Abstract:
:Sjo2 monitoring has several important limitations, such as catheter reliability, sampling error, and lack of regional specificity. However, combining Sjo2 monitoring with other available technologies can facilitate optimization of treatment and improve outcomes in patients with severe brain injuries.
journal_name
Crit Care Nursejournal_title
Critical care nurseauthors
Kidd KC,Criddle Lsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2001-12-01 00:00:00pages
16, 18-22; quiz 24issue
6eissn
0279-5442issn
1940-8250journal_volume
21pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::More patients in the intensive care unit are surviving their critical illnesses because of advances in medical care. This change in survival has led to an increased awareness of the emotional consequences of being critically ill. Posttraumatic stress disorder has been identified in approximately 9% to 27% of criticall...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2015758
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Malnutrition is common in critically ill patients and is associated with poor outcomes for patients and increased health care spending. Enteral nutrition is the method of choice for nutrition delivery. Enteral nutrition delivery practices vary widely, and underfeeding is widespread in critical care. Interruptions in e...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2014243
更新日期:2014-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::As surgery for complex congenital heart disease is becoming more advanced, an increasing number of patients are surviving into adulthood, yet many of these adult patients remain in the pediatric hospital system. Caring for adult patients is often a challenge for pediatric nurses, because the nurses have less experienc...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2016131
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Transplant cardiologists in our hospital have performed the percutaneously placed axillary-subclavian intra-aortic balloon pump procedure since 2007. This procedure allows patients to mobilize and walk while they wait for a heart transplant, rather than remaining on bed rest as they would with a traditional femoral in...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2019729
更新日期:2019-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::As the field of surgery advances and the conservative use of banked blood transfusion increases the need for postoperative autotransfusion has increased. By using the CATR, the patient's demands for blood can be more adequately met without causing further complications for the patient. This article presents one method...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1991-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The insertion of Silastic sheeting provides an opportunity for improved survival of patients with severe abdominal trauma. This new treatment modality represents a challenge to nurses to expand their knowledge base. ...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::"Broken heart syndrome," or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, is a spontaneously reversible form of cardio-myopathy that is often induced by emotional or physical stress. Signs and symptoms include chest pain, dyspnea, electrocardiographic changes, and elevated levels of cardiac biomarkers. Patients often have signs and sympt...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2009451
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a severe form of congenital heart disease that results in single-ventricle physiology. Although surgical palliation in infants with this syndrome is widely agreed on in practice, variation occurs in both surgical and medical management. Perinatal factors that affect preoperative mana...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2016461
更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::BACKGROUND Many hospitals have well-planned nursing competency assessment programs, but these are meant to measure competency in traditional bedside roles, not in tele-intensive care unit (tele-ICU) nurses practicing remotely. OBJECTIVE To determine whether current tele-ICU programs have a formal competency assessment...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2011552
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Clinical practice varies regarding the choice of agent to treat hypertensive emergencies. With the development of national guidelines, a standardized pharmacotherapeutic approach would be recommended on the basis of evidence in the published literature. Such an approach might decrease the variability among practitione...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2010664
更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The results of this evaluation indicate that specially trained critical care nurses can remove femoral sheaths with an acceptable margin of safety. As a result, these nurses can provide quality, cost-effective care to angioplasty patients. However, before this procedure is included as part of the RN's responsibility, ...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1996-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The most common cause of death due to the H1N1 subtype of influenza A virus (swine flu) in the 2009 to 2010 epidemic was severe acute respiratory failure that persisted despite advanced mechanical ventilation strategies. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) was used as a salvage therapy for patients refractory t...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2011186
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers are serious clinical complications that can lead to increased length of stay, pain, infection, and, potentially, death. The surgical progressive care unit at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, San Diego, California, developed the multidisciplinary Healthy Skin Project to decrease the...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2013290
更新日期:2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Errors related to health care devices are not well understood. Nurses in intensive care and progressive care environments can benefit from understanding manufacturer-related error and device-use error, the principles of human factors engineering, and the steps that can be taken to reduce risk of errors related to heal...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2012925
