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Intensive respiratory care unit. Review of ten years' experience. 1975

T L Petty, and S Lakshminarayan, and S A Sahn, and C W Zwillich, and L M Nett

In ten years' experience in the respiratory care units serving both medical and surgical patients, 18,077 consecutive patients received ventilatory support for 24 hours or more. The overall survival rate including all patients was 75.2%. Survival rate has not changed appreciably during the past five years. The respiratory care unit provides technical assistance and consultation to primary physicians of the medical and surgical services. This system of intensive respiratory care is flexible and applicable to general hospitals that treat large numbers of patients with acute respiratory respiratory failure.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008173	Lung Diseases, Obstructive	Any disorder marked by obstruction of conducting airways of the lung. AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION may be acute, chronic, intermittent, or persistent.	Obstructive Lung Diseases,Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases,Lung Disease, Obstructive,Obstructive Lung Disease,Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,Pulmonary Disease, Obstructive,Pulmonary Diseases, Obstructive
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D009461	Neurologic Manifestations	Clinical signs and symptoms caused by nervous system injury or dysfunction.	Neurologic Deficits,Neurologic Signs and Symptoms,Focal Neurologic Deficits,Manifestations, Neurologic,Manifestations, Neurological,Neurologic Dysfunction,Neurologic Findings,Neurologic Manifestation,Neurologic Signs,Neurologic Symptoms,Neurological Manifestations,Deficit, Focal Neurologic,Deficit, Neurologic,Deficits, Focal Neurologic,Deficits, Neurologic,Dysfunction, Neurologic,Dysfunctions, Neurologic,Finding, Neurologic,Findings, Neurologic,Focal Neurologic Deficit,Manifestation, Neurologic,Manifestation, Neurological,Neurologic Deficit,Neurologic Deficit, Focal,Neurologic Deficits, Focal,Neurologic Dysfunctions,Neurologic Finding,Neurologic Sign,Neurologic Symptom,Neurological Manifestation,Sign, Neurologic,Signs, Neurologic,Symptom, Neurologic,Symptoms, Neurologic
D011041	Poisoning	A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation of or exposure to a deleterious agent.	Poisonings
D011183	Postoperative Complications	Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.	Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D012124	Respiratory Care Units	The hospital unit in which patients with respiratory conditions requiring special attention receive intensive medical care and surveillance.	Care Unit, Respiratory,Care Units, Respiratory,Respiratory Care Unit,Unit, Respiratory Care,Units, Respiratory Care
D012131	Respiratory Insufficiency	Failure to adequately provide oxygen to cells of the body and to remove excess carbon dioxide from them. (Stedman, 25th ed)	Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure,Acute Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure,Hypercapnic Acute Respiratory Failure,Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure,Hypoxemic Acute Respiratory Failure,Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure,Respiratory Depression,Respiratory Failure,Ventilatory Depression,Depressions, Ventilatory,Failure, Hypercapnic Respiratory,Failure, Hypoxemic Respiratory,Failure, Respiratory,Hypercapnic Respiratory Failures,Hypoxemic Respiratory Failures,Respiratory Failure, Hypercapnic,Respiratory Failure, Hypoxemic,Respiratory Failures
D002561	Cerebrovascular Disorders	A spectrum of pathological conditions of impaired blood flow in the brain. They can involve vessels (ARTERIES or VEINS) in the CEREBRUM, the CEREBELLUM, and the BRAIN STEM. Major categories include INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; and others.	Brain Vascular Disorders,Intracranial Vascular Disorders,Vascular Diseases, Intracranial,Cerebrovascular Diseases,Cerebrovascular Insufficiency,Cerebrovascular Occlusion,Brain Vascular Disorder,Cerebrovascular Disease,Cerebrovascular Disorder,Cerebrovascular Insufficiencies,Cerebrovascular Occlusions,Disease, Cerebrovascular,Diseases, Cerebrovascular,Insufficiencies, Cerebrovascular,Insufficiency, Cerebrovascular,Intracranial Vascular Disease,Intracranial Vascular Diseases,Intracranial Vascular Disorder,Occlusion, Cerebrovascular,Occlusions, Cerebrovascular,Vascular Disease, Intracranial,Vascular Disorder, Brain,Vascular Disorder, Intracranial,Vascular Disorders, Brain,Vascular Disorders, Intracranial
D002908	Chronic Disease	Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed). For epidemiological studies chronic disease often includes HEART DISEASES; STROKE; CANCER; and diabetes (DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2).	Chronic Condition,Chronic Illness,Chronically Ill,Chronic Conditions,Chronic Diseases,Chronic Illnesses,Condition, Chronic,Disease, Chronic,Illness, Chronic
D003120	Colorado	State bounded on the north by Wyoming and Nebraska, on the east by Kansas and Nebraska, on the south by New Mexico and Oklahoma, and on the west by Utah.