Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious medical condition affecting millions of people. Patients in intensive care unit (ICU) who develop AKI have increased morbidity and mortality, prolonged length of stay in ICU and hospital and increased costs, especially when they require renal replacement therapy. In the latter case, morbidity and mortality increase further. In order to meet the needs of th...

COVID-19 has affected 213 countries around the world, killing 390,000 and infecting close to 6.6 million by June 04, 2020 (worldometer.info). Bangladesh, a South Asian low-middle-income economy, experienced demographic epidemiological transition with rapid urbanization gradual increase in life expectancy. It is seventh most populous country world population of expected be nearly double 2050. Th...

Interventions: From January 1998 to May 2000, patients in shock received standard therapy (control group). During the month of June 2000, intensive education of all healthcare providers (pre-hospital personnel, nurses and physicians) took place. From July 2000 through June 2001, patients in shock (protocol group) were managed with a hospital-wide shock program. The program used a systems-based ...

OBJECTIVE To better match hospital resources to patients' needs of trauma care, a protocol for facilitating in-hospital triage decisions was implemented at a Swedish level I trauma centre. In the protocol, physiological parameters, anatomical injuries and mechanism of injury were documented, and used to activate full or limited trauma team response. The aim of this study was to evaluate the eff...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether earlier clinical intervention by a medical emergency team prompted by clinical instability in a patient could reduce the incidence of and mortality from unexpected cardiac arrest in hospital. DESIGN A non-randomised, population based study before (1996) and after (1999) introduction of the medical emergency team. SETTING 300 bed tertiary referral teaching hos...