This narrative review synthesizes our current understanding of sepsis and septic shock burden in intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide. Based on a comprehensive but non-systematic literature search from 2000 to 2025, this review synthesizes our curre...
Background and Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate patients’ experiences in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting and investigate whether there was a correlation between these experiences and their nutritional status. Materials and Methods...
Introduction: Delirium in the pediatric population admitted to intensive care is a worrying reality due to its potential complications and the increase in associated costs. This study aims to explore the experiences of nursing staff of a Pediatric In...
Background: Parents play a crucial role in the care of infants during their stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Recent studies have reported a decrease in parental participation due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which h...
In the last few years, important changes have occurred in the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients that were admitted to cardiac intensive care units (CICU). Care has shifted from acute coronary syndrome patients towards elderly p...
An estimated 70% of patients who have been in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) experience some form of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS). As a stressful environment, the ICU can be traumatic for any patient; however, the disruption of sleep experience...
28 March 2023
The objective of this study is to understand how the type of wound dressing changes (routine or frequent) in patients admitted to intensive care units influences nurses’ workload. This study used a database of retrospective and analytical obser...
Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the oxidative stress status in patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission before initiating ICU treatment, by measuring the total oxidant level (TOS) and total antioxidant level (TAS) and oxi...
Due to the continuous monitoring process of critical patients, Intensive Care Units (ICU) generate large amounts of data, which are difficult for healthcare personnel to analyze manually, especially in overloaded situations such as those present duri...
This study aimed to estimate the number of nurses who independently care for patients with severe respiratory failure receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) or veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO). Additionally, the study analyzed...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with long-term consequences and poor outcomes in the neonatal intensive care unit. Its precocious diagnosis represents one of the hardest challenges in clinical practice due to the lack of sensitive and specifi...
Background: This study aimed to evaluate Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit nurses’ skills in interpreting blood gas analysis results and to use those interpretations in clinical decision-making. Methods: In this prospective, multicen...
Background: Flexible bronchoscopy (FB) has long been integral to pulmonology, but its bedside role in the intensive care unit (ICU) is expanding. Despite a lack of high-level evidence, FB remains a pivotal tool for airway visualization, sampling, and...
Stroke is the second-largest cause of death and disability worldwide, and many patients require intensive care for airway compromise, hemodynamic instability, cerebral edema, or systemic complications. This review summarizes key aspects of ICU manage...
Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an inflammatory disease, and serum albumin and fibrinogen are two important factors in systemic inflammation. We aimed to investigate the relationship between the fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio (FAR)...
Purpose: Hypernatremia is a common electrolyte disorder in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) and is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. We aimed to evaluate underlying etiologies, clinical characteristics, and factors associated...
In patients that are admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), the clinical outcome of severe infections depends on several factors, as well as the early administration of chemotherapies and comorbidities. Antimicrobials may be used in off-label regim...
Background/Objectives: The Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS:NICU) is one of the most widely used tools for assessing parental stress in neonatal intensive care settings. This study aimed to translate, culturally adapt and va...
Background: Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) is highly prevalent in pediatric critically ill patients and is a potentially modifiable risk factor during critical illness. There are no established national or international recommendations for vitamin D supp...
Background and Objectives: Many burn patients are initially admitted to non-burn center intensive care units (ICUs) due to resource constraints, geographic barriers, or delayed transfer. Their management requires multidisciplinary, phase-specific cli...
Physical aspects of disease management are often more evident than those related to spirituality or spiritual care. Spirituality may appear more crucial in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) when patients are experiencing serious illness or end-o...
Genetic disorders are the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Due to the large number of genetic diseases, molecular and phenotype heterogeneity and often severe course, these diseases remain undiagnosed. In infants with a suspected acut...
The understanding of the gut microbiome in health and disease has shown tremendous progress in the last decade. Shaped and balanced throughout life, the gut microbiome is intricately related to the local and systemic immune system and a multitude of...
30 January 2021
Intensive-care unit nurses may experience difficulties in end-of-life care because of frustration or lethargy. The purpose of this study was to develop a mobile end-of-life care program for intensive-care unit nurses and evaluate the effects on compe...
Little is known about the role of neutrophil CD64 (nCD64) in detecting sepsis early in Asian populations. We examined the cut-off and predictive values of nCD64 for diagnosing sepsis in Vietnamese intensive care units (ICU) patients. A cross-sectiona...
Background: Invasive candidiasis is a predominant mycosis in hospitalized patients, and Candida albicans is the species most often responsible for this infection. Most candidiasis cases originate from endogenous mycobiota; therefore, Candida strains...
