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Filter by:Reactive or secondary thrombocytosis is defined as abnormally high platelet count (≥4,50,000 platelets per micro-liter) in the absence of chronic myeloproliferative disease. In critically ill patients reactive thrombocytosis is not uncommon during recovery phase and an association has been seen with poor outcome and increased risk of subsequent VTE. However, not all patients with infection respond with thrombocytosis. No study has enumerated the risk factors or predictors of reactive thrombocytosis in critically ill septic patients.
Objective: Test the ability of vibration to produce physiologic, biochemical, and anatomic changes consistent with exercise that would help prevent the development of muscle weakness that occurs when patients are immobile for long periods of time.
This is a Randomized Controlled Trial . The purpose of this study is to assess the hypothesis that whether a high protein diet combined with a physical activity protocol in surgical cancer patients admitted to the ICU in the post operative period is associated with better physical function at the hospital discharge as well as a better quality of life.
The study will explore barriers in the process of achieving informed consent from critically ill patients
Within clinical settings observation of hemodynamic changes (e.g. mean systemic filling pressure, cardiac output) in critically ill patients with a clinical indication for deresuscitation with intravenous diuretic therapy.
Sepsis has been characterised as a dysregulated host response to infection. Adjunctive therapies targeting the inflammatory cascade are being increasingly explored, although to date, have failed to demonstrate consistent benefit, and sepsis continues to manifest poor outcomes. Hospital mortality in patients with septic shock remains as high as 22% in Australia and New Zealand. From a global perspective, 31 million sepsis and 19 million severe sepsis cases are expected to be treated in hospitals all over the world per year. To date, experimental data have reported that both high dose intravenous vitamin C and corticosteroids attenuate the acceleration of the inflammatory cascade and possibly reduce the endothelial injury characteristic of sepsis, enhance the release of endogenous catecholamines and improve vasopressor responsiveness. Therefore, the investigators plan to conduct a feasibility pilot prospective, multi-centre, randomised, open-label, trial in ICU patients with septic shock to test whether the intravenous administration of high dose Vitamin C (6g/d), Thiamine (400mg/d) and Hydrocortisone (200mg/d) leads to a more rapid resolution shock and vasopressor dependence.
Critically ill Patients are at high risk to develop deep venous thrombosis. However, despite receiving of a standard dose of Low-molecular-weight Heparin（LMWH）, many patients still develop life-threatening embolism. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the anti-Xa levels of different dosing regimens of LMWH in critically ill patients in China.
Despite the widespread use of nutrition therapy, no large scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have demonstrated positive outcomes with delivery of nutrition therapy early in critical illness, with some showing no effect with delayed nutrition or even harm. There are several possible reasons for the lack of observed benefit from RCTs to date; interventions have been short in duration (usually 3-10 days after intensive care unit (ICU) admission), perhaps applied at the incorrect time in regards to the patients metabolism and recovery, do not consider the patients nutrition risk, and have not addressed what happens to nutrition intake post ICU in critically ill individuals. This may explain why RCTs to date have not observed any positive associations with the delivery of nutrition; our focus to date may have been on the wrong stage of illness. A future study is thus urgently needed, which addresses the deficiencies in current RCTs by optimizing nutrition delivery for the whole hospital stay and collecting meaningful clinical, process and outcome data, which will potentially inform a larger trial of a similar nature. This initial study aims to determine whether optimization of energy using a pre-tested supplemental parenteral nutrition (PN) strategy in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and an intensive nutrition intervention in the post ICU period will deliver more total energy than standard nutrition care during hospital admission in a group of critically ill patients with at least one organ system failure.
Since its first description in 1971, diagnosing adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD), a rare multisystemic disorder considered as a multigenic autoinflammatory syndrome, remains challenging. Rarely, AOSD may present severe systemic manifestations and require intensive care. The main purpose of the Stil ICU study is to make the first description of the epidemiology of critically ill AOSD patients. The investigators will use a retrospective cohort study design with dual recruitment strategies: (1) via the AOSD referral centres network and (2) via a French academic medical ICU network.
The aim of this study is to investigate whether an individualized determination of energy requirements using indirect calorimetry instead of a formula-based approach leads to an optimized nutritional support and as a consequence to an optimized nutritional status of the critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients measured by the phase angle.