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Showing 1 to 20 of 195 for “"critically ill"”.
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Energy Expenditure in Critically Ill Children
Energy expenditure in critically ill children is a key determinant for nutritional caloric delivery in critically ill children. However, its methods of measurement are poorly available, and its prediction is unreliable and imprecise with currently available methodology. This thesis seeks to better …
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Glucose metabolism in the critically ill.
Hyperglycaemia occurs frequently in the critically ill, even in those without a history of diabetes, and is associated with adverse outcomes. While the gastrointestinal tract is pivotal in the regulation of glucose metabolism in health and diabetes, this relationship had not been explored in the …
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Hypernatraemic gastroenteritis in critically ill children
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 13).
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International comparison of critically ill patients
Severity of illness scores are useful in quality improvement for benchmarking care in the ICU and in research for risk-adjustment. [1] However, these scores lack generalizability beyond the patients on whom the scores were trained on. An international consortium, Global Open Source Severity of …
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Advanced hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill children.
Contains fulltext : 82615.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Gastro-duodenal motility & nutrition in the critically ill.
Inadequate delivery of nutrition to the critically ill is common, and may adversely affect clinical outcomes, including survival. This thesis reports studies designed to characterise the gastrointestinal dysfunction underlying feed intolerance in the critically ill, as well as the pathophysiology …
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Vascular Access in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients with Obesity
… children. Vascular access is essential in critically ill patients. Our aim was to evaluate whether critically ill patients with obesity are more likely to undergo CVC insertion and develop related complications.
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Studies on the effects of movement on critically ill patients
No abstract available.
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Transport of critically ill children in a resource-limited setting
Transportation of critically ill children by inexperienced personnel may be associated with increased risk of transfer-related adverse events and mortality. To audit paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) transfer activity and transfer-related adverse events in a resource-limited setting. Twenty-two …
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Investigation of diarrhoea in critically ill patients receiving enteral nutrition
The incidence and causes of diarrhoea among critically ill patients receiving enteral tube feeding were investigated. Sixty acutely ill surgical or medical intensive care patients who had had a minimum of 48 hrs bowel rest were entered into the study. They were randomly assigned to receive one of …
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Nutritional Support of the Critically Ill Pediatric Patient : Foundations and Controversies
Critically ill children require nutritional support that will give them nutritional and non-nutritional support to successfully deal with their disease. In the past few years, we have been able to better understand the pathophysiology of critical illness, which has made possible the establishment …
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Evaluating Risk of Delayed Major Bleeding in Critically Ill Trauma Patients
… Methods: A retrospective chart review of 150 critically ill adult trauma patients was used to determine the incidence of delayed major bleeding events. Cox proportional hazards multivariate analysis was performed to assess for risk factors associated with delayed major bleeding events. The …
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as an Assessment Tool in Critically Ill Patients
… neuroimaging in assessing brain activity in critically ill patients. The overall objective was addressed in the following four empirical chapters: In Chapter 2, three versions of a hierarchically-designed auditory task were developed and their ability to detect various levels of auditory …
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The Effect of Oral Care on Intracranial Pressure in Critically Ill Adults
A major goal in the care of patients with neurological problems is to prevent or minimize episodes of increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Elevations in ICP in response to nursing interventions have been acknowledged since the 1960’s when ICP monitoring was first introduced in the clinical …
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Being family: The family experience when an adult member is critically ill
… with a member hospitalized with a critical illness and illuminate the phenomenon of family nursing in this experience has been lacking. The purpose of this phenomenologic study was to understand and interpret the phenomenon of this family experience within a framework of phenomenology and …
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Process of Care and Outcome of Critically Ill Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
… between process of care and outcome of critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). First, I evaluated the association between intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring use and mortality after severe TBI at the patient-level and at the hospital-level. ICP monitoring use was …
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Understanding mechanisms of, and risk factors for, lung injury in the critically ill
Ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) can be associated with multiple organ dysfunction, yet the mechanisms underpinning it are unclear. It has been proposed that injurious mechanical ventilation can drive lung and distal organ injury through a process of biotrauma, and this was the focus of my …
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CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS WITH COVID-19 PNEUMONIA: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, IMPACT OF VACCINE, AND CLINICAL OUTCOME.
… and analyzing their association with outcome in critically ill patients with COVID-19 admitted to 24 Italian ICUs. In 1260 patients we showed that both the daily values and the trends of respiratory system compliance, PaO2/FiO2, driving pressure, arterial carbon dioxide partial pressure, …
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The development of a non-pharmacological intervention for delirium management in critically ill patients
… is a lack of evidence for their efficacy in critically ill patients. The studies in this thesis investigate which non-pharmacological interventions are effective for the prevention/ treatment of delirium in critically ill patients. <br/><br/>The aim of this research project was to develop a …
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