Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jun 2016
Multicenter StudyCAESAR: a new tool to assess relatives' experience of dying and death in the ICU.
To develop an instrument designed specifically to assess the experience of relatives of patients who die in the intensive care unit (ICU). ⋯ The CAESAR score 21 days after death in the ICU is strongly associated with post-ICU burden in the bereaved relatives. The CAESAR score should prove a useful primary endpoint in trials of interventions to improve relatives' well-being.
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Intensive care medicine · Jun 2016
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyEffect of probiotics on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients: a randomized controlled multicenter trial.
To evaluate the potential preventive effect of probiotics on ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). ⋯ Therapy with the probiotic bacteria B. Subtilis and E. faecalis are an effective and safe means for preventing VAP and the acquisition of PPMO colonization in the stomach.