BACKGROUND: In critically ill patients, auscultation might be challenging as dorsal lung fields are difficult to reach in supine-positioned patients, and the environment is often noisy. In recent years, clinicians have started to consider lung ultrasound as a useful diagnostic tool for a variety of pulmonary …

PURPOSE: Premorbid conditions affect prognosis of acutely-ill aged patients. Several lines of evidence suggest geriatric syndromes need to be assessed but little is known on their relative effect on the 30-day survival after ICU admission. The primary aim of this study was to describe the prevalence …

BACKGROUND: Hemodynamic assessment of critically ill patients is a challenging endeavor, and advanced monitoring techniques are often required to guide treatment choices. Given the technical complexity and occasional unavailability of these techniques, estimation of cardiac function based on clinical …

Background: Cardiac output measurements may inform diagnosis and provide guidance of therapeutic interventions in patients with hemodynamic instability. The FloTrac™ algorithm uses uncalibrated arterial pressure waveform analysis to estimate cardiac output. Recently, a new version of the algorithm has …

PURPOSE: Clinical examination is often the first step to diagnose shock and estimate cardiac index. In the Simple Intensive Care Studies-I, we assessed the association and diagnostic performance of clinical signs for estimation of cardiac index in critically ill patients. METHODS: In this prospective, …

In the original publication Dr Patrick Meybohm of the Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, Frankfurt University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany was inadvertently omitted from the list of investigators.

In het kwalitatieve onderzoek Op weg naar flexibele levensondersteuning is antwoord gegeven op de vraag: Wat vertellen burgers met een licht verstandelijke beperking tussen de 18 en 23 jaar, wonend in een wijk in een gemeente Arnhem, over de ervaren kritieke momenten in hun levensloop? Organisaties uit …

Het onderzoeksproject - ‘Netwerkondersteuning voor steunbehoevende burgers’ - heeft tot doel om voor werkwijzen van netwerkondersteuning in kaart te brengen welke factoren bijdragen aan het succes van een werkwijze (kritieke succesfactoren). Aan het project hebben 11 zorg- en welzijnsorganisaties uit …