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ICU Related Topics 
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 22, 2024
However, the usefulness of an ICU-based model to predict latent shock risk in an emergency department (ED) setting remains unclear. An adult noninvasive model was constructed based on the MIMIC-IV-ICU v3.0 Multiple regression analysis of the MIMIC-IV-ICU and MIMIC-IV-ED datasets showed mostly similar characteristics.
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
To investigate the independent risk factors for postoperative prolonged ICU stay in patients with Stanford type A aortic dissection (TAAD) and assess the clinical outcomes of prolonged ICU stay.
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CTVS
JANUARY 23, 2024
35-year-old Tamara Fort is an ICU nurse and what many would consider the epitome of good health. She lifts weights three to four times a week and watches her nutrition closely. She isn’t someone you would consider to be at risk for heart disease. “I always chalked it up to some kind of… Source
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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Critical Care
JANUARY 20, 2023
News Surgeon or Intensivist: Who’s Taking Charge in the ICU? eacevedo Fri, 01/20/2023 - 12:01 2 min read
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Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Given the potential adverse effects of thrombolysis, patients are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for close monitoring following administration. 54 (20.6%) required ICU level of care. Characteristics of those requiring ICU level of care are described in Table 1.
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HCPLive
DECEMBER 14, 2023
mortality rate among patients with cancer and AKI due to a variety of risk factors, ranging from length of ICU stay to sepsis. Results showed a 50.5%
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HCPLive
DECEMBER 18, 2023
The data from these meta-analyses highlight the value of developing systems to promote daily toothbrushing among those who have been hospitalized and, particularly, those on mechanical ventilation.
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The New England Journal of Medicine
DECEMBER 4, 2024
A 22-year-old woman with headache and fever was transferred to the ICU for respiratory failure. Head CT was notable for acute subarachnoid hemorrhage; transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography was also performed (shown in a video). A diagnosis was made.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
BackgroundThe serum lactate/albumin ratio (LAR) is commonly employed for monitoring and evaluating the prognosis of critically ill patients. Both elevated lactate levels and decreased albumin levels may reflect the body's stress response and inflammatory reaction.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 17, 2024
Results After PSM, the OAC+group had a higher 30-day survival rate compared to the OAC- group (81.59% vs. 58.10%; P < 0.001) in the ICU. days; P = 0.15) and ICU LOS (6.93 The sepsis patients using warfarin had a prolonged LOS in ICU and hospital compared with the sepsis patients using NOAC. days vs. 16.66 days vs. 5.92
Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology
MARCH 14, 2024
million expansion for advanced cardiovascular care, including new ICU, operating rooms, and labs. Emory University Hospital completes $87.7
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 22, 2024
Additionally, the ICU stay time was shorter, with a significant decrease in neurological complications and 24 h drainage in the branch priority group compared to the classic group. Therefore, it is recommended for use in aortic dissection surgeries.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
MARCH 14, 2024
In the present manuscript, we suggest a standardized training phase in preparation of the first ICU rotation, propose a modular CCC core curriculum, and outline how training components could be conceptualized within three sub-specialization tracks for aspiring cardiac intensivists.
Cardiovascular Diabetology
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
The burden of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains heavy. Glycaemic control is important in the AF management. Glycaemic variability (GV), an emerging marker of glycaemic control,
Med Page Today
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
(MedPage Today) -- A dedicated temperature management machine dampened the risk of fever for stroke patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), though this did not translate into better functional outcomes months later in the INTREPID randomized.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DECEMBER 8, 2024
However, its ability to predict mortality risk in critically ill patients during their stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) remains uncertain. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality during ICU and hospital stay, while secondary endpoints included the duration of ICU stay and overall hospitalization period.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Final models were chosen to optimise area under the curve (AUC) score while ensuring interpretability.ResultsOverall, 128 (6.9%) patients died in hospital, with 292 (15.7%) patients requiring ICU admission and 373 (20.0%) patients with LVEF < 40%. for ICU admission, and 0.74 for in-hospital mortality, 0.78 for LVEF < 40%.
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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital
DECEMBER 4, 2024
The summit was designed to cater to a diverse audience, including cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiac anesthesiologists, CT residents, perfusionists, and ICU and OR nurses.
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Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
ICU stay for more than 48 hours was defined as prolonged ICU stay.Results:Out of 363 patients, 41.6% (n=151) required a prolonged ICU stay. ICU stay for more than 48 hours was defined as prolonged ICU stay.Results:Out of 363 patients, 41.6% (n=151) required a prolonged ICU stay. vs. 1.9%, p = 0.0109).
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
OCTOBER 13, 2024
BackgroundIn the ICU, patients with acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock (AMI-CS) often face high mortality rates, making timely and precise mortality risk prediction crucial for clinical decision-making. We included ICU patients diagnosed with AMI-CS.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Despite medical interventions, her family chose to withdraw treatment and the patient died in ICU at the fourth day following emergency surgery.
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Medical Xpress - Cardiology
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Findings from the first international randomized controlled trial to compare patient outcomes following treatment with large-bore mechanical thrombectomy (LBMT) versus catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) show that LBMT is superior with respect to the hierarchically-tested aggregated outcome of all-cause (..)
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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Volume 3, Issue S2 , November 1, 2023.
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Coronary Artery Disease Journal
OCTOBER 23, 2023
Adverse hospital outcomes included in-hospital mortality, prolonged length of stay (LOS), vasopressor use, mechanical ventilation, and ICU admission. vs. 9.7%, P < 0.001), and ICU admission (33.0% 3.32), and ICU admission (aOR 3.51, 95% CI: 3.12–3.96) Prolonged LOS was defined as any hospital LOS ≥ 75th percentile.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
OCTOBER 8, 2024
ObjectiveApproximately 10%–70% of patients may develop diaphragmatic dysfunction after cardiac surgery, which may lead to delayed weaning from mechanical ventilation, increased ICU stays, postoperative hospitalization stays, and respiratory complications. However, its impact on prognosis and risk factors remain controversy.
