Background: The combination of prone positioning and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is recognized as safe but its use has been limited due to potential complications.
Aim: To report the prevalence of pressure ulcers and other complications due to prone positioning in adult patients receiving veno-venous ECMO.
Study Design: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary level intensive care unit (ICU) in Milan (Italy), between January 2015 and December 2019.
Objective: To explore recurrent themes in diaries kept by intensive care unit (ICU) staff during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Design: Qualitative study.
Setting: Two ICUs in a tertiary level hospital (Milan, Italy) from January to December 2021.
Healthy and pathological human walking are here interpreted, from a temporal point of view, by means of dynamics-on-graph concepts and generalized finite-length Fibonacci sequences. Such sequences, in their most general definition, concern two sets of eight specific time intervals for the newly defined , which involves two specific couples of overlapping (left and right) gait cycles. The role of the golden ratio, whose occurrence has been experimentally found in the recent literature, is accordingly characterized, without resorting to complex tools from linear algebra.
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October 2019
Background: In the intensive care unit, invasive devices can be accidentally removed by the patient or by the operators, increasing workload, staff stress level and hospitalisation costs.
Objective: to know the incidence of accidental removal of devices in critical patients, to identify their cause, when they occur and if they are repositioned.
Methods: Retrospective observational study carried out in an academic, tertiary-level critical care department composed of three intensive care units.