Example sentences for: icu
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The 12-bed medical-surgical ICU has 600 admissions per year.
The mean ICU bed occupancy rate of 53% found in all rural hospitals indicates that there was generally an ICU bed available to admit a critically ill patient.
In addition to general ICU patients, APACHE II has also been studied in specific groups of patients such as those with trauma [ 6], sepsis [ 7], and cirrhosis [ 8].
A summary of the studies, including the incidences of pneumonia and caloric goal achieved, are presented in Table 1. Not all of the studies reported the end-points of interest, with risk for pneumonia being reported in seven studies [ 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 ] , mean percentage of caloric goal achieved in five studies [ 10 15 17 18 19 ] , mean caloric intake in five studies [ 15 17 19 20 21 ] , time to the initiation of enteral nutrition in three studies [ 15 20 21 ] , time to reach caloric goal in four studies [ 16 18 20 22 ] , ICU LOS in five studies [ 15 16 17 20 21 ] , and mortality in seven studies [ 10 15 16 17 18 20 21 ] .
Five studies were excluded, and the remaining nine trials were included in the present meta-analysis [ 10 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ] . Articles were excluded for the following reasons: the end-points of interest were not recorded [ 9 23 ] , non-ICU patients were studied [ 24 ] , and two studies compared early (post-pyloric or gastric) versus delayed (gastric) enteral nutrition [ 25 26 ] , Only medical, neurosurgical, and trauma patents were enrolled in the studies analyzed.
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