Intensive Care
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Relationship between intracranial hemodynamics and microdialysis markers of energy metabolism and glutamate-glutamine turnover in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clinical article.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECT: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between hemodynamics (intracranial and systemic) and brain tissue energy metabolism, and between hemodynamics and glutamate (Glt)-glutamine (Gln) cycle activity. METHODS: Brain ... Read more...

Poor functional recovery after a critical illness: a longitudinal study.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine the time course of functional health status, and to inventory impairments in body functions, limitations in activities, and restrictions in participation after critical illness. DESIGN: Prospective observational cohort study. ... Read more...

The PRaCTICaL study of nurse led, intensive care follow-up programmes for improving long term outcomes from critical illness: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

14 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To test the hypothesis that nurse led follow-up programmes are effective and cost effective in improving quality of life after discharge from intensive care. DESIGN: A pragmatic, non-blinded, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Intensive Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Relationship between intracranial hemodynamics and microdialysis markers of energy metabolism and glutamate-glutamine turnover in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Clinical article. 30 Oct 2009
• Poor functional recovery after a critical illness: a longitudinal study. 30 Oct 2009
• Emergency traumatologists in trauma care. 30 Oct 2009
• Insulin drips or glucose control for burn patients. 30 Oct 2009
• Cases of swine flu in England almost double in a week. 24 Oct 2009
• H1N1 vaccination begins as proportion of cases in hospital admitted to intensive care rises. 17 Oct 2009
• Rehabilitation in patients admitted to intensive care. 14 Oct 2009
• The PRaCTICaL study of nurse led, intensive care follow-up programmes for improving long term outcomes from critical illness: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. 14 Oct 2009
• Swine H1N1 influenza in a post liver transplant patient. 7 Oct 2009
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality: a systematic review of observational studies. 29 Sep 2009
• Accuracy of AccuChek glucose measurement in intensive care patients. 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
• Entodoxin tolerance in humans in vivo. 29 Sep 2009
• No brain, no pain: does the injured brain stack up opioids? 29 Sep 2009
• Is it time for intensivists to learn genomics? 29 Sep 2009
• Ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality: the controversy continues. 29 Sep 2009
• Point-of-care glucose testing in critically ill patients: visual logistics and a glycemic variability hypothesis. 29 Sep 2009
• Effect of acute inflammatory brain injury on accumulation of morphine and morphine 3- and 6-glucuronide in the human brain. 29 Sep 2009
• Pediatric critical care--a new frontier. 29 Sep 2009
• Prognosis of patients with COPD admitted to the ICU. 29 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Intensive Care'

Definition: Advanced and highly specialized care provided to medical or surgical patients whose conditions are life-threatening and require comprehensive care and constant monitoring. It is usually administered in specially equipped units of a health care facility.

Descriptor UI: D017055

Alternative terms: Intensive Care; Care, Intensive; Surgical Intensive Care; Care, Surgical Intensive; Intensive Care, Surgical;

Related Mesh Headings: Critical Care;

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

Tree Number: E02.760.190.400; N02.421.585.190.400;

Online Note: use CRITICAL CARE to search INTENSIVE CARE 1980-91

History Note: 92; was see CRITICAL CARE 1980-91

Technical Notes: coord IM with disease /ther or /surg (IM)