Publications by authors named "Marianela Hernandez Lopez"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate how common elevated mechanical power (MP) values are in critically ill patients on invasive mechanical ventilation.
- It analyzed data from 372 patients across 133 Critical Care Units, revealing higher MP in pressure-controlled (PC) ventilation compared to volume-controlled (VC) ventilation, but no significant difference in the prevalence of high MP (>17J/min) between the two methods.
- The findings suggest a notable number of patients may face the risk of high MP, indicating a need for careful monitoring in ventilated patients, despite the lack of a significant difference in high MP prevalence based on the ventilation type.
Objective: To evaluate whether health-related quality of life prior to admission into an intensive care unit (ICU) is a prognostic factor of hospital and 1 year mortality.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: Fourteen-bed medical-surgical ICU.