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	ICUS - Statement of Purpose
		ICUS was also established in order to foster the participation of the academic community in an international, interdisciplinary dialogue which considers the possibility and promise of an integrated, holistic and non-exclusive worldview founded on the premise of absolute, universal values.
		ICUS participants are encouraged to use the resources at their disposal to discuss and contribute to the achievement of an improved understanding of our changing world.
		ICUS is dedicated to a continuing study, in an atmosphere of complete academic freedom, of the underlying themes of the "Unity of Knowledge" and "Science and Values." Participants in ICUS come from a variety of nationalities, ethnic backgrounds, religions and cultural traditions.
	www.icus.org /index.php?cat=info&top=purpose (1687 words)

	Intensive Care Unit: Encyclopedia of Surgery
		Although the criteria for admission to an ICU are somewhat controversial—excluding patients who are either too well or too sick to benefit from intensive care—there are four recommended priorities that intensivists (specialists in critical care medicine) use to decide this question.
		ICU care requires a multidisciplinary team that consists of but is not limited to intensivists (clinicians who specialize in critical illness care); pharmacists and nurses; respiratory care therapists; and other medical consultants from a broad range of specialties including surgery, pediatrics, and anesthesiology.
		ICUs are highly regulated departments, typically limiting the number of visitors to the patient's immediate family even during visiting hours.
	health.enotes.com /surgery-encyclopedia/intensive-care-unit (1398 words)

	ICUS Scholarship Scheme
		The ICUS Scholarship Scheme has been designed by ICUS Pte Ltd (ICUS) to encourage candidates interested in developing their management skills and sponsored by their employer to participate in the MBA programme of Universitas 21 Global (U21).
		The validity of the ICUS Scholarship is conditional upon the participant maintaining standards of performance and conduct to the satisfaction of Universitas 21 Global.
		If the participant does not meet such standards or drops out of the course, or if the sponsoring employer decided to terminate prematurely his/her participation, the ICUS Scholarship shall become invalidated and the participant or the employer, as the case may be, shall bear the whole cost of the course.
	www.icus.net /contact/scholarship.shtm (803 words)

	ICUS - International Chronic Urticaria Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		ICUS supports a cyber-society of people with Chronic Urticaria.
		ICUS and its contributors will not be held responsible for any negative results which come from reading or acting upon the information found herein.
		Click and see where the ICUS members are.
	www.angelfire.com /journal/icus (138 words)

	Understanding why patients are readmitted ICUs
		Patients were readmitted to the ICU for a diagnosis or problem similar or identical to the initial ICU admission from19% to 53% of the time.
		The variables were measured throughout the course of the first ICU stay, and none were strongly correlated or consistently found to be associated with readmission.
		The decision to discharge a patient from ICU is complex and frequently influenced by resource issues such as bed capacity (and length of stay), care alternatives (such as intermediate care units), and clinical guidelines (advocating new approaches to care).
	www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/booth/mgmt/readicu.html (1307 words)

	Chapter 38. "Closed" Intensive Care Units and Other Models of Care for Critically Ill Patients
		Closed ICU model—An ICU in which patients admitted to the ICU are transferred to the care of an intensivist assigned to the ICU on a full-time basis.
		Due to an aging population and the increasing acuity of illness of hospitalized patients, both the total number of ICU patients and their proportional share of hospital admissions overall are expected to grow.
		Using conservative estimates for current ICU mortality rates of 12%, and estimating that 85% of urban ICUs are not currently intensivist-managed, the authors calculated that approximately 360,000 patients die annually in urban ICUs without intensivists.
	www.ahcpr.gov /clinic/ptsafety/chap38.htm (3009 words)

	ICUs tighten belts on blood glucose levels - College of American Pathologists (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The new protocol led to a decrease in mean glucose level in the ICU from 153 mg/dL during the baseline period to 128 mg/dL in the treatment period.
		In ICUs, the guideline suggests an upper limit of blood glucose of 110 mg/dL; for noncritical care unit patients, suggested threshold values are 110 mg/dL preprandial and 180 maximal.
		It turned out that the surgical ICU was one site in a multicenter study to prevent surgical wound infections; it was sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and included a tight glycemic control component.
	www.cap.org /apps/docs/cap_today/cover_stories/0205Glycemic.html (4396 words)

