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Feasibility of a Wearable Reflectometric System for Sensing Skin Hydration
Sensors, 2020 One of the major goals of Health 4.0 is to offer personalized care to patients, also through real-time, remote monitoring of their biomedical parameters. In this regard, wearable monitoring systems are crucial to deliver continuous appropriate care.
Raissa Schiavoni +6 more
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Factors Affecting Hydration Status among Critically Ill Patients [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2022 Background: Hydration is a complex physiological condition that includes total body water, its distribution, and the concentration of the major electrolytes.
Shimaa Nabil Abd Elsalam +3 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021 Background Contrast‐induced acute kidney injury (CI‐AKI) is a serious complication after percutaneous coronary intervention. The mainstay of CI‐AKI prevention is represented by intravenous hydration.
Francesco Moroni +9 more
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Hydration Stickers - Improving oral hydration in vulnerable patients [PDF]
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports, 2017 Dehydration is a growing problem among elderly patients in hospital wards. Incidents such as those raised in the Francis Report highlight a problem that may not have been sufficiently addressed by current schemes. This improvement project aimed to identify the barriers faced by staff in improving oral hydration and to design and implement an effective ...
Bhatti, A, Ash, J, Gokani, S, Singh, S
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Hydration and nutrition care practices in stroke: findings from the UK and Australia
BMC Nursing, 2023 Background Dehydration and malnutrition are common in hospitalised patients following stroke leading to poor outcomes including increased mortality.
Colette Miller +10 more
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Risk factors for nonresponsive hydration in patients with spinal cerebrospinal fluid leakage
BMC Neurology, 2021 Background Spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage is frequently encountered clinically after lumbar puncture or spontaneous events. Although some patients recover without treatment or after intensive hydration, some require an epidural blood patch (EBP)
Hung-Chieh Chen +3 more
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BMJ Open, 2023 Introduction Contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) is widely used for diagnostic purposes. The use of contrast medium carries a risk for postcontrast acute kidney injury (PC-AKI), especially in patients with AKI or chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Kristian A Ovrehus +7 more
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The effect of hydration in 18F-FDG PET/CT image quality and external radiation exposure. [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2023 Purpose:Measuring the effect of patient hydration on PET-CT image quality using qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis. suggesting a method to decrease external radiation dose rate before patient discharge after PET/CT scan.Materials and methods: 60 ...
Ismail Elantably +3 more
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Clinical and Translational Medicine, 2021 Several clinical examinations have shown the essential impact of monitoring (de)hydration (fluid and electrolyte imbalance) in cancer patients. There are multiple risk factors associated with (de)hydration, including aging, excessive or lack of fluid ...
Devasier Bennet +5 more
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Hydration status assessment in older patients
Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2023 Hydration disturbances are common in old age: the reported prevalence of dehydration in elderly patients ranges from 19% to 89%, depending on the definition and the population in question. However, the clinical assessment of patients' hydration status is difficult.
Linda, Deißler +4 more
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