Indications for mechanical ventilation in children include marked hypoxia, hypercapnea, peripheral airway obstruction, chest wall deformities, and central nervous system abnormalities. Nurses caring for these children must possess adequate knowledge of the underlying disease process as well as normal ...
Yet studies continue to demonstrate low adoption of this style of ventilation. Critical care nurses in Australia and New Zealand have a high level of responsibility and autonomy for mechanical ventilation and weaning practices and therefore require in-depth knowledge of ventilator technology, its ...
L Rose - 《Australian Critical Care Official Journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses》 被引量: 63发表: 2010年 Weaning preterm infants from mechanical ventilation. Mechanical ventilatory support is required by a large number of neonates in respiratory failure. However, its use...
Critical care nurses should understand the concepts of mechanical ventilation (MV), as an effective management strategy for patients requiring MV that can influence morbidity and mortality in the ICU environment. A classic study by Gajic and colleagues demonstrated that injudicious MV resulted in ...
Materials and methods Five blindfolded volunteers (2 ICU doctors and 3 nurses) performed random evaluation (5 point scale, -1 = best) of following respirators: Elema Siemens 300 (ES300), Adult Star 2000 (AS 2000) and Bird 8400 STi. All volunteers were comfortably seated and instructed to ...