	ICU Psychosis is a vision driven dissociative/psychotic episode
		ICU Delirium is defined as those episodes of psychotic behavior, which have an explanation, based in treatment, injury, disease, or drug use.
		ICU Psychosis is defined here as an unexplained period of psychotic behavior that may include hearing voices, which has a sudden onset with no reasonable explanation or cause.
		In the ICU this would mean that the process continues every day the patient is there with their eyes open.
	www.visionandpsychosis.net /ICU_Psychosis.htm (2723 words)

	AcademyHealth: Research Syntheses / Intensivist Staffing in Intensive Care Units (ICUs)
		ICUs are specialized hospital wards that provide care for patients suffering from life-threatening medical conditions.
		Today, the open-model ICU is the most common, but research indicates that semi-closed- or closed-model ICUs provide higher quality care if either includes proactive clinical management of patients in the ICU by intensivists, including mandatory consultation.
		ICU staff physicians make better administrative and clinical decisions due to their specialized knowledge and experience in the critical care setting.
	www.academyhealth.org /syntheses/icu.htm (3664 words)

	Background
		Some ICUs with excellent quality characteristics may be performing poorly, and some with adverse quality characteristics may be performing exceptionally well.
		In our first national study, the hypothesis that mortality rate differences among pediatric ICUs could be explained by differences in the distributions of severity of illness was accepted even though there was a 6-fold pediatric ICU mortality rate difference among the ICUs.
		Only 6% of all explained variability could be attributed to individual pediatric ICUs, while other factors such as diagnosis, length of stay, and severity of illness accounted for the vast majority of the variability.
	www.dcchildrens.com /picues/about_background.aspx (1019 words)

	Physician staffing and ICU outcomes [January 2003; 107-4]
		The final selection was of 26 studies, 16 reporting hospital mortality, 14 ICU mortality, 13 hospital length of stay and 18 ICU length of stay.
		Results for ICU mortality are shown in Figure 2, where 14 of 15 studies showed a decrease in ICU mortality rate for ICU patients with high intensity physician staffing.
		Overall, the weighted mean length of ICU stay in 7,654 patients in ICUs with high-intensity was 4.4 days, and in 5,865 patients in ICUs with low intensity staffing it was 4.9 days.
	www.jr2.ox.ac.uk /bandolier/band107/b107-4.html (671 words)

	Background
		Pediatric ICUs concentrate sophisticated technology and trained personnel to 1) monitor and treat physiologic instability in infants and children with life threatening disorders, or 2) monitor physiologic status in patients at risk for sudden, life threatening events.
		The major success of ICU severity of illness methodologies pertinent to this project is their use for benchmarking and quantitative quality assessment.
		If the observed number and distribution of outcomes are similar to those predicted, then the performance of an institution is equivalent to those institutions that developed and validated the predictor in the multi-centered trial.
	www.cnmc.org /picues/about_background.aspx (1019 words)

	Indications, timing, and techniques of tracheostomy in 152 French ICUs CHEST - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Patients: All ICU patients receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) during the year preceding the survey (excluding noninvasive ventilation) were covered by the questionnaire.
		The questionnaire was first tested in the ICU of one of the investigators.
		Then, the questionnaire was sent to one senior physician at each ICU included in the registry of the national society as of early 2001.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0984/is_4_127/ai_n13662801 (685 words)

	Education, retraining reduce catheter-associated infections in ICUs
		Warren and his colleagues' intervention begins with updating of ICU policies on catheter insertion and maintenance to align them with recent studies of the best ways to prevent catheter-associated infections.
		When initially applied in ICUs at Barnes-Jewish and Missouri Baptist hospitals, the intervention produced infection reductions of 66 percent and 57 percent.
		In the new study, researchers took the intervention to additional ICUs at Barnes-Jewish and at five other academic medical centers that were partners with Washington University in a collaborative Centers for Disease Control research grant known as a Prevention Epicenter Program.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-06/wuso-err062106.php (790 words)

