BACKGROUND Early prediction of outcome would be useful for an optimal intensive care management of liver transplant recipients. Indocyanine green clearance can be measured non-invasively by pulse spectrophometry and is closely related to liver function. METHODS This study was undertaken to assess the predictive value of a combination of the model of end stage liver disease (MELD) score and ea...

Approximately 40% of patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) require mechanical ventilation. An accurate prediction of successful extubation in patients is a key clinical problem in ICU due to the fact that the successful extubation is highly associated with prolonged ICU stay. The prolonged ICU stay is also associated with increasing cost and mortality rate in healthcare sys...

Background Many intensive care unit (ICU) survivors develop psychological problems and cognitive impairment. The relation between sepsis, delirium, and later cognitive problems is not fully elucidated, and the impact of psychological symptoms on cognitive function is poorly studied in ICU survivors. The primary aim of this study was to examine the relationship between sepsis, ICU delirium, and ...

background: for all the reports on the association between seasons and coronary artery disease, there is a paucity of information on the possible effects of seasonal variations on the outcome of patients after coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (cabg). the aim of this study was to assess the short-term outcome of post-cabg patients in the four different seasons to find any correlation betw...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency and to evaluate the relationship between premature discharge and post-ICU hospital mortality. DESIGN A prospective registry was made for patients admitted during six consecutive years, performing a retrospective analysis of the data on the first admission of ICU survivors. SETTING A 10-bed general ICU in a 540-bed tertiary-care community hospital. PATI...

BACKGROUND Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a host response to infection. The quick SOFA (qSOFA) score has been recently proposed as a new bedside clinical score to identify patients with suspected infection at risk of complication (intensive care unit (ICU) admission, in-hospital mortality). The aim of this study was to measure the sensitivity of the qSOFA scor...

BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of intensive care units (ICUs) are adopting the practice of nighttime intensivist staffing despite the lack of experimental evidence of its effectiveness. METHODS We conducted a 1-year randomized trial in an academic medical ICU of the effects of nighttime staffing with in-hospital intensivists (intervention) as compared with nighttime coverage by daytime intensi...

background & aims: endotracheal intubation is commonly performed in the intensive care unit. many international guidelines for difficult intubation management are available and the intensivists think that any endotracheal intubation in icu is potentially difficult with several complications. materials & methods: after obtaining ethical approval, this descriptive and analytical study was conduct...