ICU - patient
Quality of Care of Nursing from Brain Death Patient in ICU Wards
... This cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in 2014 with ICU nurses in Ghaem and Imam Reza Hospitals in Mashhad. The sample size was based on the results of a pilot study, and 90 nurses were selected using ...
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Análise do aprazamento de enfermagem em uma UTI: foco na segurança do paciente / Analysis of nursing aprazamento in an ICU: focus on patient safety
... The research complied with the ethical aspects established by Resolution No. 466/12 from the Health Ministry and was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the institution where the study was carried out, under the ...
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Should C-reactive protein concentration at ICU discharge be used as a prognostic marker?
... In a heterogeneous ICU patient population, Lobo et al. showed that admission CRP levels correlated with an increased risk of organ failure and death [14]. In addition, our group showed that persistently ...
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Improving Communication in the ICU
... ill ICU patient, family care conferences can be used to enable focused discussion of patient care issues and promote understanding and communication of patient preferences for ...the ...
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ASSESSMENT OF PAIN IN VENTILATED ICU PATIENTS USING BEHAVIORAL PAIN SCALE
... Numerous studies have reported the undertreatment of pain in the critically ill conscious patient, very few studies have actually researched how best the pain can be assessed in unconscious, ventilated ICU ...
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Safe extubation and reintubation in operatory room and ICU patients
... of ICU patients, with higher atten- tion the longer the patient has been intubated and on mechanical ...in ICU to provide use of dedicated kits or hollow tube exchangers, well lubricated and with ...
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Temperature variability during delirium in ICU patients: an observational study.
... As a first step to evaluate whether temperature variability could be used for delirium monitoring, we excluded patients with conditions affecting thermal regulation or therapies affecting body temperature as well as data ...
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Children hospitalized due to maltreatment in the ICU of a Public Health Service
... In the records of the medical record of a two-year- old child, whose hospitalization was due to burns, there were reports of lesions on the face, scalp and elbows. The Psychology Service reported that the child was taken ...
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DVT surveillance program in the ICU: analysis of cost-effectiveness.
... ) of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) evidenced based guidelines on DVT prevention state that the benefit of DVT surveillance by duplex sonography in reducing the incidence of PE and mortality is unclear. ...
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Death on Stage in the ICU: Family Facing Terminal Condition
... the ICU of a medium-sized private hospital were ...the patient generates great distress and suffering for relatives, causing intense experiences of ...the patient is not suffering; and the presence ...
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Outcomes of subsyndromal delirium in ICU: A systematic review and meta-analysis
... evaluated patient characteristics, prevalence of SSD and outcomes (conversion to delirium, mortality in the ICU and hospital, ICU and hospital LOS, and duration of MV) for patients with and without ...
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Evaluation of Heart Rate Variabilty After Cerebral Injury in ICU Patients
... Patients were continuously monitored with ECG, heart rate (HR), invasive arterial blood pressure (ABP) through the radial artery, pulse oximetry (SpO2) and bilateral transcutaneous cerebral oximetry with near-infrared ...
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Nursing workload as a risk factor for healthcare associated infections in ICU: a prospective study.
... on patient age and severity on admission, presence of underlying diseases, hospitalization in University facilities, length of stay, presence of young and inexperienced HCW, lack of supervision, fragmenta- tion of ...
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Death on Stage in the ICU: Family Facing Terminal Condition
... the ICU of a medium-sized private hospital were ...the patient generates great distress and suffering for relatives, causing intense experiences of ...
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THE PERCEPTION OF NURSES FACED WITH THE DEATH OF ADULT ICU PATIENTS
... adult ICU of a private institution located in the municipality of Niterói in ...the patient in general are emphasized, in addition to the respect and the preparation of the ...
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Writing in and reading ICU diaries: qualitative study of families' experience in the ICU.
... this patient continued: ‘And little by little, that made me more confident, and I’d say to myself ‘‘We’re going to make it, we’re going to make it’’’ (62-year-old ...the patient affected the way the ...
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Cases of Opsi syndrome still candidate for medical ICU
... A 21 year-old-male, who had splenectomy for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura 8 years ago, was admitted to our intensive care unit due to fulminant sepsis. On admission, petechiae and ecchymoses characterized the ...
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Relationship between availability of physiotherapy services and ICU costs
... prolonged ICU-LOS; however, the literature indicates that mechanical ventilation weaning times are longer in such patients, due to previous disease, rather than to respiratory failure (the reason for ...
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Análise de Interações Medicamentosas Identificadas em Prescrições da UTI Neonatal da ICU-HGU
... Neonatal ICU in a university hospital, in addition to reporting the characteristics of these interactions and to relate the occurrence of drugs with greater number of ...Forty-one patient charts were ...
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HUMANIZED CARE IN THE ICU: CHALLENGES FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
... ill patient?”; “In your opinion, what are the main difficulties faced for the provision of a humanized care in the ICU?”;“What is the importance of the humanization process in the care of the critically ill ...
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