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2. Intensive care unit - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Medical scoring - Wikipedia

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   model to assess risk of death at ICU admission; has prediction models for assessment at admittance, 24h, 48h and 72h after; RIFLE - Risk, injury, failure, loss and end-stage kidney classification [2] has 3 severity levels (risk, injury and failure) and 2 possible outcomes (loss and end-stage) CP - Child–Pugh score [2] for patient with liver ...

4. Intensive care medicine - Wikipedia

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   Patients are admitted to the intensive care unit if their medical needs are greater than what the general hospital ward can provide. Indications for the ICU include blood pressure support for cardiovascular instability ( hypertension / hypotension ), sepsis , post-cardiac arrest syndrome or certain cardiac arrhythmias . [ 4 ]

5. APACHE II - Wikipedia

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   APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system, [1] one of several ICU scoring systems.It is applied within 24 hours of admission of a patient to an intensive care unit (ICU): an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher scores correspond to more severe disease and a higher risk of death.

6. SAPS II - Wikipedia

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   SAPS II was designed to measure the severity of disease for patients admitted to Intensive care units aged 18 or more.. 24 hours after admission to the ICU, the measurement has been completed and resulted in an integer point score between 0 and 163 and a predicted mortality between 0% and 100%.

7. Inpatient care - Wikipedia

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   Inpatient care is the care of patients whose condition requires admission to a hospital. Progress in modern medicine and the advent of comprehensive out-patient clinics ensure that patients are only admitted to a hospital when they are extremely ill or have severe physical trauma. [1]

8. ICU quality and management tools - Wikipedia

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   Quality tools include: [1] Medical guidelines, including checklists [2] (items rated as yes/no/not applicable); Templates [3] for goal setting or structured communication (a more open format than checklists, templates provide the opportunity to add free text responses with items as prompts)

9. Sepsis - Wikipedia

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   The SOFA score was intended to be used in the intensive care unit (ICU) where it is administered upon admission to the ICU and then repeated every 48 hours, whereas the qSOFA could be used outside the ICU. [20] Some advantages of the qSOFA score are that it can be administered quickly and does not require labs. [20]