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Intensive Care Unit Delirium

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 2013
Intensive care unit (ICU) delirium is widespread and occurs in 20% to 80% of patients. It can be assessed with ICU-validated scoring tools. The most commonly used tools include the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU and the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist.
Sapana, Desai   +2 more
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Intensive Care Unit Delirium

Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, 2010
Once considered a benign iatrogenic consequence of intensive care unit (ICU) admission, ICU delirium is now recognized as a prominent disorder that negatively affects patient morbidity and mortality. The primary goal in the detection and treatment of ICU delirium is to ensure the safety of the patient and caregiver(s).
Jeffrey J, Bruno, Mary Lou, Warren
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Intensive Care Unit Imaging

Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2015
Chest radiography serves a crucial role in imaging of the critically ill. It is essential in ensuring the proper positioning of support and monitoring equipment, and in evaluating for potential complications of this equipment. The radiograph is useful in diagnosing and evaluating the progression of atelectasis, aspiration, pulmonary edema, pneumonia ...
Matthew R, Bentz, Steven L, Primack
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Intensive Care Unit Telemedicine

American Journal of Critical Care, 2012
1Telemedicine 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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Care bundles in intensive care units

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2014
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central-line-associated bloodstream infections are common complications for patients in intensive care units receiving mechanical ventilation and contribute to increased length of stay and mortality.1 Many studies have shown the effectiveness of care bundles to reduce rates of these complications.2 In their ...
Samad E J, Golzari, Ata, Mahmoodpoor
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The intensive care unit

New Directions for Mental Health Services, 1988
AbstractA short‐term service for those who are most severely ill, the intensive care unit provides twenty‐four‐hour nursing care and monitoring to help stabilize patients so that they can return to the day hospital for definitive treatment.
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Intensive care unit.

Nursing times, 1998
Critical care units developed as an extension of postoperative recovery rooms and because of the dissemination of effective cardiac monitoring and respiratory support that is possible in such facilities. Intensive care units (ICUs) have proliferated worldwide with the expectation that they improve patient outcomes and overall quality of care by ...
Carl A. Sirio   +2 more
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