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Perioperative experience of adolescents
… adolescents behave differently throughout the perioperative experience than either adults or children. For example, common behaviors of adolescent's emerging from anesthesia include combativeness, thrashing, and crying. To promote adolescent health and to provide adolescents with appropriate …
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Knowledge and utilization of the perioperative nursing data set by perioperative staff nurses in southeastern Michigan
… study was to describe what perioperative nurses practicing in southeastern Michigan know about the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), how they are utilizing the PNDS, and their opinion of the PNDS, and also to examine the relationship between these variables and …
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Perioperative Nurses Perceptions of Moral Courage
<p>Problem: Threats to patient safety exist in perioperative nursing. Nurse appraisal of these threats and the likelihood to act with moral courage have not been documented. Design: This descriptive correlational study examined moral courage in response to threat to patient safety. The moral …
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Perioperative nurses' attitudes toward continuing education
… primary purpose of this study was to determine perioperative nurses' attitudes toward continuing education and selected demographic variables. A researcher-developed Likert-type questionnaire was prepared and administered to 81 perioperative nurses. A total of 79 questionnaires were returned …
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Understanding the Barriers to Perioperative Specialty Certification
<p>The microsystem analysis of the Post Anesthesia Care Unit at Kaiser Permanente, San Rafael reveals specialty certification for registered nurses is at 0%. This is a critical metric for the hospital as it embarks on its three year preparation phase for application of Magnet Recognition® status, …
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Improving perioperative nausea and vomiting prophylaxis protocol compliance
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a significant concern in anesthesia practice. Evidence-based guidelines have sought to provide recommendations on identifying patients at risk for PONV and mitigating its effect with multimodal antiemetic strategies. An anesthesia department within a …
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Infant Heart Transplant: Perioperative Indicators of Neurocognitive Development
… study attempts to tease apart some of the perioperative factors related to intellectual outcome. The study retrospectively examined 44 infants who received cardiac transplantation between 1985 and 1990 and had also received cognitive and academic assessment between 4 to 10 years of age. …
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A quality improvement project addressing perioperative glycemic guideline adherence
… lack of adherence to current protocols regarding perioperative glycemic management and not meeting statistical expectations. Project stakeholders and initiators configured protocol simplification and educational meetings in hopes to improve protocol adherence and statistical improvement for …
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Perioperative Veränderungen der Hämostase bei langdauernden onko-gynäkologischen Operationen
… (DIC). In this study, the dynamic processes of perioperative haemostasis from prolonged surgery for gynecological malignancies were examined in detail with special attention to the development and prognosis of DIC. Coagulation testing was performed on 23 patients undergoing surgery for …
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Perioperative normovolaemic haemodilution in major elective orthopaedic surgery Lusaka
Perioperative Normovolaemic Haemodilution was done on twenty three patients who had major elective orthopaedic surgery both at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka and the Zambian - Italian Orthopaedic Hospital, Lusaka between July, 1997 and June, 1999.There were twelve males and eleven females …
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Perioperative normovolaemic haemodilution in major elective orthopaedic surgery Lusaka
Perioperative Normovolaemic Haemodilution was done on twenty three patients who had major elective orthopaedic surgery both at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka and the Zambian - Italian Orthopaedic Hospital, Lusaka between July, 1997 and June, 1999. There were twelve males and eleven …
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Perioperative normovolaemic haemodilution in major elective orthopaedic surgery Lusaka
Perioperative Normovolaemic Haemodilution was done on twenty three patients who had major elective orthopaedic surgery both at the University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka and the Zambian - Italian Orthopaedic Hospital, Lusaka between July, 1997 and June, 1999.There were twelve males and eleven females …
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Herbals and Dietary Supplemets: Evaluation of Perioperative Nursing Forms
… the current clinical opportunities for perioperative nurses to document the surgical patient’s preoperative use of herbals and dietary supplements. It is reported that 63-72% of regular users of dietary supplements do not discuss their therapy with physicians. There are more than 28 …
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Predicting post-surgical opioid consumption using perioperative surgical data
Improper consumption of prescription opioids is a massive public health issue in the United States currently. Here, we propose one approach of tackling this issue through using machine learning techniques to predict opioid consumption post discharge for surgical patients. Through the data collected …
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Education Program to Reduce Perioperative Complications in Chronic Marijuana Users
… use marijuana. The goal is to decrease perioperative complications and improve patient outcomes by equipping anesthesia providers with the tools they need to anticipate the potential complications associated with marijuana use.Background: With the rising medicinal and recreational …
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Angstbewältigung, soziale Unterstützung und die perioperative Anpassung von chirurgischen Intensivpatienten
The present study investigates the relation between surgery related state anxiety, coping and social support on one hand and the postoperative adjustment on the other hand. The data of state anxiety, coping, social support and the postoperative adjustment were collected by standardized …
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Perioperative Risk of and Monitoring for Hyperglycemia in Spine Surgery
Perioperative hyperglycemia occurs frequently among patients with and without diabetes and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to describe perioperative hyperglycemia and to evaluate potential factors associated with postoperative hyperglycemia in a …
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Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modelling to Advance Perioperative Anaesthesia and Analgesia
The practice of anaesthesia involves creating profound drug effects (i.e. lack of awareness and sensation) and then reversing these rapidly. Endpoints are achieved by combining drugs that collectively contribute to desired effects. This requires an understanding of the pharmacological profile of …
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