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Filter by:Postoperative care of high risk patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has for long been considered to be the gold standard of care in terms of reducing perioperative mortality.New evidence from a 7-day cohort study involving 27 countries comes to question this practice. The primary objective of our study is to detect any benefit of postoperative ICU care after elective surgery in terms of patient's outcome, length of hospital stay, complications and cost.
This study aims at assessing the respiratory mechanics of intubated patients in intensive care unit.
This study is part of a project intended to develop guidelines to optimise the dosing of fentanyl in intensive care patients. This study will focus on determining: - Whether the pharmacokinetics of fentanyl change during the ICU stay. - To what extent / the degree of change in fentanyl pharmacokinetics in ICU patients. - Which factors (e.g. physiological variables) that cause such a change. - Based on simulations, determine context-sensitive half-times of fentanyl in ICU patients.
Nicotine patches are frequently used in smoking patients during their stay in the ICU in order to avoid tobacco's weaning symptoms which are likely to interfere with mechanical ventilation weaning. Until now the effectiveness of this treatment has not been proven. The aim of this study (NICOREA study) is to determine if a difference exists on the duration of mechanical ventilation once patients receive or not a nicotine substitute.