نتایج جستجو برای: intensive care units icus

تعداد نتایج: 829432  

Journal: :Revista latino-americana de enfermagem 2010
Maria Claudia Moreira da Silva Regina Marcia Cardoso de Sousa Katia Grillo Padilha

This study characterizes patients hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of hospitals that have intermediate units (IU) regarding their demographic and clinical data and identifies factors related to discharge from these units. This prospective longitudinal study involved 600 adult patients hospitalized in general ICUs in four hospitals in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Demographic and clinical ch...

2002
Jean Louis Vincent Jean-François Baron

ANEMIA IS A COMMON PROBLEM in critically ill patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Deleterious effects of anemia include increased risk of cardiacrelated morbidity and mortality, as well as a generalized decrease in oxygencarrying capacity. Consequences of anemia may be compounded in this population since critical illness often increases metabolic demands. Among the many causes of a...

Journal: :BMC Emergency Medicine 2007
Melissa M Barth Lance J Oyen Karen T Warfield Jennifer L Elmer Laura K Evenson Ann N Tescher Philip J Kuper Michael P Bannon Ognjen Gajic J Christopher Farmer

BACKGROUND Sustained hyperglycemia is a known risk factor for adverse outcomes in critically ill patients. The specific aim was to determine if a nurse initiated insulin infusion protocol (IIP) was effective in maintaining blood glucose values (BG) within a target goal of 100-150 mg/dL across different intensive care units (ICUs) and to describe glycemic control during the 48 hours after protoc...

Journal: :Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition 2015
Xiao-ling Xu Jian-cang Zhou Kong-han Pan Hong-chen Zhao Ke-jing Ying

Nutrition therapy is essential for the management of critically ill patients. Some guidelines have been published to standardize and optimize the nutrition therapy. However, there are still many controversies in nutrition practice and there is a gap between guidelines and clinical nutrition therapy for patients in intensive care units (ICUs). This study aimed to assess attitudes and beliefs tow...

Journal: :Thorax 2007
Peter J Stow David Pilcher John Wilson Carol George Michael Bailey Tracey Higlett Rinaldo Bellomo Graeme K Hart

BACKGROUND There is limited information on changes in the epidemiology and outcome of patients with asthma admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) in the last decade. A database sampling intensive care activity in hospitals throughout Australia offers the opportunity to examine these changes. METHODS The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database was examined for...

Journal: :Thorax 1998
S Nava M Confalonieri C Rampulla

Historical background In the early 1950s an outbreak of poliomyelitis in Scandinavia highlighted for the first time the need for hospital units specialised in treating episodes of acute respiratory failure. The first intensive care units (ICUs), at that time utilising non-invasive techniques such as tank ventilators, were therefore built in Northern Europe. Later on positive pressure ventilatio...

F Iraji M Moslemi SM Meghdadi

Background: Considering the prevalence of skin lesions and drug eruptions in intensive care units and the absence of research about it, we decided to study skin lesions of patients admitted in intensive care unit. Patients and Methods: In this descriptive study all patients admitted in intensive care units of Al-Zahra Hospital in Isfahan in 1376-78 were observed and examined by a resident in De...

2014
Oliver Kumpf Frank Bloos Hanswerner Bause Alexander Brinkmann Maria Deja Gernot Marx Arnold Kaltwasser Rolf Dubb Elke Muhl Clemens-A. Greim Norbert Weiler Ines Chop Günther Jonitz Henning Schaefer Matthias Felsenstein Ursula Liebeskind Carsten Leffmann Annemarie Jungbluth Christian Waydhas Peter Pronovost Claudia Spies Jan-Peter Braun

INTRODUCTION Quality improvement and safety in intensive care are rapidly evolving topics. However, there is no gold standard for assessing quality improvement in intensive care medicine yet. In 2007 a pilot project in German intensive care units (ICUs) started using voluntary peer reviews as an innovative tool for quality assessment and improvement. We describe the method of voluntary peer rev...

Journal: :journal of medical ethics and history of medicine 0
shirmohammad davoodvand phd candidate in nursing, razi nursing and midwifery college, kerman university of medical sciences, kerman, iran; abbas abbaszadeh professor, faculty of nursing and midwifery, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran; fazlollah ahmadi professor, nursing department, faculty of medical sciences, tarbiat modares university, tehran, iran

one of the advanced nursing care procedures emphasized by nursing organizations around the world is patient or nursing advocacy. in addition to illustrating the professional power of nursing, it helps to provide effective nursing care. the aim of the present study was to explain the concept of patient advocacy from the perspective of iranian clinical nurses. this was a qualitative study that ex...

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