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Filter by:Intensive care unit (ICU) is an important part of perioperative management for high-risk patients but is associated with higher medical costs. Improper ICU admission may produce overtreatment without beneficial effects. In clinical practice, delayed recovery after general anesthesia is a common indication for ICU admission after surgery. The concept of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery recommends early extubation. The investigators suppose that, for patients with planned ICU admission after elective surgery, implementing anesthesia quality improvement including extubation in the operating room will reduce the rate of ICU admission after surgery without increasing complications.
Capillary refill time is the time it takes for the skin to regain its initial colour after moderate pressure. It is usually performed on the patient index finger, middle finger or ring finger with the examiner's thumb and index finger for five seconds, three measurements having to be averaged. Capillary refill time has a dependent operator character, but it has been shown to be accurately correlated with 14-day mortality in septic shock, hospitalisation need in pediatric population. The purpose of this project is to show that capillary refill time obtained by a video-assisted method has a better inter- and intra-observer reproducibility than capillary refill time obtained by a visual method.
Status epilepticus (SE) is a common life-threatening neurological emergency in which prolonged or multiple closely spaced seizures can result in long-term impairments. SE remains associated with considerable mortality and morbidity, with little progress over the last three decades. The proportion of patients who die in the hospital is about 20% overall and 40% in patients with refractory SE. Morbidity is more difficult to evaluate, as adverse effects of SE are often difficult to differentiate from those attributed to the cause of SE. Our experience suggests that nearly 50% of patients may experience long-term functional impairments. The precise description of the consequences of these functional impairments and their impact on quality of life after SE requiring intensive care management has been little studied. Indeed, if cognitive, physical and mental impairments are now identified in the populations of patients who required intensive care under the term post-resuscitation syndrome (PICS), neuronal lesions consecutive to the SE itself or to its cause could be responsible for these different functional alterations. Thus, the following have been described: (i) cognitive disorders in the areas of attention, executive functions and verbal fluency, visual and working memory disorders, but also spatio-temporal disorders; (ii) physical disorders such as the so-called post-resuscitation polyneuromyopathy; and (iii) mental disorders such as anxiety disorders, depressive states or those related to post-traumatic stress. Assessment and characterization of patient-reported outcomes is essential to complement the holistic assessment of clinically relevant outcomes from the patient's perspective. Here, we propose the development of a cross-sectional collection of PROs of the different constituents of PICs and HR-QOLs, and associated with functional patient outcomes, in those who required ICU management for status epilepticus.
To study the pharmacokinetics of continuous infusion of remazolam in ICU mechanically ventilated critically ill patients, and the characteristics of PK in patients with liver failure; to explore whether liver failure affects the metabolism of remazolam by established population pharmacokinetics.
Statement of the problem: • Does the thoracic block technique has effect on atelectasis in Children on Mechanical Ventilation? Null hypothesis: • there is effect of thoracic block technique on atelectasis in children on Mechanical ventilation.
In this clinical study, the investigator will compare vital signs measurements obtained using the non-invasive, wireless VitalTracert monitoring devices (both a VT-Watch and a VT-Patch) to a proprietary continuous physiological data collection tool in 40 patients including 16 patients with an invasive arterial line catheter (radial or femoral) at the pediatric intensive care unit.
In mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care unit, anemia is commonly seen and it is probably associated with adverse outcomes including mortality. We aim to investigate the impact of duration of anemia and the duration of mechanical ventilation as well as clinical outcomes in critically ill patients in intensive care unit who required ventilatory support >96 hr.
Intensive care patients are exposed to serious infections. Mortality linked to these infections remains high and antibiotic therapy treatment optimization is one of the key points of therapeutic success . Pharmacokinetic therapeutic monitoring and dosage adjustments are recommended for large families of antibiotics such as glycopeptides and aminoglycosides for a long time, but to this day still insufficiently practiced. Concerning Beta-Lactamines this practice is recommended by french society of pharmacology and therapeutic (SFPT) and french society of anesthesiology and intensive care (SFAR) since 2018. The main goal of the POP-TDM-ICU study is to find the predictive factors of clinical therapeutic efficacy of antibiotic therapy in sepsis or septic shock in intensive care, among which the use of the dosage pharmacokinetics of antibiotic therapy (TDM = Therapeutic Drug Monitoring). This study is a non-interventional study. Patients bacterial samples already collected in standard care and additional plasma samples will be collected as part of a biological collection with the consent of the patient or family member.
Using data from the French National Uniform Hospital Discharge Database (systematically collecting administrative and medical information related to all hospitalized patients in France for care reimbursement purposes), the present study retrospectively assesses the activity of the French Intensive Care Unit (ICU)(1,594,801 ICU admissions): - In-ICU and in-hospital mortality rates - Length of stay in ICU and hospital - Mortality-associated factors during the study period. - Number of organ failures - Bed occupancy, - Regional variations in previous indicators
Randomized clinical trial that aims to evaluate the impact of the use of a diary in patients and relatives of patients admitted to an ICU in relation to usual practice in terms of health-related quality of life, the post-traumatic stress and anxiety/depression at 2, 6 and 12 months after ICU discharge.