cardiac intensive care units
Isn't It the Right Time to Address the Impact of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Units on Medical Education?
... critical care medicine has been taken even further, and there are specialized units for the care of trauma victims, burn patients, or patients recovering from major cardiotho- racic procedures or ...
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Predicting acute kidney injury using urinary liver type fatty acid binding protein and serum N terminal pro B type natriuretic peptide levels in patients treated at medical cardiac intensive care units
... Type 1 cardiorenal syndrome reflects an abrupt wors- ening of cardiac function leading to AKI [29]. The com- bination of urinary L-FABP, a marker of renal tubular injury, and NT-proBNP, a marker of hemodynamic ...
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Observational study of children admitted to United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Paediatric Intensive Care Units after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
... PICU care and infrequent exposure to these cases for many district general hospital emergency department resuscitation teams compared to tertiary paediatric ...critical care services, we anticipate this ...
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Medical interactions in intensive care units: neglected risk
... management of these patients is impaired. As the stay increases in the hospital, the intended costs for patients also increases, as the costs can reach up to R$ 800.00 (eight hundred Brazilian reals) patients / day at ...
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Management of cardiac arrest survivors in UK intensive care units: a survey of practice
... Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is common in the United Kingdom (UK) with an incidence of 123 cases per 100,000 population per annum [1]; emergency medical services (EMS) personnel attempt resuscitation in ...
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Three-year mortality in 30-day survivors of critical care with acute kidney injury: data from the prospective observational FINNAKI study
... All adult (>18 years) patients with an emergency admis- sion to the study ICUs of any duration, or an elective admission expecting to last over 24 h, were included to this Finnish Acute Kidney Injury (FINNAKI) study ...
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Medical futility treatment in intensive care units
... Data from the United States of America indicate that length of stay increases costs of intensive treatment, while not necessarily prolonging survival. Stricker et al. showed that caring for 11% of patients who ...
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Perceptions of the appropriateness of care in California adult intensive care units
... palliative care, and team-based multidisciplinary rounds was high, these services by themselves have not elimi- nated inappropriate ...‘inappropriate care’ , perhaps because doctors were less likely to ...
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The impact of transient and persistent acute kidney injury on short-term outcomes in very elderly patients
... to intensive care unit patients, patients in general departments did not have routine daily SCr measurements because many clinicians rely on blood tests as needed and not on a daily ...
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EVALUATION OF NURSING STRESS IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS
... and collection of questionnaires completed within eight months (July 2015- February 2016). The tool used was the Expanded Nurse Stress Scale (ENSS). [10] This questionnaire describes 57 situations in the daily work ...
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Cardiac biomarkers in the intensive care unit
... When first described in 1972, the electrophoresis meth- ods required for separation of the cardiac isoenzymes had low analytical specificity [31]. An immunoinhibition method resulted in a useful clinical test and ...
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Perceptions of physicians and nurses about the role of intensive and critical care nurses in the intensive care units at tanta university hospital
... critical care nurses in the 21st century care for complex, critically ill patients and their ...the intensive care ...critical care nurses and supervisors nurse) about the role of the ...
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Routine Chest Radiographs in Pediatric Intensive Care Units
... to further clinical decisions. A randomized trial in which patients receive a daily chest radiograph or one less frequently would better evaluate issues of costs and impact on outcome. The need for routine chest ...
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Impact of a VAP bundle in Belgian intensive care units
... This report is not a true study such as the one recently published about the Spanish experience [24]. It is only a presentation of several surveys supporting the imple- mentation of a VAP bundle in ICU ventilated ...
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Changes in the Incidence of Candidiasis in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
... decrease was likely the result of pro- gressive changes in neonatal clinical practice. The decreased incidence of invasive candidiasis will likely not only reduce overall health care costs but also improve ...
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The epidemiology of intensive care unit acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia in medical surgical intensive care units
... Patient characteristics were classified a priori into time-inde- pendent factors and time-dependent factors. Time-independ- ent factors included demographic (age, sex), hospital (admission location, admission ICU, ...
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A Nursing Care Plan for Ebola Patient at Intensive Care Units
... Technology. Intensive care is a young specialty but the technology for fast fluid replacement must be considered first in Ebola nursing than the respiratory units for mechanical ventilation which ...
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Psychiatric intensive care units: A literature review
... legislation facilitating voluntary admission, such wards probably also catered for the more disturbed in this new population of patients. With the expansion of more open acute wards thereafter, coupled later with the ...
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Climate and cultural aspects in intensive care units
... If climate strength enhances the relationship between unit climate and unit performance, it makes sense to identify the antecedents of climate strength. Several studies have underlined the role of the work unit leader in ...
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Bereaved family members’ perceptions of the quality of end-of-life care across four types of inpatient care settings
... Health Care Evaluation Project) instrument [39, ...with care, and 41 items that fall into one of six quality of care subscales that each had good internal consistency reliability (based on the ...
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