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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Tracheostomy"”.
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HAP Prevention: One Tracheostomy at a Time
… units of an acute care hospital that cares for tracheostomy patients. To provide tangible data, rooms of patients who have a tracheostomy were audited for saved used suction catheters. Two sessions of data collection were implemented. The first session was data collection in addition to provided …
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Education Model for Pediatric Tracheostomy Management: Improving Nursing Knowledge and Confidence
… and nurse practitioners performing pediatric tracheostomy management in the pediatric intensive care unit, utilizing targeted tracheostomy education.Background: Pediatric tracheostomy prevalence continues to increase in our organization, along with adverse airway events and complications; most …
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A Compact Ultrasonic Airflow Sensor for Clinical Monitoring of Pediatric Tracheostomy Patients
… need better respiratory monitors. Mucus in the tracheostomy tube presents a serious choking hazard. Current devices indirectly detect respiration, often yielding false or delayed alarms. A compact ultrasonic time-of-flight (TOF) airflow sensor capable of attaching directly to the tracheostomy …
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Early Versus Delayed Tracheostomy in Mechanically Ventilated Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
… at a higher risk of prolonged ventilation. Tracheostomy procedures are widely used in the ICU to help wean patients who need prolonged ventilation. The optimal timing for tracheostomy remains controversial. We examined whether early tracheostomy in mechanically ventilated patients who have …
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Quality of Life of Parental Caregivers of Children (1-36 Months) With a Tracheostomy
… parents undertake home care of children with a tracheostomy who require highly complex and technology driven care that would have been formerly assumed by health care providers. Parents accept multiple responsibilities- that of an advocate, case manager, parent, nurse, and much more. A cross …
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Journeys and experiences of life after tracheostomy: a case study of patients, their kin/friends and health care professionals.
… care events such as stroke with the support of a tracheostomy. Research to date predominantly focuses on the clinical rationale for tracheostomy insertion or the technical and clinical problems associated with removal. Little research has looked at the longer-term impact of temporary tracheostomy …
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Care of the child with medical complexity through the eyes of their caregiver: A photovoice project
… of children with medical complexity with a tracheostomy as they cared for their child in their home. This study used photovoice, a participatory action research methodology. Adult English-speaking caregivers of children with a tracheostomy living in Texas with access to a smartphone were …
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The Assessment of quality of life in children with Tracheostomies and their families in a Low to Middle Income Country (LMIC)
Introduction The Breatheasy© Tracheostomy Program based at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, manages children mostly from poor socio-economic backgrounds. In our resource-limited setting, it is unclear how these families cope with the demands of a tracheostomised child. We …
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Process of Care and Outcome of Critically Ill Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
… Third, I examined the relationship between tracheostomy timing and outcomes of TBI patients. Early tracheostomy (
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Surgical outcomes of Endoscopic Anterior Cricoid Split and Balloon dilation as treatment for paediatric subglottic stenosis: a retrospective case series
… definitively manage SGS, as opposed to permanent tracheostomy, is the ideal. The aim of this study is to review endoscopic anterior cricoid split with balloon dilation (EACSBD) as the first-line definitive treatment option for selective SGS cases, in a resource-limited setting, and to …
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THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF ABLEISM AND PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE
… century, physicians have been offering the tracheostomy as a second chance at life. This procedure both saves and inextricably changes lives. Medical providers have barely scratched the surface of understanding the complexities of offering this technology. Ethically, however, we have an …
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Related factor of delirium occurrence in the Intensive Care Unit patients
… experience(x²＝ 9.733, p＝.002), intubation or tracheostomy experience(x²＝ 5.363 , p＝.021), ventilator experience(x²＝ 5.893, p＝.015), high pain score (t＝2.246, p＝.027), high anxiety score(t＝4.746, p＝.000) As above results, this study hope for ICU nurses should recognized and prevent to delirium …
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Intensive Care Unit
… may become nonverbal for many reasons including tracheostomy, mechanical ventilation (McKinley, Pooke, & White, 2010) and intubation (Radtke, Bauman, Garrett, & Happ, 2011). Being nonverbal in the ICU may lead to poorer health outcomes (Patak, Wilson-Stronks, & Costello, 2009). AAC systems may …
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Racial Disparities in Intervention Rates in Individuals with ALS
… However, 5.22% of Caucasian patients used tracheostomy with invasive ve ntilation ( TIV ) compared to 16.33% of African American patients (p - value= 0.018). After accounting for baseline severity and caregiver availability, the significance of differences in NIV (p - value= 0.057) and TIV …
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The Groote Schuur Hospital Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit: A 2 Year Experience
… (12.5%), 50 patients required placement of a tracheostomy (7.3%) and 16 patients had only an ICP monitor placed (2.3%). The average duration of stay was 5.5 (±1.3) days and ICU mortality over 2 years was 11.1%. Conclusion: The NsICU at GSH manages predominantly male trauma patients and a …
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Minimizing the Inappropriate Use of Physical Restraint
… disease (COPD), patients with new or old tracheostomy, needing bipap, rigorous nebulizer treatment, and other respiratory-related devices, not to mention the multiple comorbidities that oftentimes very difficult to stabilize which makes the hospital stay longer than usual. The Clinical …
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Assessing patient and caregiver intent to use mobile device videoconferencing for remote mechanically-ventilated patient management
… to AVC, diagnoses, mobile device experience, tracheostomy, etc.) significantly correlated with <em>intent to use</em>. Descriptive results indicated a significant patient/caregiver provided infrastructure: 96% have cellular/WiFi/Internet access, 91% own or have access to mobile devices, 77% …
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Soft Robotics Applied to the Development of a Diaphragm Assist System
… a mechanical ventilator via a patient’s mouth or tracheostomy can interfere with a patient’s autonomy by hindering activities like speech and swallowing. This thesis works towards a soft robotic alternative that aims to intervene internally at the diaphragm as opposed to the mouth. For medical …
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AMILOIDOSE - DEMANDAS E PERFIL FONOAUDIOLÓGICO: Revisão de literatura
… presence of penetration and aspiration, use of tracheostomy by the patients and an improvement in the swallowing function, after speech therapy. Conclusion: We can find speech therapy demands in patients with amyloid deposit disease, and these issues promote impacts on the functions involving …
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Assessing Risk Factors, Cost And Mortality Due to Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) Using National Inpatient Sample Data
… age, nutrition deficiency, intracranial injury, tracheostomy, bronchoscopy, UTI, MV of 96 hours or more, extreme clinical severity, transfer from another acute care hospital, small hospitals, and teaching hospital. VAP patients were less likely to die in hospital, both crude and adjusted odds …
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