Background: Intensive Care Unit is used to treat patients closer to their beds, in order to observe them more as distinct people to almost all the critically-ill patients.Methods: One hundred admitted patients in the ICU, 25 each sets of the patients observed their prophylactic management to prevent stress ulcer, pressure ulcer, UTI and chest infection, observations noted for the 7 days, directly by seeing and by cross-checked patient’s case-sheets.Results: There were 2 (8%) patients developed stress ulcer, 1 (4%) Catheter associated bacteriuria, 2 (8%) patients grade II pressure ulcer, and 5 (20%) patient’s done endotracheal intubation. All these 5 (20%) report of sputum culture found Ps. Aeruginosa, Klebsiella sensitive for Ceftriaxone + Sulbactum. The standard nursing care done by the on duty nursing staffs, i.e., no one given Ryle’s tube feeding for the stress ulcer cases, advised soft, palatable, non-spicy oral diet, Pressure ulcer’s 8% patients shifted on the air-bed mattress, ulcer’s cleaned with normal water soaked soft-napkin and applied sterile pad compressed dressing locally. For the ventilator in-situ patient’s, endotracheal tube cleaned 8-12 times within 12 hours. The Inbuilt Ventilator tube cleaned, and its filter changed and kept ready by the following standard aseptic precaution before using the ventilator. The chest physiotherapy was done by the chest medicine specialist of the all 5 ventilated patients. Prophylactic medication provided, i.e., Injection Pantoprazole 40mg once daily, Injection Ciprofloxacin 400mg twice daily, and Injection Inj. Ceftriaxone + Sulbactum gm 12 hourly interval administered daily.Conclusions: From this study, we can conclude that Gentamicin is more nephrotoxic and causes greater fall in creatinine clearance although the dose of Gentamicin administered is much lower compared to Amikacin.
Background: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is one of the major cause of in-hospital mortality rates globally. The current study was conducted to study the etiological profile, severity and management of acute kidney injury.Methods: The study was a prospective observational study, conducted in the department general medicine, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Medical college and Hospital, Permabalur, Tamil Nadu. The study population included all the patients admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with acute Kidney injury (AKI) between January 2015 to December 2016. All the study participants were recruited to the study by convenient sampling. Descriptive analysis was carried out by frequency and proportion for categorical variables.Results: A total of 100 subjects were included. Participants were almost uniformly distributed in each of a decadal age group till above 60 years. Males (57%) were slightly higher than females (43%). Oliguria was present in 88% of the study population. The most common etiology was acute diarrhoeal disease (44%), followed by multiple infections in 12% and Sepsis in 10% of the subjects. As per RIFLE criteria 46% participants were at risk, 26.0% had injury, 28% had failure. All at risk people were treated conservatively, among injury category, 38.5% were treated by haemodialysis and 3.84% by peritoneal dialysis. In failure group, 60.71% and 3.57% were treated by haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis respectively.Conclusions: Acute kidney Injury (AKI) can be a consequence of varied aetiologies and all the age groups and both the genders at risk of developing it. RIFLE criteria may be a useful tool in guiding the management.
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