Serum Albumin Concentration on Admission as a Predictor of Morbidity and Mortality in Patients With Burn Injuries.

Efforts have been made to determine new predictors of morbidity and mortality in patients with severe burn injuries. This prospective cohort study aimed to determine the association of serum albumin concentration on admission and renal failure, pulmonary infection, sepsis, and death in patients with burn injuries. We included 141 patients, aged >18 years, who were admitted to our institution between April and August 2018.

Incidence of diarrhea and associated risk factors in patients with traumatic brain injury and enteral nutrition.

To determine the occurrence of diarrhea and associated factors in critically ill patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in use of nutritional therapy. Prospective cohort study conducted in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a General Hospital reference in trauma. We evaluated TBI patients who stayed less than 72 h in the ICU, who were using EN for at least 48 h.

Development of a risk score to predict extubation failure in patients with traumatic brain injury.

Purpose: To identify predictors and develop a risk score for the prediction of extubation failure in TBI patients.

Materials And Methods: We prospectively evaluated 311 TBI adults receiving mechanical ventilation for >48h in the intensive care unit. Epidemiological, ventilatory, airway protective, laboratory, and hemodynamic predictors were evaluated.

[Traumatic brain injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome: how to ventilate? Evaluation of clinical practice].

Background And Objectives: The traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a healthy-world problem, some of his patients develop respiratory failure, requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation, and the most common complications are the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In this way, this study has the objective describe the daily clinical practice of respiratory care in this patients submit mechanical ventilation.

Methods: The methods and ventilatories parameters used to ventilate the patients with TBI and ARDS has been evaluated by a sample of physiotherapists from the city of Salvador, BA, from a descriptive study.

[Traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents at Salvador City, Bahia, Brazil].

Objective: To verify the frequency of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the people between 0 and 19 years of age, in accordance to gender, age and cause of trauma.

Method: Descriptive study made through a period of a year, in all TBI victims, aged until 19 years admitted in a reference trauma center.

Results: The sample had a total of 390 patients; 280 (71.

[Prognostic factors about morbidity and lethality in head injury].

Objective: To define the prognostic factors in head injury victims.

Method: Assessment and notification of 555 medical files from victims with head injury assisted at the General Hospital of Bahia during 2001.

Results: We verified morbidity rates of 19.