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Parent Care in the Intensive Care Unit
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1979Because of their responsibility for life-support systems, the staff of pediatric intensive care units (ICUs) are increasingly confronted by the kinds of experiences described by Waller and his associates (p 1121 in this issue) in which the concerns of the family, the physician, and the nurse converge in relation to the impending death of a child.
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Telemedicine in the Intensive Care Unit
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2012It is estimated if each hospital implemented intensivist physician staffing, approximately 55,000 lives and $4.3 billion dollars could be saved in the United States. However, there is a limited supply of new critical care specialists as teaching hospitals have decreased the size of critical care programs for financial reasons.
Marilyn, Nielsen, Jodi, Saracino
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Statins in the intensive care unit
Current Opinion in Critical Care, 2006Statins are effective lipid-lowering agents used extensively in medical practice. This review summarizes the evidence for statin treatment of cardiovascular patients in the intensive care unit and briefly discusses the role of statins in prevention and treatment of sepsis as a potential future application of statins in critical care.Recent studies have
Marc W, Merx, Christian, Weber
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Intensive Care Unit Telemedicine
American Journal of Critical Care, 20121Telemedicine services used in the intensive care setting today, which provide continuous monitoring to hundreds of patients across multiple sites, have been in use since the year 2000. The term tele-ICU is now used to describe a concept of care in which a centralized or remotely based critical care team is networked with the bed side intensive care ...
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Hyponatremia in the Intensive Care Unit
Seminars in Nephrology, 2009Hyponatremia is a common electrolyte disturbance encountered in the intensive care unit setting. The underlying etiology is multifactorial and includes processes that lead to both a baroreceptor-mediated and a baroreceptor independent increase in antidiuretic hormone release.
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Transfusion in the intensive care unit
Critical Care Medicine, 2006To summarize the incidences of anemia and blood transfusions in critically ill patients, assess their comparative risks and benefits, and briefly speculate on the possible effects of leukoreduction and blood storage on the need to reevaluate transfusion triggers.A review of the current literature was performed.Anemia is common in intensive care unit ...
Vincent, Jean Louis +1 more
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Depression in Intensive Care Units
The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1988There is thought to be a high incidence of depression in intensive care units (ICUs), both as a result of the psychological toll of serious illness and threat to life as well as the physiologic derangements caused by illnesses and treatments. The authors outline a strategy to classify ICU depressions into major depressive illness, adjustment disorders,
L S, Goldman, C P, Kimball
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A wedding in an intensive care unit
Journal of Critical CareHumanization in critical care has been increasingly discussed, raising awareness to the wide range of end-of-life measures which have been recently revised. Nonetheless, in the absence of consensus on what adequate humanization in critical care should theoretically encompass, different perceptions, either clinical or non-clinical, hinder the ...
Sara, Croca +2 more
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Caring for the Elderly in the Intensive Care Unit
Critical Care Clinics, 2021Wendy R, Greene, Maxwell A, Hockstein
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Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit
Critical Care Nurse, 2021Preston H, Miller +2 more
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