Background: In addition to mortality, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) has increasingly been claimed as an important outcome variable. The aim of this study was to assess HRQOL and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) six months after discharge from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and to study its determinants. Methods: All post-operative adult patients admitted to a surgical IC...

BACKGROUND In addition to mortality, Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) has increasingly been claimed as an important outcome variable. The aim of this study was to assess HRQOL and independence in activities of daily living (ADL) six months after discharge from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), and to study its determinants. METHODS All post-operative adult patients admitted to a surgical IC...

Our aim was to determine the risk factors on mortality in adult patients with community-acquired severe sepsis and septic shock. The main outcome measure was hospital mortality. This prospective single centre study was conducted from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2010, and included 184 patients, of whom 135 (73.4%) were with severe sepsis and 49 (26.6%) had septic shock. Overall, ninety-five ...

BACKGROUND Treating anaemia with red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is frequent, but controversial, in patients with septic shock. Therefore we assessed characteristics and outcome associated with RBC transfusion in this group of high risk patients. METHODS We did a prospective cohort study at 7 general intensive care units (ICUs) including all adult patients with septic shock in a 5-month peri...

INTRODUCTION It has been shown that early central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2)-guided optimization of hemodynamics can improve outcome in septic patients. The early ScvO2 profile of other patient groups is unknown. The aim of this study was to characterize unplanned admissions in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) with respect to ScvO2 and outcome. METHODS Ninety-eight consecut...

OBJECTIVE Measurement of the indocyanine green plasma disappearance rate (ICG-PDR) has been proposed as a clinical tool for the assessment of liver perfusion and function in transplant donors as well as a prognostic marker. In this study, we analyzed the prognostic value of the ICG-PDR in critically ill patients. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING Operative ICU of a university hospital....

OBJECTIVES To investigate presenting features, prognostic factors and outcomes of patients with systemic necrotizing vasculitis (SNV) admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all 210 SNV patients followed in our university hospital and admitted to the ICU between 1982 and 2001, with respect to clinical features, ICU disease severity...

Objective: The aim of this study is to evaluate the patients who are followed up with a diagnosis head and chest trauma; investigate revised trauma score, simplified acute physiology various biochemistry parameters reveal role these values on mortality rates.Methods: Our an observational cohort that retrospectively examines head, thoracic in university hospital ICU, based database. Data were tr...

Lack of insight, very frequent in schizophrenia, can be considered a deficit in Theory of Mind (ToM) performances, and is also found in other psychiatric disorders. In this study, we used the first- to third-person shift to examine subjects with psychotic and psychotic mood disorders. 92 patients were evaluated with SANS and SAPS scales and asked to talk about their delusions. They were asked t...

[1] We present simultaneous measurements of flow velocities inside a subauroral polarization stream (SAPS) made by six midlatitude high-frequency SuperDARN radars. The instantaneous observations cover three hours of universal time and six hours of magnetic local time (MLT). From velocity variations across the field-of-view of the radars we infer the local 2D flow direction at three different lo...