更新日期:2012-08-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are preventable adverse outcomes that increase hospital morbidity, mortality, and costs. These infections are particularly prevalent in intensive care units. OBJECTIVES:To describe the success of an 18-bed neurological intensive care unit in using several nurse-i...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2017742
更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Hospitals are increasingly turning to clinical decision support systems for sepsis, a life-threatening illness, to provide patient-specific assessments and recommendations to aid in evidence-based clinical decision-making. Lack of guidelines on how to present alerts has impeded optimization of alerts, specif...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2018352
更新日期:2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Critically ill patients require vigilant monitoring of tissue oxygenation, particularly oxygenation of the gut mucosa, because of the mucosa's fragile blood supply. With the advent of gastric tonometry, splanchnic tissue oxygenation can be measured in a minimally invasive and cost-effective manner. Requiring only a ga...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::IL-2 is a biotherapeutic drug and a biological response modifier. This drug has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for general use but continues to undergo clinical trials. Candidates for this therapy are patients with advanced carcinoma that has not responded to standard modalities of treatment. Ad...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Recent advances in smartphone technology now allow clinicians to use commercially produced applications when studying for nursing certification examinations. The quality of currently available CCRN review applications varies in this first generation of products. Most are limited to multiple-choice practice questions, ...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2014842
更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::To prepare a presentation, the critical care staff member must be willing to invest time and effort. Time and effort combined with an organized approach to the development process should result in a quality presentation. ...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1989-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::During the springs and summers of 2009 to 2012, military and nongovernment organization nurses served side by side on hospital ships USNS Comfort and USNS Mercy to offer free humanitarian clinical services to developing nations in Central and South America and Southeast Asia. Translators were engaged to facilitate com...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2013584
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Everyone experiences stress. That stress may be related to work (internal), community (external), or family; it may be cumulative or related to a particular critical incident. The cost related to treating acute stress is staggering, both to individuals and to organizations. Critical care nurses are well educated in th...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2003-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Clinical practice must be based on evidence. When evidence suggests that a certain practice may be ineffective or even harmful, that practice should be discontinued. The Choosing Wisely campaign, an initiative of the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) Foundation, is intended to bring attention to tradition-bas...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2019534
更新日期:2019-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Numerous research-based guidelines for PA pressure monitoring are available. Despite the availability of this large body of literature related to PA pressure monitoring, critical care nurses continue to demonstrate insufficient knowledge and ability to apply information related to the collection and interpretation of ...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2000-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Pressure injuries, also known as pressure ulcers, are a serious complication of immobility. Patients should be thoroughly examined for pressure injuries when admitted to the intensive care unit to optimize treatment. Whether community-acquired pressure injuries correlate with poor hospital outcomes among cri...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2019530
更新日期:2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Family engagement in rounds has been recommended to improve communication, but its impact on patient outcomes is unknown. At the authors' institution, nurses encouraged family presence at rounds as part of a larger project to enhance communication during rounding. In the case reported here, family engagement resulted ...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2019647
更新日期:2019-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:The outcome focus for survivors of critical care has shifted from mortality to patient-centered outcomes. Multidimensional outcome assessments performed in critically ill patients typically exclude those with primary neurological injuries. OBJECTIVE:To determine the feasibility of measurements of physical f...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2020681
更新日期:2020-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Scientists are only beginning to fully understand the purpose of sleep and its underlying mechanisms. Lack of sleep is associated with many diseases, including infection, and with increased mortality. Lack of proper sleep is an important problem in the intensive care unit, and interventions have been designed to impro...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.4037/ccn2012689
更新日期:2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Critical care nurses are constantly challenged to provide safe, high-quality patient care at a low cost with increasingly scarce resources while implementing the latest evidence-based practices into their own clinical practice. This article is the first in a 4-part series to provide a practical quality improvement gui...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2014177
更新日期:2014-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Background Vanderbilt University Hospital's original rapid response team included a critical care charge nurse and a respiratory therapist. A frequently identified barrier to care was the time delay between arrival of the rapid response team and arrival of the primary health care team. Objective To assess the impact o...
journal_title:Critical care nurse
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.4037/ccn2014847
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00