INTRODUCTION This report describes the case mix and outcomes of patients with oesophageal cancer admitted to adult critical care units following elective oesophageal surgery in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. METHODS Admissions to critical care following elective oesophageal surgery for malignancy were identified using data from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNA...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Recently, glucose variability (GV) has been reported as an independent risk factor for mortality in non-diabetic critically ill patients. However, GV is not incorporated in any severity scoring system for critically ill patients currently. The aim of this study was to establish and validate a modified Simplified Acute Physiology Score II scoring system (SAPS II), integrated ...

BACKGROUND How to effectively use the finite resources of an intensive care unit (ICU) for neurosurgical patients is a critical decision-making process. Mortality prediction models are effective tools for allocating facilities. This study intended to distinguish the prediction power of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II), the Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (S...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE There are several disease severity scores being used for the prediction of mortality in critically ill patients. However, none of them was developed and validated specifically for patients with severe sepsis. The present study aimed to develop a novel prediction score for severe sepsis. RESULTS A total of 3206 patients with severe sepsis were enrolled, including 1054 ...

Disease-related malnutrition of neurocritical illness harms its treatment, which increases the mortality rate. The aim of this study was evaluating the effect of a high protein diet on the dietary factors, clinical outcome, and mortality rate of neurocritical patients. In a randomized controlled trial, 15 neurocritical patients were recruited in each group. Patients in the intervention and cont...

Methods We performed a retrospective registry based study on adult patients treated in five Finnish university hospitals’ ICUs between 2003 and 2013. We included patients with admission diagnosis of cardiac arrest according to the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III (APACHE III) and patients with positive value for Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS-76) item “cardiac a...

Objective: To determine whether serum cholinesterase level has a prognostic value in human acute organophosphorus poisoning. Design: Cohort (prospective) prognosis study. Setting: Medical ICU at University Hospital. Patients: Thirty consecutive patients admitted to the ICU for acute organophosphate poisoning. Measurements: Serum cholinesterase level was measured in all patients at the time of h...

OBJECTIVE Identify prognostic factors related to mortality and non-recovery of renal function. METHODS A prospective single-center study was conducted at the intensive care medicine department of a university hospital between 2012 and 2015. Patients with acute kidney injury receiving continuous renal replacement therapy were included in the study. Clinical and analytical parameters were colle...