Publications by authors named "F Jeannette Schoonderbeek"
Supplemental oxygen is widely administered to ICU patients, but appropriate oxygenation targets remain unclear. This study aimed to determine whether a low-oxygenation strategy would lower 28-day mortality compared with a high-oxygenation strategy. This randomized multicenter trial included mechanically ventilated ICU patients with an expected ventilation duration of at least 24 hours.
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- * The research included a multicenter cohort study with data collected from patients admitted on World Delirium Awareness Day 2018, revealing a point-prevalence of 23% and a period-prevalence of 42% for delirium.
- * Most ICUs had a protocol for managing delirium, showing compliance in assessment practices, yet the study highlighted that certain factors like infection and mechanical ventilation were more common in patients experiencing delirium.
Background: Over the last decade, there has been an increasing awareness for the potential harm of the administration of too much oxygen. We aimed to describe self-reported attitudes towards oxygen therapy by clinicians from a large representative sample of intensive care units (ICUs) in the Netherlands.
Methods: In April 2019, 36 ICUs in the Netherlands were approached and asked to send out a questionnaire (59 questions) to their nursing and medical staff (ICU clinicians) eliciting self-reported behaviour and attitudes towards oxygen therapy in general and in specific ICU case scenarios.
Rationale: It is unknown whether lactate monitoring aimed to decrease levels during initial treatment in critically ill patients improves outcome.
Objectives: To assess the effect of lactate monitoring and resuscitation directed at decreasing lactate levels in intensive care unit (ICU) patients admitted with a lactate level of greater than or equal to 3.0 mEq/L.
Three pregnant women, of whom 2 were 33 and 1 was 35 years of age, were seen; 2 of them had upper abdominal pain and 1had oedema. All had proteinuria and liver enzyme abnormalities, and pre-eclampsia or the HELLP syndrome was suspected. They were consequently admitted and at first treated with antihypertensive agents.
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