background a broad variety of fungi, especially candida species, are becoming increasingly common causes of urinary tract infections in hospital settings. objectives the current cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to determine the causative agents, risk factors and incidence rate of candiduria in critically ill patients, hospitalized in intensive care units (icus) of four iranian hospitals....

objective to investigate association between nosocomial infection, blood products transfusion and microorganisms responsible in patients who hospitalized at icu (intensive care unit). patients and methods in this prospective study, 217 patients who were admitted to the icu of taleghani hospital between august 2010 and august 2011 were included. nosocomial infections were defined using the conta...

background: since the family is a social system, the impairment in each of its component members may disrupt the entire family system. one of the stress sources for families is accidents leading to hospitalization particularly in the intensive care unit (icu). in many cases, the families’ needs in patient care are not met that cause dissatisfaction. since the nurses spend a lot of time with pat...

background and purpose: based on a holistic model of health care, human beings have biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions, which should be considered in the provision of comprehensive care. given the fact that spiritual health coordinates different aspects of human life, we aimed to explore the viewpoints of nurses working in intensive care units about the concept of spirit...

INTRODUCTION This article presents the treatment results of 320 consecutive patients with malignant haematological diagnoses admitted to a tertiary intensive care unit at a Danish University hospital over a six-year period (2005-2010). With reference to international publications, we describe the development in treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a retrospective observational study. RE...

INTRODUCTION The work activities of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nurse is frequently dynamic and variable. The activities are not necessarily linear actions that occur in a structured manner but are more complex and not well documented. A greater understanding of the type and level of activity assists in informing workload models. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe and analyse th...

THE SUCCESS OF INTENSIVE CARE, which is designed to mitigate life-threatening critical illness, traditionallyhasbeengaugedby the proportion of patients alive at hospital discharge or at day 28. With technological advances, many patients now survive what were previously fatal critical illnesses, in turngeneratinganenlarging population of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors. There are increasing ...

This narrative review deals with the challenge of defining adequate therapy goals and intensive care unit (ICU) admission criteria for critically ill patients with cancer. Several specific complications of critically ill patients with cancer require close collaborations of intensive care and cancer specialists. Intensivists require a basic understanding of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and the...

III Einstein International Symposium on Intensive Care and the XXX Mechanical Ventilation. Aug 16-18, 2023. Category: Cardiology Introduction: The Unit (ICU) is a complex care unit that aims to safely effectively for patient who needs careful attention, in order achieve clinical improvement. Among treatment modalities used ICU, several technologies can be included, either replace or help patien...