Intensive care medicine

Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit Emilee Snider Historical Trends in Nursing Critical Care Nursing Critical care nursing can be traced back to the battlefield and recovery room of the earlier decades and has evolved into the modern intensive care units today. The early 1950s through the 1990s is an era in which unpredicted and radical changes occurred in the care of all patients with the development and growth of intensive/critical care units in hospitals. The reasons for initiating these

criteria involving intensive care unit admissions and discharges. Throughout the country the total number of intensive care unit (ICU) beds are on the rise, but the current supply still outnumbers the demand (Cognet & Coyer, 2014). The cost of staying in an ICU is continuing to increase with technology, and there are limitations that insurance companies and the government have set forth to the number of days a patient can reside there dependent upon his diagnosis and condition. Intensive care units will

Rotated in Internal Medicine clinic for 4 wk. Opportunity to observe diverse cases in the outpatient setting. Took part in the history, physical examination and management for the patient. Involved in the discussion regarding health maintenance and education. Learned about management patients with multiple comorbidities and medication management. Participated by observing common outpatient procedures. Actively involved in continues learning by discussing topics with the attending. 12 wk, Observership

In 2010 the institute for health care improvement added daily oral care with chlorahexidine to the five evidence based interventions which include, “(1) head-of-bed elevation between 30 degree and 45 degree; (2) a daily “sedation vacation” and a readiness-to-wean assessment; (3) peptic ulcer disease prophylaxis; (4) deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis; (5) daily oral care with chorahexidine.” (Lim, et al., 2015) Recently in 2015, the South Miami adult intensive care unit added oral chlorahexadine to

INRODUCTION This chapter comprises of the overview of literature on the demographics of paediatric patients admitted in paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) prior to various types of complications such as surgery, respiratory complications, cardiovascular problems, orthopaedic conditions, neurological conditions or renal conditions etc. The review is mainly based on the on the specific objectives of my research topic inclusive of prevalence of the most common condition, risk and mortality rates

For the past 50 years acute respiratory distress syndrome or better known as ARDS, has been an issue in hospital intensive care units all around the world. The first “documented published scientific description dates back to 1821 when Laennec described the gross pathology of the heart and lungs and described idiopathic anasarca of the lungs; pulmonary edema without heart failure in a treatise on diseases of the chest.”1 Cardiac and non-cardiac issues were not taken into consideration as part of the

continuous. This is especially evident when referring to nurses who work in the intensive care unit as they must care for patients with more severe illnesses (Intensive Care Unit, 2016). One possible way to improve the quality of patient care besides technological advancements is the use of teamwork. The purpose of this paper is to determine if teamwork among health care professionals in the intensive care unit benefits patient care, as opposed to working as individuals. It is important to first understand

Improvement Statement and Chosen Cause that will Drive Improvement An unplanned extubation (UE) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is an unforeseen occurrence observed due to various factors. One of these is due to the lack of a procedural standardization among healthcare providers. This is notably evident when staff is handling the infant during daily assessments and when care is rendered. The reason this issue was selected was because of the potential serious complications or death that

Sepsis is applied to an abnormal bodily condition when body reacts and function against itself under the condition of infection. In this state body starts to make injuries to its own organs and tissues. The symptoms of Sepsis may include physical as well as psychological signs which may include increased heart rate, increased breath rate, fever and psychological symptoms may include anxiety, confusion and depression in some cases. Sepsis is a highly dangerous condition and may lead to death in most

The term neonatology refers to the branch of medicine concerned with the care, development, and diseases of newborn infants (webster.com/dictionary). Even though the term neonatal strictly define the newborn period from birth to 28 days of age , it includes everything from routine care of the normal newborn infant, all the way through to provision of intensive care for the smallest and sickest of infants. In many cases this will involve premature infants who are often older than four weeks of chronological