Spiritual needs of family caregivers in palliative care.

Objective: The primary aim of this study is to elucidate the spiritual needs encountered by family members who intricately engage in the progression of illness within the palliative care framework, thus assuming the paramount responsibility of caregiving.

Methods: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of the University of Health Sciences İzmir Tepecik Training and Research Hospital (17/01/2022-2022/01-16). The research was designed as a prospective study.

Care training and family caregiver anxiety: prospective cohort study.

Objectives: The study aimed to improve family caregivers' skills and evaluate the effect on their anxiety levels.

Method: In our study, family caregivers of patients unable to perform daily activities were provided with care training. Their anxiety levels were examined before and after the training.

Effect of cortisol and glycosylated-hemoglobin levels on mortality in intensive care unit.

Objectives: To research the effects of blood cortisol and hemoglobinA1c (HBA1C) levels on mortality in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and whether these factors could be used as reliable indicators for mortality risk assessment in these patients.

Methods: After receiving approval from the ethics committee, 79 patients admitted to ICU were included in the study. From patient files, we collected data on demographics (age, gender), presence of diabetes mellitus, and levels of cortisol, HbA1C, glucose, and lactate measured during hospitalization, along with acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II scores calculated within the first 24 hours.

Effectiveness of the oxygen reserve index in detecting and preventing hyperoxia in critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation: a randomized controlled trial.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) titration guided by oxygen reserve index (ORi) in preventing hyperoxia in intensive care unit (ICU) patients receiving mechanical ventilator support.

Methods: Patients aged 18 years and older who were admitted to a tertiary ICU and required mechanical ventilator support were randomly divided into two groups: the control group (n=30) and the oxygen saturation (SpO2) +ORi group (n=30). In the SpO2+ORi group, the goal was to maintain SpO2 between 95% and 98% and ORi at 0.

Safe Hugs in Palliative Care.

Mnemonics are word formulations that aid physicians in recalling instances hidden among typical applications and may be neglected due to workload. Mnemonic abbreviations that benefit not only physicians but the entire care team are widely used throughout the world. Given that palliative care is the work of a multidisciplinary team, these mnemonics become even more significant.

Convalescent plasma for COVID-19 in the intensive care unit.

Introduction: We aimed to investigate the clinical features and mortality of critically ill patients treated with convalescent plasma for COVID-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Material And Methods: We retrospectively collected clinical and laboratory data of COVID-19 patients treated in the ICU. The patients were divided into two groups: those who received convalescent plasma and those who did not.

Is Procalcitonin a Marker of Neurologic Outcome or Early Infection in Patients Treated with Targeted Temperature Management?

Objectives: Although high procalcitonin (PCT) levels are associated with poor neurological outcomes and increased mortality rates in patients treated with targeted temperature management (TTM) in the postcardiac arrest (CA) period, there are limited data about the correlation between PCT levels and infection. The aim of our study was to assess the relationship of PCT levels in the first 48 hours with early period infections, late period neurological prognosis, and mortality in patients treated with TTM after CA.

Materials And Methods: Serum PCT was measured on admission days 1 and 2.

Comparison of inferior vena cava collapsibility, distensibility, and delta indices at different positive pressure supports and prediction values of indices for intravascular volume status.

Background/aim: To compare the inferior vena cava (IVC) indices, identify their variation rates at positive pressure values and accurate predictive values for the volume status in patients with spontaneous respiration receiving different positive pressure support.

Materials And Methods: The study included 100 patients who were divided into 4 pressure support groups, according to the different pressure supports received, and 3 volume groups according to their CVP values. Ultrasonography was applied to all of the patients to define their IVC diameters at different pressure supports.

Effect of regional cerebral oximetry to estimate neurologic prognostic outcomes in patients administered targeted temperature management.

Purpose: The aim of our study is to research the role and efficacy of cerebral oximetry in predicting neurologic prognosis when applied during TTM to patients experiencing coma after CA.

Methods: This study was performed on surviving adult comatose patients after CA treated with TTM. The average scores of rSO was measured at 6h intervals for the first 2days and once a day for the following 3days with a NIRS device during TTM.

Brain Death in Intensive Care Units: Problems, Differences in Methods of Diagnosis, and Donor Care.

Objectives: Our aim was to investigate the most common problems in diagnosing brain death, the care of the organ donor, and organ donation after death.

Materials And Methods: A survey was sent randomly to clinicians working in national intensive care units in Turkey. The survey, which consisted of 17 questions for clinicians, had 163 responders.

The recovery time of sevoflurane and desflurane and the effects of anesthesia on mental and psychomotor functions and pain.

Background: Inhalation anesthetics have many advantages for outpatient general anesthesia, such as minimal postoperative side-effects and rapid and full recovery. The aim of this randomized study was to compare the postoperative recovery time of sevoflurane and desflurane and to observe the effects of anesthesia on mental, psychomotor and cognitive functions and pain in outpatients undergoing arthroscopic surgery.

Patients And Methods: This study included 40 American Society of Anesthesiologists I-II patients who were divided into two groups via sealed envelopes.