Risk factors associated with unplanned ICU admissions following paediatric surgery

Traumatic brain injury: Association between the Glasgow Coma Scale score and intensive care unit mortality

Ventilator-associated pneumonia in PICU – how are we doing?

Iatrogenic blood loss in critical care: A prospective observational study conducted at Universitas Academic Hospital in the Free State Province, South Africa

2022 CCSSA Congress & SASPEN Abstracts

A comparison of the warming capabilities of two Baragwanath rewarming appliances with the Hotline fluid warming device

Scope and mortality of adult medical ICU patients in an Eastern Cape tertiary hospital

Malawian critical care nurses’ views on the implementation of an educational intervention to enhance sustained use of an ETT cuff pressure management guideline

Carbon dioxide levels of ventilated adult critically ill post-operative patients on arrival at the ICU

Prevalence and independent predictors of in- hospital stroke among patients who developed acute alteration of consciousness in the medical ICU

Healthcare professionals’ perception of knowledge and implementation of Patient Safety Incident reporting and learning guidelines in specialised care units, KwaZulu-Natal

Clinical features and outcomes of patients with myasthenia gravis admitted to an intensive care unit: A 20-year retrospective study

An analysis of referrals to a level 3 intensive care unit in a resource-limited setting in SA

Moral distress among critical care nurses when excecuting Do-not-resuscitate orders in a public critical care unit in Gauteng

The use of anticoagulants in patients hospitalised with COVID‐19

Abstracts of the Critical Care Congress 2023 in association with SASPEN

Deep medicine ...Navigating the intersection of technology, cognition and ethics in the digital age of medicine

Groote Schuur Hospital neurosurgical intensive care unit: A 2-year review of admission characteristics

Core competencies in critical care for general medical practitioners in South Africa: A Delphi study

Patient perceptions of ICU physiotherapy: ‘Your body needs to go somewhere to be recharged ... ’

Outcomes of traumatic brain injury patients in an adult intensive care unit of a South African regional hospital, without on-site neurosurgical service

Nutrition support practices in the intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital in Ghana 

A review of the role of testosterone in the care of the critically ill patient

Critical care nurses’ experiences of communication-vulnerable patients in the ICU

A quasi-experimental study in the paediatric emergency department of a referral hospital in Nigeria

CO2 gap changes compared with cardiac output changes in response to intravenous volume expansion and/or vasopressor therapy in septic shock

The effect of the SARS-CoV2 pandemic and lockdown on non-Covid ICU admissions

Transfusion-associated necrotising enterocolitis in VLBW babies

Factors influencing knowledge translation into critical care practice

Critical care nurses’ orientations to caring for patients and their families

Bed occupancy and nosocomial infections in the ICU

Physical function measures in ICU survivors, where to now? A scoping review

Primary cutaneous melioidosis - A rare case needing intensive care unit admission

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  CCSSA 2024 Congress Abstracts

  
  


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  A validation of machine learning models for the identification of critically ill children

  
  


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  Knowledge, attitudes and practices of administration of IV antimicrobial medicines among ICU nurses

  
  


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  Implementation strategies to overcome barriers to early mobilisation practices in Zimbabwean and South African public sector ICUs

  
  


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  Use of IV immunoglobulin for the treatment of severe COVID-19

  
  


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  Ventilator-associated pneumonia rates in a level I trauma ICU compared with international benchmarks

  
  


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  A profile of children with traumatic brain injury admitted to the PICU