Introduction Airway management is a priority in the care of any critically ill or injured patient. The insertion of a cuffed tracheal tube is essential to obtain an early and effective control of the airway. However, the attempted insertion of a tracheal tube under direct laryngoscopy is associated to a number of practical problems in pre-hospital trauma care. An extraglottic airway may be the ...

This descriptive, prospective cohort study aimed to analyze the process of central venous catheterization in neonatal intensive care and pediatric units; describe the variables related to study characterization, including admission unit, age, and sex; and to investigate related variables, such as catheter type, reason for insertion, number of lumens, insertion site, type of professional who per...

CONTEXT Tube-feeding is of questionable benefit for nursing home residents with advanced dementia. Approximately two-thirds of US nursing home residents who are tube fed had their feeding tube inserted during an acute care hospitalization. OBJECTIVE To identify US hospital characteristics associated with higher rates of feeding tube insertion in nursing home residents with advanced cognitive ...

The insertion of a temporary tracheostomy is a common procedure in the critical care environment. This article aims to explore the evidence relating to the nursing care required for a patient with a temporary tracheostomy in a critical care or acute ward setting. The article focuses on the insertion of a tracheostomy as a planned intervention to improve or enable patient recovery, rather than a...

abstract background: nurses are members of the health care team for crisis response. identifying nurses’ capability in responding to a disaster and promoting their preparedness will lead to effective use of human resources and decreasing the detrimental effects of disaster. the purpose of this article was to determine emergency nurses’ competences in triage, life support, and basic clinical ski...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about the impact of each central line insertion bundle on central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) is limited. METHODS A quality-improvement intervention, including education, central venous catheter (CVC) insertion bundle, process and outcome surveillance, have been introduced since March 2013. Outcome surveillances, including CLABSI per 1,000 catheter-days...

Nasogastric tube (NGT) insertion is a common procedure performed by residents and nursing staff to access the stomach. Although an apparently simple procedure, it is associated with technical difficulties and complications if proper care is not taken during insertion. We present a case of a 79-year-old female with multiple comorbidities who had a percutaneous enteral gastrostomy tube removed du...

conclusions most of the catheter-related deaths were due to severe sepsis and hemothorax, and a significant relationship was noted between infection and both the mortality rate and catheterization duration. a significant relationship was also evident between birth weight and infection rates. background developments in the use of central venous catheters have improved the treatment of critically...

angiotensin i-converting enzyme (ace) gene polymorphism; genotype dd or d allele may be involved with an increased susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy (dn). we examined the frequency of ace gene polymorphism in 170 patients (85 type 2 diabetes with nephropathy and 85 without it) in tehran, iran. dna was extracted from the white blood cells and the i/d polymorphism of the ...