This study aimed to review the oral hygiene status, oral care guidelines, and outcomes of oral care in intensive care unit (ICU) patients from a dental perspective for effective oral care. A literature search using the keywords “Hospital dentistry” O...
12 September 2022
Hospitalization of a child in the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is extremely stressful, both for the child and for his or her family. The purpose of this study was to gain deeper insight into the stressful experiences of parents of children h...
Clinical decision-making lies at the heart of health care. Medical data collection has made it possible for clinical decision-making to be data-driven. However, data-driven systems for decision-making have so far worked only for a limited set of clin...
Introduction: Lower respiratory tract infections are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide. It is crucial to promptly conduct diagnostic investigations in order to determine the microbiological cause of pneumonia, since t...
Music is frequently used in different clinical settings, and it is implemented as a complementary, low-cost and useful intervention to reduce pain, anxiety and to improve relaxation. This pilot pre–post study aimed to examine the feasibility an...
Background: Adequate nutritional knowledge among intensive care nurses is essential for early identification of nutritional risk and prevention of complications in critically ill patients. The questionnaire “Nurses’ perceptions of respons...
Background/Objectives: Pressure injuries (PIs), a recognized indicator of care quality, have a higher incidence in intensive care units (ICUs). Our objective was to assess whether critically ill patients identified as “unprotected” (COMHO...
26 February 2013
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a frequent cause of infectious outbreaks in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). The aim of this paper is to describe an outbreak occurred in a 13-bed NICU and the control measures adopted in order to interrupt the chain of...
Background/Objetives: Pressure injuries pose a significant challenge in healthcare, adversely impacting individuals’ quality of life and healthcare systems, particularly in intensive care units. The effective identification of at-risk individua...
Background: Psychological and spiritual support is crucial, especially in challenging life situations, trials, and when facing the unimaginable distress experienced by parents of premature babies in the intensive care unit. This scoping review aims t...
Candida auris has emerged as a multidrug-resistant yeast implicated in healthcare-associated invasive infections and hospital outbreaks. The aim of the current 38-month period observational study in a multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was t...
Introduction. Bronchiolitis is the leading cause of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) admission for lower respiratory tract infection in infants. Although survival has improved, concerns remain regarding potential long-term functional impairments,...
Background: Malnutrition and sarcopenia are highly prevalent in intensive care settings and are associated with adverse clinical outcomes. Aim: The study aimed to evaluate the association between nutritional care, nutritional status, and patient outc...
Thanks to the advances in medical therapy and assist devices, the management of patients hospitalized in cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) is becoming increasingly challenging. In fact, Patients in the cardiac intensive care unit are frequently char...
Objectives: To describe the strengths and barriers of administering a physiotherapy treatment to patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Methods: Qualitative interpretative description study. Twenty-one health professionals working in an intensi...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-associated pulmonary aspergillosis (CAPA) is an increasingly recognized complication of COVID-19 and is associated with significant over-mortality. We performed a retrospective monocentric study in patients admitte...
Background: Clinical deterioration is common among patients hospitalized in Internal Medicine wards and frequently results in the need for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admission. Limited ICU bed capacity may lead to delays or interhospital transfers, po...
We estimated the harm related to medication delivery delays across 12,474 medication administration instances in an intensive care unit using retrospective data in a large urban academic medical center between 2012 and 2015. We leveraged an instrumen...
Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) are critically ill and require constant monitoring of clinical conditions. Due to the severity of the underlying disease and the need to monitor devices, imaging plays a crucial role in critically ill patients&...
10 September 2020
At the end of 2019, a variation of a coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, has been identified as being responsible for a respiratory illness disease (COVID-19). Since ventilation is an important factor that influences airborne transmission, we proposed to...
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic caused an increase in intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations with a rise in morbidity and mortality; nevertheless, there is still little evidence on the impact of the pandemic on antibiotic resistance in ICUs. This is a re...
25 October 2021
In critically ill patients, normal eye protection mechanisms, such as tear production, blinking, and keeping the eye closed, are impaired. In addition, many other factors related to patients’ severe condition and treatment contribute to ocular surfac...
Candida auris has recently emerged as a multidrug-resistant yeast implicated in various healthcare-associated invasive infections and hospital outbreaks. In the current study, we report the first five intensive care unit (ICU) cases affected by C. au...
Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) is one of the most common causes of muscle atrophy and functional disability in critically ill intensive care patients. Clinical examination, manual muscle strength testing and monitoring are frequently h...
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