Publications by authors named "Andrea Bianchin"

Multidrug resistance has become a serious threat for health, particularly in hospital-acquired infections. To improve patients’ safety and outcomes while maintaining the efficacy of antimicrobials, complex interventions are needed involving infection control and appropriate pharmacological treatments in antibiotic stewardship programs. We conducted a multicenter pre-post study to assess the impact of a stewardship program in seven Italian intensive care units (ICUs).

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Background: Few studies have investigated both short- and long-term prognostic factors, and the differences between chronic and acute conditions in the very old critically ill patient. Our study aims to shed light in this field and to provide useful prognostic factors that may support clinical decisions in the management of the elderly.

Methods: Six ICUs collected data concerning 80-year-old (or more) patients admitted in 2015 and 2016 and followed-up until May 2018.

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Background: The relationship between ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and mortality varies from study to study, and its entity is uncertain due a considerable variation in the attributable mortality. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between VAP frequency and mortality in a cohort of mechanically ventilated patients.

Methods: A multicenter prospective observational study was conducted in 21 Intensive Care Units (ICUs).

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Background: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is one of three interventions that have demonstrated to improve patients' neurological outcome after cardiac arrest. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of the 2010 resuscitation guidelines on TH implementation in various Italian Intensive Care Units (ICU).

Methods: A structured questionnaire was submitted to Italian ICU.

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Purpose: To report the Italian real experience in clinical practice about recombinant factor VII activated (rFVIIa) in Post-Partum Haemorrhage (PPH) treatment.

Methods: An Italian retrospective survey of severe primary PPH cases treated with rFVIIa was performed. Anamnestic, clinical and haemostatic data about thirty-five patients with PPH, from 2005 to 2007, were collected.

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Severe organophosphate poisoning (OPP) has a high mortality rate. Respiratory and neurological complications are common in OPP. Multiple organ distress syndrome (MODS) and renal impairment are relatively rare but correlated with death.

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