Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502213
Rafael Fernández Fernández
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502175
Pablo Carrión Montaner , Mario Sutil-Vega , Jordi Sans-Roselló
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Analyze the effects of frailty and prefrailty in patients admitted to the ICU without age limits and to determine the factors associated with mortality.
Design
Prospective cohort.
Setting
Intensive Care Unit, Spain.
Patients
1462 critically ill patients without age limits.
Intervention
None.
Main variables of interest
Hospital mortality and health outcomes.
Results
Patients’ ages ranged from 15 to 93 years, median of 66 years. Predisposing factors independently associated with frailty and prefrailty were age older than 65 years, female sex, respiratory and renal comorbidities, longer pre-ICU stays, and weekend admission. There is a greater use of noninvasive mechanical ventilation, greater colonization by multidrug-resistant bacteria, and the development of delirium. The risk of hospital mortality was RR 4.04 (2.11–7.74; P < .001) for prefail and 5.88 (2.45–14.10; P < .001) for frail. Factors associated with in-hospital mortality in prefrail and frail were pre-ICU hospital length of stay (cutpoint 4.5 days [1.6–7.4]), greater severity on admission (SAPS3) (cutpoint 64.5 [63.6–65.4]), Glasgow Coma Scale deterioration (OR 4.14 [1.23–13.98]; P .022) and thrombocytopenia (OR 11.46 [2.21–59.42]; P .004).
Conclusions
Lower levels of frailty are most common in ICU patients and are associated with worse health outcomes. Our data suggest that frailty and pre frailty should be determined in all patients admitted to the ICU, regardless of their age.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502219
María Cruz Martín Delgado , Mario Chico Fernández , Gonzalo Sirgo Rodríguez , María Bodí
Both patient safety and risk management in the healthcare field have adjusted to a diversity of conceptual models arising from different industries. Nowadays, patient safety should not be anchored to the most classical models but should be complemented by innovative advances that allow for a comprehensive view of all the key elements and the participation of the agents involved in this essential dimension of healthcare quality. This narrative review aims to analyze the approaches that have nurtured the science of safety over time and to offer a holistic and integrative vision that allows professionals, patients, and organizations to understand how we can move forward in achieving a risk-free healthcare system or at least, make it safer. Although there are experiences in the healthcare field of the application of the new paradigms of safety, there are still many pending questions to be solved before integrating and applying them in the real world.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502253
Juan-Jose Beunza
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502142
Laura Del Campo-Albendea , Ana García De La Santa Viñuela , Óscar Peñuelas , José Ignacio Pijoan Zubizarreta , Khalid Saeed Khan , Alfonso Muriel , Javier Zamora
Intensive care units (ICUs) rely in many instances on observational research and often encounter difficulties in establishing cause-and-effect relationships. After conducting a thorough search focused on ICU observational studies, this review analysed the causal language and evaluated the quality of reporting of the methodologies employed. The causal was assessed by analysing the words linking exposure to outcomes in the title and main objective. The quality of the reporting of the key methodological aspects related to causal inference was based on STROBE and ROBINS-I tools. We identified 139 articles, with 87 (63%) and 82 (59%) studies having non-causal language in their title and main objective, respectively. Among the total, 49 (35%) articles directly addressed causality. The review found vague causal language in observational ICU research and highlighted the need for better adherence to reporting guidelines for improved causal analysis and inference.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502149
Gustavo Adolfo Vásquez-Tirado , Edinson Dante Meregildo-Rodríguez , Claudia Vanessa Quispe-Castañeda , María Cuadra-Campos , Wilson Marcial Guzmán-Aguilar , Percy Hernán Abanto-Montalván , Hugo Alva-Guarniz , Leslie Jacqueline Liñán-Díaz , Luis Ángel Rodríguez-Chávez
Objective
To determine whether the Reverse Shock Index multiplied by the Glasgow Coma Scale (rSIG) is a predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Design
This is a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Setting
A comprehensive search was conducted in five databases for studies published up to May 22, 2024, using a PECO strategy. Eight studies were identified for quantitative analysis and included in our meta-analysis.
Participants
The participants of the included primary studies.
Interventions
Patients with a low rSIG as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in TBI.
Main variables of interest
rSIG, in-hospital mortality, TBI.
Results
Our meta-analysis evaluated a total of eight observational studies encompassing 430,000 patients with TBI, observing 6,417 deaths (15%). After performing a sensitivity analysis, we found that patients with TBI and a low value of the reverse shock index multiplied by the Glasgow Coma Scale (rSIG) had a 24% higher risk of death (OR 1.24; 95% CI 1.12–1.38; I²: 96%). Furthermore, rSIG values were significantly higher in survivors compared to those who died (MD 7.72; 95% CI 1.86–13.58; I²: 99%).
目的探讨逆休克指数乘以格拉斯哥昏迷量表(rSIG)是否可以预测外伤性脑损伤(TBI)患者的住院死亡率。这是一项系统回顾和荟萃分析。使用PECO策略,在5个数据库中对截至2024年5月22日发表的研究进行了全面检索。8项研究被确定用于定量分析,并纳入我们的荟萃分析。参与者纳入的主要研究的参与者。干预措施:低rSIG患者作为TBI住院死亡率的预测因子。感兴趣的主要变量:sig,住院死亡率,TBI。我们的荟萃分析共评估了8项观察性研究,包括430,000例TBI患者,观察到6,417例死亡(15%)。在进行敏感性分析后,我们发现,与格拉斯哥昏迷量表(rSIG)相比,逆行休克指数较低的TBI患者的死亡风险高出24% (OR 1.24; 95% CI 1.12-1.38; I²:96%)。此外,幸存者的rSIG值明显高于死亡患者(MD 7.72; 95% CI 1.86-13.58; I²:99%)。
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Pub Date : 2025-09-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502155
Gabriel Appendino, Fernando Paziencia, Carlos Lovesio
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Pub Date : 2025-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medin.2025.502166
Guillem Navarra-Ventura , Marta Godoy-González , Lluís Blanch , Josefina López-Aguilar , Sol Fernández-Gonzalo
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