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1. Intraoperative positive end-expiratory pressure and postoperative pulmonary complications: a patient-level meta-analysis of three randomised clinical trials

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Niklas S. Campos, Thomas Bluth, Sabrine N.T. Hemmes, Julian Librero, Natividad Pozo, Carlos Ferrando, Lorenzo Ball, Guido Mazzinari, Paolo Pelosi, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Marcus J. Schultz, A. Serpa Neto, Sabrine NT. Hemmes, Paolo Severgnini, Markus W. Hollmann, Jan M. Binnekade, Hermann Wrigge, Jaume Canet, Michael Hiesmayr, Werner Schmid, Edda Tschernko, Samir Jaber, Göran Hedenstierna, Christian Putensen, Agnes Marti, Alessandro Bacuzzi, Alexander Brodhun, Alexandre Molin, Alfred Merten, Ana Parera, Andrea Brunelli, Andrea Cortegiani, Andreas Güldner, Andreas W. Reske, Angelo Gratarola, Antonino Giarratano, Bea Bastin, Bjorn Heyse, Branka Mazul-Sunko, Bruno Amantea, Bruno Barberis, Christopher Uhlig, Conrado Minguez Marín, Cristian Celentano, Daniela La Bella, David D’Antini, David Velghe, Demet Sulemanji, Edoardo De Robertis, Eric Hartmann, Francesca Montalto, Francesco Tropea, Gary H. Mills, Gilda Cinnella, Giorgio Della Rocca, Girolamo Caggianelli, Giulia Pellerano, Giuseppina Mollica, Guillermo Bugedo, Jan-Paul Mulier, Jeroen Vandenbrande, Johann Geib, Jonathan Yaqub, Jorge Florez, Juan F. Mayoral, Juraj Sprung, Jurgen Van Limmen, Lieuwe DJ. Bos, Luc de Baerdemaeker, Luc Jamaer, Luigi Spagnolo, Lydia Strys, Manuel Granell Gil, Marcos F. Vidal Melo, Maria Carmen Unzueta, Maria Victoria Moral, Marion Ferner, Martin Weiss, Massimo Vanoni, Maximilian S. Schaefer, Mercè Prieto, Michele Grio, Peter Markus Spieth, Philipp Simon, Phoebe Bodger, Pilar Sierra, Rita Laufenberg-Feldmann, Roberta Rusca, Rodolfo Proietti, Santi Maurizio Raineri, Santo Caroleo, Sergi Sabaté, Stefan De Hert, Stefano Pezzato, Tanja A. Treschan, Tatjana Goranovic, Thea Koch, Thomas Kiss, Valter Perilli, Virginia Cegarra, Javier Belda, Marina Soro, Carmen Unzueta, Fernando Suarez-Sipmann, Julián Librero, Alicia Llombart, Lucas Rovira, Manuel Granell, César Aldecoa, Oscar Diaz-Cambronero, Jaume Balust, Ignacio Garutti, Rafael Gonzalez, Lucia Gallego, Santiago Garcia del Valle, Javier Redondo, David Pestaña, Aurelio Rodríguez, Javier García, Manuel de la Matta, Maite Ibáñez, Francisco Barrios, Samuel Hernández, Vicente Torres, Salvador Peiró, Abigail Villena, Albert Carramiñana, Alberto Gallego-Casilda, Alejandro Duca, Amalia Alcón, Amanda Miñana, Ana Asensio, Ana Colás, Ana Isabel Galve, Ana Izquierdo, Ana Jurado, Ana María Pérez, Ana Mugarra, Andrea Gutierrez, Ángeles De Miguel, Angels Lozano, Antonio Katime, Antonio Romero, Beatriz Garrigues, Begoña Ayas, Blanca Arocas, Carlos Delgado, Carmen Fernández, Carolina Romero, Clara Gallego, Cristina Garcés, Cristina Lisbona, Cristina Parrilla, Daniel López-Herrera, Domingo González, Eduardo Llamazares, Elena Del Rio, Elena Lozano, Ernesto Pastor, Estefanía Chamorro, Estefanía Gracia, Ester Sánchez, Esther Romero, Fernando Díez, Ferran Serralta, Francisco Daviu, Francisco Sandín, Gerardo Aguilar, Gerardo Tusman, Gonzalo Azparren, Graciela