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Prevalence and predictors of confirmed infection in patients receiving empiric antimicrobials in the intensive care unit: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology
Background: Infection diagnosis in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is a challenge given the spectrum of conditions that present with systemic inflammation, the illness severity and the delay and imprecision of existing diagnostic methods.
Luis Carlos Maia Cardozo Júnior, Larissa Bianchini, Jakeline Neves Giovanetti, Luiz Marcelo Almeida de Araújo, Yuri de Albuquerque Pessoa dos Santos, Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro Besen, Marcelo Park   +6 more
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High‐flow nasal cannula as a post‐extubation respiratory support strategy in preterm infants: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Jornal de Pediatria (Versão em Português), 2020
Objective: Perform a systematic review and meta‐analysis to assess the effectiveness and complications caused by the use of the high‐flow nasal cannula in relation to the post‐extubation continuous positive airway pressure system in preterm newborns ...
José Colleti Junior, Rafael de Azevedo, Orlei Araujo, Werther Brunow de Carvalho   +3 more
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Resultados adversos de admissões tardias à unidade de terapia intensiva a partir do pronto-socorro [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2020
RESUMO Objetivo: Verificar o impacto da transferência tardia do pronto-socorro para a unidade de terapia intensiva no tempo de permanência na unidade e na ocorrência de óbitos.
Fernanda Ribeiro Quintino Santos, Maurício de Nassau Machado, Suzana Margareth Ajeje Lobo   +2 more
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The Ethical Triage Dilemma: Who Should Receive Medical Care First; Is This the Right Question?

Ratio Juris, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 178-190, June 2023., 2023
Abstract In 2020, with the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic, academics and scientists began to question the triage criteria for allocating insufficient healthcare resources, trying to ethically justify the answer to the question, Who should receive medical care first?
Alessandro Ferrara
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐determination of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities

Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 16-23, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Self‐determination is a human right that people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) risk not being granted. Exploration of such topics and research in general has traditionally not included people with PIMD as sources of knowledge; rather, the perspective of others has been sought.
Synne Nese Skarsaune
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Epidemiology and outcomes of non-cardiac surgical patients in Brazilian intensive care units [PDF]

, 2008
OBJECTIVES: Due to the dramatic medical breakthroughs and an increasingly ageing population, the proportion of patients who are at risk of dying following surgery is increasing over time.
Assunção, Murilo, Carvalho, Aline Affonso De, Costa Filho, Rubens Carmo, Duarte, Péricles Almeida Delfino, Grion, Cíntia C., Gutierrez, Fernando, Knibel, Marcos Freitas, Lobo, Suzana Margareth, Lopes, Marcel Rezende, Maia, Marcelo De Oliveira, Mello, Patricia M. Veiga De Carvalho, Mendes, Ciro Leite, Nácul, Flávio, Okabe, Renata, Pinto, Sérgio Felix, Páramo, José Antonio Matos, Rezende, Ederlon, Silva Junior, João Manuel Da, Silva, Nilton Brandão Da   +18 more
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Use of a homemade introducer guide (bougie) for intubation in emergency situation in patients who present with difficult airway: a case series

Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology, 2016
Background and objectives: The incidence of difficult airway reaches 10% of emergency intubations. Although few studies address the use of handmade introducer guides in emergency and intensive care environment, there are descriptions of handmade guides ...
Felippe Leopoldo Dexheimer Neto, Juliana Mara Stormovski de Andrade, Ana Carolina Tabajara Raupp, Raquel da Silva Townsend, Fernanda Santos Neres, Rafael Viegas Cremonese   +5 more
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Intensive care bedside echocardiography: true or a distant dream? [PDF]

, 2009
During the last few years, technological development and acquired experience advanced and the echocardiogram has become an important and useful tool in intensive care unit environment.
Brunori, Fernando, Campos, André Luis De, Flato, Uri Adrian Prync, Guimarães, Hélio Penna, Trindade, Matheus Ribas, Vieira, Marcelo Luiz Campos   +5 more
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Efetividade da estimulação diafragmática elétrica transcutânea na força muscular respiratória, volumes e capacidades pulmonares: revisão sistemática

Medicina, 2015
Introdução: A estimulação diafragmática elétrica transcutânea (EDET) consiste em estimular o diafragma, por meio de estímulos elétricos rítmicos de curta duração promovendo uma pressão intrapleural negativa que pode influenciar tanto na ventilação ...
Lucas Lima Ferreira, Juliana R. C. Mello, Marcus Vinicius C. Brito, Odete Maud Cavenaghi   +3 more
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Prevalência de burnout entre médicos atuantes em terapia intensiva: uma revisão sistemática [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2020
RESUMO Objetivo: Realizar uma revisão sistemática para sumarizar o conhecimento relativo à prevalência de burnout entre médicos atuantes na unidade de terapia intensiva.
Filippo Sanfilippo, Gaetano Joseph Palumbo, Alberto Noto, Salvatore Pennisi, Mirko Mineri, Francesco Vasile, Veronica Dezio, Diana Busalacchi, Paolo Murabito, Marinella Astuto   +9 more
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