Admission to intensive care can be reliably predicted using only clinical judgment

Can ICU admission be predicted?

Clinical Predictors of Intensive Care Unit Admission for Asthmatic Children

IntroductionChildren with severe asthma attack are a challenging group of patients who could be difficult to treat and leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Asthma attack severity is qualitatively estimated as mild, moderate and severe attacks and respiratory failure based on conditions such as respiration status, feeling of dyspnea, and the degree of unconsciousness. part of which ar...

Can outcomes of intensive care unit patients undergoing tracheostomy be predicted?

OBJECTIVE To determine whether outcomes (mortality and need for intensive care unit [ICU] readmission) of patients undergoing tracheostomy in the ICU can be predicted by common clinical or historical criteria. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of data from the medical record and Project Impact database in a 24-bed medical-surgical ICU in a 500-bed university hospital. In 2004 throug...

Can Cascades be Predicted?

A famous instance is a picture of a receipt taken by a customer at a hunting and fishing chain store called Cabela. The receipt listed a 2.3%“medical excise tax,” which was supposedly levied as part of the Affordable Care Act. This was seen as evidence that there is a hidden tax that consumers are paying for the ACA. The store later cleared this up as being a “software glitch” on their part. Th...

clinical predictors of intensive care unit admission for asthmatic children

introductionchildren with severe asthma attack are a challenging group of patients who could be difficult to treat and leading to significant morbidity and mortality. asthma attack severity is qualitatively estimated as mild, moderate and severe attacks and respiratory failure based on conditions such as respiration status, feeling of dyspnea, and the degree of unconsciousness. part of which ar...