Martínez-Pallí, Inmaculada Benítez, Inmaculada Hernandéz, Inmaculada India, Irene León, Isabel Fuentes, Isabel Ruiz, Jaume Puig, Javie Ignacio Román, Jesús Acosta, Jesús Rico-Feijoo, Jonathan Olmedo, Jose A. Carbonell, Jose M. Alonso, Jose María Pérez, Jose Miguel Marcos, Jose Navarro, Jose Valdivia, Juan Carrizo, Laura Piqueras, Laura Soriano, Laura Vaquero, Lisset Miguel, Lorena Muñoz, Lucia Valencia, Luis Olmedilla, Mᵃ Justina Etulain, Manuel Tisner, María Barrio, María Dolores Alonso, María García, María J. Hernández, María José Alberola, María Parra, María Pilar Argente, María Vila, Mario De Fez, Marta Agilaga, Marta Gine, Mercedes Ayuso, Mercedes García, Natalia Bejarano, Natalia Peña, Nazario Ojeda, Nilda Martínez, Nuria García, Oto Padrón, Pablo García, Paola Valls, Patricia Cruz, Patricia Piñeiro, Pedro Charco, Rafael Anaya, Ramiro López, Rayco Rodríguez, Rocío Martínez, Roger Pujol, Rosa Dosdá, Rosa Lardies, Ruben Díaz, Rubén Villazala, Sara Zapatero, Sergio Cabrera, Sergio Sánchez, Silvia Martin, Suzana Diaz, Tania Franco, Tania Moreno, Tania Socorro, Vicente Gilabert, Victor Balandrón, Victoria Moral, Virgina Cegarra, Viviana Varón, Fernando Abelha, Sühayla Abitağaoğlu, Marc Achilles, Afeez Adebesin, Ine Adriaensens, Charles Ahene, Fatima Akbar, Mohammed Al Harbi, Rita Al Khoury al Kallab, Xavier Albanel, Florence Aldenkortt, Rawan Abdullah Saleh Alfouzan, Reef Alruqaie, Fernando Altermatt, Bruno Luís de Castro Araujo, Genaro Arbesú, Hanna Artsi, Caterina Aurilio, Omer Hilmi Ayanoglu, Harris Baig, Yolanda Baird, Konstantin Balonov, Samantha Banks, Xiaodong Bao, Mélanie Baumgartner, Isabel Belda Tortosa, Alice Bergamaschi, Lars Bergmann, Luca Bigatello, Elena Biosca Pérez, Katja Birr, Elird Bojaxhi, Chiara Bonenti, Iwona Bonney, Elke M.E. Bos, Sara Bowman, Leandro Gobbo Braz, Elisa Brugnoni, Sorin J. Brull, Iole Brunetti, Andrea Bruni, Shonie L. Buenvenida, Cornelius Johannes Busch, Giovanni Camerini, Beatrice Capatti, Javiera Carmona, Jaime Carungcong, Marta Carvalho, Anat Cattan, Carla Cavaleiro, Davide Chiumello, Stefano Ciardo, Mark Coburn, Umberto Colella, Victor Contreras, Pelin Corman Dincer, Elizabeth Cotter, Marcia Crovetto, William Darrah, Simon Davies, Enrique Del Cojo Peces, Ellise Delphin, John Diaper, Paulo do Nascimento Junior, Valerio Donatiello, Jing Dong, Maria do Socorro Dourado, Alexander Dullenkopf, Felix Ebner, Hamed Elgendy, Christoph Ellenberger, Dilek Erdoğan Arı, Thomas Ermert, Fadi Farah, Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, Cristina Ferreira, Marco Fiore, Ana Fonte, Christina Fortià Palahí, Andrea Galimberti, Najia Garofano, Luca Gregorio Giaccari, Fernando Gilsanz, Felix Girrbach, Luca Gobbi, Marc Bernard Godfried, Nicolai Goettel, Peter A. Goldstein, Or Goren, Andrew Gorlin, Juan Graterol, Pierre Guyon, Kevin Haire, Philippe Harou, Antonia Helf, Gunther Hempel, María José Hernández Cádiz, Björn Heyse, Ivan Huercio, Jasmina Ilievska, Lien Jakus, Vijay Jeganath, Yvonne Jelting, Minoa Jung, Barbara Kabon, Aalok Kacha, Maja Karaman Ilić, Arunthevaraja Karuppiah, Ayse Duygu Kavas, Gleicy Keli Barcelos, Todd A. Kellogg, Johann Kemper, Romain Kerbrat, Suraya Khodr, Peter Kienbaum, Bunyamin Kir, Selin