	CDC - Monitoring Antimicrobial Use and Resistance: Comparison with a National Benchmark on Reducing Vancomycin Use and ...
		Hospitals that participate in the ICU surveillance component of the NNIS system were invited to participate in the second (January 1996 through December 1997) and third (April 1998 through July 1999) phases of Project ICARE; 55 ICUs from 21 hospitals reported the required data to both the second and third phase of Project ICARE.
		For this analysis, monthly data from each ICU were pooled for the entire study period and for each period of the study (i.e., pre-intervention and postintervention) by each ICU (data from non-ICU–inpatient areas and outpatient areas are not shown because of low statistical power).
		In the 50 study ICUs, the rates of vancomycin use during the pre-intervention period (Figure 1, plotted circles) were similar in range to the 113 ICARE Phase 2 ICUs contributing data to the national aggregate benchmark report (Figure 1, box plots).
	www.cdc.gov /ncidod/eid/vol8no7/01-0465.htm (3707 words)

	ICUS - International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences
		What ICUS is all about, who found it, and how to learn more about it.
		ICUS meetings have generated the need for a substantial publishing program...
		ICUS is an interdisciplinary academic forum dedicated to examining the important issues confronting our contemporary world.
	www.icus.org (70 words)

	CHEST: Researchers Learning More About Sleep Disruption in ICUs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nevertheless, similar consequences are likely in the ICU population, which may complicate their clinical outcomes.
		He added that there are several potential causes for sleep disruption in the ICU, including presence of acute or chronic illness, medications, patient-ventilator dyssynchrony, and environmental factors, such as light, noise and patient-care related activities.
		Hanly said further study is required to develop a comprehensive understanding of the causes of sleep disruption in the ICU, which will facilitate the development of effective therapeutic strategies.
	www.pslgroup.com /dg/23d512.htm (575 words)

	Two-Year Project Improves Patient Safety in Hospital ICUs
		Keystone: ICU is believed to be the largest patient safety collaborative of its kind anywhere in the world, with more than 120 ICUs and 70 hospitals participating.
		In addition to Keystone: ICU, the Keystone Center is working on projects to improve stroke care and boost the number of organ donations made in Michigan hospitals.
		The two primary leaders of the MHA Keystone Center and its ICU project are Chris Goeschel, RN MPA MPS, who serves as Keystone's executive director, and Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD a practicing anesthesiologist and critical care physician, lecturer, and internationally known patient safety researcher and leader from the Johns Hopkins University.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-13-2005/0004167726&EDATE= (620 words)

	Do We Need More ICUs?
		A “good” ICU team should decide which are the goals of the admission, such as saving the salvageable and helping those who have no chance of meaningful survival to have a peaceful and dignified death.
		The initial concept of an ICU being a place of monitoring and life-support for the critically ill and injured with the use of high technology is still valid.
		If all of the above points are followed probably the ICU will become a part of the medical system which will integrate the patient’s best wishes, specially his or her interpretation of quality of life as well as the latest medical management and monitoring in the patient’s best interest.
	www.ispub.com /ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijeicm/vol1n3/moreICU.xml (1561 words)

	Whoosh! Episode Guide: TRANSCRIPT ALTARED STATES
		It can’t be!” Moth: “Icus, he told me himself.” Icus: “Oh, but Mother!” Moth: “There’s no time to argue.
		Icus is staying with me and a friend until we can sort this thing out.
		What is it?” Icus: “You!-- It’s God’s command I should die, but, as long as you’re free, we can’t obey him.” Maell: “One move, and she dies.” Anteus: “Maell, what are you doing?” Maell: “Quiet, Father.
	www.whoosh.org /epguide/trans/119trans.html (3001 words)

	Today's Home News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The initiative is part of an innovative programme by the company to equip ICUs in regional hospitals located near dangerous stretches of highway, with a high accident rate.
		Sioufas said that EKO has offered to buy and install all the equipment necessary for two ICU beds for patients with multiple injuries, saying that this was an initiative that would save lives and should be mimicked by others of the business community.
		Kaklamanis noted the need to update the system for donations, pointing out that several donations had become "stuck" at the finance ministry, while the imposition of taxes and VAT whittled down the sums by up to a third.
	www.ana.gr /anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=3154346&maindocimg=3153039&service=100 (201 words)

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