INTRODUCTION Economic evaluations of interventions in the hospital setting often rely on the estimated long-term impact on patient survival. Estimates of mortality rates and long-term outcomes among patients discharged alive from the intensive care unit (ICU) are lacking from lower- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to assess the long-term survival and life expectancy (LE) amongst p...

BACKGROUND Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) systems are recommended to improve patient safety and outcomes. However, their effectiveness has been questioned. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of CPOE implementation on the outcome of critically ill patients. METHODS This was an observational before-after study carried out in a 21-bed medical and surgical intensive care unit (IC...

Ariel M Modrykamien has provided an excellent review of the long-term consequences of treatment in the ICU and the importance of developing ICU clinics to provide comprehensive care to ICU survivors.1 The long-term outcomes of post-ICU admission include reductions in quality of life, lung function, and nutritional status, and impacts on psychological outcomes and cognition. Patients and their c...

To identify predictive factors and mortality of patients with influenza admitted to intensive care units (ICU) we carried out a prospective cohort study of patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza in adult ICUs in a network of Canadian hospitals between 2006 and 2012. There were 626 influenza-positive patients admitted to ICUs over the six influenza seasons, representing 17·9% ...

introduction:poisoning is a common reasons for hospitalization in all over the world and exhausts a substantial share of health resources.khoramabad is a rather large city in iran but there has been no study about incidence of poisoned patients especially grave ones who are hospitalized in icus, thus we designed this study to epidemiologicall assess these patients in two major referral centers ...

abstract        background and objective: staphylococcus aureus is the most common and important infectious agent. this bacterium can enter the bloodstream and cause some complications in the intensive care unit (icu).this organism can frequently be found in the nose and transmitted by the carriers. this study aimed to determine the efficiency of eradicating s. aureus from the nose of icu perso...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact on ICU performance of a modular training program in three resource-limited general adult ICUs in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal. METHOD A modular ICU training programme was evaluated using performance indicators from June 2009 to June 2012 using an interrupted time series design with an 8 to 15 month pre-intervention and 18 to 24 month post-intervention period. IC...

IMPORTANCE Little is known about functional trajectories of older persons in the year before and after admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) or how pre-ICU functional trajectories affect post-ICU functional trajectories and death. OBJECTIVES To characterize functional trajectories in the year before and after ICU admission and to evaluate the associations among pre-ICU functional traject...

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients present long-lasting physical and neuropsychological impairment, which may require rehabilitation. OBJECTIVES: The current cross-sectional study characterizes post COVID-19 sequelae persistent symptoms in an outpatient rehabilitation program. METHODS: Thirty [16 post-ICU 14 non-ICU; median age = 54(43.8–62) years; 19 men] presenting and/o...

OBJECTIVE The effectiveness of rapid response teams remains controversial. However, many studied rapid response teams were not intensivist-led, had limited involvement beyond the initial activations, and did not provide post-ICU follow-up. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of implementing an intensivist-led multidisciplinary extended rapid response team on hospital-wide card...