Kivrak, Vlasta Klarić, Ceren Köksal, Ana Kowark, Peter Kranke, Bahar Kuvaki, Biljana Kuzmanovska, John Laffey, Mirko Lange, Marília Freitas de Lemos, Marc-Joseph Licker, Manuel López-Baamonde, Antonio López-Hernández, Mercedes Lopez-Martinez, Stéphane Luise, Mark MacGregor, Danielle Magalhães, Julien Maillard, Patrizia Malerbi, Natesan Manimekalai, Michael Margarson, Klaus Markstaller, Archer K. Martin, David P. Martin, Yvette N. Martin, Julia Martínez-Ocon, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Emilio Maseda, Idit Matot, Niamh McAuliffe, Travis J. McKenzie, Paulina Medina, Melanie Meersch, Angelika Menzen, Els Mertens, Bernd Meurer, Tanja Meyer-Treschan, Changhong Miao, Camilla Micalizzi, Morena Milić, Norma Sueli Pinheiro Módolo, Pierre Moine, Patrick Mölders, Ana Montero-Feijoo, Enrique Moret, Markus K. Muller, Zoe Murphy, Pramod Nalwaya, Filip Naumovski, Paolo Navalesi, Lais Helena Navarro e Lima, Višnja Nesek Adam, Claudia Neumann, Christopher Newell, Zoulfira Nisnevitch, Junaid Nizamuddin, Cecilia Novazzi, Michael O'Connor, Günther Oprea, Mukadder Orhan Sungur, Şule Özbilgin, Maria Caterina Pace, Marcos Pacheco, Balaji Packianathaswamy, Estefania Palma Gonzalez, Fotios Papaspyros, Sebastián Paredes, Maria Beatrice Passavanti, Juan Cristobal Pedemonte, Sanja Peremin, Christoph Philipsenburg, Daniela Pinho, Silvia Pinho, Linda M. Posthuma, Vincenzo Pota, Benedikt Preckel, Paolo Priani, Mohamed Aymen Rached, Aleksandar Radoeshki, Riccardo Ragazzi, Tamilselvan Rajamanickam, Arthi Rajamohan, Harish Ramakrishna, Desikan Rangarajan, Christian Reiterer, J. Ross Renew, Thomas Reynaud, Rhidian Rhys, Eva Rivas, Luisa Robitzky, Rolf Rossaint, Francesca Rubulotta, Humberto S. Machado, Catarina S. Nunes, Giovanni Sabbatini, Jon D. Samuels, Josep Martí Sanahuja, Pasquale Sansone, Alice Santos, Mohamed Sayedalahl, Martin Scharffenberg, Eduardo Schiffer, Nadja Schliewe, Raoul Schorer, Roman Schumann, Gabriele Selmo, Mar Sendra, Mert Senturk, Kate Shaw, Mirjana Shosholcheva, Abdulrazak Sibai, Francesca Simonassi, Claudia Sinno, Nukhet Sivrikoz, Vasiliki Skandalou, Neil Smith, Maria Soares, Tania Socorro Artiles, Diogo Sousa Castro, Miguel Sousa, Savino Spadaro, Emmanouil Stamatakis, Luzius A. Steiner, Andrea Stevenazzi, Alejandro Suarez-de-la-Rica, Mélanie Suppan, Robert Teichmann, José Maria Tena Guerrero, Bram Thiel, Raquel Tolós, Gulbin Tore Altun, Michelle Tucci, Zachary A. Turnbull, Žana Turudić, Matthias Unterberg, Yves Van Nieuwenhove, Julia Van Waesberghe, Marcos Francisco Vidal Melo, Bibiana Vitković, Luigi Vivona, Marcela Vizcaychipi, Carlo Alberto Volta, Anne Weber, Toby N. Weingarten, Jakob Wittenstein, Piet Wyffels, Julio Yagüe, David Yates, Ayşen Yavru, Lilach Zac, Jing Zhong, Anesthesiology, Intensive Care Medicine, ACS - Pulmonary hypertension & thrombosis, ACS - Diabetes & metabolism, ACS - Microcirculation, Campos, Niklas S, Bluth, Thoma, Hemmes, Sabrine N T, Librero, Julian, Pozo, Natividad, Ferrando, Carlo, Ball, Lorenzo, Mazzinari, Guido, Pelosi, Paolo, Gama de Abreu, Marcelo, Schultz, Marcus J, Serpa Neto, A, investigators for the PROVHILO study including, Cortegiani, Andrea, Raineri, Santi Maurizio, and Giarratano, Antonino

