Effect of a Multistage Educational Skill-Based Program on Nurse’s Stress and Anxiety in the Intensive Care Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Mohsen Saffari, Farshid Rahimi Bashar, Amir Vahedian-Azimi, Mohamad Amin Pourhoseingholi, Leila Karimi, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Keivan Gohari-moghadam, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…To improve the mental health and performance of the intensive care unit nurses, knowledge-based and skill-based training programs seem useful. …”
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Polyamine Content of Enteral Nutrition Formulas: Effect of Daily Intake on the Feeding Tolerance of Patients During the First Week in the Intensive Care Unit by Manuel Sánchez, Eva Rodríguez-Hernández, Lorena Suárez, Begoña Cantabrana, María González-García

“…The requirements for and intake of polyamines have yet to be investigated in adult patients hospitalised in intensive care units (ICUs) who are exclusively fed via commercial EN formulas. …”
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Frequency and types of antibiotic usage in a referral neonatal intensive care unit, based on the world health organization classification (AwaRe) by Farzaneh Hematian, Seyyed Mohammad Hassan Aletayeb, Masoud Dehdashtian, Mohammad Reza Aramesh, Arash Malakian, Mahboobeh Sadat Aletayeb

“…Nonetheless, the use of antibiotics in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is significantly high. This is primarily because neonatologists are concerned about the fragile immune systems of newborns, their vulnerability to serious infectious diseases, and the challenge of accurately distinguishing between infectious and non-infectious conditions. …”
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Purpose built catheters for minimally invasive surfactant therapy: Experience from a Canadian tertiary level neonatal intensive care unit by Talib Al Harthy, Michael R Miller, Orlando daSilva, Soume Bhattacharya

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Understanding the clinical and molecular epidemiological characteristics of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections within intensive care units of three teaching hospitals by Pengyu Zhang, Jingchen Hao, Yafen Zhang, Junfeng Su, Guozhuang Sun, Jun Xie, Jian Hu, Guocai Li

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The Addition of the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index to the Prognostic Scoring Systems Did Not Improve Mortality Prediction in Trauma Patients in the Intensive Care Unit by Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Ching-Hua Tsai, Sheng-En Chou, Wei-Ti Su, Shiun-Yuan Hsu, Ching-Hua Hsieh

“…This study sought to determine whether the addition of a nutritional indicator to the various variables of prognostic scoring models can improve the prediction of mortality among trauma patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods. This study’s cohort included 1,126 trauma patients hospitalized in the ICU between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2021. …”
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Central Venous Catheter-Associated Blood Stream Infections Occurring in Canadian Intensive Care Units: A Six-Month Cohort Study by Donna Holton, Shirley Paton, John Conly, Joanne Embree, Geoffrey Taylor, William Thompson, Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program

“…OBJECTIVE: To determine the rate and risk factors associated with central venous catheter (CVC)-associated bloodstream infections (BSIs) in Canadian intensive care units (ICUs).…”
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Distinct relative abundances in pathogens detected in mechanically ventilated patients with suspected pneumonia in the intensive care unit at King Abdulaziz University Hospital by Haifa Algethamy, Diyaa H. Bokhary, Ibrahim Abushoshah, Abdulrahman A. Alalyani, Maan K. Baamer, Dalya M. Attallah, Ruba M. Alotaibi, Shehla N. Amin, Shaza A. Mass, Nisreen R. Tashkandy

“…We conclude that Intensive Care Units exhibit distinct patterns of microbial colonization.…”
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A Comparison of the Outcomes of COVID-19 Vaccinated and Nonvaccinated Patients Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit in a Low-Middle-Income Country by Waleed Bin Ghaffar, Muhammad Faisal Khan, Moeed Bin Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Sohaib, Asma Rayani, Muhammad Mehmood Alam, Syed Talha Sibtain, Zahra Cheema, Asad Latif

“…Patients critically afflicted with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) often need intensive care unit (ICU) admission, despite comprehensive vaccination campaigns. …”
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Evaluation of Cases of Long-Coronavirus Disease-2019 Reported as being Readmitted to Intensive Care Units Due to Acute Respiratory Failure: Correspondence by Hinpetch Daungsupawong, Viroj Wiwanitkit

