Example sentences for: icus
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Funded by a grant from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), a multidisciplinary study team from a major Midwest academic medical center conducted a systematic evaluation of care provided to mechanically ventilated patients in rural ICUs.
Patients surveyed represented a stratified random sample of patients in ICUs and outside ICUs for whom blood cultures were either positive or negative, as previously described [ 22 ] . Among non-ICU patients with blood cultures that were negative at 48 hours, sampling at all centers was fixed at 10%.
Data were collected from medical records of 224 patients requiring mechanical ventilation while treated in 20 rural Iowa ICUs between 1992 and 1994.
Approximately 30% of patients in surgical ICUs and cardiac ICUs, and 40-50% of patients who are recovering from hip fractures have an episode of delirium [ 1, 22].
Another technology is monitoring central pressures by PAC, which is often used in ICUs to assess the effect of pharmacotherapy on the cardiac index in patients with septic shock.