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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Intensive care unit (ICU)"”.
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Delayed discharges from an adult intensive care unit (ICU)
… use of resources without compromising quality of care is essential in the current healthcare climate. Intensive care unit services are one of the most resource intensive and therefore expensive services within a hospital. Because intensive care unit services comprise a significant portion of …
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Physical activity and function in survivors of critical illness after discharge from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Survival rates for the critical care population in the UK following discharge from acute hospital is extrapolated to be 80.8% (excluding readmissions to the same critical care unit of the same patient within the same acute hospital stay) between 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2019 in England, Wales …
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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
… 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 criteria in the …
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Off-Hours Admission and Mortality in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
… ill patients may be admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) at any time, while staffing and other factors may vary by day of the week or time of day.
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Exploration, processing and visualization of physiological signals from the ICU
… signals measured from patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The signals explored include heart rate, arterial blood pressure, pulmonary artery pressure, and central venous pressure measurements. Following an introduction to these signals, several methods are proposed for …
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Multidimensional approach to nurse client communication in two Malaysian intensive care units
Communication among patients and nurses m the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has received extensive attention in the nursing research literature. These studies have identified numerous factors both enhancing and impeding effective nurse client communication. Despite the extensive research attention paid …
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Risk factors for prolonged ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presenting with acute respiratory failure
Patients with COPD presenting to the Emergency Unit with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure often require invasive mechanical ventilation and subsequent admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). These patients are at an increased risk of prolonged and complicated ventilation and often …
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Cross-engine query execution in federated database systems
… in a hospital application using data from an intensive care unit (ICU). In this report, we implement and evaluate a concrete version of a cross-system Query Executor and its interface with a cross-system Query Planner. In particular, we focus on cross-engine shuffle joins within the BigDAWG …
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Database engine integration and performance analysis of the BigDAWG polystore system
… Center (ISTC) on data collected from an intensive care unit (ICU). This thesis presents work done to add support for two commonly used database engines, Vertica and MySQL, to the BigDAWG system, as well as results and analysis from performance evaluation of the system using the TPC-H …
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Real-time processing and visualization of intensive care unit data
Intensive care unit (ICU) patients undergo detailed monitoring so that copious information regarding their condition is available to support clinical decision-making. Full utilization of the data depends heavily on its quantity, quality and manner of presentation to the physician at the bedside of …
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Nurses' Perception of Diabetes: A Comparative Analysis
… requiring a multidisciplinary approach towards care and treatment. Associated with many complications and increased patient morbidity, proper diabetes management is vital to improve patient outcomes. Nurses play a major role in providing diabetes care and education to patients. This study …
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Modeling zero-inflated and overdispersed count data: application to in-hospital mortality data
… observed in critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Clinical evidence shows that hyperchloremia is associated with increased in-hospital mortality. Length of hospital stay (LOS) is often used as an indicator of hospital efficiency, a proxy of resource consumption and is …
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Business Development and Commercialization of UroSense™.
… are currently being measured by manual, time-intensive and inaccurate methods and are important indicators to facilitate early treatment and diagnosis. UroSense™ is an advanced urological system that is also equipped with programmable alarms that trigger when the urine bottle is full thus …
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Optimal Control Applied to a Mathematical Model for Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
… for prevention and treatment of VRE in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). A system of ve ordinary differential equations describes the movement of ICU patients in and out of different states related to VRE infection. Two control variables representing the prevention and treatment of VRE are …
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Development and Evaluation of Risk Models to Predict Readmission or Death Following Discharge from an Adult General Systems Intensive Care Unit
Transitions of care from intensive care unit (ICU) to ward are high-risk periods of healthcare delivery associated with ICU readmission and post-ICU mortality. Evidence-based processes for transitions are crucial for improving outcomes. Validated prediction models that include consistently …
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Evaluation of a Nurse-led Intervention to Improve Palliative Care for Select Medical Intensive Care Patients
Body: Twenty percent of all Americans die in an intensive care unit (ICU) or shortly thereafter. For most of these patients, relentless and distressing symptoms are commonplace. Review of local data reveals opportunity for improvement in the palliative care offered to hospitalized patients. To …
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The effect of preoperative intensive care orientation on postoperative anxiety levels in spouses of coronary artery bypass clients
This study examined the effect of a preoperative intensive care unit (ICU) orientation program on the anxiety levels in spouses of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients. Therefore, this study tested if primary prevention reduces stress as proposed by Neuman by using a quasi-experimental …
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Occupational Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit
… around America. Occupational therapists in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame, California) lack a standard protocol for addressing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial factors in patients post cardiac surgery. Furthermore, individuals’ experience and …
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Predicting 30-Day Unplanned ICU Readmissions Using Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Techniques: A MIMIC IV Data Analysis
… on predicting unplanned 30-day all- cause intensive care unit (ICU) hospital readmissions using the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care (MIMIC IV) dataset. Structured data consisting of demographic information, comorbidities, lab results, and vital signs are combined with features …
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Necessidades de familiares da pessoa internada em unidade de terapia intensiva: uma perspectiva compreensiva para a humanização do cuidar
My professional 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 …
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