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Burning United States Presidents
2020This essay deals with a specific form of political portraiture, namely effigies used in protests in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, United States politics, especially the wars and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, profoundly impacted the whole region, and protests against such ...
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New graduates in the burn unit
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2004The nursing shortage is widespread. The shortage of available experienced registered nurses has led to an influx of new graduate nurses (GN) into the acute care setting. This influx of inexperienced nurses into highly specialized areas has established a need to develop effective GN training programs that promote sound clinical performance,encourage ...
Bridget, Everhart, Marty, Slate
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Burn Units?? Share of Canada??s Total Burn Care
Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation, 1995The share of total hospital Canadian burn care provided by 17 of Canada's 27 present burn units increased marginally to 18.3% in 1991 from 17.0% in 1981 (p = 0.0506), and the mortality rate decreased from 5.6% in 1981 to 3.5% in 1991 (p < 0.05). In 10 units providing serial data, patients with burns undergoing ventilation therapy for a concomitant ...
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Infection control in the burn unit
Burns, 2011The survival rates for burn patients have improved substantially in the past few decades due to advances in modern medical care in specialized burn centers. Burn wound infections are one of the most important and potentially serious complications that occur in the acute period following injury. In addition to the nature and extent of the thermal injury
Karim, Rafla, Edward E, Tredget
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Lyell's syndrome on a burns unit
Burns, 1994Two cases of Lyell's syndrome (toxic epidermal necrolysis) managed on a burn unit are presented. The various methods of management are discussed, and the arguments for treating this life-threatening condition on an intensive care burn unit are analysed.
N, Zoltie +3 more
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Liaison psychiatry on a burn unit
General Hospital Psychiatry, 1980Psychiatric liaison activities and intervention on a burn unit are described. The authors review the psychiatrist's interventions with regard to unhealthy staff denial; educating staff about psychiatric issues; facilitating improved staff-patient communication; and helping nurses manage patients' inappropriate sexual behavior.
A, Billowitz, W, Friedson, D S, Schubert
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Burn Unit Ensures Expert, Specialized Staffing
Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1998At Children's Hospital Burn Unit, nurse managers developed a decentralized staffing plan to provide specialized nursing care and avoid using agency, per diem, and float personnel.
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Infection precautions in a burns unit
Nursing Standard, 1993Staff working with patients with burns are regularly exposed to large amounts of potentially infected blood. With the steady rise of HIV infection in the general population it is no longer appropriate to classify patients as at high or low risk of infection.
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Annales chirurgiae et gynaecologiae, 1981
In the year 1961 a special Burns Unit was opened in the old Municipal Hospital. As it was decided to build the new Hvidovre Hospital it was planned also to move the Burns Unit to this large University hospital which contained all other specialities. The department for plastic surgery and the Burns Unit consists of 35 beds, 7 of which are part of the ...
M, Thomsen, B, Sørensen
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In the year 1961 a special Burns Unit was opened in the old Municipal Hospital. As it was decided to build the new Hvidovre Hospital it was planned also to move the Burns Unit to this large University hospital which contained all other specialities. The department for plastic surgery and the Burns Unit consists of 35 beds, 7 of which are part of the ...
M, Thomsen, B, Sørensen
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The psychiatrist on the burns unit
Burns, 1993The first 12 months of a new consultation-liaison service to a burns unit is described. Management of contact between the psychiatrist and the burns team is discussed and diagnostic categories are given for referrals seen. Diagnostic criteria are not achieved for many patients assessed, and yet the burns team still requires help managing patients who ...
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