OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and demographic characteristics, rationale for transfer of critically ill obstetric patients to intensive care unit and their management therein. METHODS The observational retrospective case series study was conducted at Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University, Larkana, Pakistan, and comprised critically ill female patients transferred to intensiv...

BACKGROUND Despite practice guidelines promoting delirium assessment in intensive care, few data exist regarding current delirium assessment practices among nurses and how these practices compare with those for sedation assessment. OBJECTIVES To identify current practices and perceptions of intensive care nurses regarding delirium assessment and to compare practices for assessing delirium wit...

background: echocardiography is one of the diagnostic tools that can be applied at the bedside, along with avoiding transporting critically ill patients. this prospective observational study was designed to assess the clinical applicability of the transthoracic echocardiography (tte) device by noncardiologist intensivists. materials and methods: intensivists performed a limited tte examination ...

conclusions the patient cost increased as the length of stay increased due to the policy of bundle pricing. results the female/male ratio was 2.55. the mean age of the 71 poisoned patients was 28.92 ± 11.51 years. most of the poisoning agents were pharmaceuticals (68 cases). among the pharmaceuticals, antidepressants were involved most often, followed by analgesics. there was no statistically s...

Paediatric bacterial meningitis is a serious infection that can result in permanent neurological sequelae or death. Broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics, started as soon as the condition is suspected, are the mainstay of treatment. Acute resuscitation may also be necessary for patients who are in septic shock. Corticosteroids, careful fluid management and advances in intensive care therapy ha...

A thermodynamiclike formalism is developed for superstatistical systems based on conditional entropies. This theory takes into account large-scale variations of intensive variables of systems in nonequilibrium stationary states. Ordinary thermodynamics is recovered as a special case of the present theory, and corrections to it can systematically be evaluated. A generalization of Einstein's rela...

The condition of the respiratory system is more important for endurance exercise performance of healthy subjects than hitherto assumed. Not only do respiratory muscles fatigue during intensive endurance exercise, but prefatigued respiratory muscles can also impair performance. In turn, respiratory endurance training can improve endurance exercise performance.

Parapharyngeal abscess is a life-threatening infection. It occurs due to spread of infection form anatomical locations in the vicinity of the space. Management of the deep neck infection is governed by the general condition of the patient, the extent of disease and patency of airway. In treatment of deep neck infections intensive antibiotic therapy and surgical drainage are complementary to eac...

Spinal deformities in farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are often observed in intensive farming systems and result in production losses. Many putative factors have been implicated with the formation of spinal deformities in larger salmon. This condition has been described as broken back syndrome, curvy back disease, and short tails.