Open AccessProfile of Patients with Active Tuberculosis Admitted to a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit in a Tertiary Care Center of North India
Author(s) -
Valliappan Muthu,
Sahajal Dhooria,
Ritesh Agarwal,
Kuruswamy Thurai Prasad,
Ashutosh N. Aggarwal,
Digambar Behera,
Inderpaul Singh Sehgal
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of critical care medicine/indian journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-359X
pISSN - 0972-5229
DOI - 10.4103/ijccm.ijccm_491_17
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , odds ratio , sofa score , logistic regression , mechanical ventilation , confidence interval , tuberculosis , apache ii , retrospective cohort study , respiratory distress , intensive care , respiratory failure , pediatrics , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , surgery , pathology
There is a paucity of literature regarding outcome of critically ill patients with tuberculosis (TB) from India. Herein, we describe our experience of patients with active TB admitted to a Respiratory Intensive Care Unit (RICU) of a tertiary care hospital.