Objectives. To describe the epidemiology of nosocomial infections in pediatric intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States. Background. Patient and ICU characteristics in pediatric ICUs suggest the pattern of nosocomial infections experienced may differ from that seen in adult ICUs. Methods. Data were collected between January 1992 and December 1997 from 61 pediatric ICUs in the United Sta...

Hand hygiene (HH) is the single most important factor in the prevention of health care-acquired infections. The 3 most frequently reported methods of measuring HH compliance are: (1) direct observation, (2) self-reporting by health care workers (HCWs), and (3) indirect calculation based on HH product usage. This article presents the results of a 12-month multicenter collaboration assessing HH c...

conclusions approximately one quarter of premature neonates had early mortality, which can be predicted by low gestational age, low birth weight, low apgar score, need to intensive supports, postpartum complications, multiple gestation and history of maternal illnesses. objectives we aimed to determine mortality rate and its main indicators among premature neonates in our region with the aim of...

Background: Early outcome prediction of hospitalized patients is critical because the intensivists are constantly striving to improve patients' survival by taking effective medical decisions about ill patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Despite rapid progress in medical treatments and intensive care technology, the analysis of outcomes, including mortality prediction, has been a challenge ...

Intensive care is slowly being recognized as a separate medical specialization. Physicians, called intensivists, are being specially trained to manage intensive care units (ICUs) and provide focused, high quality care to critically ill patients. However, these ICUs were traditionally managed by primary physicians who used to admit patients in ICUs under their own care. The presence of specially...

Introduction Stress hyperglycaemia in critical patients can be fatal, but its management in intensive care units (ICUs) has not yet been standardised [1]. Critical care professionals are key stakeholders in research for the quality improvement of clinical practice within the ICU [2]. The GlyCon study is a multiple methods study which includes a survey to professionals, conducted in seven ICUs w...

Handwashing compliance was compared at two medical- surgical intensive care units (ICUs) of a teaching and a non-teaching hospital. The mean compliance was 22.2% and 42.6%, respectively. Respiratory therapists at the non-teaching hospital had the best handwashing compliance (52.6%). Nursing assistants at the teaching hospital had the worst compliance (11.5%). Nursing assistant was the only heal...

Centralization of intensive care units (ICUs) is a concept that has been around for several decades and the OECD countries have led the way in adopting this in their operations. Singapore Hospital was built in 1981, before the concept of centralization of ICUs took off. The hospital’s ICUs were never centralized and were spread out across eight different blocks with the specialization they were...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To compare how intensive care nurses in the UK and Australia (AU) perceive families in intensive care units (ICUs). BACKGROUND International healthcare research and practice is often based on an underlying assumption of a person- or family-centred ideology. While nurses in ICUs acknowledge the importance of patients' families, a true integration of families as units of car...

j 6 F e b ru a ry 2 0 17 S and colleagues report for the first time the excess burden of invasive infections resulting in the admission of Indigenous children to general and paediatric intensive care units (ICUs) across Australia. This well conducted and culturally secure, retrospective analysis of data from the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Intensive Care (ANZPIC) registry produced sev...