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ICU Imaging

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2008
Chest radiography serves a crucial role in imaging of the critically ill. Its uses include diagnosis and monitoring of commonly encountered pulmonary parenchymal and pleural space abnormalities. It is also important in evaluating monitoring and support devices and associated complications.
Joshua R, Hill   +2 more
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Stress in ICU and Non-ICU Nurses

Nursing Research, 1985
This study focused on the degree of burnout experienced by nurses in intensive care units and nonintensive care units. Nurses in both the surgical and medical ICUs, as well as nurses in the intermediate surgical and medical units and general surgical and medical units of a large, university hospital were the subjects.
A, Keane, J, Ducette, D C, Adler
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ICU Delirium

Neurologic Clinics
Delirium is not a harmless transient event during ICU hospitalization; rather, it is a severe complication of critical illness associated with increased mortality, morbidity, and persistent disability. Despite being recognized for decades, it remains underdiagnosed. Employing validated tools for detection helps reduce missed cases.
Amra, Sakusic, Alejandro A, Rabinstein
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Design of ICUs

Pediatrics, 1992
To the Editor.— Most newborn intensive care units (NICUs) today stand as monuments to the technology and efficiency that dramatically improved survival of premature newborns during the last two decades. Beginning as small "premie nurseries" which held five or six newborns per room, NICUs evolved in the late 70s and the early 80s into ...
R, White, T, Whitman
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ICU delirium

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2012
Delirium is frequently encountered in the ICU and is associated with significant adverse outcomes. The increasingly recognized consequences of ICU delirium should enhance efforts to improve recognition and management of this serious problem. We aim to review the recent literature on ICU delirium, including risk factors, detection, management and long ...
Shirley F, Jones, Margaret A, Pisani
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Managing ICU throughput and understanding ICU census

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2011
Traditionally, hospitals have coped with chronically high ICU census by building more ICU beds, but this strategy is unlikely to be tenable under future financial models. Therefore, ICUs need additional tools to manage census, inflow, and throughput.Higher ICU census, without compensatory surges in nursing capacity, is associated with several adverse ...
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Managing ICU delirium

Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2011
ICU delirium is a common and serious acute brain dysfunction with adverse outcome and high risk of mortality. The awareness of ICU delirium as a problem, which immediately requires therapeutic intervention, has been increased in the past years. This article aims to provide information in order to increasingly modify the management of this severe ...
Alexander, Schiemann   +2 more
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