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Showing 1 to 20 of 374 for “"ICU"”.
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Recollection of ICU admission
… following admission to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Groote Schuur Hospital. It was prompted by criticism (by members of staff and visitors to the ICU) of our practice of wardrounds, arterial blood gas sampling, and light sedation of patients. In addition, staff preconceptions about patients' …
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Predicting hyperlactatemia in the ICU
… sepsis at BIDMC's intensive care units (ICUs). Additionally, we developed a real-time algorithm to stratify patients with infectious complaints into different risk categories for progressing to septic shock. From arterial blood pressure waveform trends collected from bedside monitors and …
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Bettering Patient Outcomes in the ICU with the ICU Liberation Bundle (A-F): A Thesis
Four million people get admitted to the ICU every year in the United States (Marra et al., 2017). These patients need life saving measures that can include mechanical ventilation, vasopressor medications, invasive procedures, as well as administration of sedation and analgesia. Many patients can …
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De-identification of ICU patient records
The creation of systems for assembling and analyzing medical data is currently one of the major factors in advancing the speed of medical research. To ensure patient privacy, legal limitations have been placed on these systems. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requires that …
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Caution: Line-of-Sight in ICU Designs
<p>It has been estimated that by the end of 2015, the U.S. will spend approximately $200 billion in new healthcare facilities construction. Infection prevention, patient and family satisfaction, and technologies influence contemporary designs of critical care units. All of these impacts have …
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Temporal pattern recognition in multiparameter ICU data
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients are physiologically fragile and require vigilant monitoring and support. The myriad of data gathered from biosensors and clinical information systems has created a challenge for clinicians to assimilate and interpret such large volumes of data. Physiologic …
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Nitrate Consumption and Physical Function in ICU Patients
… nitrite levels following nitrate ingestion in ICU patients receiving antibiotics, and 2) to determine if nitrate ingestion improved physical function at hospital discharge. METHODS: ICU patients (n=22) were randomized to receive eith er nitrate rich (400 mg) or nitrate depleted beetroot juice …
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An eICU/ICU Collaborative to Reduce Sepsis Mortality
… average mortality rate of 45% (SCCM, 2016). The eICU/ICU collaborative project was developed to improve sepsis mortality at Sutter Health’s Solano hospital affiliate from 41.2% to the system-wide goal of 18.8% over the course of a year by implementing two technologies. The first was the onboarding …
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Improving ICU patient flow through discrete-event simulation
… and research, operates ten Intensive Care Units (ICUs), including the 20-bed Ellison 4 Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), a versatile unit which has a major role in perioperative and emergency care. 90% of SICU patients are eventually transferred to another unit in the hospital. Frequent and …
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Sequential modeling for mortality prediction in the ICU
… in part by predicting patient mortality in the ICU using physiological variables including lab values, vital signs, and admission information. However, existing evidence suggests that current mortality predictors are less performant on patients who have an especially high risk of mortality in …
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Delayed discharges from an adult intensive care unit (ICU)
… APACHE-11 data (a predictive scoring system for ICU patient outcome) were recorded from intensive care unit records. Results - There were 652 discharges, 468 patients were not delayed (71.8%), 176 were delayed (27.0%, 95% CI 23,9%-30.7%) and 8 (1.2%) patients had no delay information available. …
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Relationship between Delirium and Night-Time Interruptions in ICU
… of delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. Delirium is a form of cognitive disturbance with a physiologic etiology and complex, multifactorial mechanisms of causation and risk. Delirium in the ICU patient presents a significant risk for adverse outcomes including increased …
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Liver Transplant Education and Training for Medical Surgical ICU Nurses
<p>This project focuses on the CNL curriculum element of <em>Nursing Leadership </em>and explores the need for appropriate education and training for liver transplant as a new patient population for Medical Surgical ICU nurses. The transplant experience for these nurses currently include critically …
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Identification of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Post-ICU Patients
… received in the intensive care unit (ICU). PTSS is associated with poor patient outcomes and decreased quality of life compared to post-ICU patients without PTSS. Personal and clinical characteristics that place patients at higher risk for PTSS are still being examined. It is also …
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Social isolation in intubated and nonintubated patients in the ICU
… minutes of the initial shift assessments in the MICU and CCU of a large county hospital. A total of 33 periods of interaction, 15 with intubated patients and 18 with nonintubated patients, were observed. The Nurse-Patient Interaction Tool was used to describe and record the content of interaction. …
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Mediating ICU patient situation-awareness with visual and tactile notifications
… providers in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) maintain patient situation awareness by following task management and communication practices. They create and manipulate several paper-based and digital information sources, with the overall aim to constantly inform themselves and their …
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A study of kNN using ICU multivariate time series data
… to determine patients’ mortality rate using ICU (Intensive Care Unit) medical records. The ICU data contains medical records collected during the patients’ first 48 hours stay at the ICU. The challenge of this research is the processing of ICU multivariate and high dimensional time-series …
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Living with Dying in the Pediatric ICU: A Nursing Perspective
… the journey to the end justly stressful and difficult for all involved. Unequivocally pediatric ICU nurses spend a significant amount of time at the bedside attempting to meet and manage the palliative care needs of the children and their families during this arduous time. However, the literature …
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Relationships between ICU Nurses’ Resilience, Job Stress, and Organizational Commitment
… collected from 174 nurses who had over 1 year of ICU work experience at the University Hospital, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Data collection took place from August 27, 2013 to September 2, 2013. ICU nurses’ resilience was measured using 25 items from the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, …
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Risk stratification of ICU patients using arterial blood pressure waveforms
… there is still a wealth of data collected from ICU patients and left unused every year that can augment risk-stratification methods. This thesis extends non-invasive risk stratification to Arterial Blood Pressure (ABP) Waveforms. We derive and analyze classifiers based on the morphological …
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