Background: End-of-life care has emerged as an essential component of health organizations. Now a day, end-of-life is debated more intensively among patients and their families. Moreover, nurses working in the Intensive Care Unit perform duties under extreme pressure. A reason for this stress shortage other healthcare resources. Patients' family demands at terminal stage life further impact nur...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of universal screening and administration of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent early-onset neonatal GBS sepsis at a private tertiary care hospital since issuance of the 2002 CDC guidelines for preventing perinatal GBS disease. METHODS Retrospective analysis of women delivering between January 1, 2003 and December 31, 2004 at a private tertiary care h...

Introduction: A Midwifery Trained Registered Nurse (MTRN) is a member of the multi-professional maternity health care team in Sri Lanka. Her contribution to the maternity care team is poorly understood, often undermined, and undefined. In the context of low- and middle-income settings where traditional midwives play a crucial role in domiciliary care, the MTRNs role as a member of the multi-pro...

Recommendations for preventing and treating pediatric obesity suggest a staged approach with escalating intensity of care. Stage 1 is Prevention Plus, requiring sufficient capacity in a primary care setting to provide basic messages pertaining to healthful dietary and physical activity behaviors. Stages 2 and 3 are Structured Weight Management and Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Intervention, r...

Objective. To report the irreversible severe neurological symptoms following the hyponatremic hypertensive syndrome (HHS) in an infant after umbilical arterial catheterization. Design. Case report with review of the literature. Setting. Neonatal intensive care unit at a tertiary care children's hospital. Patient. A three-week-old preterm infant. Conclusions. In evaluating a neonate with hyponat...

OBJECTIVE To describe a child who was asphyxiated by a motor vehicle window and to review the relevant literature. DESIGN Case report. SETTING A 402-bed tertiary care medical center in La Crosse, WI. PATIENT Four-year-old girl. INTERVENTIONS Supportive pediatric critical care. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES None. RESULTS The patient did not survive. CONCLUSIONS Parents must assume responsi...

INTRODUCTION Medical schools in Australia are being funded by the Commonwealth Government Department of Health and Aging to move a considerable amount of undergraduate clinical education into rural and remote settings. There are concerns that these students may be disadvantaged in terms of exposure to appropriate clinical learning opportunities. This study compared learning opportunities for st...

Purpose. To evaluate perioperative risk factors for corneal abrasion (CA) and to determine current care for perioperative CA in a tertiary care setting. Methods. Hospital-based, cross-sectional study. In Operating Room and Post-Anesthesia Care Units patients, a comparison of cases and controls was evaluated to elucidate risk factors, time to treatment, and most common treatments prescribed for ...