Journal of critical care
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Journal of critical care · Mar 2002
Patient characteristics and costs of severe sepsis and septic shock in Quebec.
We investigated the cost of health care resources for the treatment of severe sepsis and/or septic shock patients. ⋯ The cost of severe sepsis is a significant burden to the Quebec health care system.
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Journal of critical care · Mar 2002
Barbiturate coma for intracranial hypertension: clinical observations.
To determine the neurologic outcome of patients with intracranial hypertension treated with barbiturate-induced coma. ⋯ Intracranial hypertension was caused by head trauma in 28 patients and subarachnoid hemorrhage in 21 patients. Eight of the head trauma patients and 5 of the patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage survived their hospital stay. The survivors were younger than the nonsurvivors, and had a good neurologic status after 1 year (except for 2 patients who died 1 and 3 months after discharge, respectively). There was no significant difference in the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) on admission between the survivors and the nonsurvivors. The long-term outcome at 1 year was markedly better in the patients who had experienced a subarachnoid hemorrhage than in the trauma patients.
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Journal of critical care · Dec 2001
Measuring family satisfaction with care in the intensive care unit: the development of a questionnaire and preliminary results.
To develop and test the feasibility of administering a questionnaire to measure family members' level of satisfaction with care provided to them and their critically ill relative. ⋯ This questionnaire has some measure of reliability and validity and is feasible to administer to next of kin of critically ill patients.