Twenty-one of the 34 patients with a complicated course exhibited signs of complications at the time of admission to the IMC/ICU, whereas another 13 patients without initial complications developed them during their stay in the IMC/ICU.
In each of the high-risk groups one patient developed a complicated course (Table 1), resulting in a complication rate of 11% versus 20% (malignant disease vs. immunosuppression, respectively).
Although they are usually defined as patient-related clinical outcomes, reoperation and complications are in fact process measures for a complicated course to an endpoint defined by PROMs.
In these conditions the persistence of high levels has suggested a complicated course, and a second increase is highly suggestive of an infectious complication.
The sexual instincts pass through a complicated course of development, and it is only at the end of it that the "primacy of the genital zone" is attained.
But the idea that we should somehow be sanitizing our history because our ears are too fragile to recognize that the course of human existence has been a complicated course beset with human frailty – that undermines the entire purpose of a university".
Direct calculation for derivatives of the Green's function on the Cartesian coordinate system is a common practice, which, however, usually leads to a complicated course.
The redesigned tPERSEVERE model had an AUC of 0.83 (0.79–0.87) and a sensitivity of 93% (68 97) for estimating the risk of a complicated course.
Improved measurement methods have largely enhanced the potential for biomarkers to identify patients at high risk of death or a complicated course, whether individual patients or the general population.
In the PROTECT study, the combination of sPESI, troponin and BNP had a higher positive predictive value for a complicated course during follow-up than the sPESI alone or the combination of the sPESI with one of the biomarkers.
Patients with a complicated course after cardiac surgery have reduced microcirculatory recruitability as assessed by a non-invasive SLD thermal challenge in the first hours during the ICU stay.
