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Filter by:Primary objective is to evaluate the feasibility of delivering an online early Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Recent Traumatic Events Protocol (R-TEP) to patients who have survived Covid-19 related critical illness, within the context of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). This will inform the design of a future RCT investigating the effectiveness of EMDR R-TEP in reducing psychological symptoms, for adult survivors of intensive care.
The project is a longitudinal cohort study based on an electronic questionnaire on views and experiences of COVID-ICU Health care professionals during the pandemic. In addition, a few of the informants participating in the cohort study will be asked to participate in focus groups to get a deeper understanding of the experiences of Health care professionals. Leaders at the randomized hospitals will be asked to participate in individualized interviews.
In this study the investigators will validate the impact of comorbidity on readmission to intensive care unit (ICU) and mortality after ICU and which method of measuring comorbidity that is most predictive. The study population included all critical care patients' registries in Swedish intensive care registry (SIR) during the years 2005 to 2012 with valid personal identity number. Data from Statistics Sweden och National Board of Health and Welfare were linked to data from SIR and de-identified. Hospital discharge diagnoses from five year preceding the index date for the ICU admission were extracted. A composite outcome of death and readmission will be analyzed. Analyzes with cox proportional-hazards regression, time to event, on the training data set year 2005-2010 The study population will be split in a training data set (2005-10) and a test data set (2011-12) for validating our prognostic model. The predictive ability in the test data set were evaluated based on discrimination, AUC (C index), Calibration and Brier score.
the number of immunocompromised patients hospitalized in the intensive care units (ICU) is increasing. They are at higher risk of colonization and/or infection with multi-resistant bacteria (MDR). However this risk is not well characterized. ICU acquired infections related to MDR are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study is to compare the incidence of ICU-acquired colonization and ICU-acquired infection related to MDR between immunocompromized and immunocompetent patients. The risk factors for ICU-acquired colonization and ICU-acquired infections, and their impact on outcome will also be evaluated and compared between immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients.
The study Short description of the protocol intended for the lay public. Include a brief statement of the study hypothesis. (Limit: 5000 characters) Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) are drug capable of inducing a complete paralysis of the muscle. Their use is frequent in the intensive care unit (ICU). Most of the time it is used as a single infusion to facilitate endotracheal intubation, but in the ICU the use of continuous infusion is common in several pathologies: acute distress respiratory syndrome, post-cardiac arrest survivor under hypothermia to prevent shivering, abdominal compartment syndrome, severe traumatic brain injury with uncontrolled intra-cranial pressure and severe asthma among others. A monitoring of the dose of NMBAs is recommended to guide the depth of paralysis and to guide recovery, but in the ICU, the interest of such a monitoring during continuous infusion is unclear and the level of evidence is low. The investigators propose to conduct a prospective multicentric observational study to describe the current practice in the use of NMBAs in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU. As a primary objective we will describe the prevalence of NMBAs use in the ICU. As a secondary objective, the investigators will investigate the impact of protocol and/or monitoring devices of NMBAs on the dose administered and clinical outcome endpoints.
The amount of fluids characterized as non-resuscitation fluids given to ICU patients are likely to be high and will probably have a substantial impact on the total amount of fluid administered to ICU patients daily. It will most likely also influence on the total fluid balance and the negative outcome of fluid overload. The aim of our study is to investigate the amount of fluid given as maintenance fluids in the ICU and the impact of this fluid on total fluid balance.
The prevalence of and risk factors for pressure ulcers (PUs) in critically ill patients have been poorly studied. The main objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of PUs in critically ill patients. Secondary objectives were to describe PUs, means of prevention of PUs, and factors associated with occurrence of PUs in the ICU.
This study will describe the change of mitochondrial oxygen tension (mitoPO2) compared to traditional parameters of oxygenation and oxygen balance in the first 24 hours of septic patients admitted to the intensive care unit of an academic hospital. The mitoPO2 will be measured on prespecified measurement moments in the ICU. With each measurement moment, arterial and central venous blood gasses will be taken too.
In this mono-center pilot trial, polytrauma patients admitted to intensive care will be included. Investigators are going to take blood and muscle samples at respecified time points to do metabolic, histological and molecular testing. Aim of the study is to investigate (1) changes of the blood metabolome in patients with ICUAW (intensive care unit acquired weakness) and (2) identify metabolic components who are responsible for ICUAW or can be used as marker for ICUAW.
This is a prospective analysis of patient registry data of intensive care patients. The aim is to investigate if frailty is a predictor of decline of functional status of critically ill patients during their hospital stay.