At present, there is a tendency towards an increase in emotional problems everywhere, this especially affects the working-age population – relationships team, professional work process all leads to development of production-related stress. Health care workers are at forefront risk developing stress reactions and its consequences. This most pronounced specialties providing emergency medical care...

our patients.1 Although these 33 patients may have had coexistent hypertension, that condition was the reason for ICU admission in only 5 patients. Our obstetric unit has equipment and staff to provide care to noncomplicated cases of hypertension without ICU admission, explaining this observation. Although there was no significant difference in the incidence of pulmonary edema between patients ...

Background The Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society (NAP4) was designed to identify and study serious airway complications occurring during anaesthesia, in intensive care unit (ICU) and the emergency department (ED). Methods Reports of major complications of airway management (death, brain damage, emergency surgical airway, unanticipat...

BACKGROUND The Fourth National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists and Difficult Airway Society (NAP4) was designed to identify and study serious airway complications occurring during anaesthesia, in intensive care unit (ICU) and the emergency department (ED). METHODS Reports of major complications of airway management (death, brain damage, emergency surgical airway, unanticip...

Introduction: Hospitalization of patients in the critical care units greatly affects their families and their balance. Attention to family needs can affect the treatment process. Identifying the needs of patients’ families and the extent to which they can be fulfilled can affect the treatment process. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of family needs o...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Noise levels in the hospital setting are exceedingly high, especially in the ICU environment. We set out to determine what caused the noises producing sound peaks > or = 80 A-weighted decibels (dBA) in our ICU settings, and attempted to reduce the number of sound peaks > or = 80 dBA through a behavior modification program. DESIGN The study was divided into two separate phases...

BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa the availability of intensive care unit (ICU) services is limited by a variety of factors, including lack of financial resources, lack of available technology and well-trained staff. Tanzania has four main referral hospitals, located in zones so as to serve as tertiary level referral centers. All the referral hospitals have some ICU services, operating at varyin...

BACKGROUND Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has caused several hospital outbreaks, including a major outbreak at King Abdulaziz Medical City, a 940-bed tertiary-care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (August-September 2015). To learn from our experience, we described the critical care response to the outbreak. METHODS This observational study was conducted at the Intensi...