BACKGROUND: Admitting patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD) to the ICU is controversial, due to their associated high mortality when they require invasive mechanical ventilation. We aimed to determine the risk factors for mortality in ILD patients requiring ICU support due to acute respiratory failure. METHODS: An observational cohort study was performed in 2 chest diseases teaching hospitals. We included all ILD patients with acute respiratory failure admitted between 2008 and 2010. Subject demographics, noninvasive ventilation (NIV) and invasive ventilation use, and mortality were obtained from medical records. Subjects receiving NIV were divided based on their continuous or non-continuous demand for NIV. NIV failure was defined as intubation for invasive ventilation, or death during NIV. Cox regression analysis was used to determine the hazard ratio for NIV failure. RESULTS: We enrolled 120 subjects: 71 male, median age 66 years. The types of ILD were idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (n ؍ 96), collagen vascular disease (n ؍ 10), silicosis (n ؍ 9), drug induced (n ؍ 3), and eosinophilic pneumonia (n ؍ 2). The median (IQR) Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) score was 24 (19 -31), and 75 (62.5%) subjects received NIV on ICU admission, 47 (62.7%) of whom needed continuous NIV. The NIV failure rate was 49.3% (n ؍ 37). The mortality rates of continuous NIV, non-continuous NIV, invasive ventilation, and total ICU were 61.7% (29/47), 10.7% (3/28), 89.7% (61/68), 60% (72/120), respectively. APACHE II > 20 and continuous NIV demand indicated significant risk for NIV failure: hazard ratio 2.77 (95% CI 1.19 -6.45), P < .02, and 5.12, (1.44 -18.19), P < .01, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Because of higher mortality, physicians should consider invasive ventilation cautiously in the ICU management of ILD patients with acute respiratory failure. NIV may be an option in less severely ill patients with APACHE II score < 20.
This study aims to evaluate the incidence of non-thyroid illness syndrome (NTIS) among patients diagnosed as lung cancer and its association with the stage of the disease, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score, nutritional parameters, and survival. We enrolled 120 patients that 71 of them with newly diagnosed and staged non-small cell lung cancer and 49 of them small-cell lung cancer. The cases were examined for thyroid function tests, ECOG performance score, and nutritional evaluation before treatment. Also, cases were evaluated for their overall survival rates. NTIS was identified in 30 (42 %) of the 71 non-small cell lung cancer patients and 22 (44 %) of the 49 small-cell lung cancer patients. NTIS was more frequent among advanced stage of cases. Serum albumin level, cholesterol level, lymphocyte level, and body mass index were detected to be significantly low and ECOG performance score was significantly high in cases with NTIS when compared to cases without NTIS. NTIS was found to be negatively correlated with body mass index, ECOG performance score, and serum albumin level, and it was positively correlated with disease stage. NTIS was detected significantly as a poor prognostic factor for lung cancer. NTIS was frequently seen in cases with non-small cell lung cancer and small-cell lung cancer. NTIS can be used as a predictor of poor prognosis for lung cancer patients.
Adaptive support ventilation (ASV) is a closed-loop ventilation mode that can act both as pressure support ventilation (PSV) and pressure-controlled ventilation. Weaning with ASV shows promising results, mainly in post-cardiac surgery patients. The aim of the present randomised controlled study was to test the hypothesis that weaning with ASV could reduce the weaning duration in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) when compared with PSV.From among 435 COPD patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) during a 20-month period, 97 were enrolled. Patients were assigned at random to either ASV or PSV as a weaning mode.Compared with PSV, ASV provided shorter weaning times (median 24 (interquartile range 20-62) h versus 72 (24-144) h, p50.041) with similar weaning success rates (35 out of 49 for ASV and 33 out of 48 for PSV). Length of stay in the ICU was also shorter with ASV but the difference was not statistically significant.This study suggests that ASV may be used in the weaning of COPD patients with the advantage of shorter weaning times. Further studies are needed to investigate the role and potential advantages of ASV in the weaning period of different patient groups.
