[Preparedness for emergencies: strategies to increase the supply of beds and advanced intensive skills].

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Introduction: The recent pandemic has highlighted the importance of emergency preparedness plans.

Stress Hyperglycemia and Mortality in Subjects With Diabetes and Sepsis.

Objectives: Poor glycemic control is associated with mortality in critical patients with diabetes. The aim of the study was to assess the predicting value of stress hyperglycemia in patients with diabetes following hospital admission for sepsis.

Design: Retrospective observational study.

Old subjects with sepsis in the emergency department: trend analysis of case fatality rate.

Background: The burden of sepsis represents a global health care problem. We aimed to assess the case fatality rate (CFR) and its predictors in subjects with sepsis admitted to a general Italian hospital from 2009 to 2016, stratified by risk score.

Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of all sepsis-related hospitalizations after Emergency Department (ED) visit in a public Italian hospital in an 8-year period.

Rapid rule-out of suspected acute coronary syndrome in the Emergency Department by high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T levels at presentation.

The reliability of initial high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) under limit-of-detection in ruling-out short- and long-term acute coronary events in subjects for suspected non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS) is not definitely settled. In a retrospective chart review analysis, 1001 subjects with hs-cTnT ≤ 14 ng/L out of 4053 subjects with hs-cTnT measured at Emergency Department (ED) presentation were recruited. The main outcome measure is fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) within 30 days; secondary outcomes are MI or major acute coronary events (MACE) as a combination of MI or re-hospitalization for unstable angina within 1 year.

Clinical assessment instruments validated for nursing practice in the Italian context: a systematic review of the literature.

Aims: With the aim to identify the instruments validated for Italian nursing practice, a systematic review of the literature was undertaken.

Results: A total of 101 instruments emerged. The majority (89; 88.

Dorsal acoustic windows may ameliorate liver ultrasound in patients with chronic liver disease and meteorism/obesity/ascites.

Purpose: To identify dorsal acoustic windows (DAWs) for the study of the liver and to investigate whether they could improve the visualization of the liver in patients with chronic liver disease and ascites, meteorism, and/or obesity.

Methods: The study was based on a single ultrasound examination and divided into three successive stages. Firstly, we performed a preliminary study involving 10 cirrhotic patients to identify new DAWs.

How albumin administration for cirrhosis impacts on hospital albumin consumption and expenditure.

Aim: To assess the impact of guidelines for albumin prescription in an academic hospital, which is a referral center for liver diseases.

Methods: Although randomized trials and guidelines support albumin administration for some complications of cirrhosis, the high cost of albumin greatly limits its use in clinical practice. In 2003, a multidisciplinary panel at Sant'Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital (Bologna, Italy) used a literature-based consensus method to list all the acute and chronic conditions for which albumin is indicated as first- or second-line treatment.