Impact of factors at admittance predicting intensive care unit mortality in critically ill cancer patients

Objective. The aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of delirium and its risk factors among critically ill cancer patients in an intensive care unit (ICU). Materials and Methods. This is a prospective cohort study. The Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU) was measured daily at morning to diagnose delirium by a physician. Delirium was diagnosed when the daily was positive during a patient’s ICU stay. All patients were followed until they were discharged from the ICU. Using logistic regression, we estimated potential risk factors for developing delirium. The primary outcome was the development of ICU delirium. Results. There were 109 patients included in the study. Patients had a mean age of 48.6 ± 18.07 years, and the main reason for admission to the ICU was septic shock (40.4%). The incidence of delirium was 22.9%. The mortality among all subjects was 15.6%; the mortality rate in patients who developed delirium was 12%. The only variable that had an association with the development of delirium in the ICU was the days of use of mechanical ventilation (OR: 1.06; CI 95%: 0.99–1.13;p=0.07). Conclusion. Delirium is a frequent condition in critically ill cancer patients admitted to the ICU. The duration in days of mechanical ventilation is potential risk factors for developing delirium during an ICU stay. Delirium was not associated with a higher rate of mortality in this group of patients.

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Age and utilization of intensive care unit resources of critically ill cancer patients

Critical Care Medicine ◽

10.1097/00003246-199007000-00002 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 694-698 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

DONALD B. CHALFIN ◽

GRAZIANO C. CARLON

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Critically Ill

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Association of timing, duration, and intensity of hyperglycemia with intensive care unit mortality in critically ill children

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine ◽

10.1097/01.pcc.0000128607.68261.7c ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 329-336 ◽

Cited By ~ 228

Author(s):

Vijay Srinivasan ◽

Philip C. Spinella ◽

Henry R. Drott ◽

Carey L. Roth ◽

Mark A. Helfaer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Critically Ill ◽

Intensive Care Unit Mortality ◽

Critically Ill Children

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Critically ill cancer patients with influenza (H1N1) infection in the intensive care unit in Greece

Acta Oncologica ◽

10.3109/0284186x.2014.974830 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 54 (7) ◽

pp. 1081-1082 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Panagiotis Poulikakos ◽

Anastasia Tsispara ◽

Panagiota Vartzeli ◽

Maria Zakka

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Critically Ill ◽

H1n1 Infection ◽

Influenza H1n1

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An Analysis of Arguments for and Against Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Part One

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics ◽

10.1017/s0963180100006733 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 62-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

David C. Thomasma

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Intensive Care Unit ◽

Intensive Care ◽

Cancer Patients ◽

Critically Ill ◽

Assisted Suicide ◽

The United States ◽

Hospital Intensive Care Unit ◽

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Life Prolongation

In advanced technological societies there is growing concern about the prospect of protracted deaths marked by incapacitation, intolerable pain and indignity, and invasion by machines and tubing. Life prolongation for critically ill cancer patients in the United States, for example, literally costs a fortune for very little benefit, typically from $82,845 to $189,339 for an additional year of life. Those who return home after major interventions live on average only 3 more months; the others live out their days in a hospital intensive care unit.

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