Amaç: Daha iyi bir yoğun bakım işleyişi sağlanabilmesi, mortalite ve morbiditenin azaltılabilmesi için yoğun bakım performans değerlendirilmesi-nin yapılıp aksayan noktaların saptanması önem taşır. Bu amaçla benzer büyüklükte, benzer hasta profili ve sevk kapasitesindeki yoğun bakım üni-telerinin karşılaştırılmaları bakım kalitesi açısından yol gösterici olacaktır. Literatürde yoğun bakımda kantitatif performans kalite ölçüm kriterlerini kendi ünitemizde saptamak, elde edilen veriler ile aksayan noktaları saptamak ve yoğun bakım kalitemizi yükseltmek adına çözümler üretmek ve gelecekte ünitemizin zaman içerisindeki gelişimini takip etmeyi amaçladık.Gereç ve Yöntemler: Kapalı özellikte, on yataklı, üç hasta başına bir hemşirenin görev yaptığı üçüncü basamak bir üniversite hastanesi genel yoğun bakım ünitesinde; 01 Ocak-31 Aralık 2016 tarihleri arasında takip edilen 347 hastanın demografik özellikleri ve klinik takip verileri retro-spektif olarak tarandı.Bulgular: 2016 yılı yatak kapasitesi kullanım oranı %95.81 olup bir yıl için-de takip edilen hasta sayısı 347 (211 erkek, 136 kadın), hastaların yaş ortalaması 65 (19-96 yaş),ortalama yatış süresi 9 gündü (1-182 gün). Yoğun bakıma kabul edilen hastaların %32.5'i acil servisten, %31'i medikal servislerden, %26.2'si postoperatif, %6.1'i cerrahi servislerden ve %4.2'si ise dış merkezden sevk edilen hastalardı. Bu hastaların % 45,2'si mortal seyretti, taburcu edilen hastaların %27.9'u cerrahi servilere, %27.8'i ise medikal servilere taburcu edildi. APACHE II ortalamaları 23(2-45) olup APACHE II' ye göre beklenen mortalite oranı %49, gerçekleşen kaba mortalite %45,2 (157/347) ve standardize mortalite oranı(SMR= gözlenen mortalite/ beklenen mortalite) ise 0,92 saptandı. Hematolojik tanısı olan hastalarda mortalite %58,1; postresüsite hastalarda ise %64,3 gibi yüksek sevilerdeydi. Bu süreçte 25 hastaya perkütan trakeotomi, 9 hastaya trakeostomi ve 13 hastaya PEG açıldı. İnvaziv santral venöz kateter (SVK) kullanım oranı %82, SVK ilişkili kan dolaşım enfeksiyon hızı %12.7 (32 hasta), invaziv mekanik ventilatör kullanım oranı %71ve ventilatör ilişkili pnömoni oranı %12.7 (32 hasta) saptandı. Taburculuk sonrası 48 saat içinde tekrar yoğun bakıma yatış oranı %2,6 ( 9 hasta), postoperatif 48 saat içinde mortalite oranı %2,2 (2/90), taburculuk sonrası 4 aylık takipte 22 hasta (%5.1) tekrar yatırılmış ve 51 hasta (%13.5) ise mortal seyretmiştir. Acil servisten alınan, respiratuar sistem hastalıkları bulunan ve erkek cinsiyette hastalarda uzun vadede tekrar yatış riski iki kat, 60-70 yaş grubunda ise dört kat daha fazla saptandı. Bu hastaların %56' sı tekrar taburcu edilebildi.Tartışma ve Sonuç: Ölçmediğimiz şeyleri değerlendirmemiz mümkün değildir, bununla birlikte mühim olan ölçmek değil ölçtüğümüzle ne yaptığı-mızdır. Mevcut verileri değerlendirdiğimizde invaziv araç ilişkili hastane enfeksiyon hızlarının azaltılmasına yönelik bundl uygulama planlamaları yapıldı, bası yarası gelişim riskini azaltabilmek adına tüm yataklarımıza kinetik yatak alındı ve personele hasta pozisyonl...
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