Does the surgical intensive care unit optimal mobility score predict mortality and length of stay?
In surgical critically ill patients presenting without preexisting impairment of functional mobility, the surgical intensive care unit optimal mobility score is a reliable and valid tool to predict mortality and intensive care unit and hospital length of stay.
Ghrelin is one of the first hormones rapidly increasing in the human physiological response to bacterial endotoxic shock. Plasma ghrelin might be part of the complex immuno-neuroendocrine mechanisms activated by systemic infection and inflammation in humans.