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What should be the Ideal oxygen saturation in ICU?

In a single center, pragmatic, cluster randomized trial in emergency and ICU with 2541 ventilated patients, it was found that there is no difference in outcome while targeting low vs high oxygen satur...

Incidence And Outcome of Aki In Icu

Rapid decrease in the kidney’s ability to eliminate waste products such as urea and creatinine. Other manifestations include decreased urine output, metabolic acidosis and hyperkalemia. It can be defi...

Hypoactive Delirium: The Most Prevalent and Frequently Missed One: A Case Report

The word delirium comes from the Latindeaway from + lirafurrow in afield, hence literally meaning going away from the ploughed track.  Delirium is a neuropsychiatric syndrome which is transient and re...

Epidemiology of Fungal infection in a tertiary care hospital in northeast India: A Retrospective study

Invassive fungal infection is a common problem faced in ICU’s of all over the world.If we went back to history, It started in 1835 by the discovery of a mould , beauvariabassiana by Agostino Bassi. Th...

A Brief Overview For Clinician’s Orientation To ICU And Alternative Planning

The global history of ICU care dates back to the polio epidemic in 1950s, when the specialty of critical care was born. The technique of controlled ventilation was then extended to patients with drug ...