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Circulation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Patients were divided into two cohorts: 85% for training and 15% for testing, with 126 features included in the predictive model.Results:Incorporating top 10 features, LightGBM (AUROC=0.886, 95% CI 0.841-0.930) excelled in predictive accuracy, calibration, and clinical utility, identifying key factors such as ventilation time in ICU, hourly urine output (..)
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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
MAY 22, 2024
The patient stabilized and was transferred for ICU admission. Labs resulted, showing a potassium of 8.0 mEq/L, glucose of greater than 900 mg/dL, and anion gap metabolic acidosis consistent with DKA. He was discharged home several days later. Both together are VERY likely to be due to hyperkalemia.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 14, 2024
Data collected included demographics, surgical details, postoperative complications, length of stay, ICU hours, salvage procedures, intubation duration, and mortality.
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Analysis of the 2 groups after PSM showed the differences in residual ASD/VSD, peak airway pressure, fraction of inspired oxygen/partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2/FiO2), and partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) before return to the intensive care unit (ICU) and extubation were not statistically significant between groups, whereas mechanical ventilation (..)
Circulation
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
Background:The relationship between anion gap (AG) and short-term mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) sepsis patients complicated by pulmonary hypertension (PH) remains unclear.Methods:Retrospective analysis of incident sepsis patients complicated by PH first admitted to ICU in MIMIC database (2008 to 2019) were enrolled.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 31, 2024
The median length of stay was 8 (2–35) days, with an ICU stay of 2 (0–30) days. Overall, patients' saturation increased from 58.56 ± 19.03% to 91.03 ± 8.98% ( p < 0.001), as did their left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) from 64.00 ± 18.21% to 75.09 ± 12.98% ( p = 0.001).
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Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Secondary outcomes were ICU measures and functional outcomes.Results:52 patients were enrolled. LD patients spent fewer days in the ICU (p=0.015), on a ventilator (p=0.004) and had fewer drain days (p=0.003) compared to EVD patients.
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European Journal of Heart Failure
DECEMBER 13, 2023
CV, cardiovascular; HT, heart transplantation; ICU, intensive care unit; LVAD, left ventricular assist device. The primary endpoint was the rate of weaning from VA-ECMO during index admission. The early LV unloading strategy did not increase the weaning rate from VA-ECMO compared with the conventional approach.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
OCTOBER 7, 2024
Propensity score (PS) matching was performed for statistical analysis, resulting in 168 pairs.ResultsIn the PS-matched cohorts, the mean age was 62 years; one third had a history of myocardial infarction, 11% were resuscitated, half of the patients were on inotropic support, and 20% received preoperative mechanical circulatory support.
ECG Cases
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
While community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is 'bread and butter' emergency medicine, and the diagnosis is often a 'slam dunk', it turns out that up one third of the time, we are wrong about the diagnosis; that x-rays are not perfect; that blood work is seldom helpful; that not all antibiotics are created equal and that deciding who can go home and who (..)
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Different risk factors affect the intensive care unit (ICU) stay after cardiac surgery. This study aimed to evaluate these risk factors. A retrospective analysis was conducted on clinical, operative, and outcome data from 1070 patients (mean age: 59 ± 9.8&
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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders
MAY 3, 2024
Sometimes the number of alarms is so many that ICU staff may develop “alarm fatigue” and stop responding to alarms. ICU central monitors are now commonplace in most intensive care units. It can give out alarms if heart rate or any other parameter is beyond the set limits.
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ECG Cases
AUGUST 25, 2020
During her last year of life, in between surgeries, ICU stays and rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, she gave lectures on compassionate care inspired by her journey as a patient. Barbara Tatham, EM colleague and educator, died of metastatic sarcoma at the age of 32 in October 2019.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
JANUARY 31, 2024
ml; P < 0.001], the Obese group indicated prolonged durations for mechanical ventilation and ICU stay, without statistical significance. Postoperatively, while the Normal group demonstrated a lower thoracic drainage volume 24 h post-surgery [180.0
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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
His temperature was brought back to normal over time in the ICU. Norepinephrine was started, and another ECG was recorded: The patient was rewarmed with external rewarming, heated humidified air via ventilator circuit, warm IV fluid, and Arctic sun device. He was extubated and had normal neurologic function. He did well and was discharged.
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Open Heart
AUGUST 22, 2024
Secondary outcomes included the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) and 30-day in-hospital mortality. There were no significant differences between the two groups regarding CPB time, aortic cross-clamp time, duration of mechanical ventilation and length of stay in ICU (p<0.05).
Stroke Journal
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The program achieved multiple milestones over this time, transitioning from a combined ICU-progressive care unit to separate specialized units, and later relocating to a new facility with a dedicated Neuro ICU and two progressive care units.
40 Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Secondary endpoints included total weight loss after 72-hours, and ICU and hospital lengths of stay. Lower albumin levels were associated with longer ICU (p=0.034) and hospital (p=0.039) lengths of stay. Secondary endpoints included total weight loss after 72-hours, and ICU and hospital lengths of stay. 95% CI -1558.6,
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
NOVEMBER 29, 2024
Vital signs, laboratory parameters and comorbidity were collected for all participants to analyze the association between platelet count and 28-day mortality. In order to assess the independent association between platelet count and 28-day mortality, we employed multivariable cox hazard regression analyses and smooth curve fitting.
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