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The ABCDEF Bundle in Critical Care

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The ABCDEF bundle helps guide well-rounded patient care and optimal resource utilization resulting in more interactive intensive care unit patients with better controlled pain, who can safely participate in higher-order physical and cognitive activities at the earliest point in their critical illness.
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This article is published in Critical Care Clinics.The article was published on 2017-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 375 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Shared care.

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Enhancing Recovery From Sepsis: A Review

TL;DR: Although there is a paucity of clinical trial evidence to support specific postdischarge rehabilitation treatment, experts recommend referral to physical therapy to improve exercise capacity, strength, and independent completion of activities of daily living in the months after hospital discharge for sepsis.
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Rehabilitation After Critical Illness in People With COVID-19 Infection.

TL;DR: Probably impairment patterns, considerations for healthcare practitioner resilience, and organization of services to meet demand are discussed, and innovative approaches to care, such as virtual rehabilitation, are likely to become common in this environment.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

TL;DR: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) was translated by psychiatrists and psychologists, mainly from the University psychiatric hospital Vrapce and published by the Naklada Slap publisher.
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Daily interruption of sedative infusions in critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation

TL;DR: A randomized, controlled trial involving 128 adult patients who were receiving mechanical ventilation and continuous infusions of sedative drugs in a medical intensive care unit found that the intervention group increased the median duration of mechanical ventilation, as compared with 7.3 days in the control group.
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Delirium as a predictor of mortality in mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care unit

TL;DR: Delirium was an independent predictor of higher 6-month mortality and longer hospital stay even after adjusting for relevant covariates including coma, sedatives, and analgesics in patients receiving mechanical ventilation.
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Delirium in mechanically ventilated patients: validity and reliability of the confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit (CAM-ICU).

TL;DR: The CAM-ICU appears to be rapid, valid, and reliable for diagnosing delirium in the ICU setting and may be a useful instrument for both clinical and research purposes.
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