ICU scoring systems provide a valuable framework to characterize patients' severity of
illness for the evaluation of ICU performance, for quality improvement initiatives and for …

Objective: Adult intensive care unit prognostic models have been used for predicting patient
outcome for three decades. The goal of this review is to describe the different versions of the …

Introduction In some studies including small populations of patients undergoing specific
surgery, an intraoperative liberal infusion of fluids was associated with increasing morbidity …

Background Prognostic models—used in critical care medicine for mortality predictions, for
benchmarking and for illness stratification in clinical trials—have been validated …

Purpose. To describe adverse events occurring during intrahospital transportation of adult
patients hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and to evaluate the association with …

Background The early postoperative period is critical for surgical patients. SOFA, SAPS 3
and APACHE II are prognostic scores widely used to predict mortality in ICU patients. This …

PURPOSE: Prognostic models have been developed to estimate mortality and to compare
outcomes in different intensive care units. However, these models need to be validated …

Objective: To determine the prevalence of medical device-related pressure injuries in critical
patients and analyze the associated factors. Method: Epidemiological, cross-sectional study …

Background & aims Survivors of critical illness experience significant skeletal muscle
wasting that may predict clinical outcome. Ultrasound (US) is a noninvasive method that can …

Objectives To assess pressure injury risk and time until pressure injury development
according to the achievement of nutritional goals, ie caloric and protein intake within the first …