Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Multicenter StudyIncreased risk of death and readmission after hospital discharge of critically ill patients in a developing country: a retrospective multicenter cohort study.
To describe long-term mortality and hospital readmissions of patients admitted to Brazilian intensive care units (ICU). ⋯ In a public healthcare system of a developing country, ICU patients have excessive long-term mortality and frequent readmissions. The ICU burden tended to reduce over time after hospital discharge.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining therapy in older adults (≥ 80 years) admitted to the intensive care unit.
To document and analyse the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (LST) in a population of very old patients admitted to the ICU. ⋯ The most important patient variables associated with the instigation of LST limitation were acute admission, frailty, age, admission SOFA score and country.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Correction to: Infection-related ventilator-associated complications in ICU patients colonised with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae.
The members of the OUTCOMEREA Study Group were provided in such a way that they could not be indexed as collaborators on PubMed. The publisher apologizes for this error and is pleased to list the members of the group here.
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A population-level description and analysis of sepsis-related mortality in China is key to the planning and assessment of interventional strategies. ⋯ The standardized sepsis-related mortality rate in China was high and varied according to socioeconomic indices, even though some uncertainty remained.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Impact of the driving pressure on mortality in obese and non-obese ARDS patients: a retrospective study of 362 cases.
The relation between driving pressure (plateau pressure-positive end-expiratory pressure) and mortality has never been studied in obese ARDS patients. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between 90-day mortality and driving pressure in an ARDS population ventilated in the intensive care unit (ICU) according to obesity status. ⋯ Contrary to non-obese ARDS patients, driving pressure was not associated with mortality in obese ARDS patients.