Laurent, Alexandra Fournier, Alicia Lheureux, Florent Louis, Guillaume Nseir, Saad Jacq, Gwenaelle Goulenok, Cyril Muller, Grégoire Badie, Julio Bouhemad, Bélaïd
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Annals of Intensive Care
BackgroundWe investigated the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on mental health of professionals working in the intensive care unit (ICU) according to the intensity of the epidemic in France.MethodsThis cross-sectional survey was conducted in 77 French hospitals from April 22 to May 13 2020. All ICU frontline healthcare workers were eligible. The prim...
Klop, Hanna T. Nasori, Mana Klinge, Tjitske W. Hoopman, Rianne de Vos, Mirjam A. du Perron, Chantal van Zuylen, Lia Steegers, Monique ten Tusscher, Birkitt L. Abbink, Floor C. H.
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BMC Health Services Research
Background During the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands, relatives of patients with COVID-19 admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs) were severely restricted in visiting their relatives and in communicating with treating physicians. Family communication is a core element of critical care, however, this pandemic forced medical I...
Worley, Jay Delaney, Mary L Cummins, Christopher K DuBois, Andrea Klompas, Michael Bry, Lynn
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) are among the most prevalent hospital-associated infections (HAIs), particularly for intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The risks for developing active CDI from asymptomatic carriage of C. difficile are not well understood. We identified asymptomatic C. difficile carriage among 1897 ICU patients using rec...
Barry, Mazin Alotaibi, Muath Almohaya, Abdulellah Aldrees, Abdulwahab AlHijji, Ali Althabit, Nouf Alhasani, Sara Akkielah, Layan AlRajhi, Abdulaziz Nouh, Thamer
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Journal of Infection and Public Health
Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in millions of deaths, including more than 6000 deaths in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Identifying key predictors of intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mortality among infected cases would help in identifying individuals at risk to optimize their care. We aimed to determine fact...
Nakamura, Kensuke Liu, Keibun Katsukawa, Hajime Nydahl, Peter Ely, Eugene Wesley Kudchadkar, Sapna R. Inoue, Shigeaki Lefor, Alan Kawarai Nishida, Osamu
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Clinical Nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Background & aims: Nutrition therapy for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients involves complex decision-making, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigated the use of nutrition therapy in ICU patients with and without COVID-19 infections. Methods Nutrition therapy was evaluated during a world-wide one-day prevalence study focused on impl...
Karampoor, Sajad Hesamizadeh, Khashayar Shams, Zinat Ghafari Novin, Arefeh Farahmand, Mohammad Zahednasab, Hamid Mirzaei, Rasoul Zamani, Farhad Hajibaba, Marzieh Bouzari, Behnaz
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International Immunopharmacology
The mounting evidence regarding the pathogenesis of COVID-19 indicated that the cytokine storm has an axial role in the severity of this disease, which may lead to thrombotic complications, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and myocardial damage, among other consequences. It has recently been demonstrated that statins are known to have an...
Meert, Anne-Pascale Wittnebel, Sebastian Holbrechts, Stéphane Toffart, Anne-Claire Lafitte, Jean-Jacques Piagnerelli, Michael Lemaitre, France Peyrony, Olivier Calvel, Laurent Lemaitre, Jean
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Intensive Care Medicine
To respond to the legitimate questions raised by the application of invasive methods of monitoring and life-support techniques in cancer patients admitted in the ICU, the European Lung Cancer Working Party and the Groupe de Recherche Respiratoire en Réanimation Onco-Hématologique, set up a consensus conference. The methodology involved a systematic...
Tan, Liao Xu, Qian Shi, Ruizheng
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International Journal of General Medicine
Background This study aims to construct and validate an early-stage nomogram for predicting hospital mortality of ICU patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), to help clinicians determine the appropriate intervention. Methods The primary cohort of 2704 patients diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction in admission records from eICU-Collab...
Hatzl, Stefan Reisinger, Alexander C. Posch, Florian Prattes, Juergen Stradner, Martin Pilz, Stefan Eller, Philipp Schoerghuber, Michael Toller, Wolfgang Gorkiewicz, Gregor
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Critical Care
Background Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) emerged as important fungal complications in patients with COVID-19-associated severe acute respiratory failure (ARF). Whether mould active antifungal prophylaxis (MAFP) can prevent CAPA remains elusive so far. Methods In this observational study, we included all...
Liu, Lu Tian, Yali
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background The acknowledgment that conservative oxygen therapy (COT) was related to better prognosis in the intensive care unit (ICU) was challenged recently. We conducted an updated meta-analysis aimed to determine whether liberal oxygen therapy (LOT) or COT is associated with better improve clinical outcomes. Methods We systematically searched th...
