AIMC Topic: Intensive Care Units

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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Comparing Cadaveric Liver Transplant and Non-Transplant Surgical Patients.

Acta clinica Croatica
Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a frequent complication in intensive care surgical patients, particularly those with high severity scores on admission. We studied the incidence and clinical outcome of ventilator-associated pneumonia among patients...

Level of adrenomedullin in cases with adrenal defficiency and its relation to mortality in patients with sepsis.

Tuberkuloz ve toraks
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to determine the prognostic value of adrenomedullin, after evaluation of adrenal function in sepsis patients. We also evaluated other prognostic factors such as APACHE II score, proBNP, and CRP and their predic...

Visualizing patient journals by combining vital signs monitoring and natural language processing.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
This paper presents a data-driven approach to graphically presenting text-based patient journals while still maintaining all textual information. The system first creates a timeline representation of a patients' physiological condition during an admi...

Multicenter Comparison of Machine Learning Methods and Conventional Regression for Predicting Clinical Deterioration on the Wards.

Critical care medicine
OBJECTIVE: Machine learning methods are flexible prediction algorithms that may be more accurate than conventional regression. We compared the accuracy of different techniques for detecting clinical deterioration on the wards in a large, multicenter ...

Currently used dosage regimens of vancomycin fail to achieve therapeutic levels in approximately 40% of intensive care unit patients.

Revista Brasileira de terapia intensiva
OBJECTIVE:: This study aimed to assess whether currently used dosages of vancomycin for treatment of serious gram-positive bacterial infections in intensive care unit patients provided initial therapeutic vancomycin trough levels and to examine possi...

[Effects and risks of hypothermia during blood purification in the treatment of postoperative cardiogenic shock in valvular heart diseases].

Zhonghua wei zhong bing ji jiu yi xue
OBJECTIVE: To implement hypothermia during blood purification to investigate its effect and risk in the treatment of postoperative cardiogenic shock in valvular heart disease.

[The influence of the sedation based on remifentanil analgesia on the occurrence of delirium in critically ill patients].

Zhonghua wei zhong bing ji jiu yi xue
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the influence of the midazolam sedation based on remifentanil analgesia on the occurrence of delirium in critically ill patients in intensive care unit (ICU).