Critical Care - Methods
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza: experience from the critical care unit.

30 Oct 2009 This case series details experience of critical care admissions with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza from an intensive care unit in the West Midlands. We present four critically ill patients admitted with severe hypoxia. Two of the patients failed a ... Read more...

Baseline characteristics and statistical power in randomized controlled trials: selection, prognostic targeting, or covariate adjustment?

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Heterogeneity of patients is a common problem in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in various fields of clinical research. We aimed to investigate the potential benefits of different approaches for dealing with heterogeneity in a case ... Read more...

Critical care of the burn patient: the first 48 hours.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal of this concise review is to provide an overview of some of the most important resuscitation and monitoring issues and approaches that are unique to burn patients compared with the general intensive care unit population. STUDY ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Critical Care - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza: experience from the critical care unit. 30 Oct 2009
• Atypical clinical presentation of H1N1 influenza in a dialysis patient. 8 Oct 2009
• Baseline characteristics and statistical power in randomized controlled trials: selection, prognostic targeting, or covariate adjustment? 29 Sep 2009
• Critical care of the burn patient: the first 48 hours. 29 Sep 2009
• Increasing power in randomized controlled trials. 29 Sep 2009
• Brain tissue oxygen monitoring in traumatic brain injury and major trauma: outcome analysis of a brain tissue oxygen-directed therapy. 29 Sep 2009
• A simple algorithm for evaluating dermatologic disease in critically ill patients: a study based on retrospective review of medical intensive care unit consults. 29 Sep 2009
• Training guidelines for ultrasound: worldwide trends. 30 Aug 2009
• Limited transthoracic echocardiography assessment in anaesthesia and critical care. 30 Aug 2009
• Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. 30 Aug 2009
• Prevention of sternal wound infections after coronary artery bypass graft surgery with use of insulin drug therapy: a review of the literature. 30 Aug 2009
• [Noninvasive ventilation] 30 Aug 2009
• Bedside lung ultrasound in critical care practice. 30 Aug 2009
• Validity and reliability of an oral care practice survey for the orally intubated adult critically ill patient. 30 Aug 2009
• Hypertonic saline in critical care: a review of the literature and guidelines for use in hypotensive states and raised intracranial pressure. 30 Aug 2009
• [Retina associated emergencies] 9 Aug 2009
• The pathophysiology and causes of raised intracranial pressure. 30 Jul 2009
• Prevention and treatment of medical and neurological complications in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. 30 Jul 2009
• Hemolytic uremic syndrome: a case review. 30 Jul 2009
• Accidental best neurocritical care in the Andes. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Critical Care'

Definition: Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.

Descriptor UI: D003422

Alternative terms: Critical Care; Care, Critical;

Related Mesh Headings: Intensive Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.190; N02.421.585.190;

History Note: 75