... provided inthe morning if necessary Written informed consent was obtained from the parents, and the study was approved by the ethical committee of the institute Demographics and health status information's ... that represent the largest amount of variance C: The corresponding cycle of the largest peak inthe periodogram intensities was reconstructed from the FFT coefficient to fit the sinusoidal function: ... in all data collection, inthe analysis and discussion of the results, and inthe writing of the manuscript MO participated in clinical data collection and advised on clinical implications of...
... increasing with excitement and decreasing with tranquility These rhythms occur mainly inthe posterior head and are the predominant brain activity inthe normal brain The beta rhythm occurs in ... administered mg intravenous midazolam during continuous EEG monitoring The frequency diminished quickly in about min, demonstrating the rapid clinical action of the short acting sedative The ... administered 100 mg intravenous fentanyl during continuous EEG monitoring The frequency quickly diminished in about min, demonstrating the rapid clinical action of the short-acting analgesic sedative...
... four staff work daily inthe ICU department The ICU has 24 beds with continuous non-invasive monitoring and ventilators There are windows inthe bed areas of the ICU Trained clinician-researchers ... acetylcholine activity inthe brain 2.5–26.4 Elevated level of serum urea nitrogen The prevalence of delirium inthe Emergency Department was 9.6% [28] In this series, the rate of delirium was 18.5% in ... surgeons and anesthesiologists could reduce the incidence of delirium inthe patients who are at high risk by carefully ordering and monitoring the dosages of drugs, and watching for signs of...
... pulmonary artery catheters over standard carein this patient group Indeed, there was a higher rate of pulmonary embolism inthe catheter group than inthe standard treatment arm The physiological ... priorities inthe pulmonary artery catheter group were defined by the investigators before the study began, and assessment of achievement of these goals was based on the highest value obtained; however, ... being adopted with the same enthusiasm as that of the balloon directed pulmonary artery catheter inthe early 1980s There is some good news for the pulmonary artery catheter enthusiasts – there...
... under thecare of the Department of Critical Care Medicine These ICUs are closed units, staffed by fully trained intensivists and currently include one 24-bed medical-surgical ICU that serves as the ... unit (ICU) patients with ICU stay* ues outside of intensivecare during the first 50 days ofserum sodium Proportion of intensivecareunit (ICU) patients with serum sodium valvalues outside the ... Schijndel RJ, Thijs LG: Hypernatremia intheintensivecare unit: an indicator of quality of care? Crit Care Med 1999, 27:1105-1108 Lindner G, Funk GC, Schwarz C, Kneidinger N, Kaider A, Schneeweiss...
... detected in seven of the eight children infected with multiple viruses, including all three patients infected with a coronavirus Of the 14 children with a single infection, nine had RSV The other ... patients were included inthe study LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection; PICU, paediatric intensivecareunitthe probes All samples had been spiked before extraction with an internal control ... causes of the common cold On the other hand, there is increasing evidence that they are also important causes of severe lower respiratory disease Rhinovirus infections have been reported in elderly...
... troponin healthy infants older intensivecare admissions along with healthy infants The boxes are the interquartile ranges, the whiskers are the 5th to 95th percentiles, with the heavy black line ... compatible with myocardial injury being related to the acute illness leading to PICU admission in these infants Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' ... and writing of the paper DS participated in recruiting patients, and collecting and interpreting the data SWH participated inthe design of the study, recruiting patients and collecting data...
... Characteristics of infants with different grades of IVH are shown inthe Table The variation inthe incidence rates of diagnosed IVH among the 17 NICUs is shown in Fig The incidence rate ranged ... associates had the opportunity to care for 124 children with acute glomerulonephritis in a community hospital in Fairfield, Alabama, during the new antibiotic era These authors carefully reviewed their ... in a 40% reduction inthe number of NICUs with incidence of IVH significantly (P < 05) different from the median incidence Omission of adjustment for these factors could therefore result in inaccurate...
... Antibiotic-resistant organisms intheneonatalintensivecareunit Semin Perinatol 2007;31:26-32 16 Remington JS, Klein JO, Wilson CB, Baker CJ, editors Infectious diseases of the fetus and newborn infant 6th ed ... methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection intheneonatalintensivecare unit: a consensus statement Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2006;27:139-45 13 Paterson DL Resistance in gram-negative ... methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a neonatalintensivecare unit: which measures for which success? Am J Infect Control 2009;37:195-200 12 Gerber SI, Jones RC, Scott MV, Price JS, Dworkin...
