Background : Heart rate variability (HRV) measures give insight into the autonomic regulation of cardiac function in healthy and critically ill patients. The ease and predictive potential of HRV measures may be valuable in optimizing prehospital tria...
Background: Chronic critical illness (CCI) is a serious condition characterized by a prolonged course of illness, resulting in elevated morbidity and mortality. CCI presents significant challenges for healthcare providers in intensive care units (ICU...
Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition
Jun 1, 2025
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Critically ill patients require individualized nutrition support, with assessment tools like Nutrition Risk Screening 2002 and Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill scores. Challenges in continu-ous nutrition care prompt the...
INTRODUCTION: Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) is a common and severe complication in critically ill patients, associated with high morbidity and poor prognosis. Despite increasing focus on ICUAW, definitive diagnostic and therapeutic st...
BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury (AKI) frequently occurs in critically ill patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), and its development markedly elevates mortality rates and prolongs hospitalization duration. Early AKI prediction is crucial for tim...
American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
May 23, 2025
PURPOSE: The medication regimen complexity intensive care unit (MRC-ICU) score has previously been associated with pharmacist workload and fluid overload. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of MRC-ICU score with pharmacist-dr...
BACKGROUND: Long-term ventilator-dependent patients often face problems such as decreased quality of life, increased mortality, and increased medical costs. Respiratory therapists must perform complex and time-consuming ventilator weaning assessments...
IMPORTANCE: Norepinephrine is the first-line vasopressor for patients with septic shock. When and whether a second agent, such as vasopressin, should be added is unknown.
Critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are at high risk of malnutrition, which can result in muscle atrophy, polyneuropathy, increased mortality, or prolonged hospitalizations with complications and higher costs during the recovery p...
BACKGROUND: Stress hyperglycemia ratio (SHR) and glycemic variability (GV) reflect acute glucose elevation and fluctuations, which correlate with adverse outcomes in patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). However, the prognosti...
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