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Baker, TimKarolinska Institutet
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Vital Signs Directed Therapy : Improving Care in an Intensive Care Unit in a Low-Income Country
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2015-12-22
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Public Library of Science (PLoS),2015
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0144801DOI
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Background Global Critical Care is attracting increasing attention. At several million deaths per year, the worldwide burden of critical illness is greater than generally appreciated. Low income countries (LICs) have a disproportionally greater share of critical illness, and yet critical care facilities are scarce in such settings. Routines utilizing abnormal vital signs to identify critical illness and trigger medical interventions have become common in high-income countries but have not been investigated in LICs. The aim of the study was to assess whether the introduction of a vital signs directed therapy protocol improved acute care and reduced mortality in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in Tanzania. Methods and Findings Prospective, before-and-after interventional study in the ICU of a university hospital in Tanzania. A context-appropriate protocol that defined danger levels of severely abnormal vital signs and stipulated acute treatment responses was implemented in a four week period using sensitisation, training, job aids, supervision and feedback. Acute treatment of danger signs at admission and during care in the ICU and in-hospital mortality were compared pre and post-implementation using regression models. Danger signs from 447 patients were included: 269 pre-implementation and 178 post-implementation. Acute treatment of danger signs was higher post-implementation (at admission: 72.9% vs 23.1%, p<0.001; in ICU: 16.6% vs 2.9%, p<0.001). A danger sign was five times more likely to be treated post-implementation (Prevalence Ratio (PR) 4.9 (2.9-8.3)). Intravenous fluids were given in response to 35.0% of hypotensive episodes post-implementation, as compared to 4.1% pre-implementation (PR 6.4 (2.5-16.2)). In patients admitted with hypotension, mortality was lower post-implementation (69.2% vs 92.3% p = 0.02) giving a numbers-needed-to-treat of 4.3. Overall in-hospital mortality rates were unchanged (49.4% vs 49.8%, p = 0.94). Conclusion The introduction of a vital signs directed therapy protocol improved the acute treatment of abnormal vital signs in an ICU in a low-income country. Mortality rates were reduced for patients with hypotension at admission but not for all patients.
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Schell, Carl OttoKarolinska Institutet,Uppsala universitet,Centrum för klinisk forskning i Sörmland (CKFD),Karolinska Inst, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Global Hlth Hlth Syst & Policy, Stockholm, Sweden.;Nykoping Hosp, Sormland Cty Council, Dept Internal Med, Nykoping, Sweden.
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Lugazia, EdwinMuhimbili Univ Hlth & Allied Sci, Dept Anaesthesia & Intens Care, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Blixt, JonasKarolinska Institutet
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Mulungu, MosesKarolinska Institutet
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Castegren, MarkusKarolinska Univ Hosp, Dept Anaesthesia Intens Care & Surg Serv, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Eriksen, JaranKarolinska Institutet,Uppsala universitet,Centrum för klinisk forskning i Sörmland (CKFD),Karolinska Univ, Huddinge Hosp, Karolinska Inst, Dept Lab Med,Div Clin Pharmacol, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Konrad, DavidKarolinska Institutet
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Karolinska InstitutetCentrum för klinisk forskning i Sörmland (CKFD)
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