نتایج جستجو برای: critical care units
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objective: to systematically review the current literature of simulation in healthcare including the structured steps in the emergency healthcare sector by proposing a framework for simulation in the emergency department. methods: for the purpose of collecting the data, pubmed and acm databases were used between the years 2003 and 2013. the inclusion criteria were to select english-written arti...
background: nosocomial infections constitute a global health problem, leading to a high rate of morbidity and mortality. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency and antimicrobial resistance patterns of nosocomial infections in eduâcational hospitals of hamadan, western iran. methods: during a 1-year period from april 2006 to march 2007, all patients with culâture-proven nosocomia...
background: ventilator-associated pneumonia (vap) is a type of nosocomial pneumonia which develops more than 48 hours after endotracheal intubation. early recognition and treatment of vap is important, since timely and appropriate management can be lifesaving. objectives: this study aimed to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of microorganisms causing vap in the intensive care u...
background and purpose: acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (apache ii) is a scoring system that describes and predicts the severity of acute illness in patients admitted in intensive care units. its application is helpful in therapeutic monitoring methods, comparing the effectiveness of treatments and the decision to change the treatment, and comparing the performance and quality of...
background candiduria is a rising condition among hospitalized patients and candida albicans is the most common recovered agent. however, non-albicans candida species (nacs) such as c. glabrata, c. krusei, c. parapsilosis, and c. tropicalis are also important. although most candida species especially c. albicans are sensitive to routinely used antifungals, an increasing trend in resistance has ...
conclusions these results show that maturity and birth weight are related to a decrease in the risk of developing a candidiasis infection. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the rate, risk factors, and sources of colonization in low birth weight (lbw) and very low birth weight (vlbw) infants in an nicu. patients and methods all cases were classified in to 1 of 2 groups: lbw a...
For parents, the experience of having an infant in the NICU is often psychologically traumatic. No parent can be fully prepared for the extreme stress and range of emotions of caring for a critically ill newborn. As health care providers familiar with the NICU, we thought that we understood the impact of the NICU on parents. But we were not prepared to see the children in our own families as NI...
BACKGROUND The ability to identify critically ill patients who will not survive until hospital discharge may yield substantial cost savings. The aim of this study was to validate the mortality prediction model II (MPM II) in in-hospital mortality of critically ill patients for quality management and risk-adjusted monitoring. METHODS The data were collected prospectively from consecutive admis...
Methods All consecutive patients admitted to the ICU of the University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands between July 2009 and April 2013 were included in the study. For patients with multiple ICU admissions we only included their first admission. Data on patient characteristics were prospectively gathered according to APACHE IV definitions.[2] Survival was tracked using the municipal r...
INTRODUCTION Meropenem bactericidal activity depends on the time when the free drug concentrations remain above the minimum inhibitory concentration of pathogens. The goal of this study was to compare clinical and bacteriological efficacy of continuous meropenem infusion versus bolus administration in critically ill patients with severe infection, and to evaluate the safety of both dosing regim...
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