Status Epilepticus in Adults: A Review of Diagnosis and Treatment.

abstract：:Staff nurse preceptors are integral members of effective critical care orientation programs. Much of the success of the orientation experience and orientee satisfaction depends on them. A critical care preceptor workshop containing a review of the orientation program and the application of educational principles in cr...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Quinn JR,Tibi DA

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure is a burdensome cardiovascular condition associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. The 3-month period after hospitalization is a vulnerable phase in which patients are at high risk for mortality and rehospitalization. To reduce risk during this period, patients with heart failure and reduced...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Albert NM,Kozinn MJ

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postoperative nausea and vomiting is a dreaded, uncomfortable, and unpleasant patient experience that is also a factor contributing to adverse outcomes in postoperative recovery. The key to management of this concern is to identify high-risk patients and to develop a systematic method of assessment, intervention, and ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Collins AS

更新日期：2011-12-01 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

authors： Thomassy CS

更新日期：1989-07-01 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

authors： Sympson GM

更新日期：1991-04-01 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

authors： Armour-Burton T,Fields W,Outlaw L,Deleon E

更新日期：2013-06-01 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

authors： Stewart ML

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematologic assessment is part of the routine assessment of acute and critically ill patients. Nurses must be aware of the reference ranges for complete blood cell counts and common coagulation profiles. A case study is presented of an elderly patient, taking warfarin for atrial fibrillation, who falls and sustains a ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Rauen CA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This 6-month retrospective study provided our medical center with a profile of the population of patients readmitted within 31 days of discharge. We found that chronic illness and age greater than 65 years were the high risk factors related to patient readmissions. These 2 attributes are common in critical care patien...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Olsen J,Coleman JR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rippled across the world from Wuhan, China, to the shores of the United States within a few months. Hospitals and intensive care units were suddenly faced with a "tsunami" warning requiring instantaneous implementation and escalation of disaster plans. EVI...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Bader MK,Braun A,Fox C,Dwinell L,Cord J,Andersen M,Noakes B,Ponticiello D

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac output and cardiac index values are traditionally used by critical care nurses as indicators of myocardial contractility. Due to the incidence of compensatory tachycardia in many critically ill patients, however, the value of LVSWI as an indicator of myocardial contractility is enhanced, because the formula fo...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Ramsey JD,Tisdale LA

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delirium is a common neuropsychiatric diagnosis in intensive care units and often leads to extended hospital stays and an increased rate of complications. Delirium can be classified as hypoactive, hyperactive, or mixed. Hyperactive delirium is often accompanied by agitation, which is a predictive factor for ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Kerber K,Zangmeister J,McNett M

更新日期：2020-04-01 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

authors： Ferguson A

更新日期：1996-12-01 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

authors： Schickel S,Cronin SN,Mize A,Voelker C

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

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_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Kidd KC,Criddle L

更新日期：2001-12-01 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

authors： Faulk JF,Hanly MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods are used to control shivering in therapeutic hypothermia. An evidence-based protocol based on the most current research has been developed for the management of shivering during therapeutic hypothermia. Meperidine is the drug of choice and provides the greatest reduc...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Logan A,Sangkachand P,Funk M

更新日期：2011-12-01 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

authors： McGee WT,Nathanson BH,Lederman E,Higgins TL

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Warlan H,Howland L

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients with chronic heart failure, fluid retention (or hypervolemia) is often the stimulus for acute decompensated heart failure that requires hospitalization. The pathophysiology of fluid retention is complex and involves both hemodynamic and clinical congestion. Signs and symptoms of both hemodynamic and clinic...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Albert NM

更新日期：2012-04-01 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

authors： Raymond BA,Haney PE,Gimesky J

更新日期：1994-12-01 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

authors： Caine RM,Ter-Bagdasarian L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a complex respiratory disease that can be induced by influenza virus infection. Critical care providers are uniquely positioned to manage this pathological progression in adult patients through evidence-based practice. CLINICAL RELEVANCE:Influenza and subsequent acute respi...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Smith RE,Shifrin MM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Music therapy is an effective intervention for critically ill patients for such purposes as anxiety reduction and stress management. The therapy is readily accepted by patients and is an intervention patients thoroughly enjoy. The MAIT is one resource that nurses caring for critically ill patients can use to implement...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Chlan L,Tracy MF

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 9-member educational task force and a 4-member panel of experts was used to establish the validity of the PEDS-BKAT, which was modified from version 4 of the adult BKAT for critical care nursing. A sample of 105 pediatric ICU nurses from 6 settings took the PEDS-BKAT. Test results include a mean score of 78.9 points...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Runton NG,Toth JC

更新日期：1998-06-01 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

authors： Long D,Capan M,Mascioli S,Weldon D,Arnold R,Miller K

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immobility contributes to many adverse effects in critically ill patients. Early progressive mobility can mitigate these negative sequelae but is not widely implemented. Appreciative inquiry is a quality improvement method/change philosophy that builds on what works well in an organization. OBJECTIVES:To ex...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Fernald MM,Smyrnios NA,Vitello J

更新日期：2020-08-01 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

authors： Stausmire JM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Designed for independent study, this module explores some of the common, but often missed, pupillary abnormalities and eye movement irregularities. Part 3 concludes the module and provides the posttest and answer keys for the posttest and the three review exercises in Part 2. ...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Bishop BS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the potential severity of the associated complications, nurses have an essential role in the care of patients with HAT. Bedside nurses have the opportunity to report information that may indicate a change in a patient's condition after administration of heparin. This information could lead to diagnosis of h...

journal_title：Critical care nurse

authors： Jerdee AL

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00