James J. McCarthy, Brendan G. Carr, Comilla Sasson, Bentley J. Bobrow et al.
The American Heart Association previously recommended implementation of cardiac resuscitation systems of care that consist of interconnected community, emergency medical services, and hospital efforts to measure and improve the process of care and outcome for patients with cardiac arrest. In additio...
Daren K. Heyland, Elsie Konopad, Thomas Noseworthy, Richard Johnston et al.
Objective To compare the cost and consequences of a policy of continuing to care for patients with a prolonged stay in the ICU with a proposed policy of withdrawing support. Design Economic evaluation using data derived from a prospective cohort study. Setting Adult medical/surgical ICU in a tertiar...
Christoph Skudlik, Elke Weißhaar, Reginald Scheidt, Peter Elsner et al.
UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. The German stepwise procedure of handling occupational skin diseases (OSDs) offers interdisciplinary integrated (inpatient/outpatient) rehabilitation measures [tertiary individual prevention (TIP)] for severe OSD. In 2005, a prospective cohort multicentre study...
Raphaël Cinotti, Julio Mijangos, Paolo Pelosi, Matthias Hænggi et al.
Purpose Neurocritical care patients receive prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV), but there is poor specific information in this high-risk population about the liberation strategies of invasive mechanical ventilation. Methods ENIO (NCT03400904) is an international, prospective observation...
Afsana Afroz, Khurshid Alam, Liaquat Ali, Afsana Karim et al.
BACKGROUND: The economic burden of type 2 diabetes has not been adequately investigated in many low- and lower middle-income countries, including Bangladesh. The aim of this study was to estimate the cost-of-illness of type 2 diabetes and to find its determinants in Bangladesh. METHODS: A cross-sect...
Andrew Li, Lowell Ling, Hanyu Qin, Yaseen M. Arabi et al.
Abstract Rationale Directly comparative data on sepsis epidemiology and sepsis bundle implementation in countries of differing national wealth remain sparse. Objectives To evaluate across countries/regions of differing income status in Asia 1) the prevalence, causes, and outcomes of sepsis as a reas...
Phillipo L Chalya, Joseph B Mabula, Isidor H. Ngayomela, Emmanuel S. Kanumba et al.
Motorcycle injuries constitute a major but neglected emerging public health problem in developing countries and are a common cause of road traffic injuries. The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence, injury pattern and treatment outcome of motorcycle injuries among patients presenting to...
Jordana Leitao, Nikita Desai, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Peter Byass et al.
BACKGROUND: Computer-coded verbal autopsy (CCVA) methods to assign causes of death (CODs) for medically unattended deaths have been proposed as an alternative to physician-certified verbal autopsy (PCVA). We conducted a systematic review of 19 published comparison studies (from 684 evaluated), most ...
Jianfeng Xie, Daniel Hungerford, Hui Chen, Simon T. Abrams et al.
Ashley Whittington, Georgia Whitlow, David W. Hewson, Carol Thomas et al.
We assessed how often bedside stethoscopes in our intensive care unit were cleaned and whether they became colonised with potentially pathogenic bacteria. On two separate days the 12 nurses attending the bedspaces were questioned about frequency of stethoscope cleaning on the unit and the bedside st...
Audrey L Blewer, Andrew Fu Wah Ho, Nur Shahidah, Alexander E. White et al.
BACKGROUND: Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases an individual's chance of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but the frequency of bystander CPR is low in many communities. We aimed to assess the cumulative effect of CPR-targeted public health interventions in Si...
Authia P Gray, Erin Chung, Rebecca Hsu, Daniel T Araki et al.
BACKGROUND: The global burden of sepsis, a life-threatening dysregulated host response to infection leading to organ dysfunction, remains challenging to quantify. We aimed to comprehensively estimate the global, regional, and national burden of sepsis, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic a...
Yaseen M. Arabi, Jason Phua, Younsuck Koh, Bin Du et al.
OBJECTIVES: Despite being the epicenter of recent pandemics, little is known about critical care in Asia. Our objective was to describe the structure, organization, and delivery in Asian ICUs. DESIGN: A web-based survey with the following domains: hospital organizational characteristics, ICU organiz...
Rogelio Pérez‐Padilla, Rosario Fernández, Cecilia García-Sancho, Francisco Franco‐Marina et al.
We compared prevalence of hospitalization, endotracheal intubation, and death among case-patients with and without Down syndrome during pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Mexico. Likelihoods of hospitalization, intubation, and death were 16-fold, 8-fold, and 335-fold greater, respectively, for patients with Do...
Alexandra Bražinová, W Mauritz, Johannes Leitgeb, Ingrid Wilbacher et al.
The goal of this study was to investigate the outcomes of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who had Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores of 3 or 4, and were aged 66 years or older. Between January 2001 and December 2005, 13 European centers enrolled patients with severe brain trauma. Data sets o...