Editorial: Infections in the intensive care unit, volume II by Lihui Wang, Bin Lin, Bin Lin, Zhongheng Zhang, Zhongheng Zhang, Yuetian Yu, Yuetian Yu

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Lean Management in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) by D. Galante

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Demonstration of sizing nursing staff methods in intensive care by Érica Batassini, João Lucas Campos de Oliveira, Mariur Gomes Beghetto

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Effectiveness, Safety, and Barriers to Early Mobilization in the Intensive Care Unit by Gopala Krishna Alaparthi, Aishwarya Gatty, Stephen Rajan Samuel, Sampath Kumar Amaravadi

“…Patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) are generally confined to bed leading to limited mobility that may have detrimental effects on different body systems. …”
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Conundrums in the surgical intensive care unit: fevers and antibiotic prophylaxis by Niels D Martin, Diane N Haddad, Patricia Martinez Quinones, Sriharsha Gummadi

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Severe Tuberculosis Requiring Intensive Care: A Descriptive Analysis by Raquel Pacheco Duro, Paulo Figueiredo Dias, Alcina Azevedo Ferreira, Sandra Margarida Xerinda, Carlos Lima Alves, António Carlos Sarmento, Lurdes Campos dos Santos

“…This study aims to describe the characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) patients requiring intensive care and to determine the in-hospital mortality and the associated predictive factors. …”
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Neonatal Surgery Intensive Care Unit: Hacettepe University Experience by Umit Ayse Tandircioglu, Hasan Tolga Celik, Sule Yigit, Murat Yurdakok

Subjects: “…Neonatal surgery intensive care unit,…”
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Clinical profile of stress hyperglycemia in medical intensive care units by Geethanjali Ganesan, Sudha Vidyasagar, Nandakrishna Bolanthakodi, Cynthia Amrutha Sukumar

“…In the setting of medical intensive care units (ICU), it significantly contributes to patient morbidity and mortality.It initates a cascade of pathophysiological responses that in turn increase blood glucose and insulin resistance. …”
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Voice of the nurse in paediatric intensive care: a scoping review by Denise Alexander, Maria Brenner, Michael Connolly, Kate Masterson

“…Objectives The objective was to explore how the voice of the nurse in paediatric intensive care units (PICU) is portrayed in the literature.Design Scoping review using the six-step scoping review framework outlined by Arksey and O’Malley.Data sources PubMed, Nursing (OVID), Medline (OVID), CINHAL (EBSCO), SCOPUS and Web of Science online databases. …”
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Organ donation in the paediatric intensive care unit: Time for change? by Kristy Xinghan Fu, Sze Lyn Jasmin Jeanette Tan, Ne-Hooi Will Loh

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Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit: Its Past, Present, and Future by Maxime Cannesson, Alain Broccard, Benoit Vallet, Karim Bendjelid

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Maternal Psychological Problems Associated with Neonatal Intensive Care Admission by Ziya Yurdakul, Ipek Akman, M. Kemal Kuşçu, Aytul Karabekiroglu, Gulsum Yaylalı, Figen Demir, Eren Özek

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Improved Outcome of Severe Acute Pancreatitis in the Intensive Care Unit by Polychronis Pavlidis, Siobhan Crichton, Joanna Lemmich Smith, David Morrison, Simon Atkinson, Duncan Wyncoll, Marlies Ostermann

“…Our objective was to describe the case mix, management, and outcome of patients with SAP receiving modern critical care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Methods. Retrospective analysis of patients with SAP admitted to the ICU in a single tertiary care centre in the UK between January 2005 and December 2010. …”
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Potentially Preventable Deaths by Intensive Care Medicine in Mongolian Hospitals by Naranpurev Mendsaikhan, Tsolmon Begzjav, Ganbold Lundeg, Martin W. Dünser

“…To evaluate the portion of hospitalized patients dying without prior intensive care unit (ICU) admission and assess whether death could have been prevented by intensive care. …”
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Considerations on the cost analysis of Pediatric Intensive Care Units in Italy. by D. Galante

Subjects: “…pediatric intensive care units (picus)…”
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Analyzing the Responses of Enteric Bacteria to Neonatal Intensive Care Supplements by Megan E. Waller, Caroline J. Eichhorn, Alyssa Gutierrez, John E. Baatz, Carol L. Wagner, Katherine E. Chetta, Melinda A. Engevik

“…In the neonatal intensive care unit, adequate nutrition requires various enteral products, including human milk and formula. …”
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Association between early ondansetron use and the risk of sepsis in intensive care unit patients: a secondary data of the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database by Xuan Liu, Qiuye Kou, Enhe Liu

“…Objective This study planned to analyse the association between ondansetron use within 24 hours before intensive care unit (ICU) admission to within 48 hours after ICU admission and the risk of sepsis in ICU patients.Design A cohort study.Setting and participants Data of 65 366 participants in Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV from ICU in the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.Primary and secondary outcome measures Sepsis was the primary outcome, which indicated patients with documented or suspected infection and acute change in total Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score ≥2 points. …”
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Circumstantial risk factors for death after intensive care unit-to-unit inter-hospital transfer—a Swedish registry study by Jesper Sternley, Karl Stattin, Max Petzold, Jonatan Oras, Christian Rylander

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Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit: Illustrated Cases by Kam Lun Hon, Ronald C. M. Fung, Karen K. Y. Leung, Alexander K.C. Leung, Wun Fung Hui, Wing Lum Cheung

“…We present four anonymized consecutive cases in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to illustrate the different clinical manifestations of staphylococcal infections, including local infection versus systemic infection, toxic shock versus septic shock, and osteomyelitis. …”
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