Objective: To review the current knowledge of common comorbidities in the intensive care
unit, including diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, end-stage …

Objective: Chronic diabetes mellitus (DM) is a known cause of multisystem injury. The effect
of DM in acute critical illness may also be detrimental, but is not specifically known. We …

What are the defining characteristics and parameters that encompass chronic critical illness
(CCI) in the surgical intensive care unit (SICU)? Defining this ''condition''is an elusive and …

Although advances in intensive care have enabled more patients to survive an acute critical
illness, they also have created a large and growing population of chronically critically ill …

Background Survivors of critical illness have poor long-term outcomes with subsequent
increases in healthcare utilisation. Less is known about the interplay between multimorbidity …

Objective: To evaluate whether a multicomponent intervention, particularly increasing staff,
can achieve reductions in patient mortality in an already high-intensity, Leapfrog-compliant …

Objective: To determine whether extreme obesity (morbid obesity; body mass index≥ 40
kg/m 2) is an independent risk factor for death among critically ill patients; this objective is …

Methods: We performed a single-center observational study of 6,518 adult patients treated in
medical and surgical ICUs between 2004 and 2011. All patients received a formal, in …

For many years, we believed that a good outcome for critically ill patients was for them to
leave the intensive care unit (ICU) alive. Sadly, we now know from substantial research …

Purpose To describe the relationship between comorbidities and survival following
admission to the intensive care unit. Methods Retrospective observational study using …