Intensive Care Units
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Rates of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia colonization and infection in relation to antibiotic cycling protocols.

29 Nov 2009 This study evaluated whether antibiotic cycling programmes using broad-spectrum agents including carbapenems were associated with increased rates of colonization or infection by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Retrospective analyses of colonization or ... Read more...

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...

An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'?

30 Oct 2009 We assessed the impact of a United Kingdom government-recommended triage process, designed to guide the decision to admit patients to intensive care during an influenza pandemic, on patients in a teaching hospital intensive care unit. We found that ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Intensive Care Units'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rates of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia colonization and infection in relation to antibiotic cycling protocols. 29 Nov 2009
• Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza: experience from the critical care unit. 30 Oct 2009
• An observational cohort study of triage for critical care provision during pandemic influenza: 'clipboard physicians' or 'evidenced based medicine'? 30 Oct 2009
• Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency. 30 Oct 2009
• Prevalence of delirium with dexmedetomidine compared with morphine based therapy after cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial (DEXmedetomidine COmpared to Morphine-DEXCOM Study). 30 Oct 2009
• [Treatment of incurable ill patients at intensive care units] 17 Oct 2009
• Research ethics and infection control. 13 Oct 2009
• H1N1 patients in ICU. 11 Oct 2009
• Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. 10 Oct 2009
• Critically ill patients with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection in Canada. 10 Oct 2009
• Swine H1N1 influenza in a post liver transplant patient. 7 Oct 2009
• [Infection control guidelines for the intensive care unit] 30 Sep 2009
• Ineffective triggering predicts increased duration of mechanical ventilation. 29 Sep 2009
• Metabolic acidosis in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock: a longitudinal quantitative study. 29 Sep 2009
• Simulation-based mastery learning reduces complications during central venous catheter insertion in a medical intensive care unit. 29 Sep 2009
• High occupancy increases the risk of early death or readmission after transfer from intensive care. 29 Sep 2009
• A common haplotype of the LBP gene predisposes to severe sepsis. 29 Sep 2009
• Monocytic HLA-DR expression in intensive care patients: interest for prognosis and secondary infection prediction. 29 Sep 2009
• Implementation of a mandatory checklist of protocols and objectives improves compliance with a wide range of evidence-based intensive care unit practices. 29 Sep 2009
• Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin in the intensive care unit: time to look beyond a single, threshold-based measurement? 29 Sep 2009

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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)