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In the developed world critical illness is routinely treated in an intensive care unit (ICU) by highly specialized physicians, nurses and support staff. This model of intensive care is spreading rapidly to low and middle income countries and as it spreads, challenges and limitations to this model arise. In resource-poor settings, inadequate human resources, training, and equipment all present barriers to safe and effective use of life-saving procedures. The advances in medical informatics and human factors engineering have provided tremendous opportunity for novel and user-friendly clinical decision support (CDS) tools that can be applied in a complex and busy hospital setting. Real-time data feeds and standardized patient care tasks in a simulated acute care environment have been proven to have a significant advantage of a novel interface (compared to a conventional) in reducing provider cognitive load and errors. Currently researchers within the investigator's research group have developed and are pilot testing a simple electronic decision support tool: CERTAIN (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Illness). This tool has been successfully tested and validated in simulated settings and is being implemented as pilot study in 18 countries. Worldwide infant and early childhood mortality continues to be very high partly due to the inability to recognize and respond aggressively to critical illnesses. Investigators expect that adaptation of the algorithms from CERTAIN has potential to be a powerful tool to improve on the medical care of children in developing countries. Investigators aim in this project is 1) to develop a pediatric adaptation of CERTAIN (CERTAINp) and 2) to implement it into clinical practice in resource-poor settings and evaluate the impact of the tool on the processes and patient outcomes.
The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence, type, and possible risk factors of RTA in critically ill patients using a physical-chemical approach.
The purposes of this study are 1) to determine whether neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) is effective in preventing loss of muscle mass and strength and 2) to observe the time variation of MLT and strength from preoperative day to hospital discharge.
Mechanical ventilation (MV) is a vital support tool for critically ill patients. However, it may present several adverse effects, such as the development of cognitive and psychopathological alterations. Patient-ventilator asynchronies occur frequently since the beginning of the MV. These asynchronies are associated with poor clinical outcome and could be responsible for the neuronal changes causing these alterations. The objective of this project is to analyze the influence of patient-ventilation asynchronies in the development of long-term cognitive/psychopathological impairments and to explore the molecular mechanisms that could explain of these alterations. An exploratory, observational, multicenter, non-interventionist study will be performed in 150 ICU patients. The continuous recording of asynchronies and other clinical variables during ICU stay and the results of neuropsychological assessments will enable to identify clinical clusters associated with cognitive/psychopathological impairments.
Introduction- Hospital acquired infections (HAI) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality and increase health care costs. Critically ill patients are particularly susceptible to these infections and have an even higher mortality. One intervention that has gained much interest in the medical literature for reducing infection rates and deaths from HAIs is selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD). SDD involves the application of antibiotic paste to the mouth, throat, stomach and a short course of intravenous antibiotics. The evidence supporting the use of SDD for saving lives and preventing infections is actually quite strong. However, health care professionals in many parts of the world have refrained from using SDD due to fears of the effects of overuse of antibiotics on the frequency of infections with resistant bacteria such as multi-resistant Gram negative organisms, MRSA and Clostridium difficile. SuDDICU is a cross-over, cluster randomised trial comparing the effect of using selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) plus standard care, to standard care alone on hospital mortality in patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). Secondary outcomes include an ecological assessment and a long-term health economic analysis.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the pharmacokinetics and lung penetration of intravenous Ceftolozane/tazobactam in critically ill participants.
Acute lower gastrointestinal dysfunction is a kind of much common complication which occurred in critically ill patients. Once it developed, enteral nutrition would be disturbed. In this study, investigators suppose that early application of a sufficient amount of pectin ahead of enteral nutrition, may promote recovery of acute lower gastrointestinal dysfunction in critically ill patients, and exert its good effect on early EN support. Investigators designed this prospective randomized controlled trial to test and evaluates the effect whether EN feeding with or without a pectin start would be safe or with advanced clinical outcomes.
The purposes of this study were to investigate the caloric requirement and clinical outcomes in mechanically ventilated critically ill elderly patients and identify those at high nutritional risk who require high protein formula intervention.
PARME study had 3 objectives: - To identify the specific number of incarcerated individuals with terminal illness in need of palliative care. - To describe the health and penal situation of these prisoners. - To analyse the situation of these ill prisoners especially in the context of suspended sentence for medical ground In order to answer these questions, the investigators used a mixed method research.