Journal of critical care
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Journal of critical care · Jun 2014
Impact of Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status on hospital mortality in critically ill patients.
This study evaluates the association between the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG-PS) and hospital mortality in general critically ill patients. ⋯ Preadmission PS, assessed with ECOG-PS in critically ill patients, has prognostic value in general critically ill patients.
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Journal of critical care · Jun 2014
An analysis of medicine costs of adult patients on a critical care unit.
To evaluate the costs of medicines used to treat critically ill patients in an intensive care environment and to correlate this with severity of illness and mortality. ⋯ Although the median daily drug cost for an adult critically ill patient was low, this cost significantly escalated with patient acuity and hematologic malignancy. A reference method has been designed for an in-depth evaluation of daily drug cost that could be used to compare expenditure in other units.
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Journal of critical care · Jun 2014
The potential efficacy of noninvasive ventilation with administration of a neutrophil elastase inhibitor for acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) can reduce the need for invasive mechanical ventilation. The aim of this investigation was to determine whether the combination of NIV with administration of a neutrophil elastase inhibitor could improve outcome and respiratory conditions in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)-patients, according to the Berlin definition. ⋯ Administration of neutrophil elastase inhibitor with NIV may be associated with successful outcome in mild-to-moderate ARDS-patients with initial PaO2/FiO2>150.