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The Epimed Monitor ICU Database®: a cloud-based national registry for adult intensive care unit patients in Brazil. Zampieri FG, Soares M, Borges LP, Salluh JIF, Ranzani OT.Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2017 Oct-Dec;29(4):418-426. doi: 10.5935/0103-507X.20170062.
Intensive care unit ICU patients often require mechanical ventilation if they have lost the ability to breathe normally.. An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.
Intensive care medicine, usually called critical care medicine, is a medical specialty that deals with seriously or critically ill patients who have, are at risk of, or are recovering from conditions that may be life-threatening. [1]
Critical Care is an online open access peer-reviewed medical journal covering intensive-care medicine. The founding editor and the current editor-in-chief is Jean-Louis Vincent of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Critical Care was established in 1997 and is currently published by BioMed Central.
The Journal of Critical Care is a peer-reviewed medical journal which covers intensive care medicine. It is the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine and the Society for Complex Acute Illness. The editor-in-chief is Jan Bakker. It is published every two months by Elsevier.
Critical Care Medicine is a peer-reviewed monthly medical journal that focuses on intensive care medicine. Founded in 1973 by William C. Shoemaker, the journal serves as the official publication of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and led by editor-in-chief Timothy G. Buchman.
ICU-acquired weakness (ICU-AW), sometimes called critical illness polyneuropathy, is the most common form of physical impairment, and is estimated to occur in 25 percent or more of ICU survivors. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] It is thought to be an effect of long-term immobility and deep sedation that many critically ill patients experience while in the ICU. [ 4 ]
The Journal of Intensive Care Medicine is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in the field of intensive-care medicine. The editors-in-chief are James M. Rippe and Nicholas Smyrnios (University of Massachusetts Medical School). It was established in 1986 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.