Intrahospital Transport Practice in Pediatric Intensive Care Units [PDF]
Introduction:Critically ill children often require transport during diagnosis and treatment procedures during intensive care hospitalization. With this study, it was aimed to evaluate the practice of transport and the problems encountered during ...
Mehmet Ünal +5 more
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Hemovigilance Questionnaire in Pediatric Emergency and Pediatric Intensive Care Units [PDF]
Introduction:Hemovigilance is a monitoring procedure that covers all transfusion steps from the collection of blood and blood components to the follow-up of end recipients.
Alper Köker +4 more
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Antibiotic Resistance: Experience in Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units
Objective: We retrospectively evaluated the culture results of patients hospitalized in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at our hospital during 2008.
Filiz Pehlivano¤lu +2 more
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Paediatric High Dependency Care in West, North and East Yorkshire [PDF]
A 36 item, measurement tool to establish the volume of paediatric high dependency care (PHDC) activity was developed from inpatient episode data (n = 24,540) collected in 14 hospitals in West, North and East Yorkshire in 2005.
Rushforth, Kay
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Identifying Priorities in Intensive Care : a description of a system for collecting intensive care data, an analysis of the data collected, a critique of aspects of severity scoring systems used to compare intensive care outcome, identification of priorities in intensive care and proposals to improve outcome for intensive care patients. [PDF]
MDThis thesis reviews the requirements for intensive care audit data and describes the development of ICARUS (Intensive Care Audit and Resource Utilisation System), a system to collect and analyse intensive care audit information.
Goldhill, David Raymond
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Effect of Applying Watson's Model Theory on the Care Behaviors of Nurses in Pediatric Intensive Care Units [PDF]
Background: Nursing care of children should be tailored towards helping them make the necessary adjustment needed for hospital care. The aim of this study was to evaluate to evaluate the effect of applying Watson’s model theory on the care behaviors of ...
Sabah Elsayed +3 more
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Management of patients with single ventricle physiology after surgical palliation is challenging. Arginine vasopressin has gained popularity in recent years as a non-catecholamine vasoactive medication due to its unique properties.
Vidya R. Raghavan +6 more
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Hypertension in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit [PDF]
Hypertension in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is common and it contributes to the overall morbidity and mortality. Patients may present with hypertensive emergencies or hypertension can manifest itself later in PICU course. Although hypertension can be seen in most patients during hospitalization, patients with some specific diseases and ...
Gokhan, Olgun, Eunice, John
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Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit [PDF]
Ultrasonography has been widely used in medicine for decades but often by specific users such as cardiologists, obstetricians, and radiologists. In the last several years, the use of this imaging modality has moved to the bedside, with clinicians performing and interpreting focused point of care ultrasonography to aid in immediate assessment and ...
Luke Burton +2 more
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Point-of-care ultrasound use in pediatric intensive care units in Turkey
Background. Point-of-care ultrasound is commonly used in pediatric intensive care units in recent years. The aim of this study was to find an answer to the question `where are we now in Turkish pediatric intensive care units for point-of-care ...
Nagehan Aslan +4 more
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