0147-9563/99/$8.00 + 0 2/1/101055 The limited number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and the demand for these beds often forces patients to be discharged earlier than is clinically indicated. Consequently, some patients are discharged from the ICU with significant health care needs requiring skilled management by health care practitioners on the general wards. Without adequate resources on th...

Background: Delirium is a disturbance in attention awareness which develops in short period of time & fluctuate in severity. Its associated with functional disability, cognitive impairment, dementia & death in ICU inpatients. Objective: To Study the incidence & risk factors of delirium in intensive care unit (ICU) patients . Method: In an observational, non-interventional study, 486 ICU patient...

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Methods Single centre observational retrospective study in a 14-bed Intensive Care Unit of a University Hospital. All haematological patients admitted between January-2009 and December-2014 were enrolled. Data acquired included: demographics characteristics, haematological diagnosis, reason of ICU admission, severity-of-illness scores (APACHE and SOFA) and intensive care therapy (mechanical ven...

The philosophy behind medical emergency teams (METs) or rapid response teams leaving the intensive care unit (ICU) to evaluate and treat patients who are at risk on the wards and to prevent or rationalise admission to the ICU is by now well established in many health care systems. In a previous issue of Critical Care, Jones and colleagues report their analysis of the impact on outcomes of METs ...

Objectives The objectives of this study was to explore the accuracy Cornell Assessment for Pediatric Delirium (CAP-D), Confusion Method Intensive Care Unit (pCAM-ICU), and Preschool (psCAM-ICU) when implemented in routine care as delirium screening tools, assess patient characteristics clinical variables that may affect their validity. Design This is a prospective observational study. Setting c...

b a ckground:  nutritional care is of special importance in the control of the rate of mortality among intensive care unit (icu) patients. therefore, anthropometric and biochemical assessment are important among icu patients. we intend to report the anthropometric and biochemical indices, as well as the energy intake among icu patients in isfahan, iran. m ethods : this descriptive study was car...

The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy with protease inhibitors in 1996 has changed the morbidity and mortality of acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients. Therefore, the aetiologies and prognostic factors of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with life-threatening respiratory failure requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission need to be reassessed. F...