Articles: critical-illness.
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Critical care medicine · Sep 1994
Multicenter StudyDaily prognostic estimates for critically ill adults in intensive care units: results from a prospective, multicenter, inception cohort analysis.
To develop daily prognostic estimates for individual patients treated in adult intensive care units (ICU). ⋯ Equations using initial and repeated physiologic measurements provide a high degree of explanatory power for subsequent hospital mortality rate. These daily prognostic estimates deserve evaluation for their potential role in improving the process and outcome from clinical decision-making.
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Multicenter Study
Risk factors for gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients. Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.
The efficacy of prophylaxis against stress ulcers in preventing gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patients has led to its widespread use. The side effects and cost of prophylaxis, however, necessitate targeting preventive therapy to those patients most likely to benefit. ⋯ Few critically ill patients have clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding, and therefore prophylaxis against stress ulcers can be safely withheld from critically ill patients unless they have coagulopathy or require mechanical ventilation.