[PDF] Top 20 Group Meetings in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

... Work relationships among staff in a pediatric intensive care unit ( ICU ) are probably of critical importance to patient care, as well as to staff well-being.. Group dis- cussions were i[r] ... See full document

... Methods. Elective oncology procedures performed with propofol anesthesia in our multidisciplinary, uni- versity-affiliated PICU were prospectively evaluated over a 7-month period. Ambulatory and hospitalized children ... See full document

... “limited care,” “with- drawal of care,” and “advance ...that care itself is never limited or with- drawn but the goals of care shift such that nonbeneficial treatment is limited or ...“advance ... See full document

... adult care setting include: 1) nursing time savings [1,2]; 2) improved decisions and productiv- ity of physicians [3,4] ; 3) decreased medication errors [5]; 4) decreased turn-around time for results [4]; 5) eas- ... See full document

... Several limitations of the study must be acknowledged. The sample size was relatively small and consisted of predominantly white, English-speaking parents. Half of the parents identified themselves as Catholics, ... See full document

... It is well known that an ICU admission, especially when prolonged, increases the likelihood of fungal infec- tion [21]. Stamos and Rowley reported that Candida colonization was observed after ≥ 7 days of hospitaliza- ... See full document

... trained pediatric intensivist can deliver high quality care with much higher efficiency than general pediatrician ...updating unit protocols taking into consideration the existing human, logistic and ... See full document

... If the EEG tracing is isoelectnic and the cerebral blood flow indicator study shows flow, insufficient evidence to determine brain death is available, and a repeat EEG is obtained in 24 [r] ... See full document

... the unit this year, I can always ask them for help, but if there is a situation where I’m doing a procedure or a patient’s getting unwell too quickly and I need extra hands in the room, I have no hesitation with ... See full document

... in pediatric intensive care unit (PICU); which may lead to severe complications in ...the intensive care unit (ICU) settings ...Many pediatric intensive ... See full document

... This research data included a primary character- istic of the subject such as age, gender, nutritional status, diagnosis, the Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction (PELOD) score, NIV mode, interface, duration of ... See full document

... During the ICU stay, every patient who consents to the study, randomized into the intervention group, and is not under mechanical ventilation will received an order of 0.5 to 1 mg haloperidol every 8 hours via ... See full document

... Results: A total of 29,499 patients were enrolled fi nally, among which 3,332 patients (11.30%) were comorbid with COPD. A higher 28-day mortality was observed among patients with COPD than those without COPD (13.90% ... See full document

... cause of death classification obtained from the Center for Health Statistics, Arkansas Department of Health was reviewed to determine the frequency with which the underlying heritable di[r] ... See full document

... cases, a family member was present at the time of death after limitation or LST withdrawal. Many care- givers actually held their child while LST was re- moved, or they lay in bed with their dying adoles- cents. ... See full document

... The team feels that the work yielded signi fi cant results that improved the focus of rounds, and thus, the quality of care in the PICU. Rounding times have shortened to our stated goal of two hours and have been ... See full document

... When we think about the residency train- ing that takes place in the inpatient unit, the neonatal intensive care unit, the pediatric intensive care unit, and the hematology-oncology unit[r] ... See full document

... critical care attendings (n 5 5), critical care fellows (n 5 9), pe- diatric residents (n 5 34), and PICU nurses (n 5 ...each group was present on rounds (ie, an additional attending), predictions ... See full document

... One interviewed physician remarked that an “old” house officer, present when several “new” physician trainees ar- rived to begin their rotation, shared some of the nurses’ worry that the[r] ... See full document

... neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and 3 patients in the pediatric intensive care unit ...or pediatric patient at a concentration of 20 ... See full document