A large proportion of hospital days are spent in the intensive care unit (ICU). Growing numbers of this critically ill patient population are elderly, and have baseline vulnerabilities putting them at an increased risk of having poor short- and long-term outcomes. Use of interdisciplinary ...
“I think it helps the patients to know that the family is being care for,” Dr. McCaffree explains, “so the patient can focus simply on his or her own task, which is trying to get well.” While the program is designed primarily to help the family members of ICU patients, the pro...
Thehospital intensive careunit (ICU) has traditionally been a closed environment, where patient, nurse, doctor and family stories are lost. Asresearchers in intensive care, we have found that the sharing of stories brings humanity into the daily business of providing care. It also hasthe potentia...
While ICU nurses may work with different specialties, they have this in common: They’re specially trained to respond to critically ill patients. Additionally, the staff-to-patient ratio is very low in this setting so that nurses devote time to only one or two patients at a time, rarely mo...
There are many different interpretations of the dynamics of the nurse/patient relationship and the contrasting needs and priorities nurses and patients attach to it. This article outlines varying interpretations of the concept of care, and suggests the concept can be broadened to reflect the physical...
[47]. However, compared to the elective surgical patient with obesity, the intubation of the critically ill patient has profound differences in indications, timing and co-existing conditions; therefore, caution should be applied when translating in the ICU the recommendations based on evidence in ...
As COVID-19 struck, one of the most critical decisions governments and health care providers around the world faced was how to best allocate limited medical resources, including intensive care unit (ICU) beds and ventilators. Not that this was a new issue – providers are always...
摘要: Presents a letter to the editor in response to physician Howard Farran's article "patient Financial Arrangements: Make Them Profitable," featured in the October 1993 issue of "Journal of the American Dental Association," regarding the treatment of patients by health care professionals....
conflicting schedules to visit patients in the ICU. The eICU facilitates timely and efficient decision-making as multiple specialists can send their expertise simultaneously in real time. Also, central monitoring of ICUs allows medical staff to respond more quickly to changes in a patient’s ...
Germany had many moreintensive care bedsthan other big European countries — 34 per 100,000 people, compared with 9.7 in Spain and 8.6 in Italy. This ratio increased in the pandemic, with the number of ICU beds rising from 28,000 to 40,000. There were so many that, in the end, a ...