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Adult, Lung Diseases, PEEP, postoperative pulmonary complications, mechanical ventilation, Positive-Pressure Respiration, surgery, Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Postoperative Complications, Tidal Volume, Humans, Postoperative Period, Lung, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Abstract

BACKGROUND: High intraoperative PEEP with recruitment manoeuvres may improve perioperative outcomes. We re-examined this question by conducting a patient-level meta-analysis of three clinical trials in adult patients at increased risk for postoperative pulmonary complications who underwent non-cardiothoracic and non-neurological surgery. METHODS: The three trials enrolled patients at 128 hospitals in 24 countries from February 2011 to February 2018. All patients received volume-controlled ventilation with low tidal volume. Analyses were performed using one-stage, two-level, mixed modelling (site as a random effect; trial as a fixed effect). The primary outcome was a composite of postoperative pulmonary complications within the first week, analysed using mixed-effect logistic regression. Pre-specified subgroup analyses of nine patient characteristics and seven procedure and care-delivery characteristics were also performed. RESULTS: Complete datasets were available for 1913 participants ventilated with high PEEP and recruitment manoeuvres, compared with 1924 participants who received low PEEP. The primary outcome occurred in 562/1913 (29.4%) participants randomised to high PEEP, compared with 620/1924 (32.2%) participants randomised to low PEEP (unadjusted odds ratio [OR]=0.87; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 0.75-1.01; P=0.06). Higher PEEP resulted in 87/1913 (4.5%) participants requiring interventions for desaturation, compared with 216/1924 (11.2%) participants randomised to low PEEP (OR=0.34; 95% CI, 0.26-0.45). Intraoperative hypotension was associated more frequently (784/1913 [41.0%]) with high PEEP, compared with low PEEP (579/1924 [30.1%]; OR=1.87; 95% CI, 1.60-2.17). CONCLUSIONS: High PEEP combined with recruitment manoeuvres during low tidal volume ventilation in patients undergoing major surgery did not reduce postoperative pulmonary complications. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: NCT03937375 (Clinicaltrials.gov).

Published
2022

2. Humanisation in the emergency department of an Italian hospital: new features and patient satisfaction

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Bruno Barberis, D. Minniti, Roberta Siliquini, Riccardo Papalia, Marika Giacometti, Fabrizio Bert, Roberto Sacco, E Lovato, and Alberto Piolatto

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, emergency department, patient satisfaction, Psychological intervention, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Young Adult, Sex Factors, Patient satisfaction, Surveys and Questionnaires, Epidemiology, medicine, Humans, In patient, Humanisation, Aged, Quality of Health Care, business.industry, Process Assessment, Health Care, Age Factors, General Medicine, Emergency department, Middle Aged, emergency department management, epidemiology, medicine.disease, Triage, Italy, Emergency Medicine, Educational Status, Population study, Female, Observational study, Medical emergency, Emergency Service, Hospital, business
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Objectives The goal of this study was to describe and analyse interventions performed in the emergency department (ED) of an Italian hospital with the aim of humanising the patient care pathway. The actions taken are described and the changes analysed to determine whether they resulted in an increased level of patient satisfaction. Methods An observational study was conducted between October 2010 and March 2011. The data were collected via a telephone questionnaire administered to patients who were admitted to the ED before and after humanisation interventions. The respondents were questioned about their general condition and their level of satisfaction. Results The study population included 297 patients (158 before and 139 after the interventions). The highest overall patient satisfaction after the interventions was highly correlated with the humanisation interventions and not with other factors such as gender, age, educational level or the severity code triage. Specifically, in patients who went to the ED after the changes had been made, there was a greater level of satisfaction regarding comfort in the waiting room, waiting time for the first visit and the privacy experienced during the triage. Conclusion The results demonstrate that the interventions implemented in this study, designed to humanise the ED, improved overall patient satisfaction. Interventions may be taken to reduce the depersonalisation of patients in the emergency room.

