de Vlugt, Roos Spek, Bea van de Pol, Ineke Rigter, Sander
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Perfusion
Extra Corporeal Life Support (ECLS) may be a life-saving treatment for patients with reversible cardiac and/or respiratory failure. ECLS is associated with a high risk of complications and mortality. Because only a small number of studies have been conducted into the long-term effects of ECLS, we investigated the difference in quality of life, anxi...
Kutenai, Hadis Javadian Jafari, Hedayat Shafipour, Vida Zarghami, Mehran Moosazadeh, Mahmood
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Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
Burn patients feel a lot of physiological and mental stress during treatment and rehabilitation which often cause anxiety and body image dissatisfaction. This study aimed to compare the effects of the Benson relaxation technique and nature sounds on pain anxiety and body image in burn-injured patients admitted to a burn intensive care unit (BICU). ...
Li, Xiaopeng Zhang, Hongping Zhan, Haifei Tang, Youhong
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Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland)
As calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) is the main binding phase in concrete, understanding the doping behavior of impurity elements in it is important for optimizing the structure of cementitious materials. However, most of the current studies focus on cement clinker, and the doping mechanism of impurity elements in hydrated calcium silicate is not y...
Ma, ChengYong Sun, GuoRui Yang, XueWei Yang, Shuo
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Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology
To develop and validate a user-friendly model to predict the risk of in-hospital mortality in solid cancer patients admitted to the ICU with sepsis. Clinical data of critically ill patients with solid cancer and sepsis were obtained from Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV database and randomly assigned to the training cohort and validat...
Montserrat Ortiz, N Trujillano Cabello, J Badia Castelló, M Vilanova Corsellas, J Jimenez Jimenez, G Rubio Ruiz, J Pujol Freire, A Morales Hernandez, D Servia Goixart, L
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Medicina intensiva
To analyze the factors associated with the activation of the severe trauma care team (STAT) in patients admitted to the ICU, to measure its impact on care times, and to analyze the groups of patients according to activation and level of anatomical involvement. Prospective cohort study of severe trauma admitted to the ICU. From June 2017 to May 2019...
Goodwin, Andrew J Dixon, William Mazwi, Mjaye Hahn, Cecil D Meir, Tomer Goodfellow, Sebastian D Kazazian, Vanna Greer, Robert W McEwan, Alistair Laussen, Peter C
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Physiological Measurement
Objective. The ability to synchronize continuous electroencephalogram (cEEG) signals with physiological waveforms such as electrocardiogram (ECG), invasive pressures, photoplethysmography and other signals can provide meaningful insights regarding coupling between brain activity and other physiological subsystems. Aligning these datasets is a parti...
Huang, Jian Zheng, Hui Zhu, Xianfeng Zhang, Kai Ping, Xiaofeng
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Frontiers in Medicine
Purpose Delirium is common during critical illness and is associated with poor outcomes. Therefore, we conducted this meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy and safety of haloperidol for the treatment of delirium in critically ill patients. Methods Randomized controlled trials enrolling critically ill adult patients to compare haloperidol with p...
Aghajani, Mobina Wong, Alexei Azimi, Mehdi Harijani, Shadmehr Mirdar
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Frontiers in Nutrition
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between the dietary antioxidant quality score (DAQS) and the severity of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The present case–control study was carried out on 295 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 (≥18 years old), including 104 critical patients (Intensive care unit [ICU] admission) and 191 C...
Wischmeyer, Paul E; Bear, Danielle E; Berger, Mette M; De Waele, Elisabeth; Gunst, Jan; 60237; Mcclave, Stephen A; Prado, Carla M; Puthucheary, Zudin; Ridley, Emma J; Van den Berghe, Greet; 5103;
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Personalization of ICU nutrition is essential to future of critical care. Recommendations from American/European guidelines and practice suggestions incorporating recent literature are presented. Low-dose enteral nutrition (EN) or parenteral nutrition (PN) can be started within 48 h of admission. While EN is preferred route of delivery, new data hi...
Dawood, Aisha Saba, Tanzila
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Predicting ICU inpatients mortality index needs to be improved to incorporate clinical data. It is also helpful to reflect the patient’s recovery and hospitals standards. In this research machine learning model LightGBM was trained and assessed. This study used a dataset for ICU admissions for adult patients from six countries. And a total of 130,0...