INTRODUCTION This study examined the potential effects of time to tracheostomy on mechanical ventilation duration, intensive care unit (ICU), and hospital length of stay (LOS), and ICU and hospital mortality. METHODS Cohort observational study was conducted in a tertiary care medical-surgical ICU based on a prospectively collected ICU database. We included 531 consecutive patients who were ad...

Objective: This study aims to explore the incidence and risk factors of nosocomial infections (NIs) in the intensive care unit (ICU) in China. Methods: Between January 2011 and December 2013, a total of 1718 patients with a mean age of 59.02 ± 20.71 years in ICU were included. Clinical data of these patients, including gender, age, length of stay, the overall rate of patients with NIs, the dist...

OBJECTIVE To correlate the APACHE-II score system with mortality and length of stay in ICU. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from May 2005 to May 2006. METHODOLOGY All adult patients who were admitted in the ICU were included. APACHE-II score was calculated at the second and seventh days of a...

UNLABELLED COPD presents in a variety of forms patients with head and neck cancer; it may affect therapeutic decision-making or postoperative outcomes due to its complications. AIM To correlate the severity of COPD in patients with head and neck SCC treated with surgery, who present postoperative complications. METHOD A retrospective analysis of 31 patients undergoing en bloc resections, fr...

We read the manuscript by Rodrigues et al. in the latest issue of Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva Journal with great interest.(1) In this single-center, retrospective, observational cohort study, Rodrigues et al. aimed to identify risk factors associated with later readmission to the intensive care unit (ICU) among critically ill oncohematological patients by evaluating their first ICU ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the incidence and consequences of atrial arrhythmias in surgical ICU patients following major noncardiac, nonthoracic surgery. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING University hospital surgical ICU. PATIENTS Four hundred sixty-two consecutive patients after noncardiothoracic surgery. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Patients were assig...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to understand the current status of intensive care unit (ICU) in order to optimize the resources achieving the best possible care. METHODS The study analyzed the status of ICU settings based on the Taiwan National Health Insurance database between March 2004 and February 2009. RESULTS A total of 1,028,364 ICU patients were identified. The age was 65 ± 18 ...

OBJECTIVES 1. To study the prevalence of nosocomial infections in the Medical ICU. 2. To determine common microorganisms causing nosocomial infections in the ICU and their antibiotic- sensitivity profile. 3. To study the impact of nosocomial infections on ICU stay and mortality. METHODS A retrospective 1 year analysis of nosocomial infections in the Medical ICU at Smt. Kashibai Navale Medical...

[1-3]. Barratt and colleagues studied patients transferred for nonclinical reasons to evaluate the consequences of transportation [4]. Th ere was no diff erence in mortality but the ICU length of stay (LOS) increased by 3 days, which was explained as a negative impact of the transport on patient physiology. We disagree with this conclusion. First, by including only transports to level 3 ICUs th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical and financial outcomes of a highly structured multidisciplinary care model for patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) who require prolonged mechanical ventilation. The structured model outcomes (protocol group) are compared with the preprotocol outcomes. DESIGN Descriptive study with financial analysis. SETTING A twelve-bed medical-surgical ICU in a non...