... 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 natur...
... Critical Care Vol 11 No Sleeswijk et al Table Questions regarding the prevalence and treatment of atrial fibrillation in medical intensive care unit patients What is the pathophysiology of atrial fibrillation ... nosocomial complications Can treatment of atrial fibrillation improve survival? There are few data on the effect of treatment of AF on mortali...
... evaluated by the chi-square test for categorical variables Comparison of group differences for continuous variables was carried out by one-way analysis of variance or the Kruskal-Wallis test Bonferroni's ... R: Calcitonin precursors are reliable markers of sepsis in a medical intensive care unit Crit Care Med 2000, 28:977-983 Reinhart K, Meisner M, Hartog M: Procalcitonin...
... 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 interrupti...
... 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 l...
... 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% confide...