Quality Improvement on the Long-term Care Ventilator Unit: Interventions to Increase Patient Safety and Prevent Patient Harm [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Tracheostomy patients are susceptible to life-threatening emergencies when their airways are compromised. Epidemiologic data suggests that 3.2% to 30% of tracheostomy patents have a complication. The long-term care ventilator unit (LTCVU) is
Anderson, Billie, Samuels, Joanne
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Optimal support systems for patients with stomas – an opinion piece
Nursing: Research and Reviews, 2014 Jennie BurchSt Marks Hospital, Surgery, London, UKAbstract: Coping with a stoma is physically and emotionally difficult. This adaptation process can be hindered by various factors, including complications associated with the stoma, such as appliance ...
Burch J
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Examining professionals' and parents' views of using transanal irrigation with children: Understanding their experiences to develop a shared health resource for education and practise [PDF]
, 2013 Irrigation as a bowel management approach has been reportedly used with children for more than 20 years. Parents managing their child's chronic bowel problem have previously been shown to have increased emotional stress.
Bray, L., Sanders, C
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Self-efficacy and its Dimensions in Patients with Intestinal Stoma
نشریه پرستاری ایران, 2013 Background & aims: People undergoing ostomy challenge with multiple physical, psychological and social complications. However, Self-efficacy may lead them to the acceptance of stoma, adaptation with it and improve quality of their life.
F Rafii, L Naseh, P Parvizy
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Physicochemical Properties and Composition of Peristomal Skin Care Products: A Narrative Review
CosmeticsPeople who have gone through stoma surgery face different problems and difficulties every day, although most of these issues improve significantly with time.
Agnieszka Kulawik-Pióro +4 more
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Complications And Stoma Care Self-Efficacy Are Associated With Ostomy Adjustment In People With An Intestinal Or Urinary Ostomy [PDF]
, 2016 poster abstractMore than 120,000 new ostomies, or surgically created openings through the abdomen for bowel or urinary elimination, are created annually in North America.
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The treatment experiences of people living with ileostomies: an interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]
, 2016 AIMS: To explore treatment and healthcare experiences of people living with ileostomies, so nurses can build on best practice whilst caring for these patients.
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Intestinal stoma as a result of surgery
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017 Admission: The history of the emergence of artificial fistula counts nearly 300 years. The first stoma were selected in a targeted manner in 1776. Estimates indicate that the number of intestinal fistulas performed in our country is around 6 thousand ...
Monika Pierzak, Martyna Gorzelak
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Frontiers in SurgeryBackgroundPermanent colostomies after colorectal cancer surgery can seriously affect patients' quality of life (QoL) and psychosocial adjustment.
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