Intensive Care (Surgical Intensive Care)

Advanced and highly specialized care provided to medical or surgical patients whose conditions are life-threatening and require comprehensive care and constant monitoring. It is usually administered in specially equipped units of a health care facility.

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Networked: 9702 relevant articles (329 outcomes, 777 trials/studies)

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Therapy Context: Research Results

Experts

1.	Van den Berghe, Greet: 25 articles (01/2016 - 01/2002)
2.	Vincent, Jean-Louis: 25 articles (12/2015 - 04/2003)
3.	Bellomo, Rinaldo: 24 articles (12/2015 - 08/2003)
4.	Citerio, Giuseppe: 21 articles (04/2015 - 11/2002)
5.	Azoulay, Elie: 18 articles (02/2016 - 07/2003)
6.	Sakr, Yasser: 15 articles (12/2015 - 01/2008)
7.	Mebazaa, Alexandre: 14 articles (12/2015 - 01/2008)
8.	Ely, E Wesley: 14 articles (08/2015 - 06/2006)
9.	Lipman, Jeffrey: 13 articles (04/2015 - 07/2005)
10.	Devlin, John W: 13 articles (03/2015 - 05/2005)

Related Diseases

1.	Wounds and Injuries (Trauma) 01/01/1998 - "Management of caustic ingestion in adults improved in the last decade due to the new diagnostic developments, the better predictability of injuries from signs and symptoms, the intensive care improvements and the more aggressive surgical approach for the most severe lesions. " 07/01/2010 - "Analysis of terrorism injury data demonstrates that these injuries, suffered by both children and adults, are characterized by increased complexity, with higher severity, higher in-patient mortality rates, and significantly greater use of precious hospital resources such as intensive care, operating rooms, CT, and days of hospitalization. " 09/01/1999 - "Enhanced resuscitation, anaesthesia and intensive care have contributed to a significant reduction in mortality rates from liver trauma. " 10/01/1998 - "Patients with major trauma present with a significant reduction of sCD62L plasma concentrations within the first 12 hours after trauma and during subsequent intensive care. " 09/01/2010 - "More sophisticated preclinical algorithms, standardized procedures in the emergency room, calculated surgical strategies during the early phases and the subsequent intensive care (ICU) treatment as well as the implementation of trauma registries have all contributed to an improvement in trauma care. "
2.	Infection 06/01/1993 - "In contrast, SDD as originally conceived may well prove cost-effective for the prevention of infection in intensive care although neither the optimum regimen nor the patient group who would gain most benefit have been defined. " 12/01/2015 - "This study was unable to provide evidence that preemptive administration of an echinocandin was effective in preventing IC in high-risk surgical intensive care unit patients with intra-abdominal infections. " 04/01/2015 - "The emerging data from LMIC suggest that the incidence of coexisting perinatal infections in NE is no different to that in high-income countries, and that cooling can be effectively provided without tertiary intensive care and ventilatory support; however, the data on safety and efficacy of cooling are limited. " 12/01/2002 - "There was a significant reduction of 55% risk of hospitalisation with VRS infections in the treated group, but no significant reduction in the number of stays in intensive care or deaths. " 10/01/2011 - "In this article, we review the concept of infection prevention by probiotics and the present knowledge of the efficacy of probiotics in prevention of infections among patients with abdominal diseases and in intensive care. "
3.	Critical Illness (Critically Ill) 01/01/1988 - "Long-term Swan-Ganz monitoring in an intensive care setting may dramatically benefit the critically ill patient with GBS and cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction, and may help to eliminate the residual morbidity and mortality associated with this disease." 01/01/2010 - "The study is an randomised open trial with two parallel groups to assess whether, for children undergoing intensive care in the UK aged <or= 16 years who are ventilated, have an arterial line in-situ and are receiving vasoactive support following injury, major surgery or in association with critical illness in whom it is anticipated such treatment will be required to continue for at least 12 hours, tight control will increase the numbers of days alive and free of mechanical ventilation at 30 days, and lead to improvement in a range of complications associated with intensive care treatment and be cost effective. " 01/01/1989 - "It is a major advance in the management of these critically ill patients, as it is carried out at the bedside by the intensive care nursing staff." 04/01/2015 - "Percutaneous tracheostomy using the single-step dilation technique with fiber optic bronchoscopy assistance seems to be effective and safe in critically ill patients under mechanical ventilation when performed by experienced intensive care specialists using a standardized procedure." 01/01/2000 - "Few studies have tried to characterize the efficacy of parenteral support of critically ill infants during short period of intensive care. "
4.	Sepsis (Septicemia) 01/01/2013 - "Measures and trials to prevent and treat sepsis may be most effective in the surgical intensive care unit population." 12/01/2009 - "We evaluated a cohort of patients with abdominal sepsis admitted to the intensive care with the aim of obtaining more insight into the type of microorganisms involved and the efficacy of treatment. " 09/01/2003 - "In intensive care medicine, blocking any one mediator has not led to a measurable outcome improvement in patients with sepsis. " 11/01/1991 - "Despite great improvements in the standards of intensive care the morbidity and mortality associated with this condition have not improved, in part due to recurrent intra-abdominal sepsis. " 06/01/2015 - "Timing of death in children referred for intensive care with severe sepsis: implications for interventional studies."
5.	Neoplasms (Cancer) 12/01/2001 - "Because the long-term survival of children with cancer has dramatically improved because of multimodal treatment strategies, intensive care medicine has become more relevant for these patients. " 10/01/2002 - "OR time, estimated blood loss, blood transfusions, tumor size, time in intensive care, and post-OR hospitalization were all significantly greater in patients with vascular complications. " 04/01/2003 - "Management of MCRC has improved with major progress in hepatobiliary surgical techniques, anesthesia and intensive care techniques, and also diagnostic and therapeutic radiology, oncology, and other innovations (portal embolization, various methods for local tumor destruction). " 01/01/1985 - "Relapses that develop during the first year of remission, manifesting in the renewal of the tumor growth and appearance of new tumors, are prognostically unfavourable variants and require intensive care. " 11/01/2003 - "Many studies show that the use of intensive care therapy in children with cancer is not futile, with a reduction in mortality and improvement in the quality of life of these children in the medium and long terms."

Related Drugs and Biologics

1.	Anti-Bacterial Agents (Antibiotics)
2.	Insulin (Novolin)
3.	Oxygen
4.	Cefotaxime (Kendrick)
5.	Colistin (Coly-Mycin)
6.	Glucose (Dextrose)
7.	Blood Glucose (Blood Sugar)
8.	Midazolam (Versed)
9.	Chlorhexidine
10.	Amiodarone (Amiodarona)

Related Therapies and Procedures

1.	Artificial Respiration (Mechanical Ventilation)
2.	Length of Stay
3.	Resuscitation
4.	Liver Transplantation
5.	Transplants (Transplant)