Critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Forum
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Multicenter Study
Potential risk factors for reduced quality of life and increased health care utilization in ARDS survivors: results from the multicenter cohort study DACAPO.
To analyze the association of individual pre-ICU risk factors (obesity, physical and mental comorbidity, smoking status) on the long-term recovery process in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS; outcomes: health related quality of life, health care utilization; measured at 12, 24, and 36 months after ICU discharge). ⋯ Identifying relevant pre-existing risk factors, such as mental health problems, will enable the identification of at-risk patients, thus aiding in the improvement of long-term healthcare for survivors of critical illness.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Haemoglobin values, transfusion practices, and long-term outcomes in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury: a secondary analysis of CENTER-TBI.
Haemoglobin (Hb) thresholds and red blood cells (RBC) transfusion strategies in traumatic brain injury (TBI) are controversial. Our objective was to assess the association of Hb values with long-term outcomes in critically ill TBI patients. We conducted a secondary analysis of CENTER-TBI, a large multicentre, prospective, observational study of European TBI patients. ⋯ The increase of hemoglobin value was associated with the decrease of mortality (OR 0.88; 95% CI 0.76-1.00); haemoglobin values less than 7.5 g/dL was associated with an increase of mortality (OR 3.21; 95% CI 1.59-6.49). Anaemia was independently associated with long-term unfavourable neurological outcomes and mortality in critically ill TBI patients. Trial registration: CENTER-TBI is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02210221, last update 2022-11-07.
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Though the novel venous excess ultrasound (VExUS) score is increasingly used as a noninvasive means of venous congestion measurement, the inter-rater reliability (IRR), inter-user reproducibility (IUR), and utility of concurrent ECG have not been evaluated. We conducted a multicenter study of the IRR, IUR, and utility of ECG for VExUS interpretation between four attending physicians of diverse specialties, reporting the Kappa statistic (KS) and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) for IRR and IUR for scans with and without ECG. ⋯ There was greater agreement among images with an ECG tracing. These results suggest that ECG-augmented VExUS may be a reliable and reproducible measure interpretable by clinicians with diverse backgrounds.