Critical care medicine
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To provide a conceptual and clinical review of Middle East respiratory syndrome. ⋯ This syndrome has raised global public health concerns about the dissemination of an emerging infectious disease and highlights the need for a coordinated global response to contain such a disease threat.
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Critical care medicine · Jun 2015
Stress Disorders Following Prolonged Critical Illness in Survivors of Severe Sepsis.
To examine the frequency of acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder in chronically critically ill patients with a specific focus on severe sepsis, to classify different courses of stress disorders from 4 weeks to 6 months after transfer from acute care hospital to postacute rehabilitation, and to identify patients at risk by examining the relationship between clinical, demographic, and psychological variables and stress disorder symptoms. ⋯ A regular screening of post-ICU patients after discharge from hospital should be an integral part of aftercare management. The underlying mechanisms of severe sepsis in the development of posttraumatic stress disorder need further examination.
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Critical care medicine · Jun 2015
Editorial CommentElectronic health record: what do you expect from them?