Critical Care Unit
Active surveillance culture in a critical care unit of a tertiary care hospital of West Bengal, India: a prospective study
... This is an observational descriptive hospital based cross sectional study. This study was conducted in a critical care unit of a tertiary care hospital for the duration of 6 months (July to ...
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Communication of bed allocation decisions in a critical care unit and accountability for reasonableness
... in critical care units in ways we have already ...the critical care ...for critical care (even when judged medically inappropriate) from family members must be satisfied, even if ...
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Routine delirium monitoring in a UK critical care unit
... During a two-month period in September and October 2007 and for a further one-month period in January 2008, data was prospectively collected on all consecutive admissions to the critical care unit. ...
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Documentation of best interest by intensivists: a retrospective study in an Ontario critical care unit
... The Critical Care Unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is a 20 bed “closed unit” in which medical, surgical, and trauma patients (including surgi- cal oncology, trauma, neurosurgery, ...
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Occurrence of Free-living Amoebae in Nasal Swaps of Patients of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Critical Care Unit (CCU) and Their Surrounding Environments
... Intensive care unit and critical care unit admit patients with severe condition and any contami- nation of these wards to pathogenic microorgan- isms could be a healthy treat for ...
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Computerized Physician Order Entry and Medication Errors in a Pediatric Critical Care Unit
... The development of CPOE systems that are adapt- able to pediatric critical care environments has been problematic. Developing systems that provide weight-based dosing, as well as age-specific algo- rithms, ...
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Changes in dental plaque following hospitalisation in a critical care unit: an observational study
... Introduction: Previous research has suggested that deterioration in oral health can occur following hospitalisation. The impact of such deterioration could increase the risk of oral disease, reduce quality of life and ...
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A team approach to the introduction of safe early mobilisation in an adult critical care unit
... intensive care unit acquired weakness are common in patients requiring critical care and associated with higher mortality and poor long-term ...
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Outcome of Acute Kidney Injury in Critical Care Unit, Based on AKI Network
... In conclusion, we investigated AKIN criteria for AKI as predictor of ICU mortality and demonstrated that AKIN criteria is clinically valid and can be a good predictor [r] ...
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Epidemiology and Descriptive Analysis of Neuro-Critical Care Unit; Shiraz, South of Iran
... lasted at least for 14 days. In our study, 35.4% of the patients had the LOS more than 14 days. Besides, 56.4% of them received MV which may correlate with this high proportion of prolonged admission. It seems that good ...
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Daily use of extracorporeal CO2 removal in a critical care unit: indications and results
... Our study has several limitations. First, because of the retrospective design, some data are lacking. Whereas tidal volume, respiratory rate, and positive end expiratory pressure are monitored hourly by the nurses in our ...
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One Year Survival and Quality of Life in Patients Successfully Discharged From Neuro Critical Care Unit
... of critical care, more revers- ible causes (SE, ICH, GBS) were common diseases in our NICU; patients with these group of diseases usually could return to near normal life if they are given a suit- able ...
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Red cell distribution width as a prognostic marker in mechanically ventilated children admitted in pediatric critical care unit of tertiary care centre, India
... many critical and end stage patients due to mainly economical and other reasons, we endeavoured to evaluate the significance of a routine test like Red cell distribution width as an independent risk factor for ...
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Utilizing Anesthesiologists, Emergency and Critical Care Physicians with Telemedicine Monitoring to Develop Intubation and Ventilation Services in an Intensive Care Unit in the Austere Medical Environment: A Case Series Expansion of the EP/CC GAS Project
... five critical care physicians periodically visited Haiti two to three times during the year for one-week “staggered” blocks to instruct the core group of physicians who staff the emergency department and ...
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Unit 1 (d) Stress and Coping.pdf
... • Patients admitted to the critical care unit are subject to multiple physical, psychological, and environmental stressors, as are their family members. For example, patients and their f[r] ...
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Influence of antibiotic pressure on multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae colonisation in critically ill patients
... in critical pa- tients has been the subject of multiple studies, with pre- vious exposure to various different antibiotics being one of its highest risk factors ...a critical care unit and to ...
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The efficacy of sonographic measurement of inferior vena cava diameter as an estimate of central venous pressure
... CCU, critical care unit; CVP, central venous pressure; ER, emergency room; ICU, intensive care unit; IM, internal medicine; IVC, inferior vena cava; IVCCI, inferior vena cava ...
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Predictors of critical care nurses’ intention to leave the unit, the hospital, and the nursing profession
... A solution to the nursing shortage consists of employ- ing foreign personnel. For example, more than 34,000 foreign nurses are working in Italy at present, around 10% of its total membership. In general, all Western ...
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Critical illness outcome study: an observational study of protocols and mortality in intensive care units
... individual care protocols that impact a small proportion of our study patients (eg, ventricu- lostomy ...from care protocols that have a greater impact on morbidity than ...general care, but the ...
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Pain measurement techniques: spotlight on mechanically ventilated patients
... 4. Merskey H, Bogduk N. Part III pain terms, a current list with defini- tions and notes on usage. Classification of chronic pain-descriptions of chronic pain syndromes and definitions of pain terms. Seattle: Interna- ...
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