Improvement in intensive care unit: Effect on mortality
Background: The Lagos University Teaching Hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was founded in 1975. It was designed as an eight-bedded ICU, a previous review of outcome of surgical admissions in the ICU in 2002 placed mortality at 40.3%, however, presently run as a five-bed unit with new ICU eq...
Main Authors: | Adeniyi Adesida, Olanrewaju Akanmu, Rita Oladele, Oyebola Olubodun Adekola, Ibironke Desalu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2017-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Clinical Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://www.jcsjournal.org/article.asp?issn=2468-6859;year=2017;volume=14;issue=2;spage=62;epage=67;aulast=Adesida |
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