Results We studied 119 patients. Mean age: 44.42 ± 13.85 years. Drug intoxication in 77.3% of patients, alcohol in 16.8% and caustic 9.2%. 78.3% was a suicide attempt. The mean Glasgow Coma Scale in 72.5% were < 8 points. 69.7% required mechanical ventilation. The mortality of patients hospitalized for caustic ingestion was 54.5% and 1.9% in the rest (p < 0.001). The multivariate analysis showe...

BACKGROUND Intensivists and nursing staff are often reluctant to admit patients with cancer to the intensive care unit even though these patients' survival rate has improved since the 1980s. OBJECTIVE To identify factors associated with mortality in cancer patients admitted to the intensive care unit and to assess and compare the effectiveness of 3 general prognostic models: the Acute Physiol...

BACKGROUND The mortality rate in patients with severe liver dysfunction secondary to alcoholic liver disease (ALD) who do not respond to the standard treatment is exceptionally high. OBJECTIVES The main aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of applying extracorporeal liver support techniques to treat this group of patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS The data from 23 hospital admission...

OBJECTIVE Measurement of extravascular lung water (EVLW) as a clinical tool for the assessment of pulmonary function has been found to be more appropriate than oxygenation parameters or radiographic techniques. In this study, we analyzed the prognostic value of EVLW in critically ill patients. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Operative ICU of a university hospital. MEASUREMENTS AND ...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to assess the contribution of training in data definitions and data extraction guidelines to improving quality of data for use in intensive care scoring systems such as the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II and Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II in the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) registry. METHODS Before and after at...

ObjectivesOur aim was to validate the INCREMENT-CPE score (ICS) in patients hospitalized intensive care unit (ICU) with bacteraemia due carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (CP-Kp).MethodsThe study conducted ICU of University General Hospital Patras, Greece, during a 10-year period (2010–2019). Patients monomicrobial CP-Kp were included. Primary outcome 14-day mortality. MICs meropenem...

Introducción: La satisfacción del paciente es un indicador importante al evaluar los resultados clínicos de reemplazo total cadera o rodilla. El objetivo este estudio fue validar idioma español el instrumento Self-Administered Patient Satisfaction Scale (SAPS) para rodilla, y estudiar sus propiedades psicométricas.&#x0D; Materiales Métodos: Se realizó validación corte transversal contenido, la ...

The acute phase response (APR) is an early innate immune function that is initiated by inflammatory signals, leading to the release of acute phase proteins to the bloodstream to re-establish homeostasis following microbial infection. In this study we analysed the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) whole-genome database and identified five C-reactive protein (CRP)/serum amyloid P component (SAP) like...

PURPOSE This study compared the performance of 3 admission prognostic scores in predicting hospital mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient admission characteristics and hospital outcome of 9549 patients were recorded prospectively. The discrimination and calibration of the predicted risks of death derived from the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS III), Admission Mortality Prediction ...