critical care units
Prevalence and predictors of intra-abdominal hypertension and compartment syndrome in surgical patients in critical care units at Kenyatta National Hospital
... ACS in acutely ill patients both in the emergency depart- ment and in the first 24 h of their care in critical care units [17, 18]. In addition, severely anaemic patients requiring transfusion ...
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An Interdisciplinary Initiative to Reduce Unplanned Extubations in Pediatric Critical Care Units
... our critical care units. The CHC cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) determined that unplanned ex- tubations were an area of concern due to (1) ...
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Bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients in critical care units from a brazilian pusblic hospital
... Objective: To describe the epidemiology of bloodstream infections (BI) in adult hospitalized in critical care units of a teaching hospital. Methods: This is an epidemiological study, using ...
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Epidemiology of potential drug-drug interactions in elderly population admitted to critical care units of Peshawar, Pakistan
... the critical care units of four tertiary care hospitals in Peshawar, Pakistan; Lady Reading Hospital (LRH), Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) and Northwest ...
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ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES OF HAND HYGIENE AMONG RESIDENTS AND NURSING STAFF IN INTENSIVE CRITICAL CARE UNITS OF A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN RURAL SETUP
... Objectives - Proper hand Hygiene is the recognized method of preventing the cross transmission of germs and decreasing the incidence of hospital acquired infections .The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge ...
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Evaluation of Nurses Practices Concerning Sterile Techniques Critical Care Units in Al-Najaf AL-Ashraff City Hospitals
... in critical care units , it is one of most dangerous units because they are crowded with patients who are much closer to each other as well as the most frequently penetrating procedures of the ...
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Involvement of Patients’ Families in Care of Critically Ill Patients at Kenyatta National Hospital Critical Care Units
... Most nurse managers agreed to the existence of a CCU visitation policy that is not open. One nurse manager felt a change that restricts who visits the patient to the next of kin only was important. These responses were ...
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Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation
... The ICNARC CMPD includes data on admissions to all adult general ICUs in the UK. This facilitates reliable, representative analyses of most patients in the UK ad- mitted to ICU after cardiac arrest. The objective of this ...
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Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Related Factors Among Patients Discharged From Critical Care Units in Kashan, Iran
... from critical care units might have high rates of physical and psycho- logical complications (3, ...Intensive Care Units (ICUs) survivors three months after discharge ...
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Nurses` perception regarding the use of technological devices in critical care units
... Critical care nurses will need to keep pace with the latest information and develop skills to manage new treatment methods and ...patient care become increasingly complex and new technologies and ...
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Implementation of the world health organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in critical care units
... tertiary care facility with inpatient and outpatient specialized healthcare services being delivered in different clinical ...four critical care units namely: Intensive Care Unit (ICU), ...
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Increasing survival after admission to UK critical care units following cardiopulmonary resuscitation
... The ICNARC CMPD includes data on admissions to all adult general ICUs in the UK. This facilitates reliable, representative analyses of most patients in the UK ad- mitted to ICU after cardiac arrest. The objective of this ...
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Factors Associated with Low Back Pain Among Nurses in Critical Care Units, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
... Nursing is a high risk group profession with prevalence of low back pain LBP. Nursing literature shows that efforts have been done to try and reduce the problem of work-related low back pain while moving and handling, by ...
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Staff Nurses Perception Toward Organizational Culture and Its Relation to Innovative Work Behavior at Critical Care Units
... Health care organization culture can influenced by its ability to manage human resources and has a strong impact on its ...at critical care ...in critical care units at Benha ...
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What is an Appropriate Nursing Care Model in Critical Care Units: Domestic or International Models
... nursing care model in critical care units: Domestic or international models" with three purposes including ...in critical care units? ...nursing care models on ...
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Procalcitonin decrease over 72 hours in US critical care units predicts fatal outcome in sepsis patients
... US critical care settings found 72-hour PCT kinetics to be an accurate mortality predictor in intensively treated patients with ...of critical care provides information that may potentially ...
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A study of the perceived risks, benefits and barriers to the use of SDD in adult critical care units (The SuDDICU study)
... intensive care clinicians to participate in any future effectiveness trial of SDD in intensive care practice and/ or an implementation trial of strategies to ...
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Procalcitonin decrease over 72 hours in US critical care units predicts fatal outcome in sepsis patients
... US critical care settings found 72-hour PCT kinetics to be an accurate mortality predictor in intensively treated patients with ...of critical care provides information that may potentially ...
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A study of the perceived risks, benefits and barriers to the use of SDD in adult critical care units (The SuDDICU study)
... SDD units will be purposively sampled from an existing database from a national survey of SDD in the UK ...SDD Units will be contacted and asked to take part in the ...
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‘In a dark place, we find ourselves’: light intensity in critical care units
... Bright light at night can shift the phase of circadian rhythms and reduce their ampli- tude [11]. Such high-intensity light interruptions are necessary for the 24-h care given to critically ill patients; however, ...
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