Published
2013

3. Epidemiology and outcome of sepsis syndromes in Italian ICUs: a regional multicenter observational cohort

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Gilberto Fiore, Silvano Cardellino, Yasser Sakr, Sergio Livigni, Luciana Mascia, Bruno Barberis, V. M. Ranieri, Cristina Elia, L Laudari, and Claudia Filippini

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medicine.medical_specialty, Icu mortality, Septic shock, business.industry, health care facilities, manpower, and services, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, medicine.disease, Northern italy, Sepsis, Poster Presentation, Emergency medicine, Epidemiology, Cohort, medicine, Observational study, In patient, Intensive care medicine, business
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We assessed the epidemiology of sepsis syndromes in patients admitted to ICUs of the Piedmont region in northern Italy and investigated the impact of sepsis on ICU mortality in these patients.

Published
2012

4. Being overweight or obese is associated with decreased mortality in critically ill patients: A retrospective analysis of a large regional Italian multicenter cohort

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Gilberto Fiore, Cristina Elia, Silvano Cardellino, Claudia Filippini, Luciana Mascia, V. Marco Ranieri, Bruno Barberis, Yasser Sakr, Sergio Livigni, Yasser Sakr, Cristina Elia, Luciana Mascia, Bruno Barberi, Silvano Cardellino, Sergio Livigni, Gilberto Fiore, Claudia Filippini, and Vito Marco Ranieri

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Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Critical Illness, Comorbidity, Overweight, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Body Mass Index, law.invention, BMI, Sex Factors, Critically ill patients, Thinness, law, Sepsis, Internal medicine, 80 and over, medicine, Prognosis, Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Female, Humans, Intensive Care Units, Italy, Middle Aged, Multicenter Studies as Topic, Obesity, Retrospective Studies, Elective surgery, business.industry, nutritional and metabolic diseases, Retrospective cohort study, medicine.disease, Intensive care unit, Surgery, n/a, Cohort, medicine.symptom, Underweight, business, Body mass index
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PURPOSE: To describe the epidemiology of obesity in a large cohort of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and study its impact on outcomes. METHODS: All 3902 patients admitted to one of 24 ICUs in the Piedmont region of Italy from April 3 to September 29, 2006, were included in this retrospective analysis of data from a prospective, multicenter study. RESULTS: Mean body mass index (BMI) was 26.0 ± 5.4 kg/m(2): 32.8% of patients had a normal BMI, 2.6% were underweight, 45.1% overweight, 16.5% obese, and 2.9% morbidly obese. ICU mortality was significantly (P < .05) lower in overweight (18.8%) and obese (17.5%) patients than in those of normal BMI (22%). In multivariate logistic regression analysis, being overweight (OR = 0.73; 95%CI: 0.58-0.91, P = .007) or obese (OR = 0.62; 95%CI: 50.45-0.85, P = .003) was associated with a reduced risk of ICU death. Being morbidly obese was independently associated with an increased risk of death in elective surgery patients whereas being underweight was independently associated with an increased risk of death in patients admitted for short-term monitoring and after elective surgery. CONCLUSIONS: In this cohort, overweight and obese patients had a reduced risk of ICU death. Being underweight or morbidly obese was associated with an increased risk of death in some subgroups of patients.

Published
2012

5. Prevention and Diagnosis of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

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V. Marco Ranieri, Nicole Pagani, Marianna Michelazzo, Giovanni Di Perri, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, and Bruno Barberis

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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, medicine, Ventilator-associated pneumonia, Pneumonia ventilator associated, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive care medicine, business, medicine.disease
Published
2009

6. The influence of gender on the epidemiology of and outcome from severe sepsis

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Silvano Cardellino, Yasser Sakr, Vito Marco Ranieri, Luciana Mascia, Cristina Elia, Sergio Livigni, Gilberto Fiore, Bruno Barberis, Claudia Filippini, Sakr, Y., Elia, C., Mascia, L., Barberis, B., Cardellino, S., Livigni, S., Fiore, G., Filippini, C., and Ranieri, V.M.

