Modern medicine environment is very highly distributed. Particularly acute Myocardial Infarction sick patient health care is performed by a network of various clinical divisions, including, emergency, coronary angiography, surgery, anesthesiology, intensive-care units, laboratories, wards, administration, storage and others. These units are not only spatially distributed but have different inte...

387 The Editor, With great interest, I have read the article by Kapoor et al. recently published.[1] Hemodynamic monitoring to improve the outcome on high‐risk patient and intensive care patients has been the focus of research for many years. Recently, negative studies were published.[2,3] Many confounders exist because of the complexity of these patient groups. When “soft” end‐points are used,...

OBJECTIVE To confirm the existence of an increased risk of complications from influenza A (H1N1)p among patients with diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Using data from an enhanced influenza surveillance project in Montreal, Canada, and age/sex-specific population estimates of diabetes prevalence, we estimated the risk of hospitalization among persons with diabetes. Comparing hospitalized ...

conclusions using eye mask can significantly improve the sleep quality in cardiac patients. therefore, nurses are recommended to use eye mask in combination with current treatments for improving patients’ sleep quality. results after the study, the median scores of the subjective sleep quality, the sleep latency, the sleep duration, the habitual sleep efficiency, and the sleep disturbances doma...

1Consultant Neonatologist, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Department, Latifa Women & Children Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, UAE 2Consultant Neonatologist and Head of Pediatric Department & Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Latifa Women & Children Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, UAE 3Specialist Senior Registrar, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Department, Latifa Women & Childr...

Methods Single center, retrospective, observational study in an 8-bed adult general ICU (January 2011-June 2014). Patients ≥75 years were divided into two age-groups, 75-84 and ≥85 years old. Characteristics on ICU admission were recorded. Patients hospitalized ≤48 hours were excluded. ICU, hospital, 6-months and 1-year after hospital discharge mortality were calculated. Univariate analysis for...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Missed injuries sustain an important issue concerning patient safety and quality of care. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of surgeon commitment to trauma care on missed injuries. We hypothesised that surgeons committed to the trauma service has less missed injuries than surgeons not committed to the trauma service would have. METHODS By retrospective analysi...

Over the last few years, we have witnessed a rapid growth in the number of neonatal Intensive Care Units in Britain. This has significantly reduced (he mortality of low-birth weight infants. However, it remains an established fact that it is these infants who are more likely to be represented in the population of battered babies and a significant number of these fail to thrive (Schmidt and Kemp...

OBJECTIVE To assess the use of acute coronary care facilities in the Republic of Ireland with regard to case mix, patient characteristics, mortality and factors associated with mortality, time intervals to admission, utilisation of thrombolysis, and risk factor profiles. DESIGN A 1 week prospective census of all hospitals admitting acute coronary cases. These comprised 23 coronary care units ...