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Nursing Management, 2004
The families and friends of patients in intensive care are the target of a new website at www.ics.ac.uk It provides easily accessible answers to common questions away from stressful hospital situations.
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The families and friends of patients in intensive care are the target of a new website at www.ics.ac.uk It provides easily accessible answers to common questions away from stressful hospital situations.
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The Endothelium in Intensive Care
Critical Care Clinics, 2005This article reviews the major role that the vascular endothelium plays in pathophysiological processes related to metabolism, vascular function, and blood coagulation. Normally an antithrombotic surface, inflammation activates endothelium to become a prothrombotic and pro-inflammatory interface that is critically involved in multi-organ failure in ...
Benoit Vallet, Eric Wiel, Hugo ten Cate
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Surgical Clinics of North America, 2014
As a result of continuous development in the treatment of burns, the LD50 (the burn size lethal to 50% of the population) for thermal injuries has risen from 42% total body surface area (TBSA) during the 1940s and 1950s to more than 90% TBSA for young thermally injured patients.
Shawn P. Fagan +2 more
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As a result of continuous development in the treatment of burns, the LD50 (the burn size lethal to 50% of the population) for thermal injuries has risen from 42% total body surface area (TBSA) during the 1940s and 1950s to more than 90% TBSA for young thermally injured patients.
Shawn P. Fagan +2 more
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2010
This chapter discusses the provision of palliative care in ICUs, with an emphasis on end-of-life care. Specifically, challenges and barriers to providing such care in ICUs are described, and recommendations are offered for the provision of symptom assessment and management.
Jennifer McAdam, Kathleen Puntillo
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This chapter discusses the provision of palliative care in ICUs, with an emphasis on end-of-life care. Specifically, challenges and barriers to providing such care in ICUs are described, and recommendations are offered for the provision of symptom assessment and management.
Jennifer McAdam, Kathleen Puntillo
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Critical Care Medicine, 2002
From the contents: The Variable Use of Survival as an Outcome for ICU Patients. Morbidity and Functional Limitations in Survivors of ARDS. Health-related Quality of Life. The Neuropsychological Consequences of Intensive Care. The Burden of Caregiving on Families of ICU Survivors.
Vladimir Kaplan, Derek C. Angus
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From the contents: The Variable Use of Survival as an Outcome for ICU Patients. Morbidity and Functional Limitations in Survivors of ARDS. Health-related Quality of Life. The Neuropsychological Consequences of Intensive Care. The Burden of Caregiving on Families of ICU Survivors.
Vladimir Kaplan, Derek C. Angus
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Medicina Intensiva (English Edition), 2018
Handover is a frequent and complex task that also implies the transfer of the responsibility of the care. The deficiencies in this process are associated with important gaps in clinical safety and also in patient and professional dissatisfaction, as well as increasing health cost.
M.C. Martín Delgado +15 more
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Handover is a frequent and complex task that also implies the transfer of the responsibility of the care. The deficiencies in this process are associated with important gaps in clinical safety and also in patient and professional dissatisfaction, as well as increasing health cost.
M.C. Martín Delgado +15 more
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Nursing Standard, 2001 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is becoming more prevalent, particularly in intensive care settings. To prevent its transmission, all patients should undergo the same infection control procedures that they would if they carried the infection. Continuing education programmes can help to increase awareness among hospital staff.
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The ethics of intensive care [PDF]
Intensive Care Medicine, 1987 An explanation is provided of the logical steps taken before assigning patients to critical care therapy in a major multidisciplinary intensive care unit of the University of Paris at the Hospital Henri Mondor. The factors considered by the staff in deciding to terminate intensive therapy are also enumerated.
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Palliative care interventions in intensive care unit patients
Intensive Care Medicine, 2021V. Metaxa +10 more
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Chlormethiazole in intensive care
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1986ABSTRACTPatients in the intensive care unit frequently require sedation. The advantages of using an intravenous infusion of chlormethiazole to produce sedation include the rapidity of sedation and recovery, and the lack of cardiovascular effects. Chlormethiazole is contraindicated in patients with hepatic failure or those in whom central nervous system
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