abstract background: critical care patients are at higher risk for untreated pain. pain has persistent and untreated effects on most of the body systems and results in development of complications, chronic pain, and increased length of stay. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of the implementation of a pain management program on the length of stay in patients with decreased leve...

In 1991 an audit of Intensive Care Services was carried out by the Northern Ireland Intensive Care Group. In conjunction with this regional overview, all patients in the Regional Intensive Care Unit, (RICU) in the Royal Victoria Hospital were assessed daily, over a 10 month period in 1990-91 and classified as conforming to either intensive care or high dependency status. These data were then us...

Objectives: To describe and compare the medication consumption and expenditure on medication at pediatric intensive and semi-intensive care units. Methods: We conducted a retrospective, exploratory, descriptive study using a quantitative approach based on simple descriptive statistics. Data collection was conducted from June 2007 to May 2008 at the pediatric intensive and semiintensive care uni...

Bedside monitors in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) frequently sound incorrectly, slowing response times and desensitising nurses to alarms (Chambrin, 2001), causing true alarms to be missed (Hug et al., 2011). We compare sliding window predictors with recurrent predictors to classify patient state-of-health from ICU multivariate time series; we report slightly improved performance for the RNN for ...

Introduction Multiresistant bacteria (MRB) have become a severe public health problem, a risk factor for increasing morbibity, mortality and hospital length of stay and secondarily a raise of social and health resources consumption. The Spanish Health System started in 2014 a national campaign (Zero Resistance) conducted to prevent the emerge of antimicrobial resistance, specially this MRB in i...

Introduction Patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are commonly affected by anaemia, which is contributed to by iatrogenic blood loss from diagnostic testing [1], with potential risks of increasing transfusion requirements and negative effect on outcomes [2]. Recently published guidelines make several recommendations for the management of anaemia and red blood cells (RBCs) transfusio...

Modern ventilators are increasingly compact and able to deliver a wide range of ventilator modes sophisticated monitoring capabilities. However, the global availability is woefully short demand. Data on intensive care units (ICUs), proxy measure for hospital capacity in low middle-income countries (LMIC's), suggest that extremely limited where it exists at all. In LMIC's, four most common indic...

case presentation in this report, ultrasound-guided sciatic nerve block was performed in a 25-year-old patient with tetanus to progress his respiratory drive which was decreased due to high dose sedative administration. this procedure accelerates the weaning process and extubation. introduction muscle rigidity and generalized spasm can cause severe pain in patients with tetanus. administration ...

background there are different risk factors that affect the intensive care unit (icu) stay after cardiac surgery. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate possible risk factors influencing prolonged icu stay in a large referral hospital. patients and methods we conducted a case-control study to determinate causes of prolonged icu stay in 280 adult patients undergoing cardiac surgery in ...

background: there are challenges ahead of short-term hospitalization of low-risk patients hospitalized only for monitoring of severe disease who may die soon after admission. the purpose of this study was to suggest strategies for the management of icu stay lengths and to ensure optimal use of icu resources.   methods: the study was conducted retrospectively on 246 patients admitted to 9 genera...