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The purpose of this study is to determine how often ventilator associated pneumonia happens in the current intensive care units, and how types of endotracheal tube affect its occurrence.
42 patients admitted in ICU with intolerance to enteral feeding (GRV more than 250 ml) are recruited. All patients enter a primary acetaminophen absorption test study as baseline. Serum levels of acetaminophen will be measured by florescence polarization method at 15,30,45,60,90,120,180,240,480 minutes after enteral administration of 975 mg acetaminophen. Then the patients will be randomized to methylnaltrexone or erythromycin group.Another acetaminophen absorption test with the same schedule will be done after the last dose of each drug.The area under the curve for acetaminophen blood level will be used to compare the effect of two studied drugs on gastric emptying time.
The objective in this project is to assemble a consortium of pediatric critical care centers of varying size, acuity, and composition to evaluate our glycemic control protocol on at least 250 children with hyperglycemia in different critical care units. ***This Study is supported by an R21 Grant (MRR) from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
We will test whether the way that an intensive care unit is organized can influence patient related outcomes such as mortality. We will test whether who works in the ICU, and how the ICU is managed will affect the care received by patients. The primary study hypothesis is whether the number of clinical protocols present in an intensive care unit is linked to patient mortality
The specific aim of this study is to identify the degree of correlation between real time subcutaneous glucose monitoring and intermittent glucose monitoring using capillary glucose samples, arterial blood samples and venous blood samples in critically ill surgical patients. A secondary aim will be to determine the accuracy of real time glucose monitoring.
The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of a multi-faceted communication intervention for family members of critically ill patients to reduce the family members' long-term symptoms of depression and anxiety.
Each year, 110,000 English/Welsh patients are admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICU). Many face prolonged disability as a result. Over two thirds have moderate-extreme limitation in their usual activity a year later, and one-third are severely affected, being unable to continue "most activities," or to live independently. Quite why known- but severe muscle wasting isn't may play an important role. We hope to find out, measuring the degree of wasting in patients, and seeking potential causes. We shall also address the mechanism of wasting, which may reflect an altered balance of activity in muscle growth pathways and those that break muscle down. We'll do this by collecting data, taking regular blood tests, scanning the leg muscles with an ultrasound machine, and analysing small muscle samples. In addition, we'll accurately and objectively measure how impaired these patients become, using specialist questionnaires, special monitoring equipment, simple walking tests and occasional special ('Cardio-Pulmonary') exercise tests. We'll try to see how badly activity is limited, and tease out whether muscle weakness plays a significant role in this. Finally, keeping muscles working (hard to do when unconscious/drowsy/bed-bound) may maintain muscle mass, so we'll see whether maintaining muscle activity using painless electrical stimulation will help.
The purpose of this pilot study is to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and safety of a new feeding protocol, "The Enhanced Protein-Energy Provision via the Enteral Route in Critically Ill Patients: The PEP uP protocol."
This project proposes to measure delay to admission to Intensive Care (ICU). Delays in the United Kingdom NHS are widely reported possibly because there are fewer ICU beds than in many other developed health care systems. Patients are inevitably admitted with more severe illness. Scores measuring this severity are used for research and benchmarking. However, although patients deteriorate over time, severity is probably neither directly nor linearly related to the duration of illness. Instead it is likely that the characteristics of severity change with time. In sepsis there is good biological evidence of this so that there is an early pro-inflammatory stage followed by later changes in metabolic, neuroendocrine, and immune systems. In addition to examining the effect of duration of illness prior to ICU admission, the investigators will also therefore investigate how severity changes over time. SPOT(Light) is a prospective observational study. Treatment is not modified in anyway. Patients evaluated on the ward by critical care outreach teams, and subsequently admitted to critical care will be eligible. Severity of illness at the time of initial evaluation and eventual admission will be compared, and the effect of the duration of illness on 90 day survival investigated.