Anesthesia & Clinical Research
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Department of Anesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Impact of Early Goal Directed Therapy and PCO₂ Gap Protocol on Outcomes of High-Risk Surgical Patients Admitted to ICU: A Prospective Study
  Author(s): Gad Sayed*
  
  Objectives: High risk surgical patients are prone to experience complicated outcomes that directly lead to longer days on ventilators and consequently longer ICU and hospital stay. PCO2 gap has elicited an increasing interest in directing resuscitation towards optimizing CO2 gap. Thus, we aimed to compare the impact of PCO2 gap targeting protocol to a classical Goal Directed Therapy Protocol (GDT) on ICU stay Ventilator day and length of hospital stay, in high-risk surgical patients admitted to ICU. Design: Blinded prospective randomized clinical trial. Settings: Qena University Hospital. Patients: 80 patients who have high risk surgical criteria adopted from Shoemacker et al score and were admitted to ICU postoperatively, were divided into two g.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2155-6148.21.12.1015

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