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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Surgical intensive care"”.
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Evaluation of a Nurse-led Intervention to Improve Palliative Care for Select Medical Intensive Care Patients
Body: Twenty percent of all Americans die in an intensive care unit (ICU) or shortly thereafter. For most of these patients, relentless and distressing symptoms are commonplace. Review of local data reveals opportunity for improvement in the palliative care offered to hospitalized patients. To …
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What difference does a robot make? managing ambiguity in distributed knowledge work
… work? We examined this question in a post-surgical intensive care where remote medical workers struggled to coordinate their work in the face of ambiguities related to their extremely sick patients. Our in-depth field study allowed us to explore how differently ambiguity was managed when …
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Detecting hazardous intensive care patient episodes using real-time mortality models
The modern intensive care unit (ICU) has become a complex, expensive, data-intensive environment. Caregivers maintain an overall assessment of their patients based on important observations and trends. If an advanced monitoring system could also reliably provide a systemic interpretation of a …
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Improving Patient Safety by Calculating the QT Correction in Critical Care Patients
… arrhythmias. 52% or patients in critical care units have prolonged QTc and 69% or critical care patients have risks of developing QTc. Many commonly administered medications in the critical care unit are known to prolong QTc yet a microsystem assessment and a gap analysis revealed only 3% …
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Decreasing Risk of Delirium with Early Progressive Mobility
… 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 the …
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Comparison of Intravenous Lipid Emulsions in Parenteral Nutrition: A Pilot Study
… trauma patients admitted to Eskenazi Health’s surgical intensive care unit (SICU) that received PN from May 2017 to May 2020. Data were collected from the electronic health record and trauma registry. Results: Twenty-nine patients were included who met study criteria: 17 patients in the …
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Biorhythmic patterns of blood pressure in non-surgical patients in an intensive care unit
… identified the patterns of blood pressure in nonsurgical patients in an intensive care unit. The following research questions were addressed: (1) Does the diurnal pattern of blood pressure synchronize with the environment in nonsurgical patients who are in an intensive care unit environment? and …
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Biorhythmic patterns of blood pressure in non-surgical patients in an intensive care unit
… identified the patterns of blood pressure in nonsurgical patients in an intensive care unit. The following research questions were addressed: (1) Does the diurnal pattern of blood pressure synchronize with the environment in nonsurgical patients who are in an intensive care unit environment? and …
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Alarm Management: Electrocardiographic Lead Management
… nurses and patients in a 20 bed Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU).<strong><em></em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Method: </em></strong>Methods used for the project included a) a survey/pre-test to assess that staff's knowledge of alarm fatigue, b) a learning module that included a …
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The Effect of Music Intervention on Anxiety and Physiological responses for Intensive Care Units patients
… and physiological responses of patients in intensive care unit. The 81 subjects for this study were selected from medical and cardiovascular intensive care units at one hospital in Suwon city. They were assigned to two groups, 32 to the experimental group and 30 to the control group. The …
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METHODS OF IDENTIFYING NEUROLOGICAL DELIRIUM (MIND) STUDY
… States spends approximately $164 billion in Medicare funding annually to combat the consequences of delirium. This figure is only expected to increase as the number of individuals aged 65 years or older increases. By 2030, one in four individuals in the United States will be 65 years old or …
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A Study of Variability in Locating the External Reference Point for Central Venous Pressure Determination
… to determine the variability occurring among intensive care nurses in locating, with two methods, the external reference point for central venous pressure (CVP) determinations. In the literature on CVP and on CVP value discrepancies, no reports were found of studies related to variability …
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Improving ICU patient flow through discrete-event simulation
… hospital in New England and a national leader in care delivery, teaching, and research, operates ten Intensive Care Units (ICUs), including the 20-bed Ellison 4 Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU), a versatile unit which has a major role in perioperative and emergency care. 90% of SICU patients …
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Comparison of the Behavioral Pain Scale and the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool in Assessing Pain in Ventilated Critical Care Patients
… the Behavioral Pain Scale (BPS) and the Critical Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT) in their effectiveness to identify the presence of pain in nonverbal mechanically ventilated critically ill patients. Nurses’ evaluation with the feasibility, clinical relevance, and satisfaction of the tools were …
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Sobrecarga hídrica como factor independiente de mortalidad en el paciente crítico posquirúrgico de un Hospital de Bogotá
Introducción La administración de líquidos endovenosos es frecuente en pacientes críticos. Aún existe debate sobre la cantidad administrada, convirtiéndose en una intervención de estudio en el escenario posquirúrgico. Por este motivo, se recomienda una terapia guiada por objetivos, dado que la …