Outcome of Cancer Patients with an Unplanned Intensive Care Unit Admission: Predictors of Mortality and Long-term Survival.

Background: Understanding the characteristics and outcomes of cancer patients with unplanned ICU admission is imperative for therapeutic decisions and prognostication purposes.

Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics of patients with hematological and non-hematological malignancies (NHM) who require unplanned ICU admission and to determine the predictors of mortality and long-term survival.

Methods: This retrospective study included all patients with cancer who had an unplanned ICU admission between 2011 and 2016 at a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Comparison Between the Impact of Vasopressors and Goal-Directed Fluid Therapy on the Management of Free Flap Reconstruction of Head and Neck and Monitoring in ICU.

Head and neck reconstructions are often accompanied with complex long surgical procedures. Free flap tissue transfer is a standard reconstruction method that reestablishes severe tissue defects after resection due to trauma or cancer. Imbalanced fluid resuscitation can extremely harm the outcome of the flap either due to hypoperfusion or edema.

Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital.

Background: Adverse events are poor patient outcomes that are due to medical care. Studies of hospital patients have demonstrated that adverse events are common, but few data describe the timing of them in relation to hospital admission. We evaluated characteristics of adverse events affecting patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital, paying particular attention to timing.