IntroductionChildren with severe asthma attack are a challenging group of patients who could be difficult to treat and leading to significant morbidity and mortality. Asthma attack severity is qualitatively estimated as mild, moderate and severe attacks and respiratory failure based on conditions such as respiration status, feeling of dyspnea, and the degree of unconsciousness. part of which ar...

In 1962 the Ministry of Health circulated a report on progressive patient care which was largely concerned with intensive patient care. Since this report, Regional Hospital Boards have been sympathetic to the establishment of intensive care units, and because of their special skill and knowledge anaesthetists have usually been concerned with the planning and establishment of such units. Over a ...

background and purpose: considering the obstacles against the implementation of ethical decisions by nurses, experiencing moral distress is one of the major issues in this profession. moral distress could have negative effects on the physical and mental health of nurses, quality of patient care and performance of health organizations. given the importance of addressing moral distress in working...

Background: This study has been conducted to investigate the effect of family-centered support program on satisfaction of the family members of patients in intensive care unit. Hospitalization of patient in intensive care unit causes crisis in family. It is very important to pay attention to the role of patient’s family in support and care of patients in intensive care unit, to pay attent...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare stressors identified by patients of a coronary intensive care unit with those perceived by patients of a general postoperative intensive care unit. METHODS This cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted in the coronary intensive care and general postoperative intensive care units of a private hospital. In total, 60 patients participated in the study...

1Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Division of Woman and Child, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium 2Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA 3Departments of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, and Physiology, The School of Medicine and Health Sciences George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA 4 Intensive Care Wa...

background: the number of reported cases, infected with carbepenem resistant acinetobacter baumannii (crab) and multi-drug resistant (mdr) acinetobacter species had gradually increased in most pla general hospital wards from april to june in 2007. objectives: we have described the investigation of an outbreak of crab and mdr acinetobacter in pla general hospital, beijing. the prospective and re...