Intensive care unit-acquired weakness: risk factors and prevention

B de Jonghe, JC Lacherade, T Sharshar… - Critical care …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… Five central risk factors and their related potential measures to prevent intensive care unit-…
doubt on the widespread belief that the treatment of intensive care unit-acquired weakness is …

Risk factors for pressure ulcer development in Intensive Care Units: A systematic review

ML Serrano, MIG Méndez, FMC Cebollero… - Medicina Intensiva …, 2017 - Elsevier
… The aim of this review was to identify risk factors associated with the occurrence of pressure
… the risk factors related to the appearance of PUs in critical patients admitted to the ICU. …

Delirium in an intensive care unit: a study of risk factors

MJ Dubois, N Bergeron, M Dumont, S Dial… - Intensive care …, 2001 - Springer
… The risk factors provided in most standard critical care textbooks for the development of …
to identify risk factors associated with the development of delirium in a critical care setting and, …

Intensive care unit readmissions in US hospitals: patient characteristics, risk factors, and outcomes

AA Kramer, TL Higgins, JE Zimmerman - Critical care medicine, 2012 - journals.lww.com
… illness, resulting in a higher risk for hospital mortality and a longer hospital stay. To improve
risk factors when making intensive care discharge decisions. Because intensive care unit

Risk factors for intensive care unit‐acquired weakness: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

T Yang, Z Li, L Jiang, Y Wang… - Acta Neurologica …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… specific treatment options for ICUAW, effort should be made to identify and control its risk
factors … In this review, we summarize and incorporate the important risk factors from previously …

Adverse drug events in intensive care units: risk factors, impact, and the role of team care

SL Kane-Gill, J Jacobi, JM Rothschild - Critical care medicine, 2010 - journals.lww.com
risk factors associated with nonmedication-related adverse events are also associated with
ADEs. The most important risk factor … and risk factors between ICUs and general care units. In …

Incidence and risk factors for pressure ulcers in the intensive care unit

N Nijs, A Toppets, T Defloor, K Bernaerts… - Journal of clinical …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… for risk assessment for patients in intensive care units. Patients admitted to intensive care
units have other risk factors for pressure ulcers which are eligible to be included in a new risk

Risk factors for nosocomial infections in a neonatal intensive-care unit

C Auriti, A Maccallini, G Di Liso, V Di Ciommo… - Journal of Hospital …, 2003 - Elsevier
The clinical records a years cohort of 280 newborn infants consecutively hospitalized for 48h
or more in our neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU) were reviewed. Information on the infants…

Evaluation of risk factors for mortality in intensive care units: a prospective study from a referral hospital in Turkey

A Colpan, E Akinci, A Erbay, N Balaban… - American journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
… Determination of the risk factors for mortality may provide useful guidance for intensive
care patients. This study sought to find mortality-related risk factors in intensive care units. …

Risk factors for fever in the neurologic intensive care unit

C Commichau, N Scarmeas, SA Mayer - Neurology, 2003 - AAN Enterprises
… thermomodulatory therapy. One retrospective study of fever in neurologic intensive care unit
(… in NICU patients and examined clinical and disease-specific risk factors for its occurrence. …