Critical Care Units (CCUs)
Involvement of Patients’ Families in Care of Critically Ill Patients at Kenyatta National Hospital Critical Care Units
... patient care activities at the hospital can lead to distress in the family as well as challenge family members in assuming the likely expected role when the patient returns ...in care of the critically ill ...
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Predictors and Prevalence of Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections Among Adult Patients in Critical Care Units -Kenyatta National Hospital
... in Critical Care Units (CCUs) have central venous catheters ...CLABSI care bundles increasing the morbidity, mortality, hospital stay and ...clinical care and institutional ...at ...
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What is an Appropriate Nursing Care Model in Critical Care Units: Domestic or International Models
... in critical care units, the majority authors believed that one of the most important elements is based on the ...nursing care model is directly dependent to place, where the model want to ...
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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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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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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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‘In a dark place, we find ourselves’: light intensity in critical care units
... Intensive care units provide specialised care for critically ill patients around the ...intensive care unit patients have disrupted circadian ...
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Workplace Violence against Female Nurses: a Survey in Critical Care Units
... saults than workers in other professions [7-11]. Incidents of violence in the healthcare facilities will negatively impact the delivery of healthcare services, and lead to the development of hos- tile environment that ...
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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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National survey and point prevalence study of sedation practice in UK critical care
... Patients in the PPS were compared with all patients in CMP adult general critical care units at 1400 on 11 De- cember 2013 for case mix, outcome and length of stay. Numbers (percentages) of sedated ...
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Interpersonal Communication among Critical Care Nurses: an Ethnographic Study
... in critical care units is one of the most important factors due to complicated and critical conditions of ...among critical care ...meaning units from the obtained ...
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Menstrual Hygiene among Women of Reproductive Age in Rural Area, Lahore
... among critical care unit’s nurses at Sheikh Zayed ...in critical care units is influenced by many factors including supportive leadership, and demographic factors such as, clinical ...
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Prevalence of post traumatic stress disorder symptoms in adult critical care survivors: a systematic review and meta analysis
... survived critical care admission, (3) condition—prevalence of PTSD symptoms after ICU dis- charge, and (4) population analyzed—adult critical care survivors (age ≥ 18 ...neonatal/pediatric ...
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ARTERIALBLOODGAS ANALYSER ELECTROLYTES VERSUS SERUM ELECTROLYTES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
... Electrolytes are very important for the continuation of the physiological functions of the human body. They play vital roles in: regulation of the cell membrane potential, steady process of neurohormonal pathways, energy ...
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A decade of changes in clinical characteristics and management of elderly patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction admitted in Italian cardiac care units
... past decade with the development of new therapeutics and strategies of care that have been shown to improve outcomes in clinical trials. 1 2 However, the extent to which this new evidence is applied in clinical ...
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Critical care ultrasonography in acute respiratory failure
... performing critical care ultrasonography (CCUS) which, in these patients, combines critical care echocardiography (CCE) and chest ...of CCUS for ...
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A one year review of clinical profile and treatment outcomes of neonates admitted to Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) at Regional hospital in Himachal Pradesh draining a rural area
... partum care is very important to combat all these ...obstetric care, location of referral centre, pattern of referral cases , availability of equipments and skilled man ...
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Year in review in Critical Care, 2004: sepsis and multi organ failure
... Attention has been focused on biomarkers that may facilitate diagnosing sepsis. In a large study of emergency department patients, Chan and colleagues [8] tested whether procalcitonin and C-reactive protein could ...
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Critical illness outcome study: an observational study of protocols and mortality in intensive care units
... which this occurs is not known. By studying protocol use in general, we are analyzing an approach to care standardization and not the practices themselves. Strengths of our study design include a broad array of ...
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Patient- and family-centred care practices of emergency nurses in emergency departments in the Durban area, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
... emergency/critical care unit can result in role conflict, high levels of stress, interruption of normal routines and potential changes in relationships among family members ...
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