Assessment of the safety and feasibility of administering antipyretic therapy in critically ill adults: A pilot randomized clinical trialDaniel J Niven
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Electronic address
J Crit Care 28:296-302. 2013
..To assess the safety and feasibility of treating critically ill adults with different fever control strategies...
Antipyretic therapy in febrile critically ill adults: A systematic review and meta-analysisDaniel J Niven
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, Canada T1Y 6J4 Electronic address
J Crit Care 28:303-10. 2013
..To determine whether fever control with antipyretic therapy effects the mortality of febrile critically ill adults...
Pharmacotherapy of fever control among hospitalized adult patientsDaniel J Niven
University of Calgary, Department of Critical Care Medicine, ICU Administration, Peter Lougheed Centre, 3500 26th Ave NE T1Y 6J4 Calgary, Alberta, T1Y 6J4, Canada
Expert Opin Pharmacother 14:735-45. 2013
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Fever in the critically ill: a review of epidemiology, immunology, and managementDaniel J Niven
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Intensive Care Med 27:290-7. 2012
..As such, a review of the epidemiology, molecular mechanisms, and immunology of fever as well as the evidence behind management of fever in the critically ill is pertinent to all critical care practitioners...
Effect of comorbid illness on the long-term outcome of adults suffering major traumatic injury: a population-based cohort studyDaniel J Niven
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services, Peter Lougheed Centre, 3500 26th Ave NE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T1Y 6J4
Am J Surg 204:151-6. 2012
..This study investigated the influence of comorbidities as measured by the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) on the 1-year mortality after major traumatic injury...
Assessment of the safety and feasibility of administering anti-pyretic therapy in critically ill adults: study protocol of a randomized trialDaniel J Niven
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary, and Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
BMC Res Notes 5:147. 2012
..The biologic response to these two different temperature control strategies will also be assessed through analysis of a panel of inflammatory mediators...
Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and influence on outcome in the critically illDaniel J Niven
Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary Health Region, and Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Crit Care 24:583-9. 2009
..To determine the rate of Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization at admission to intensive care units (ICU) and assess its effect on the development of an ICU-acquired S aureus infection...
Matched case-control studies: a review of reported statistical methodologyDaniel J Niven
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peter Lougheed Centre, Calgary
Clin Epidemiol 4:99-110. 2012
..Matching of cases and controls is frequently employed to control the effects of known potential confounding variables. The analysis of matched data requires specific statistical methods...