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Intermittent enteral nutrition--a comparative study examining the effect on gastric pH and microbial colonization rates
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In a prospective randomized study we aimed to examine the effect on gastric pH and microbial colonization of enteral nutrition (EN) delivered both by intermittent and continual infusion. Forty-three mechanically ventilated patients were randomized to receive EN by one of three methods, intermittent or continual gastric or continual jejunal. We sampled gastric aspirate for pH and culture in all patients at 0600 hours and pH in gastric intermittent feeders at 2200 hours daily. P...
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The third five-year survey of fellows (by examination) of the faculty of intensive care, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; G. A. HARRISON*, P L. BYTH, C. A. D'ESTE$ SUMMARY A questionnaire was sent to 126 Fellows who had passed the Fellowship Examination in Intensive Care up to and including the examination of October, 1995. The major objectives were to assess the continuing involvement of Fellows in Intensive Care and
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The Costs of Caring for Patients in a Tertiary Referral Australian Intensive Care Unit
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; SUMMARY We determined the direct cost of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) bed in a tertiary referral Australian ICU and the cost drivers thereof, by retrospectively analysing a number of prospectively designed Hospital- and Unit-specific electronic databases. The study period was a financial year, from
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Pneumonia in Intensive Care-Another Frontier?
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; Pneumonia is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care. Three types of pneumonia are relevant to intensive care. These are community-acquired, hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia. The latter two types of pneumonia are nosocomial in nature and at least in part
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Data Linkage Enables Evaluation of Long-Term Survival After Intensive Care
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; SUMMARY Outcomes of intensive care are important to the patient and for assessment of benefit. Short-term outcomes after critical illness are well described, but less is known about long-term outcomes. This study describes the use of data linkage, combining intensive care unit (ICU) clinical data
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Outcome-based Clinical Indicators for Intensive Care Medicine
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; SUMMARY The clinical indicator is a tool used to monitor the quality of health care. Its use in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is desirable for many reasons: the maintenance of minimum standards, the development of best practice and the delivery of cost-effective health care. The utility of clinical
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Children's Factual and Delusional Memories of Intensive Care
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
; Rationale: Delusional memories are significantly associated with post-traumatic stress in adult patients after intensive care. Objectives: In this study, we attempted to establish whether this relationship was found in children. We also examined the association between factual memory and distress.
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Predictors of Physician Confidence to Diagnose Pneumonia and Determine Illness Severity in Ventilated Patients. Australian and New Zealand Practice in Intensive Care (ANZPIC II)
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; SUMMARY The manner in which elements of clinical history, physical examination and investigations influence subjectively assessed illness severity and outcome prediction is poorly understood. This study investigates the relationship between clinician and objectively assessed illness severity and
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Antibiotic Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit: A Primer in Bacteriology
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; SUMMARY The clinical use of potent, well-tolerated, broad-spectrum antibiotics has been paralleled by the development of resistance in bacteria, and the prevalence of highly resistant bacteria in some intensive care units is despairingly commonplace. The intensive care community faces the realistic
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Night-shift Discharge from Intensive Care Unit Increases the Mortality-risk of ICU Survivors
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
; SUMMARY Intensive Care (ICU) survivors discharged from ICU to the general ward at night have a higher mortality1,2. We sought to clarify which factors, including night-shift discharge, influence outcome following ICU discharge in a metropolitan hospital, using a cohort study of critically-ill
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Prognostic factors in cancer patients in the intensive care unit
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine
; Introduction Cancer is increasing major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.face=+Superscript; [123]face=-Superscript; The number of new cases of cancer in the world estimated for the year of 2020 will be more than 15 million, with deaths increasing to 12 million. It is also expected the
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