ArticleIntensive care medicine2020
Intensive care admissions and outcomes associated with short-term exposure to ambient air pollution: a time series analysis.
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- Burden of cardiovascular disease attributed to air pollution: a systematic review.Globalization and health · 2024Pooled it
- Short-term exposure to ambient fine particulate pollution aggravates ventilator-associated pneumonia in pediatric intensive care patients undergoing cardiovascular surgeries.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2023Trial
- Association Between Community-Level Social Determinants of Health and Sepsis Incidence and Mortality: A Scoping Review.Critical care explorations · 2026Article
- Impact of air pollution on exacerbations of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases for the intensivist: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2026Review
- Long-term ozone exposure and the risk of mortality in sepsis patients in a Chinese cohort.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Associations between long-term exposure to air pollutants and mortality risk of critically ill patients: a multi-center cohort study in central China.Annals of intensive care · 2025Article
- Impact of Ambient PM₁₀ and SO₂ Levels on Intensive Care Unit Admissions Due to Cardiopulmonary Diseases in a Tertiary Care Hospital.Archives of Iranian medicine · 2025Observational
- Impacts of short-term low-level exposure to air pollutants on hospital admissions for pulmonary sepsis in elderly patients.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Article
- Long-term PMBMC public health · 2022Article
- Air pollution and hospital admissions for critical illness in emergency department: a tertiary-center research in Changsha, China, 2016-2020.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Short-Term Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Hospitalization Expenditures of Cause-Specific Cardiorespiratory Diseases in China: A Multicity Analysis.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2021Article
- Sepsis-related hospital admissions and ambient air pollution: a time series analysis in 6 Chinese cities.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Spatio-temporal associations of air pollutant concentrations, GP respiratory consultations and respiratory inhaler prescriptions: a 5-year study of primary care in the borough of Lambeth, South London.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2021Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
purposeShort-term exposure to outdoor air pollution has been positively associated with numerous measures of acute morbidity and mortality, most consistently as excess cardiorespiratory disease associated with fine particulate matter (PM
methodsWe performed a time series analysis of emergency cardiorespiratory, stroke and sepsis intensive care (ICU) admissions for the years 2008-2016, using data from the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database (ANZICS-APD). Case-crossover analysis was conducted to assess the relationship between air pollution and the frequency and severity of ICU admissions having adjusted for temperature, humidity, public holidays and influenza activity.
results46,965 episodes in 87 separate ICUs were analysed. We found no statistically significant associations with admission counts. However, ICU admissions ending in death within 30 days were significantly positively associated with short-term exposure to PM
conclusionsIncreased ICU mortality was associated with higher levels of PM
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