Methods Patients who received medical treatment in the ICU of Kagoshima Medical Center (Kagoshima, Japan) from August 2014 to December 2014 were enrolled in the present study. APACHE 2 scores were calculated upon admission to ICU. The medical records were retrospectively reviewed for the following: duration of ICU stay, disease severity on admission to ICU shown by APACHE2 score, and necessity ...

BACKGROUND Humidified, high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) enables mucociliary clearance, accurate oxygen measurement, precise control of flow, and low-level positive airway pressure. There is sparse information concerning the timing of HFNC on patient outcomes such as incidence of adverse events during hospitalization, ICU stay, and post-ICU stay. METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of a het...

OBJECTIVE To compare usage patterns and outcomes of a nurse practitioner-staffed medical ICU and a resident-staffed physician medical ICU. DESIGN Retrospective chart review of 1,157 medical ICU admissions from March 2012 to February 2013. SETTING Large urban academic university hospital. SUBJECTS One thousand one hundred fifty-seven consecutive medical ICU admissions including 221 nurse p...

INTRODUCTION Delirium is associated with impaired outcome, but it is unclear whether this relationship is limited to in-hospital outcomes and whether this relationship is independent of the severity of underlying conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU) and long-term mortality, self-reported health-related quality of ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Outcome in intensive care can be categorized as mortality related or morbidity related. Mortality is an insufficient measure of ICU outcome when measured alone and length of stay may be seen as an indirect measure of morbidity related outcome. The aim of the present study was to estimate the incidence and predictive factors for intrahospitalar outcome measured by morta...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the amount of variation in in-hospital mortality and length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay that can be accounted for by clinical data available at ICU admission. DESIGN Inception cohort study. SETTING Forty-two ICUs in 40 hospitals, including 26 hospitals that were randomly selected and 14 large tertiary care hospitals that volunteered for the study. PARTICIPANTS ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare clinicians' prior probability estimates of operative mortality (OM) and prolonged intensive care unit stay (ICU) length of stay greater than 48 hours after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) with estimates derived from statistical models alone. METHODS Nine clinicians estimated the predicted probability of OM and ICU stay greater th...

Aim The aim of this study was to explore family members' satisfaction with care and decision-making during the intensive care units stay and their follow-up needs after the patient's discharge or death. Design A cross-sectional survey study was conducted. Methods Family members of patients recently treated in an ICU were participating. The questionnaire contented of background variables, th...

introduction: in a prospective study, we aimed to assess the value of enhanced rdw to predict sepsis and evaluate factors affecting length of icu stay and in-hospital mortality among sepsis patients. material and method: after exclusion of 27 patients, we included 160 adult patients with suspicious sepsis admitted at university affiliated hospital with 33 icu-beds from 2010 to 2012. nighty pati...