Outcomes of critical illness

Dysmagnesaemia and Critical Illness Outcomes

Methods We performed a two center observational study of patients treated in medical and surgical intensive care units in Boston, Massachusetts. All data was obtained from the Research Patient Data Registry at Partners HealthCare. We studied 81,061 patients, age ≥ 18 years, who received critical care between 1997 and 2012 and who survived 72 hours following ICU admission. We excluded patients w...

The long-term metabolic outcomes of dysglycemia during critical illness

providing the fi rst report on the long-term glucose metabolism sequelae in survivors of critical illness with no apparent dysglycemia shortly after hospital discharge [1]. Th e authors hypothesized that hyperglycemia in the intensive care unit unmasks predisposition for future development of diabetes. Th e interpretation of their fi ndings, however, is limited by several aspects of their metho...

Adverse outcomes of critical illness from a dyadic perspective.

Critical illness myopathy.

Critical illness myopathy is one of the causes for failure to wean from ventilator. Although associate factors of dyselectrolytemia is to be ruled out and other causes for failure to wean is to be ruled out before diagnosing critical illness myopathy. Several factors play role in development of this condition. Here we present a case report of a post partum patient where we had encountered failu...

Lactate in critical illness

Lactate measurement in the critically ill has been traditionally used to stratify patients with poor outcome. However, plasma lactate levels are the result of a finely tuned interplay of factors that affect the balance between its production and its clearance. When the oxygen supply does not match its consumption, organisms such as man who are forced to produce ATP for their integrity adapt in ...