... analyzed regarding the minimum inhibitory concentrations of penicillin, oxacillin, erythromycin, clindamycin, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin and vancomycin The rate of resistance according to the NCCLS ... against penicillin, was 86% against oxacillin, was 48% against erythromycin, was 42% against clindamycin, was 54% against gentamicin, was 66% against ciprofloxacin and was 0% against vancomycin ... finally, the staff could carry these strains and transmit them to the patients during nursery and physical examination Since the present study was not designed to monitor the skin flora, either...
... 0.484; Table 1) There was no overall change in ScvO2 between baseline and six hours in either the surviving or non-surviving group of patients However, there was a significant increase in ScvO2 at ... system; FiO2, inspired fractional oxygen concentration; ICU, intensivecare unit; LOSbefore ICU, length of stay in hospital before intensivecareunit admission; LOShospital, length of stay in hospital; ... either inthe whole collective or inthe different patient groups Discussion The main finding of this study was that low ScvO2 at admission was associated with increased risk of mortality in...
... to the ICUs of 21 university, teaching, and non-teaching hospitals inthe Netherlands The data were obtained from the database of the Dutch National IntensiveCare Evaluation (NICE) [8] For the ... from the analysis, resulting in 6,867 admissions GCS had 977 missing values; these were considered to be normal (value = 15) and were therefore imputed inthe training and the validation sets The ... prefer intensivecare treatment over palliative care that aims at comfort and pain relief Interestingly, when presented hypothetical scenarios, patients state that they would decline intensive...
... sterilization during the manufacturing process Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions FAL designed the study, was involved inthecare of ... pathogens, in this case B cepacia inthe moisturizing body milk used inthecare of bedridden ICU patients In this case, the epidemiological chain began with contamination of the lotion during manufacturing, ... cepacia was isolated, are shown in Table In four patients specimens were obtained inthe ICU, whereas inthe remaining patient the pathogen was isolated in a urine sample collected before ICU...
... drafted the manuscript LP and NdK were involved inthe set-up of the study, performed the statistical analyses and helped in interpreting the results and writing the manuscript PK was involved inthe ... involved inthe set-up of the study, interpreting the results and writing the manuscript JJ, DdL, PvdV, RB, RdW and RW were involved in interpreting the results and writing the manuscript All authors ... variable denoting the 'hospital' was included into these models to correct for potential differences in overall in- hospital mortality between the five hospitals Inthe model focusing on the entire...
... performed by the transfusion authorities in our hospital and regular training is given by special personnel Definitions Comorbidities were defined according to the definitions provided inthe original ... blood units inthe ICU, and the maximum number of transfused units within 24 hours during the ICU stay Colinearity between variables was excluded before modeling Variables were introduced into ... unplanned), the type of surgery, the presence of sepsis during the ICU stay, hemoglobin concentration on admission to the ICU, the minimum hemoglobin concentration during ICU stay, the number...
... resulting in 504 monitored patient-days during the baseline period and 5,901 during the intervention period (3,200 during the first half and 2,701 during the second half) The average time invested ... Figure Type, incidence and severity of prescribing errors found by intensivecareunit hospital pharmacists during the whole study period Data for prescribing errors found by intensivecareunit hospital ... Before the start of the study, both ICU hospital pharmacists completed a training period of weeks inthe ICU During this training, they familiarized themselves with the daily practices and routines...
... Proportions of patients included inthe study according to their antimicrobial therapy status During their intensivecareunit stay in each ICU represented on the vertical axis In ICUs to 16 no written ... better quality of carein general inthe ICUs, thereby explaining the link between availability of guidelines and prognosis This point was clearly emphasized inthe studies assessing the effects of ... (in
... for bias inthe results and is a limitation of the study Medical errors are among the leading causes of death inthe United States In its highly publicised report, the Institute of Medicine estimates ... those reported in a recent study of prescription errors in UK critical care units [12] There was no difference inthe mean APACHE II score inthe HWP and CPOE periods, indicating that it is unlikely ... using the Clinical Informacomputerised physician order entry (CPOE) using the Clinical Information System with 95% confidence intervals Hand-written prescribing (HWP) data collection began on the...