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Mortality prediction using SAPS II: an update for French intensive care unitsJean Roger Le Gall
Unit of Medical intensive, Hopital Saint Louis, Paris, France
Crit Care 9:R645-52. 2005..The objective of this study was to improve the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II for mortality prediction in ICUs, thereby improving SMR estimates...- The use of severity scores in the intensive care unitJean-Roger Le Gall
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Saint-Louis University Hospital, Paris, France
Intensive Care Med 31:1618-23. 2005 - Half the family members of intensive care unit patients do not want to share in the decision-making process: a study in 78 French intensive care unitsElie Azoulay
Intensive Care Unit of the Saint-Louis Teaching Hospital and University of Paris 7, , Paris, France
Crit Care Med 32:1832-8. 2004..Staff members must strive to identify practical and psychological obstacles that may limit their ability to promote autonomy. Finally, they must develop interventions and attitudes capable of empowering families... - Time course of organ dysfunction in thrombotic microangiopathy patients receiving either plasma perfusion or plasma exchangeMichael Darmon
Medical Intensive Care Unit, , Saint-Louis University Hospital, Paris, France
Crit Care Med 34:2127-33. 2006..Patients in the plasma-exchange group received a larger volume of plasma. CONCLUSION: Plasma exchange may be associated with faster resolution of organ failure and with improved survival for patients with TMA requiring ICU admission... - The prognosis of acute respiratory failure in critically ill cancer patientsElie Azoulay
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Biostatistics Department, Saint Louis Hospital and Paris 7 University, Paris, France
Medicine (Baltimore) 83:360-70. 2004..The impact of conventional mechanical ventilation on survival depends on the time from ICU admission to conventional mechanical ventilation and on the patient's response to noninvasive mechanical ventilation... - Family participation in care to the critically ill: opinions of families and staffElie Azoulay
Service de Reanimation Medicale, Hopital Saint Louis, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France
Intensive Care Med 29:1498-504. 2003..Allowing family members to participate in the care of patients in intensive care units (ICUs) may improve the quality of their experience. No previous study has investigated opinions about family participation in ICUs... - Critically ill patients readmitted to intensive care units--lessons to learn?Philipp G H Metnitz
Département Réanimation Médicale, Hopital St Louis, Universite Paris VII, Paris, France
Intensive Care Med 29:241-8. 2003..To evaluate risk factors in critically ill patients who were readmitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) during their hospital stay... - Acute monocytic leukemia presenting as acute respiratory failureElie Azoulay
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hematology Department, Saint Louis Teaching Hospital, Paris 7 University, France
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 167:1329-33. 2003.... - Impact of a family information leaflet on effectiveness of information provided to family members of intensive care unit patients: a multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled trialElie Azoulay
Intensive Care Department, Saint Louis Teaching Hospital, Paris 7 University, France
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 165:438-42. 2002..01). These results indicate that ICU caregivers should consider using an FIL to improve the effectiveness of the information they impart to families... - Measuring performance in health care: case-mix adjustment by boosted decision treesAnke Neumann
Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Direction de la Politique Médicale, 3 Av Victoria, F 75184 Paris Cedex 04, France
Artif Intell Med 32:97-113. 2004..The purpose of this paper is to investigate the suitability of boosted decision trees for the case-mix adjustment involved in comparing the performance of various health care entities... - Effect of acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy on outcome in critically ill patientsPhilipp G H Metnitz
Department of Reanimation Medicale, Hopital St Louis, University Lariboisière St Louis, Paris, France
Crit Care Med 30:2051-8. 2002..The aim of this study was to analyze severity of illness and mortality in a group of critically ill patients with acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy in a number of Austrian intensive care units... - Opinions about surrogate designation: a population survey in FranceElie Azoulay
The French Famirea Study Group, Intensive Care Unit of the Saint-Louis Teaching Hospital, University Paris 7, , Paris, France
Crit Care Med 31:1711-4. 2003..Primary care physicians should inform their patients about the benefits of discussing illness-related issues among friends and family... - Clinically documented pleural effusions in medical ICU patients: how useful is routine thoracentesis?Muriel Fartoukh
Medical and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, , Paris, France
Chest 121:178-84. 2002..CONCLUSION: Infection was the main cause of pleural effusions detected based on physical and radiographic findings in our MICU population. Routine thoracentesis proved a simple and safe means of improving the diagnosis and treatment... - Cardiovascular effects of the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor NG-methyl-L-arginine hydrochloride (546C88) in patients with septic shock: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled multicenter study (study no. 144-002)David Watson
Department of Intensive Care, Homerton Hospital, London, UK
Crit Care Med 32:13-20. 2004..Recruitment into the study was discontinued due to the emergence of increased mortality in the 546C88-treated group... - SAPS 3--From evaluation of the patient to evaluation of the intensive care unit. Part 2: Development of a prognostic model for hospital mortality at ICU admissionRui P Moreno
Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Hospital de St António dos Capuchos, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa zona central, Lisbon, Portugal
Intensive Care Med 31:1345-55. 2005..To develop a model to assess severity of illness and predict vital status at hospital discharge based on ICU admission data... - SAPS 3--From evaluation of the patient to evaluation of the intensive care unit. Part 1: Objectives, methods and cohort descriptionPhilipp G H Metnitz
Dept of Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care, University Hospital of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Intensive Care Med 31:1336-44. 2005..Objective of the SAPS 3 study was to collect data about risk factors and outcomes in a heterogeneous cohort of intensive care unit (ICU) patients, in order to develop a new, improved model for risk adjustment... - Deterioration of previous acute lung injury during neutropenia recoveryElie Azoulay
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Saint Louis University Hospital, USA
Crit Care Med 30:781-6. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: Patients with acute respiratory failure after prolonged neutropenia complicated by pneumonia are at increased risk for ARDS... - Intensive care in patients with newly diagnosed malignancies and a need for cancer chemotherapyMichael Darmon
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Saint Louis University Hospital and Paris 7 University, France
Crit Care Med 33:2488-93. 2005.... - Sepsis in European intensive care units: results of the SOAP studyJean-Louis Vincent
Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Crit Care Med 34:344-53. 2006..In addition to age, a positive fluid balance was among the strongest prognostic factors for death. Patients with intensive care unit acquired sepsis have a worse outcome despite similar severity scores on intensive care unit admission... - An evaluation of systemic inflammatory response syndrome signs in the Sepsis Occurrence In Acutely Ill Patients (SOAP) studyCharles L Sprung
Hadassah Hebrew University, Medical Center, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, P O Box 1200, 91120, Jerusalem, Israel
Intensive Care Med 32:421-7. 2006..To define the frequency and prognostic implications of SIRS criteria in critically ill patients hospitalized in European ICUs... - Impact of neutropenia duration on short-term mortality in neutropenic critically ill cancer patientsMichael Darmon
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Saint Louis University Hospital and Paris 7 University, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75010 Paris, France
Intensive Care Med 28:1775-80. 2002..ICU-acquired events might be modeled as time-dependent variables in a Cox model, rather than standard covariates in logistic regression models...