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Filter by: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.
This study aims to compare the accuracy of the total thoracic fluid content (TFC) measured by electrical cardiometry with accuracy of lung ultrasound score in prediction of weaning outcome in mechanically ventilated patients.
In this prospective randomized controlled trial, investigators aim to study the effects and safety of bicarbonated Ringer's solution in patients with septic shock compared with lactated ringer's solution, and provide evidence for current fluid resuscitation strategies for septic shock.
Assessment of Efficacy and Safety of Tocilizumab Compared to DefeROxamine, associated with standards treatments in COVID-19 (+) patients, Hospitalized In Intensive care in Tunisia. Multicentric, comparative, randomized study.
The intense health crisis due to COVID-19 led to a profound reorganization of the activities at theatres, recovery rooms and the intensive care units. The caregivers are facing several issues and are daily exposed to an intensification of the work. Assessing the stress and the well-being of the caregivers is very important in this context.
We hypothesized that engaging families in the care of critically ill patients could improve outcome both at the family and at the patient levels. Thus, the aim of this project is to assess the effects of a family engagement program on family members' satisfaction and on patients' well-being and quality of life.
Preoxygenation is recommended before performing tracheal intubation. In intensive care units (ICU) patients, there is no specific recommendation regarding the duration of preoxygenation, which usually is applied for 3 to 5 minutes. Monitoring the effectiveness of preoxygenation with end-tidal oxygen concentration (EtO2) is strongly recommended in the operating room but it is never used in ICUs. The first aim of this pilot study is to assess the effect of the preoxygenation duration on EtO2, and secondarily, as an exploratory objective, to determine whether targeting a given value of EtO2 during preoxygenation might insure a safer intubation than when targeting pulse oximetry (SpO2).
This study is a randomized clinical trial of an intervention to improve outcomes for patients and their family by using ICU nurse facilitators to support, model, and teach communication strategies that enable patients and their families to secure care in line with patients' goals of care over an illness trajectory, beginning in the ICU and continuing to care in the community.
The French intensive care societies (SRLF and SFAR), in agreement with the European and American societies for enteral and parenteral nutrition, recommend to quickly administer an artificial nutrition to patients admitted to ICU and for which it is expected that they will not be able to eat normally in the three days of admission. Enteral nutrition should be used in priority if the gut is functioning. However, intolerance to enteral nutrition, such as vomiting, regurgitation, increased residual gastric volume, or diarrhea, occurs in 40% of patients hospitalized in ICU receiving enteral nutrition. Intolerance to enteral nutrition leads to the risk of not receiving enough nutrition. Feeding intolerance also exposes to the risk of acute mesenteric ischemia, especially in the most severe patients under catecholamine for shock. Currently, it is not possible to predict intolerance to enteral nutrition in ICU patients. Thus, the diagnosis of intolerance is made a posteriori while enteral nutrition is in progress. Citrullinemia (normal concentration of 20 to 60 μmol / L), could be a good biomarker of the function of enterocytes involved in the absorption of food. The aim of this study is to evaluate the interest of citrullinemia to predict tolerance to enteral nutrition in ICU patients.
the investigators aim to set up a multicenter registry study for severe PJP requiring ICU admission. The purpose of this study is 1. to establish a prospective severe PJP registry about clinical characteristics, laboratory and radiographic findings, critical care management and outcomes. 2. to explore the predictive factors associated with outcomes ; 3. to compare the difference between PJP patients with HIV and without HIV infection.