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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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Identification of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Post-ICU Patients
Background: Patients receiving critical care are experiencing post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) as a result of life-saving interventions 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 …
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Risk stratification of ICU patients using arterial blood pressure waveforms
Identifying patients at high risk for adverse events is very important to the practice of clinical medicine. Non-invasive ECG-based methods of risk stratification such as T wave Alterans, Morphological Variability, and Heart Rate Variability extract prognostic information from the …
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Serum Albumin as Outcome Predictor in Adult ICU Patients with Sepsis
Patients admitted to the hospital with sepsis are eight times more likely to die than patients with other diagnoses. Sepsis is associated with an intense and persistent stress response that can become dysfunctional, resulting in disease, organ failure, and death. Allostasis theory has emerged as an …
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Improving Pre-Transplant Experiences for ICU Patients on the Heart Transplant Registry
Problem: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are at risk of worsening of their cognitive, physical, and psychiatric functions (Mikkelsen, Netzer, & Iwashyna, 2019). Many heart transplant candidates are required to stay in the ICU for weeks or months prior to transplant surgery (UNOS, 2018), making …
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Pediatric Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant ICU Patients in Children’s and General Hospitals
… characteristics of pediatric oncology and HCT patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs) at these institutions, or how outcomes differ for patients treated in CH and GH. Using data from ICU admissions of pediatric oncology and HCT patients in the U.S. during 2001-2019, we examined possible …
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A model-based expert system for interpretation of hemodynamic data fro ICU patients
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Comparative Effectiveness of Analgesic Sedation as Primary Sedation in Medical ICU Patients vs. Conventional Sedation and Analgesia Regimens
Background: Most critically ill patients experience pain, fear, and anxiety as part of their illness while in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). These emotions may be amplified during the provision of life-sustaining therapies, such as mechanical ventilation (MV). Pharmacotherapy including analgesics, …
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Psychosocial Support Needs and Preferences Among Family Caregivers of ICU Patients with Severe Acute Brain Injury: A Qualitative Thematic Analysis
Family caregivers of patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) are at risk for clinically significant chronic emotional distress, including depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress. Existing psychosocial interventions for caregivers of intensive care unit (ICU) patients are not tailored …
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Transitions in Care and Healthcare Resource Use in Critically Ill Patients Living in Urban and Rural Settings: A Retrospective Cohort Study
… use and patient outcomes among critically ill patients who live in urban versus rural settings. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Medical, medical-surgical, and cardiovascular intensive care units (ICUs) in Alberta, Canada between January 1, 2014, and April 30, 2018. Patients: Those …
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Effectiveness of Nursing Intervention for Delirium Prevention on Prevalence of Delirium and Cognitive Function of Patients in Intensive Care Unit
… syndrome that occurs in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with acute onset. Patients with delirium are characterized by cognitive impairment, depressed consciousness, disrupted attention, increased or decreased mental activities, and sleep disorder. This study is aimed to determine the effect of …
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Premorbid hazardous alcohol consumption in critically ill patients
… problem. It has been reported to predispose patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs) to complications and weaken their prognosis. However, the identification of hazardous alcohol consumption is challenging. Various validated questionnaires have been developed for screening, among which …
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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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Patients' and Health Care Providers' Perception of Stressors in the Critical Care Units
… of this study were to investigate intensive care patients' perceptions of stressors, to investigate the health care provider's perception of what constitutes a stressor from the patient's perspective, and to describe how health care providers manage their patients' stressors. This study is a …
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Effect of an external visual cue on delivery of enteral nutrition in a university trauma/surgical/burn intensive care unit
… (EN) from baseline during the first 7 days of ICU admission. Methods: After achieving IRB approval we retrospectively evaluated all trauma/surgical/burn intensive care unit (TSBICU) records from May 2012 through March 2013 for patients with more than 7 days in the TSBICU who received EN as …
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Ultrastructure and function of respiratory cilia in critical illness
Approximately one in eleven hospital patients suffer a nosocomial infection. Intensive care patients are at particular risk and nosocomial pneumonia especially is a problem in the intensive care unit (ICU). The mucociliary transport system is the major defence mechanism against such infection and …
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Related factor of delirium occurrence in the Intensive Care Unit patients
… the related factor of delirium occurrence in the ICU patients. The sample was 99 patients in the ICU at one university hospital located in Kyunggi-do. Data were collected from September 1 to October 31, 2006. The assessing tool for delirium was CAM-ICU developed by the Ely E W. Data were analyzed …
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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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Septic shock : providing early warnings through multivariate logistic regression models
… forward, casual manner on a random cohort of 500 ICU patients to mimic the patients' stay in the unit. The model with the highest performance achieved a sensitivity of 0.85 and a positive predictive value (PPV) of 0.70. Of the 35 episodes of hypotension despite fluid resuscitation present in the …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-REPORT AND PERFORMANCE-BASED MEASURES OF PHYSICAL FUNCTION FOLLOWING AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT STAY
… of physical function has not been addressed in ICU patients. The purpose of this study was to examine this association in these patients. METHODS: 300 ICU patients were randomized into an exercise program (ExP) or standard of care (SoC). Self-report (SF-36 Physical Function Subscale (SF-36pfs), …
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