Quality of life after intensive care--evaluation with EQ-5D questionnaireCristina Granja
Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Pedro Hispano, 4450, Matosinhos, Portugal
Intensive Care Med 28:898-907. 2002
..To evaluate health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) and study its determinants in adult patients discharged from an intensive care unit (ICU)...
The predisposition, infection, response and organ failure (Piro) sepsis classification system: results of hospital mortality using a novel concept and methodological approachCristina Granja
Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine of Porto, Porto, Portugal
PLoS ONE 8:e53885. 2013
..PIRO is a conceptual classification system in which a number of demographic, clinical, biological and laboratory variables are used to stratify patients with sepsis in categories with different outcomes, including mortality rates...
- Quality of life 6-months after cardiac arrest
Cristina Granja
Intensive Care Unit, Resuscitation Committee, Hospital Pedro Hispano, 4450 Matosinhos, Portugal
Resuscitation 55:37-44. 2002
..Evaluation of outcome after cardiac arrest focuses mainly on survival. Survivors of cardiac arrest end up in different states of health and survival alone may not be a sensitive measure for successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)...
Understanding posttraumatic stress disorder-related symptoms after critical care: the early illness amnesia hypothesisCristina Granja
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Crit Care Med 36:2801-9. 2008
..To assess the factual and delusional memories reported by intensive care unit survivors and its relationship with the development of Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSS)...
- Patients' recollections of experiences in the intensive care unit may affect their quality of life
Cristina Granja
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Crit Care 9:R96-109. 2005
..We wished to obtain the experiences felt by patients during their ICU stay using an original questionnaire and to correlate the memories of those experiences with health-related quality of life (HR-QOL)...
- Cardiac arrest: long-term cognitive and imaging analysis
Belina Nunes
Department of Neurology, Hospital Pedro Hispano, 4450 Matosinhos, Portugal
Resuscitation 57:287-97. 2003
..The aim of this study is to analyze the contribution of neuropsychological testing and cerebral imaging to the development of a long-term classification of neurological impairment...
- Immediate and long-term impact of medical emergency teams on cardiac arrest prevalence and mortality: a plea for periodic basic life-support training programs
Glória Campello
From the Emergency and Intensive Care Department GC, CG, FC and Resuscitation Committee CG, FC, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal and the Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Department CG, CD, L FA, AC P, Faculty of Medicine of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Crit Care Med 37:3054-61. 2009
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- Quality of life of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock may be similar to that of others who survive critical illness
Cristina Granja
Department of Intensive Care, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Crit Care 8:R91-8. 2004
..The objective of the present study was to compare the health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) of survivors from severe sepsis and septic shock with HR-QoL in others who survived critical illness not involving sepsis...
- Emphysematous cystitis--a case report
Carla Meira
Intensive Care Department, Pedro Hispano Hospital, Matosinhos, Portugal
Braz J Infect Dis 12:552-4. 2008
..We report a clinical case of a patient admitted with acute myocardial infarction who developed an acute emphysematous cystitis, a further complication in his long and complex period of hospitalization...
- Quality of life in acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors may be no worst than in other ICU survivors
Cristina Granja
Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Pedro Hispano, 4454 509 Matosinhos, Portugal
Intensive Care Med 29:1744-50. 2003
..To compare the health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) survivors with that in a matched control group of non-ARDS survivors...
- Cardiogenic shock caused by disulfiram
Ana Jerónimo
Serviço de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Arq Bras Cardiol 92:e16-8. 2009
..We underscore the importance of suspecting this diagnosis and of adopting prompt and the most adequate therapeutic approach in this context...
- In-hospital cardiac arrest: factors in the decision not to resuscitate. The impact of an organized in-hospital emergency system
Antonio Mendes
Serviço de Cuidados Intensivos Médicos, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 28:131-41. 2009
..To identify factors associated with "do-not-resuscitate" (DNR) decisions in patients who suffer cardiac arrest...
- The emergency room--analysis and evaluation of an organizational model
Francisco Ferreira
Serviço de Cuidados Intensivos Médicos e Emergência, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos, Portugal
Rev Port Cardiol 27:889-900. 2008
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- Vital signs in intensive care: automatic acquisition and consolidation into electronic patient records
Telmo Fonseca
Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
J Med Syst 33:47-57. 2009
..The possibility of communicating via the HL7 standard makes the whole system easily interoperable with applications in related domains...
- Improved survival with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest with cold saline and surfacing cooling: keep it simple
Cristina Granja
Department of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Pedro Hispano, 4450 Matosinhos, Portugal
Emerg Med Int 2011:395813. 2011
..TH achieved with this protocol was associated with a significant reduction in hospital mortality...
- When (quality of) life is at stake and intensive care is needed: how much can we trust our proxies?
Cristina Granja
Intensive Care Med 32:1681-2. 2006