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The relationship between professional quality of life and sleep quality among nurses working in intensive care units: a cross-sectional study by Parisa Mansouri, Mozhgan Rivaz, Razie Soltani, Parsa Tabei

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A Survey on the Organization and Operation of Level II/III Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Greece: A Comparison Between 2004 and 2022 by Kosmas Sarafidis, Nicoletta Iacovidou, Eleftheria Hatzidaki, Ilias Chatziioannidis, Gabriel Dimitriou

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Updating the Antimicrobial Resistance Pattern among Critical Priority Pathogens in the Intensive Care Unit in Northern Iran Post COVID-19 Pandemic by Golnar Rahimzadeh, Nadia Ghezljai, Shaghayegh Rezai, Raha Rezai, Mohammad Reza Navaiefar, Mohammad Sadegh Rezai, Masoud Moradi, Mostafa Shakeri

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Intensive Care Management of Patients with Acute Liver Failure with Emphasis on Systemic Hemodynamic Instability and Cerebral Edema: A Critical Appraisal of Pathophysiology by Fin Stolze Larsen, Bent Adel Hansen, Andres T Blei

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Infections among adults hospitalized in intensive care after the 2023 earthquake in the southeastern part of Türkiye: a multi-center observational study by Esat Kivanc Kaya, Burcin Halacli, Goksel Guven, Mehmet Yildirim, Asir Eren Seven, Emin Gemcioglu, Meltem Simsek, Begum Erdemir Sullu, Recep Civan Yuksel, Ahmet Safa Kaynar, Aliye Esmaoglu, Banu Kilicaslan, Seda Banu Akinci, Kursat Gundogan, Ebru Ortac Ersoy, Jordi Rello, Arzu Topeli, On behalf of the Turkish Intensive Care Studies-Network (TRICS-Net)

“…Abstract Background Scarce evidence is available on the epidemiology of microbiologically proven clinical infections in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after a great earthquake. The main aim of this study was to assess clinical infections and microbiological features in patients admitted to the ICU following the 2023 earthquake in the southeastern region of Türkiye with a focus on the timing of culture positivity during their ICU stay. …”
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Hand hygiene adherence in intensive care units: comparison before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a municipality of São Paulo state by Vanessa Aparecida Vilas-Boas, Pedro Antonio Teodoro de Moraes, Marcela Grispino Vieira Torres de Lolo, Edinêis de Brito Guirardello, Maria Isabel Pedreira de Freitas

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Equity of intensive care unit bed resource allocation in ethnic minority areas of China—an empirical analysis based on geographical and population dimensions by Jing Kang, Rong Peng, Jun Feng, Xianjing Qin, Junxu Zhou, Meng Deng, Shanshan Meng, Decheng Lu

“…Objective The purpose of this study is to analyse the changes in the equity of intensive care unit (ICU) bed allocation in 14 cities in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region from 2018 to 2021, to identify the problems in the process of ICU bed allocation in China’s ethnic minority regions.Design The Gini coefficient, Theil index, health resource density index, and spatial correlation analysis were used to analyse the current status of ICU bed resource allocation and allocation equity in Guangxi, China, on two dimensions: geography, and population.Setting The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Results The number of ICU beds configured by geographic and population dimensions in Guangxi basically showed a growing trend. …”
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Early detection of sepsis using machine learning algorithms by Rasha M. Abd El-Aziz, Alanazi Rayan

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The prediction value of serum anion gap for short-term mortality in pulmonary hypertension patients with sepsis: a retrospective cohort study by Jinhua Zhu, Zeying Zhang, Yefei Lei, Zhenrong Ouyang, Shelby Kutty, Qiming Liu, Yunbin Xiao, Yunbin Xiao

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Severe Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children with Type 1 Diabetes: Ongoing Challenges in Care by Simone Foti Randazzese, Mariarosaria La Rocca, Bruno Bombaci, Alessandra Di Pisa, Elèna Giliberto, Teresa Inturri, Daniel Militi, Fortunato Lombardo, Eloisa Gitto, Giuseppina Salzano, Stefano Passanisi

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