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Parent Care in the Intensive Care Unit

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1979
Because 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, 2012
It 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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Transfusion in the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine, 2006
To 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, Piagnerelli, Michaël   +1 more
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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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Depression in Intensive Care Units

The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 1988
There 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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Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 2003
Delirium in the intensive care unit (ICU) is a complex, common, and problematic condition that interferes with healing and recovery. It leads to higher morbidity and mortality and extended hospital stays. The aging population older than 65, and more likely to develop delirium, is the fastest growing population in the United States and is increasingly ...
Margaret Cole, Marshall, Mark D, Soucy
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Sleep in the intensive care unit

Intensive Care Medicine, 2004
Abnormalities of sleep are extremely common in critically ill patients, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. About half of total sleep time occurs during the daytime, and circadian rhythm is markedly diminished or lost. Judgments based on inspection consistently overestimate sleep time and do not detect sleep disruption.
Sairam, Parthasarathy, Martin J, Tobin
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A wedding in an intensive care unit

Journal of Critical Care
Humanization 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, Ana, Gaspar, Gustavo Nobre, de Jesus   +2 more
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THE ROLE OF INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1976
The indications for intensive care are discussed. Selection of patients should be based upon the apparent reversibility of disease processes and the likelihood of producing worthwhile relief of suffering. Admission statistics for one n‐bed unit are also presented, and survival rates exceeding 90% of three “model” conditions–namely, fat embolism ...
J E, Gilligan, D J, McCleave, L, Worthley, L, Price   +3 more
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Caring for the Elderly in the Intensive Care Unit

Critical Care Clinics, 2021
Wendy R, Greene, Maxwell A, Hockstein
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