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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"ICU patient"”.
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De-identification of ICU patient records
… 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 certain types potential identifiers be removed from the data before it can be shared freely. The process of …
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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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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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Development of methods for the detection Staphylococcal Protein A in ICU patient urine
… bacteraemia presents a serious health risk to inpatients, due to the high risk of transmission and high mortality rates, which is in part is due to the emergence of multiple drug resistant strains of S. aureus. Therefore, the prompt diagnosis and treatment of S. aureus bacteraemia is of paramount …
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Validating the therapy prediction model through a breakdown analysis on ICU patient medical records
… physicians in making clinical decisions on patients with heart disease, we developed a model for predicting therapy effects in heart disease using signal flow analysis that describes constraint relations among physiological parameters. In order to accurately describe and predict the therapy …
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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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Linear regression model for continuous non-invasive blood pressure estimation for an ICU setting
… blood pressure (BP) monitoring in critically ill patients is crucially important for clinicians. The gold standard intra-arterial method is complicated and contraindicated. Current pulse transit time (PTT)-based BP estimation methods are validated on healthy subjects using intermittent cuff-based …
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Necessidades de familiares da pessoa internada em unidade de terapia intensiva: uma perspectiva compreensiva para a humanização do cuidar
… background as a nurse at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has given me the opportunity to establish professional relationship with ICU patients' family members. Those acquaintances allowed me to experience situations that led me to the accomplishment of this study. I sought to understand the …
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Understanding lactate in an intensive care setting
… relationship between initial lactate levels and ICU patient outcomes using the MIMIC II (version 2.6) database. We divided ICU admissions based on their initial lactate measurement into three groups: admissions with high lactate (above 4.0 mmol/L), admissions with medium lactate (between 2.0 …
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Probabilistic network models for cardiovascular monitoring
While treating patients during their hospital stay, physicians must frequently take into consideration massive amounts of clinical data. This data can come in many forms, such as continuous blood pressure tracings, intermittent laboratory results, or simple qualitative observations on the patient's …
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Modeling and monitoring of cardiovascular dynamics for patients in critical care
In modern intensive care units (ICUs) a vast and varied amount of physiological data is measured and collected, with the intent of providing clinicians with detailed information about the physiological state of each patient. The data include measurements from the bedside monitors of heavily …
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Rapid tests for fungal infection in critical care
… an unknown burden in the intensive care unit (ICU) patient cohort. Despite differences in their levels of recognition by clinicians, the management of both conditions would benefit from accurate, non-culture based tests to enable rapid diagnosis.<br/><br/>The aim of this project was to describe …
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The influence of delayed sample processing time on the PO₂ values in critically ill patients with sepsis-induced leukocytosis
… influence clinical decision making in a septic ICU patient. The study examined the extent of error over time, from collection to processing, when measuring blood gas samples for PO₂, PCO₂, pH, in critically-ill patients with sepsis and metabolically active leucocytosis > 12 000/mm³ and compares …
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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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Delayed discharges from an adult intensive care unit (ICU)
… effectiveness of intensive care unit services. Patients who no longer need intensive care unit care block beds for impending admissions, unnecessarily utilise the costly and often scarce resources and by remaining in a stressful environment may experience negative psychological and social …
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Mobility Practices, Attitudes and Perceptions of Nurses, Doctors and Physiotherapists Regarding Early Mobilisation of Critically Ill Patients in Intensive Care Units in Namibia. A Retrospective Record Review and Cross sectional Survey
… The main focus of care in intensive care units (ICU) has historically been on preventing mortality. With advancing knowledge and technology, more patients now survive their ICU stay. Therefore, critical care priorities have recently shifted to preventing critical illness related morbidities, …
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A quantitative approach to patient risk assessment and safety optimization in intensive care units
Health care quality and patient safety has gained an increasing amount of attention for the past two decades. The quality of care nowadays does not only refer to successful cure of diseases for patients, but a much broader concept involving health care community, inter-relationships among care …
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Närståendes besök hos patienter som vårdas på intensivvårdsavdelning
… the importance and impact of visits by the patients’ families in an ICU, from patient and family perspectives, and to develop, from a hermeneutic perspective, a research method to study the interplay between patient and family during the visit. Method: The comprehensive methodology of the …
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A retrospective evaluation of antimicrobial management among patients with sepsis in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Gaborone Private Hospital in Botswana
… patterns of prevalent pathogens among sepsis patients in an ICU at a private hospital in Gaborone. A time period prior to COVID-19 was selected to avoid the effects of the pandemic on prescribing. This study used a total population sample of 132, where all patients meeting the inclusion …