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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Critical care medicine"”.
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An Ethical Framework For Communication of Prognosis in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
… for communication of prognosis in the pediatric critical care setting. This dissertation argues that an ethical framework for communication of prognosis in the pediatric critical care setting is necessary because ethical communication transactions lead to better care for pediatric patients in …
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How To Provide Effective Pain Management After Cardiac Surgery In The Geriatric Patient
… on the elderly. The American College of Critical Care Medicine indicated that 82% of cardiac patients reported pain as the most common traumatic memory of their ICU stay. Pain is an important stressor in critical care settings. The lack of effective postoperative pain management impedes …
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Sequential modeling for mortality prediction in the ICU
Severity of illness scores are commonly used in critical care medicine to guide treatment decisions and benchmark the quality of medical care. These scores operate in part by predicting patient mortality in the ICU using physiological variables including lab values, vital signs, and admission …
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Decreasing Risk of Delirium with Early Progressive Mobility
… project. This project took place in two, 12-bed critical care units. One is a cardiovascular, medical, surgical intensive care unit and the other is a neurotrauma critical care unit. The methods for implementation included writing the management of pain, agitation, and delirium policy based upon …
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Enacting patient safety on the frontline: an ethnographic study of rescue work with acutely illpatients
… (180 hours), interviews (35) with health care assistants, nurses, doctors and managers, and documentary analysis. <br/>The findings expand understandings of rescue beyond reified, linear trajectories to include overlapping structural, technological and diagnostic influences. The thesis …
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Critical Care at the University Teaching Hospital,Zambia: Mortality and Quality of Life Outcomes: Cross Sectional Study
Background: The Traditional goal of intensive care has been to reduce short-term mortality. While worthwhile in terms of “saving lives”, this goal fails to address the issue of what it means to survive intensive care (ICU). Key questions include whether ICU survivors have optimal long-term …
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Integrated Curriculum in Critical Care Clerkship for Medical Students: Impact on Professional Growth
… development of concepts. Purpose: An integrated critical care curriculum provides a strong foundation in the patient care areas of eliciting history, physical examination, clinical reasoning, and patient management. It also fosters practice-based learning (PBL). This educational model integrates …
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An audit of the workload of an acute surgery unit in a tertiary academic hospital before and after the closure of a referring community hospital
Aim: An audit of the workload of an Acute Care Surgery Unit in a Tertiary Academic Hospital and an assessment of the impact on this Unit by the closure of a busy Community Hospital. Background: The primary mission of the Acute Care Surgery service is to provide timely surgical assessment, operative …
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Parents' views of their own needs during their newborns' stay on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
… their newborns' stay on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). A descriptive, small scale explorative design, incorporating a mixture of qualitative and quantitative approaches was adopted. The study involved a convenience sample of thirteen participants (5 couples and 3 mothers). A …
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Determining optimal flight paths for cellular network connectivity for the transmission of real-time physiological data in support of big data analytics during airborne critical care transport
… This methodology is demonstrated in an airborne critical care transport within the Province of Ontario in Canada context. Leveraging available cellular information, this methodology is used to determine optimal paths between various care centres or their closest airport. Evaluation reveals that …
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Study of the Basic Knowledge Level of Critical Care Nurses
… relationship between the nurse's level of basic critical care nursing knowledge and the following variables: basic educational preparation, critical care nursing experience, cumulative nursing experience, specific critical care unit experience, and certification in critical care nursing. A …
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C.E.R.E.B.R.O : Central EPIC Requisition of Emotional & Behavioral Responses Organizer
… project: Patients admitted into the intensive care unit (ICU) anticipate critical medical/surgical issues to be addressed. However, it may not be the primary focus of ICU hospitalization; patients' mental health needs must be addressed to be successfully discharged from the ICU and/or the …
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Assessing the Impact of a Unit-Based Clinical Pharmacist on Antimicrobial Use in a Level I Trauma Center – A Pilot Study
… by side with key members of the primary patient care team. Studies show that optimum medication use is demonstrated in only 4-21% of patients. Greater pharmacist involvement has been shown to lead to fewer re-hospitalizations, lower healthcare costs, better adherence to evidence-based consensus …
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Conceptualisation, development and implementation of the Medical Emergency Team (MET) as a system of management to improve outcomes for seriously ill patients
… of the MET system was related to the inadequate care given to the seriously ill in acute hospitals. This thesis contains background research on some of the reasons why a MET system may be useful, including the limited skills and knowledge of medical training and the sort of acute problems …