scholarly journals An Analysis of First 300 ICU Patients at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
AHM Kamal ◽  
W Khatun

An intensive care unit (ICU) is a special part of hospital where expertise medical and nursing care has been provided along with monitoring and organ support. An analysis of first 300 patients was carried out to investigate retrospective review of data from ICU of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) Rajshahi. During this study period, the frequency of admission into ICU was more from medical discipline (49%%) than other disciplines like surgical (42.33%), gynaecological, obstetric and other disciplines (8.66%%). The incidence of survival was 56.69% from surgical, 44.21% from medical and 38.46% from gynaecological and other disciplines and mortality was 35.94%, 53.59% and 10.45% respectively. Occurrence of total ventilatory support provided in all disciplines was 68%. In other studies it was found that the ICU mortality varies between 15% to 44% depending on various factors like age, severity of diseases, length of stay and organizational capability of the ICU. The most prevalence of diseases admitted into this ICU was medical diseases, which were 25% and second prevalent diseases were head injury 20.66%. The incidence of immediate mortality within 24 hours was 42 %TAJ 2012; 25: 8-12

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
MHM Delwar Hossain ◽  
Abdullah Al Maruf

An intensive care unit (ICU) is a special part of hospital where expertise medical and nursing care has been provided along with monitoring and organ support. An analysis of 1255 patients was carried out to investigate retrospective review of data from ICU of combined military hospital (CMH) Dhaka. During this study period, the frequency of admission into ICU was more from medical discipline (59.92%) than other disciplines like surgical (37.52%), gynaecological, obstetric and other disciplines (2.55%). The incidence of survival was 53.86% from medical, 69% from surgical and 84.38% from gynaecological, obstetric and other disciplines and mortality was 46.14%, 31% and 15.62% respectively. Occurrence of total ventilatory support provided in all disciplines was 45.34%. In other studies it was found that the ICU mortality varies between 15% to 44% depending on various factors like age, severity of diseases, length of stay and organizational capability of the ICU. The most prevalence of diseases admitted into this ICU was cardiovascular diseases, which were 42.47% and second prevalent diseases were head injury (11.34%). The incidence of immediate mortality within 12 hours was 7.97%.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bccj.v1i1.14368 Bangladesh Crit Care J March 2013; 1: 40-44


2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Shakera Ahmed ◽  
Omar Faruque Yusuf ◽  
AKM Shamsul Alam ◽  
Anisul Awal

Background: The intensive care unit (ICU) is that part of the hospital where critically ill patients that require advanced airway, respiratory and haemodynamic supports are usually admitted. Intensive care unit admissions which aim at achieving an outcome better than if the patients were admitted into other parts of the hospital however come at a huge cost to the hospital, the personnel and patients’ relations.Objective: To audit the 5 year bed occupancy rate and outcome of medicine and surgical patients admitted into the ICU of the Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chittagong, Bangladesh.Design: A 5 years retrospective study (Record review) from January 2012 to December 2016. Method: Data were extracted from the ICU records of the patient and analyzed.Results: During this study period, the frequency of admission into ICU was significantly more (p<0.001) from medical discipline (55.20%) than surgical disciplines (44.80%). The incidence of survival was significantly lower (p<0.001) from medical discipline (37.68%), than from surgical disciplines (49.05%). Occurrence of total ventilatory support provided in all disciplines was 60.32% and it was significantly higher for the surgical patients. Overall mortality rate was 57.23%.Conclusion: During prioritizing the patients for ICU admission surgical cases should get preference. It is primarily necessary to optimize patient to doctor ratio and patient to nurse ratio and providing the service by critical care physicians (“intensivists”) to reduce the mortality rate of ICU.Bangladesh J Medicine Jul 2018; 29(2) : 59-62


