into several trials could increase recruitment and lead to quicker delivery of optimal care in paediatric intensive care units (PICU).
Ball, T+7 more
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Spiritual care in the intensive care unit
The aim of the present paper is to describe the real possibilities of providing spiritual care in intensive care units (ICUs) in Poland. Faced with suffering and death, critically ill patients and their families need a source of comfort and hope. Spiritual care is intended to bring relief to them by responding to their spiritual needs.
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Psychiatric intensive care units: A literature review [PDF]
Background: Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) have been part of most inpatient psychiatric services for some time, however information about their functioning and outcome has not previously been collated.
Alan Simpson+20 more
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Tuberculosis in Intensive Care Unit
About 3.4% of the hospitalized tubercular patients need admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). Patients requiring ICU admission had a poor prognosis and high mortality rate (60 vs 25%) as compared to other causes of severe pneumonia. The most common indication for tuberculosis-related ICU admission is acute respiratory failure due to pneumonia or ...
Diksha Tyagi, Dhruva Chaudhry
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Fatal pulmonary embolism following ankle fracture in a 23-year-old man
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
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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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+5 more
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ricu: R's Interface to Intensive Care Data [PDF]
Providing computational infrastructure for handling diverse intensive care unit (ICU) datasets, the R package 'ricu' enables writing dataset-agnostic analysis code, thereby facilitating multi-center training and validation of machine learning models. The package is designed with an emphasis on extensibility both to new datasets as well as clinical data
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BackgroundHigh noise levels in the intensive care unit (ICU) are a well-known problem. Little is known about the effect of noise on sleep quality in ICU patients.
K. Simons+11 more
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