Publications by authors named "N Kouraichi"
Background: The worldwide SARS-CoV-2 pandemic represents the most recent global healthcare crisis. While all healthcare systems suffered facing the immense burden of critically-ill COVID-19 patients, the levels of preparedness and adaptability differed highly between countries.
Aim: to describe resource mobilization throughout the COVID-19 waves in Tunisian University Medical Intensive Care Units (MICUs) and to identify discrepancies in preparedness between the provided and required resource.
Introduction: Laboratory medicine has an important role in the management of COVID-19. The aim of this study was to analyze routinely available blood parameters in intensive care unit COVID-19 patients and to evaluate their prognostic value.
Patients And Methods: This is a retrospective, observational, single-center study including consecutive severe COVID-19 patients who were admitted into the intensive care unit of Ben Arous Regional Hospital in Tunisia from 28 September 2020 to 31 May 2021.
Background: Cardiac arrest (CA) is a public health problem, with various etiologies and a fatal issue in 90-95% of cases. Toxin-induced cardiac arrests (TICA) are poorly described. Scarcity of national data prompted us to carry-out this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To determine the prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) in medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU), risk factors for these infections and identify the predominant infecting organisms.
Methods: A 1-day point-prevalence study within all medical ICUs in Tunisia, all patients occupying an ICU bed over a 48-hour period were included. Rates of HAI, resistance patterns of microbiological isolates and potential risk factors for HAI were recorded.