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Male, age distribution, morbidity, high risk patient, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, intensive care unit, Epidemiology, middle aged, Prospective cohort study, Aged, 80 and over, Sex Characteristics, adult, article, clinical trial, aged, trend, Treatment Outcome, Italy, priority journal, Cohort, disease severity, Female, Cohort study, prospective study, survival rate, medicine.medical_specialty, post hoc analysi, Sepsi, sex difference, prevalence, cohort analysi, Sepsis, critically ill patient, sexual development, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, human, very elderly, Aged, outcome assessment, Septic shock, business.industry, Research, Odds ratio, sex ratio, Sex Characteristic, medicine.disease, major clinical study, mortality, Confidence interval, Surgery, Prospective Studie, multicenter study, septic shock, observational study, Cohort Studie, business
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Introduction: The impact of gender on outcome in critically ill patients is unclear. We investigated the influence of gender on the epidemiology of severe sepsis and associated morbidity and mortality in a large cohort of ICU patients in the region of Piedmont in Italy.Methods: This was a post-hoc analysis of data from a prospective, multicenter, observational study in which all patients admitted to one of 24 participating medical and/or surgical ICUs between 3 April 2006 and 29 September 2006 were included.Results: Of the 3,902 patients included in the study, 63.5% were male. Female patients were significantly older than male patients (66 ± 16 years vs. 63 ± 16 years, P < 0.001). Female patients were less likely to have severe sepsis and septic shock on admission to the ICU and to develop these syndromes during the ICU stay. ICU mortality was similar in men and women in the whole cohort (20.1% vs. 19.8%, P = 0.834), but in patients with severe sepsis was significantly greater in women than in men (63.5% vs. 46.4%, P = 0.007). In multivariate logistic regression analysis with ICU outcome as the dependent variable, female gender was independently associated with a higher risk of ICU death in patients with severe sepsis (odds ratio = 2.33, 95% confidence interval = 1.23 to 4.39, P = 0.009) but not in the whole cohort (odds ratio = 1.07, 95% confidence interval = 0.87 to 1.34).Conclusion: In this large regional Italian cohort of ICU patients, there were more male than female admissions. The prevalence of severe sepsis was lower in women than in men, but female gender was independently associated with a higher risk of death in the ICU for patients with severe sepsis. © 2013 Sakr et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Published
2013

7. SPIR01 and SPIR02: a two-year 1-day point prevalence multicenter study of infections in intensive care units in Piedmont, Italy

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Francesco G, De Rosa, Silvia, Garazzino, Sabrina, Audagnotto, Olivia, Bargiacchi, Daniela A, Zeme, Alessandro, Gramoni, Bruno, Barberis, V Marco, Ranieri, Giovanni, Di Perri, Francesco, Pastorelli, De Rosa FG, Garazzino S, Audagnotto S, Bargiacchi O, Zeme DA, Gramoni A, Barberis B, Ranieri VM, Di Perri G, and Piedmont Intensive Care Unit Network.

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Cross Infection, Gram-Positive Cocci, Intensive Care Units, Italy, Risk Factors, prevalence multicenter study of infections in intensive care units in Piedmont, Italy, Drug Resistance, Bacterial, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Prevalence, surveillance, Humans, pneumonia, Pseudomonas Infections, infections, surveillance, intensive care, infections, pneumonia, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections, intensive care
Abstract

This study reports the results of a one-day point prevalence study of infections performed in 2001 (SPIR01) and 2002 (SPIR02) in a Regional network of ICUs in Piedmont, Italy. The study aims were to illustrate the overall proportion of infected patients and the rate of ICU-acquired infections. Mortality rate was evaluated three weeks after the study days. Resistance pattern of Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase negative Staphylococci and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were recorded. The primary end-point of the study was to document the prevalence and associated risk factors of the ICU-acquired infections, and the impact of infections on mortality. The prevalence of ICU-acquired infection was 30% in SPIR01, and 38.3% in SPIR02. The rate of methicillin-resistance was high among isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative Staphylococci. The prevalence of ICU-acquired infections was lower than that reported in the EPIC study. In our experience, this Regional survey stimulated further research and collaboration to improve the prophylaxis, diagnosis and treatment of ICU-acquired infections.

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