Search Results - "Hichem, Ksibi"
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Impact of tracheotomy on sedative administration, sedation level, and comfort of mechanically ventilated intensive care unit patients
Published in Critical care medicine (01-11-2005)“…OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of tracheotomy on sedative administration, sedation level, and autonomy of mechanically-ventilated intensive care unit (ICU)…”
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Prediction Value of the Canadian CT Head Rule and the New Orleans Criteria for Positive Head CT Scan and Acute Neurosurgical Procedures in Minor Head Trauma: A Multicenter External Validation Study
Published in Annals of emergency medicine (01-05-2013)“…Study objective The New Orleans Criteria and the Canadian CT Head Rule have been developed to decrease the number of normal computed tomography (CT) results in…”
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Post-traumatic pulmonary embolism in the intensive care unit
Published in Annals of thoracic medicine (01-10-2011)“…To determine the predictive factors, clinical manifestations, and the outcome of patients with post-traumatic pulmonary embolism (PE) admitted in the intensive…”
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Acute Bochdalek hernia in an adult: A case report of a 3D image
Published in Journal of acute disease (01-07-2016)“…A 61-year-old male was found to have a bilateral Bochdalek hernia on routine CT during admission for acute respiratory failure. The chest X-ray showed a left…”
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Use of sodium polystyrene sulfonate in an acute-on-chronic lithium poisoned patient: A case report
Published in Journal of acute disease (01-03-2016)“…A 35-year-old woman with an acute-on-chronic lithium overdose received multiple oral doses of sodium polystyrene sulfonate totaling 120 g over a 24-h period…”
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Diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukemia from acute intracerebral hemorrhage: A case report
Published in Journal of acute disease (01-08-2015)“…Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is frequent pathology in emergency departments. Coagulopathies leading to ICH are rare. We describe here the case of diagnosis…”
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Factors predicting early outcome in patients admitted at emergency department with severe head trauma
Published in Journal of acute disease (01-03-2015)“…To determine predictive factors of early mortality among severe traumatic brain injury in emergency department. This study is based on a retrospective analysis…”
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Isolated traumatic head injury in children: Analysis of 276 observations
Published in Journal of emergencies, trauma and shock (01-01-2011)“…To determine predictive factors of mortality among children after isolated traumatic brain injury. In this retrospective study, we included all consecutive…”
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End-of-life family conferences: Rooted in the evidence
Published in Critical care medicine (01-11-2006)“…Critical care clinicians no longer consider family members as visitors in the intensive care unit. Family-centered care has emerged from the results of…”
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Benefits of the tranexamic acid in head trauma with no extracranial bleeding: a prospective follow-up of 180 patients
Published in European journal of trauma and emergency surgery (Munich : 2007) (01-08-2019)“…Introduction Tranexamic acid (TXA) is one of the debated therapies in the management of traumatic brain injury (TBI). We conducted this study to evaluate the…”
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Scorpion Envenomation Among Children: Clinical Manifestations and Outcome (Analysis of 685 Cases)
Published in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene (01-11-2010)“…Our objective was to characterize both epidemiologically and clinically manifestations after severe scorpion envenomation and to define simple factors…”
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Update on the Epidemiology of Scorpion Envenomation in the South of Tunisia
Published in Wilderness & environmental medicine (01-03-2018)“…Scorpion envenomation is still a frequent occurance in tropical and subtropical regions. In Tunisia, multiple studies on scorpion envenoming have contributed…”
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Epidemiological, clinical characteristics and outcome of severe scorpion envenomation in South Tunisia: Multivariate analysis of 951 cases
Published in Toxicon (Oxford) (15-12-2008)“…The aim of this retrospective descriptive study was to describe both epidemiologically and clinically manifestations following severe scorpion envenomation and…”
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Epidemiological features of stress hyperglycemia in elderly at emergency department
Published in Tunisie Medicale (01-02-2016)“…Background : Stress hyperglycemia among patients having an acute pathology is frequently described in recent studies. The objectives of this work were to…”
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Risk factors and outcomes of intensive care unit-acquired infections in a Tunisian ICU
Published in Medical science monitor (01-08-2010)“…ICU-acquired infections constitute an important world-wide health problem. Our aim was to determine the incidence, predictive factors and impact of ICU-AIs in…”
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Pulmonary thromboembolism: incidence, physiopathology, diagnosis and treatment
Published in Tunisie Medicale (01-07-2014)“…The objective of this work was to review current data about the pathophysiology, clinical features, and treatment of pulmonary thromboembolism. Venous…”
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Evidence of myocardial ischaemia in severe scorpion envenomation: Myocardial perfusion scintigraphy study
Published in Intensive care medicine (01-03-2004)“…To explore the myocardial perfusion by thallium-201 scintigraphy for patients with evidence of myocardial damage after scorpion envenomation. Prospective study…”
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Clinical features, complications and mortality in critically ill patients with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Sfax,Tunisia
Published in Influenza and other respiratory viruses (01-07-2011)“…Please cite this paper as: Damak et al.(2011) Clinical features, complications and mortality in critically ill patients with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in…”
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Outcome analysis and outcome predictors of traumatic head injury in childhood: Analysis of 454 observations
Published in Journal of emergencies, trauma and shock (01-04-2011)“…To determine factors associated with poor outcome in children suffering traumatic head injury (HI). A retrospective study over an 8-year period including 454…”
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Intraperitoneal rupture of renal cyst in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Published in North American journal of medical sciences (01-05-2010)“…To report a rare case of spontaneous rupture of an infected renal cyst into the peritoneal cavity. We report a case of 66-year old man with autosomal dominant…”
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