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...

Background: In recent years, there has been a growing interest in understanding the role of prognostic factors patient outcome.Aim: To investigate clinical indicators, and severity-of-disease assessment scales, as outcome multi-trauma patients ICU.Material Method: The sample consisted 65 ICU treated hospital Thessaloniki city, with an average stay 16.5 days. Clinical indicators such Glasgow Com...

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to determine current mortality predictors in our thermally injured population, to develop and validate a new mortality predictive score, and to compare its predictive ability with those of the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II (APACHE II) score, multiple organ dysfunction (MOD) score, and two burn-specific mortality predictive scores. ...

INTRODUCTION Although nonthyroidal illness syndrome is considered to be associated with adverse outcome in ICU patients, the performance of thyroid hormone levels in predicting clinical outcome in ICU patients is unimpressive. This study was conducted to assess the prognostic value of the complete thyroid indicators (free triiodothyronine (FT3), total triiodothyronine; free thyroxine, total thy...

This retrospective cohort study investigated the outcomes and prognostic factors in nonagenarians (patients 90 years old or older) with acute respiratory failure. Between 2006 and 2016, all nonagenarians with acute respiratory failure requiring invasive mechanical ventilation (MV) were enrolled. Outcomes including in-hospital mortality and ventilator dependency were measured. A total of 173 non...

Amaç: Yoğun bakım hastalarının beklenilen ölüm oranlarının hesaplanması, mevcut tıbbi durumu acil teşhis ve tedavi gerektirecek hastaların hızlıca belirlenmesi, yoğun bakımların standardizasyonu, hizmet kalitesinin değerlendirilmesi sağlanması açısından önemlidir. Bu nedenle mortalite tahmininde geliştirilen ölçekler kullanılmaktadır. çalışmada prediktörü olabilecek inflamasyon belirteçlerinden...

New-onset hyperglycemia in patients admitted to intensive care units increases the risk of morbidity and mortality. Insulin resistance is frequently seen in the treatment of stress-induced hyperglycemia. Metformin, an oral anti-hyperglycemic agent, may introduce a new treatment protocol in critically ill patients with insulin-resistance hyperglycemia. Fifty-one non-diabetic traumatized patients...

New-onset hyperglycemia in patients admitted to intensive care units increases the risk of morbidity and mortality. Insulin resistance is frequently seen in the treatment of stress-induced hyperglycemia. Metformin, an oral anti-hyperglycemic agent, may introduce a new treatment protocol in critically ill patients with insulin-resistance hyperglycemia. Fifty-one non-diabetic traumatized patients...