First year experience of APACHE II scoring in intensive care and high dependency care units in St Lukes Hospital, Malta

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (Supplement 34) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Galea M. Scannura ◽  
E. Grech ◽  
A. Gera
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Apache Ii ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Dependency Care ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
High Dependency Care

scholarly journals Non-invasive respiratory unit in the Hungarian health care system

2012 ◽  
Vol 153 (23) ◽  
pp. 918-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
András Lorx ◽  
Dóra Bartusek ◽  
György Losonczy ◽  
János Gál
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Hospital Stay ◽  
Respiratory Insufficiency ◽  
First Year Experience ◽  
First Year ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
Chronic Respiratory Insufficiency ◽  
General Wards

Treating patients with acute or chronic respiratory insufficiency still poses a major load on the healthcare system. Though there is evidence that treating these patients in high dependency respiratory units results in a shortening of hospital stay, reduces the need of intubation, and decreases mortality. In the Hungarian routine these patients are treated in general wards until the development of global respiratory insufficiency, when they are transferred to intensive care units. The authors present their first year experience on their novel Non-invasive Respiratory Unit established at Semmelweis University. Orv. Hetil., 2012, 153, 918–921.

scholarly journals Emergency paediatric critical care in England: describing trends using routine hospital data

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (11) ◽  
pp. 1061-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Marie Lewis ◽  
Sanjay M Parekh ◽  
Padmanabhan Ramnarayan ◽  
Ruth Gilbert ◽  
Pia Hardelid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Birth Cohort Study ◽  
Invasive Ventilation ◽  
Hospital Data ◽  
Emergency Admissions ◽  
Admission Rates ◽  
Dependency Care ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
High Dependency Care

ObjectiveTo determine trends in emergency admission rates requiring different levels of critical care in hospitals with and without a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).DesignBirth cohort study created from Hospital Episode Statistics.SettingNational Health Service funded hospitals in England.Patients8 577 680 singleton children born between 1 May 2003 and 31 April 2017.Outcome measuresUsing procedure and diagnostic codes, we assigned indicators of high dependency care (eg, non-invasive ventilation) or intensive care (eg, invasive ventilation) to emergency admissions.InterventionsChildren were followed up until their fifth birthday to estimate high dependency and intensive care admission rates in hospitals with and without a PICU. We tested the yearly trend of high dependency and intensive care admissions to hospitals without a PICU using logistic regression models.ResultsEmergency admissions requiring high dependency care in hospitals without a PICU increased from 3.30 (95% CI 3.09 to 3.51) per 10 000 child-years in 2008/2009 to 7.58 (95% CI 7.28 to 7.89) in 2016/2017 and overtook hospitals with a PICU in 2015/2016. The odds of an admission requiring high dependency care to a hospital without a PICU compared with a hospital with a PICU increased by 9% per study year (OR 1.09, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.10). The same trend was not present for admissions requiring intensive care (OR 1.01, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.03).ConclusionsBetween 2008/2009 and 2016/2017, an increasing proportion of admissions with indicators of high dependency care took place in hospitals without a PICU.

scholarly journals Analysis of intensive care populations to select possible candidates for high dependency care.

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
J V Pappachan ◽  
B W Millar ◽  
D J Barrett ◽  
G B Smith
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Dependency Care ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
High Dependency Care
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