AICU

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AICU

Adult Intensive Care Unit. An ITU/ICU that cares for adults during illnesses that are too severe for non-ITU/ICU admission.

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([section]) Nurse Researcher, Adult Intensive Care Unit; Critical Care Research Group and Griffith University.

Increased sedation requirements in patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory and cardiorespiratory failure

His primary focus has been with the adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

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Our institution provides access to a paediatric intensive care unit but not to an adult intensive care unit. Given the need for rapid patient monitoring and support and that the intervention was likely to be brief, it was considered safer and more efficient to transport the BiPAP machine from the paediatric intensive care unit to the patient, rather than transport the patient to the unit.

Total spinal following labour epidural analgesia managed with non-invasive ventilation

Prospective independent validation of APACHE III models in an Australian tertiary adult intensive care unit. Anaesth Intensive Care 2002; 30:308-315.

Comparison of intensive care outcome prediction models based on admission scores with those based on 24-hour data

Gram-negative infections in adult intensive care units of Latin America and the Caribbean.

High antimicrobial resistant rates among Gram-negative pathogens in intensive care units: A retrospective study at a tertiary care hospital in Southwest Saudi Arabia

Effectiveness of a multidimensional approach for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in adult intensive care units from 14 developing countries of four continents: Findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium.

VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA AMONG PATIENTS ON MECHANICAL VENTILATION AT TERTIARY CARE CENTRES