Title |
Life-threatening brain failure and agitation in the intensive care unit
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Published in |
Critical Care, March 2000
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DOI | 10.1186/cc661 |
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Authors |
David Crippen |
Abstract |
The modern intensive care unit (ICU) has evolved into an area where mortality and morbidity can be reduced by identification of unexpected hemodynamic and ventilatory decompensations before long-term problems result. Because intensive care physicians are caring for an increasingly heterogeneous population of patients, the indications for aggressive monitoring and close titration of care have expanded. Agitated patients are proving difficult to deal with in nonmonitored environments because of the unpredictable consequences of the agitated state on organ systems. The severe agitation state that is associated with ethanol withdrawal and delirium tremens (DT) is examined as a model for evaluating the efficacy of the ICU environment to ensure consistent stabilization of potentially life-threatening agitation and delirium. |
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Canada | 1 | 2% |
United States | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 52 | 87% |
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Other | 15 | 25% |
Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 12% |
Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 10% |
Researcher | 6 | 10% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 8% |
Other | 15 | 25% |
Unknown | 6 | 10% |
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Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 1 | 2% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 1 | 2% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 6 | 10% |