Intensive Care Units - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Effect of laboratory testing guidelines on the utilization of tests and order entries in a surgical intensive care unit.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: Diagnostic testing is frequently overused in the intensive care unit. We devised guidelines to optimize blood tests utilization, and designed this study to quantify their efficacy over time, their safety, and their possible benefits. ... Read more...

Rate of reintubation in mechanically ventilated neurosurgical and neurologic patients: evaluation of a systematic approach to weaning and extubation.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To assess whether a systematic approach to weaning and extubation (intervention) is superior to the sole physician's judgment (control) in preventing reintubation secondary to extubation failure in patients with neurologic disorders. ... Read more...

Treatment-related risk factors for hospital mortality in Candida bloodstream infections.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between treatment-related variables for Candida bloodstream infection and hospital mortality. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING: Thousand two hundred-bed academic medical center. PATIENTS: A total ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Intensive Care Units'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Effect of laboratory testing guidelines on the utilization of tests and order entries in a surgical intensive care unit. 30 Oct 2008
• Rate of reintubation in mechanically ventilated neurosurgical and neurologic patients: evaluation of a systematic approach to weaning and extubation. 30 Oct 2008
• Treatment-related risk factors for hospital mortality in Candida bloodstream infections. 30 Oct 2008
• Accuracy of bedside glucose measurement from three glucometers in critically ill patients. 30 Oct 2008
• Active surveillance cultures for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an intensive care unit. 30 Oct 2008
• Early administration of high-dose antithrombin in severe sepsis: single center results from the KyberSept-trial. 30 Oct 2008
• Tracheostomy in the intensive care unit: a nationwide survey. 30 Oct 2008
• Laboratory testing guidelines in the intensive care unit: less red and more green. 30 Oct 2008
• Is normalized mean blood glucose level good enough for the intensive care unit?--glycemic variability as a new independent predictor of mortality. 30 Oct 2008
• Sepsis and those who are "weak of heart". 30 Oct 2008
• Point of care glucose testing--need for a better mousetrap or time to rethink the hunt? 30 Oct 2008
• Why sedation protocol did not work. 30 Oct 2008
• Acute alcohol withdrawal as a risk factor for intensive care unit-acquired infection. 30 Oct 2008
• Poor agreement between respiratory variations in pulse oximetry photoplethysmographic waveform amplitude and pulse pressure in intensive care unit patients. 30 Oct 2008
• Renal support in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury. 28 Oct 2008
• Procalcitonin levels in acute exacerbation of COPD admitted in ICU: a prospective cohort study. 21 Oct 2008
• Mobilizing patients in the intensive care unit: improving neuromuscular weakness and physical function. 6 Oct 2008
• [Surgical management with mitral valve replacement in young infants with congenital mitral valve diseases and complete atrioventricular septal defect] 3 Oct 2008
• Use of active surveillance cultures to detect asymptomatic colonization with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in intensive care unit patients. 29 Sep 2008
• Intensive care unit hypoglycemia predicts depression during early recovery from acute lung injury. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Intensive Care Units'

Definition: Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill patients.

Descriptor UI: D007362

Alternative terms: Intensive Care Units; Care Unit, Intensive; Care Units, Intensive; Intensive Care Unit; Unit, Intensive Care; Units, Intensive Care;

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

Tree Number: N02.278.388.493;

History Note: 66(63)