For example, support service use was initiated after a person with dementia became acutely ill, and the physician requested a publically financed nursing service [106]. This positive experience might encourage the patient to seek similar support in the future. The influencing aspects mentioned herein...
The use of ultrasonography in the intensive care unit (ICU) is steadily increasing but is usually restricted to examinations of single organs or organ systems. In this study, we combine the ultrasound approaches the most relevant to ICU to design a whole
The objectives of an ICU are the monitoring and support of threatened or failing vital functions in critically ill patients who have illnesses with the potential to endanger life, in order to perform adequate diagnostic measures and medical or surgical therapies to improve outcome. The patient popula...
Intubation of the acutely brain injured patient can be a matter of life or death. Failure to intubate a patient with rapidly progressive neurological decline may result in respiratory arrest, secondary brain injury from hypoxia, acidosis, elevated intracranial pressure, or severe aspiration pneumonitis ...
Pulmonary infection is one of the main complications occurring in patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Besides traditional r