Objectives: This study investigated Finnish physicians’ experiences of decisions concerning living wills and do not resuscitate (DNR) orders and also their views on the role of patients and family members in these decisions. Design: A questionnaire was sent to 800 physicians representing the following specialties: general practice (n = 400); internal medicine (n = 207); neurology (n = 100), and...

A discordance, predominantly towards overtreatment, exists between patients’ expressed preferences for life-sustaining interventions and those documented at hospital admission. This quality improvement study sought to assess this discordance our institution. Secondary objectives were explore if internal medicine (IM) teams could identify patients who might benefit from further conversations the...

Intensivists may provide initial management to patients with major burns, despite lacking extensive knowledge and experience. Burnsurgery.org is a free website " designed to provide comprehensive, up-to-date educational tools for burn care professionals throughout the world ". The site is operated by a nonprofit educational group, with editors from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, US...

BACKGROUND Effective team leadership in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is well recognized as a crucial factor influencing performance. Generally, leadership training focuses on task requirements for leading as well as non-leading team members. We provided crisis resource management (CRM) training only for designated team leaders of advanced life support (ALS) trained teams. This study asse...

conclusions no significant differences were observed between electronic learning and lecture-based education in improving interns’ knowledge of cpr drugs. background conventional educational systems seem to be improper throughout the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) teaching process. the most common causes of failed resuscitation are unfamiliarity with cardiopulmonary resuscitation algorithm...

background: low compliance with drugs regimens in diabetic patients is one of the greatest challenges in the treatment of diabetes. the aim of this study was to evaluate compliance with medical orders in diabetic patients referred to the endocrinology clinic of afzalipour hospital, kerman, iran. methods: in this cross sectional study 345 of the 3000 patients, who referred to the endocrinology c...

The Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Physicians, the Intensive Care Society and the Resuscitation Council (UK) have published new resuscitation standards. The document provides advice to UK healthcare organisations, resuscitation committees and resuscitation officers on all aspects of the resuscitation service. It includes sections on resuscitation training, resuscitation eq...

Treatment of patients with severe burn injuries is complex, relying on attentive fluid resuscitation, successful management concomitant injuries, prompt wound assessment and closure, early rehabilitation, compassionate psychosocial care. The goal resuscitation to maintain organ perfusion at the lowest possible physiologic cost. This requires careful, hourly titration infusion rate meet individu...