... ICU-acquired hyponatraemia, while baseline creatinine, mechanical ventilation and level of care were associated with ICU-acquired hypernatraemia Outcomes of care Length of stay and mortality in the ICU and ... determine both the aetiology of the ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia and clinicians' responses Second, our study was observational in nature and designed to describe the epidemiology of ... ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia and in- hospital patient mortality Our study provides three important contributions to the epidemiology of sodium disturbances in critically ill patients in...
... for daily interruption of sedation and × for sedation algorithm) ; the lines represent the composite SOFA for each group (thick line for daily interruption of sedation; dashed line for sedation algorithm) ... daily interruption of sedation time for the Sequential treated Failure Assessment (SOFA) overand sedationgroup of patients treated by daily interruption of sedation and sedation algorithm The individual ... medications discontinued in the ABC trial, thereby resulting in a blunted stress response during sedation interruption and minimizing the symptoms of withdrawal during sedation interruption [32]...
... efficacy and safety of intensive insulin therapy compared with standard glucose control in patients hospitalised for medical problems, surgical non-cardiovascular procedures or trauma in a mixed medical/ surgical ... [1-4] A randomised trial of 1548 patients hospitalised in a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) showed that maintaining normal glucose levels reduces morbidity and mortality [5] In another randomised ... noncardiovascular surgeries and trauma, intensive insulin therapy did not reduce the mortality or morbidity of patients admitted to a mixed medical/ surgical ICU • Intensive insulin therapy was associated...
... analysed the results and drafted the article MS was involved in critically revising the draft JG made substantial contributions to the data analysis GB was substantially involved in the analysis, ... Proportion of medicationorder entry (CPOE) using the Clinical Informacomputerised physician order entry (CPOE) using the Clinical Information System with 95% confidence intervals Hand-written prescribing ... bias in the results and is a limitation of the study Medical errors are among the leading causes of death in the United States In its highly publicised report, the Institute of Medicine estimates...
... Predefined major abnormalities are summarized in Table aAbsolute number of chest radiographs (% of all daily routine chest radiographs) bAbsolute number of patients (% of all patients with daily routine ... radiographs (% of all daily routine chest radiographs) bAbsolute number of patients (% of all patients with daily routine chest radiographs) of daily routine CXRs lower as compared with the other admittance ... Financial impact of elimination of routine chest radiographs in a pediatric intensive care unit Crit Care Med 1999, 27:1588-1593 11 Krivopal M, Shlobin OA, Schwartzstein RM: Utility of daily routine...