Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Dec 1996
Comparative StudyMeningococcal disease: a comparison of eight severity scores in 125 children.
To investigate the accuracy of eight different prognostic scores (Stiehm, Niklasson, Leclerc, Garlund, the MOC score, Tesero, the Glasgow Meningococcal Septicaemia Prognostic Score (GMSPS) and Tüyzüs) in the prediction of fatal outcome in meningococcal disease. ⋯ The GMSPS is a simple score that can be reliably used for risk classification and the identification of low-risk patients.
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Intensive care medicine · Dec 1996
Impaired gastric emptying in mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients.
To measure gastric emptying in critically ill patients using an acetaminophen absorption model and determine which variables are associated with impaired gastric emptying. ⋯ Gastric emptying is delayed in critically ill patients. The important consequences of this phenomenon include intolerance to enteral nutrition and gastric colonization. Strategies to minimize the use of narcotics may improve gastric emptying. Studies to examine the effect of gastrointestinal prokinetic agents on gastric emptying are needed.
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Intensive care medicine · Dec 1996
Measuring health and health state preferences among critically ill patients.
a) to examine the EuroQol instrument's ability to assess a patient's state of health prior to admission to an ICU; b) to describe a patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL) before the onset of the condition leading to admission to the ICU, and prior to discharge; c) to compare patients' preferences for a "common core" of EuroQol health states with preferences from healthy individuals. ⋯ The EuroQol can be reliably used with proxies to determine the state of health of patients prior to admission to the ICU. Preferences between healthy individuals and ICU patients differed.