The Ideal Human Care in Green ICU: An integrated AI framework for future ICU care.

Background: Intensive Care Units (ICUs) present a high-stakes environment where timely decision-making is critical for managing patients with life-threatening conditions. The continuous influx of complex data often challenges clinicians, increasing the risk of errors. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential to enhance ICU care by supporting data analysis, decision-making, and workflow efficiency.

ECMO specialist' challenges towards acquired infections during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: An international qualitative ECMO infection study.

Background: Despite the life-saving potential of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), it is not without significant challenges, particularly those associated with acquired infections during treatment. The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges that ECMO specialists faced regarding acquired infections by ECMO patients.

Methods: This qualitative study involved 19 ECMO specialists from around the world, representing key disciplines in ECMO care-including critical care physicians, ECMO nurses, respiratory therapists, microbiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, and perfusionists.

Healthcare workers' knowledge, attitude, and practice towards acquired infections during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: an international study.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate healthcare workers' (HCWs) knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding acquired infections during ECMO and to predict KAP scores based on demographic, professional, and institutional characteristics.

Method: An international cross-sectional survey was conducted using an online self-administered questionnaire continuously from August through October 2024. The questionnaire's validity and reliability were rigorously assessed, and it comprised 54 questions divided into four sections.

Evaluation of postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery patients with the SDACS screening tool: a multicenter-multiphase study.

Objective: Postoperative delirium is a prevalent complication in cardiac surgery patients, highlighting the importance of early risk factor identification for optimal management. This study aimed to pinpoint risk factors and devise a novel screening tool, the Screening Tool for Delirium After Cardiac Surgery (SDACS), to predict postoperative delirium in cardiac surgery patients after the first day.

Materials And Methods: This study employed a multiphase design consisting of three phases.

Survival rates with favorable neurological outcomes after in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A prospective cohort study.

Objectives: To evaluate the survival rates with favorable neurological outcomes among patients who experienced in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

Design: This prospective cohort study assessed 554 adult patients with IHCA or OHCA referred to Hamad General Hospital, Qatar, between February 2015 and November 2021. Neurologic outcomes were measured using the Cerebral Performance Category (CPC) score.

Association between maternal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and birth anthropometric outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Previous research has proposed that exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) during pregnancy could potentially lead to a higher risk of adverse birth anthropometric outcomes. However, the current evidence on this connection remains inconclusive, as various studies have presented conflicting results.

Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis seeks to synthesize the available research on the potential link between maternal PAHs exposure and birth anthropometric outcomes.

Future scenarios of palliative care in health system of Iran: a multi-method study.

Background: Paying attention to palliative care has accelerated in Iran in the last 10 years. Considering the trend of aging, increasing burden of chronic diseases and increasing health costs, planning and development of palliative care is necessary in the future. This study was conducted with the aim of explaining the alternative scenarios of palliative care in the health system of Iran until the horizon of 2030.