Author(s):  
Latha. A ◽  
Latha. P ◽  
Indira Arumugam

Background: Physical examination is an integral part of nursing care. It is the basic nursing care. A good physical examination leads to identification of the client – status, strengths and concern for nursing diagnosis. This provides discretion for nursing implementation and alleviation of client concern. Assessing a client health status is a major component of nursing care. A complete health assessment may be conducted starting at the head and proceeding in systematic manner downward (head-to-foot) assessment. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the level of knowledge physical examination. Objectives: 1. To determine the level of knowledge regarding physical examination among IIIrd year GNM students. 2. To associate the level of knowledge with selected demographic variables. Methodology: 30 III yr GNM students posted at Narayana Medical College Hospital were selected by using simple random sampling method. Results: Regarding the level of knowledge among GNM III yr students, 6, (20%) had adequate knowledge, 22(73.3%) had moderate knowledge and 2(6.6%) had inadequate knowledge regarding physical examination.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-117
Author(s):  
Md Mahmudul Islam ◽  
Khondkar AK Azad ◽  
Md Aminul Islam ◽  
Rivu Raj Chakraborty

Background: Chest trauma is responsible for 50% of deaths due to trauma. This kind of death usually occurs immediately after the trauma has occurred. Various therapeutic options have been reported for management of chest injuries like clinical observation, thoracocentesis, tube thoracostomy and open thoracotomy. Objective: To observe the pattern and outcome of management in chest trauma Methods: This is an observational study carried out in Casualty department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH), Chittagong, between April 2015 to March 2016. Our study was included all patients, both sexes, following chest injury at Casualty units of Chittagong Medical College Hospital. All the data were recorded through the preformed data collection sheet and analyzed. Result: The mean age was found 37.7±18.1 years with range from 12 to 80 years. Male female ratio was 11.8:1. The mean time elapsed after trauma was found 6.1±3.1 hours with range from 1 to 72 hours. Almost one third (35.7%) patients was affecting road traffic accident followed by 42(27.3%) assault, 35(22.7%) stab injury, 15(9.7%) fall and 7(4.5%) gun shot . More than three fourth (80.5%) patients were managed by tube thoracostomy followed by 28(18.2%) observation and 2(1.3%) ventilatory support. No thoracotomy was done in emergency department. 42(27.2%) patients was found open pneumothorax followed by 41(26.6%) rib fracture, 31(20.1%) haemopneumothorax, 14(9%) simple pneumothorax, 12(7.8%) haemothorax, 6(3.9%) chest wall injury, 5(3.2%) tension pneumothorax, and 3(1.9%) flail chest. About the side of tube 60(39.0%) patients were given tube on left side followed by 57(37.0%) patients on right side, 9(5.8%) patients on both (left & right) side and 28(18.2%) patients needed no tube. Regarding the complications, 13(30%) patients had persistent haemothorax followed by 12(29%)tubes were placed outside triangle of safety, 6(13.9%) tubes were kinked, 6(13.9%) patients developed port side infection, 2(4.5%)tube was placed too shallow, 2(4.5%) patients developed empyema thoracis and 2(4.5%) patients developed bronchopleural fistula. The mean ICT removal information was found 8.8±3.6 days with range from 4 to 18 days. Reinsertion of ICT was done in 6(4.7%) patients. More than two third (68.2%) patients were recovered well, 43(27.9%) patients developed complication and 6(3.9%)patients died. More than two third (66.9%) patients had length of hospital stay 11-20 days. Conclusion: Most of the patients were in 3rd decade and male predominant. Road traffic accident and tube thoracostomy were more common. Open pneumothorax, rib fracture and haemopneumothorax were commonest injuries. Nearly one third of the patients had developed complications. Re-insertion of ICT needed almost five percent and death almost four percent. Journal of Surgical Sciences (2018) Vol. 22 (2) : 110-117


1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Khanom ◽  
DK Saha ◽  
K Begum ◽  
J Nur ◽  
S Tanira

Objective: This study aims to describe main perpetrator of violence area and prevention of violence against women. Study design: A cross sectional study was carried out in One-stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period of June 2006 to May 2007. Methods: 284 victims reported in OCC during the study period were selected as cases for the study and quantitative information was collected from them using cross sectional for the present study. Results: Study shows that most of the violence is done by husband (46.48%) and prevalence is more in rural areas (80.98%) in comparison to urban area (19.02%). Physical assault is the most common type of violence (50.35%), followed by sexual assault (36.63%) and burn (13.02%) Housewives are tortured more (67%). Conclusion: Proper implementation of existing rules and community based interventions for raising awareness about the domestic violence against women are recommended. Key words: Violence against women; assault; human rights; one-stop crisis centre (OCC); Bangladesh. DOI: 10.3329/jdmc.v19i2.7077J Dhaka Med Coll. 2010; 19(2) : 98-101


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