Book Review: A Manual of Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care

Book Review Infection control in the Intensive Care Unit

“Infection Control In The Intensive Care Unit” by HK Saene, L Silvestri, MADe la Cal, and A Gullo, SpringerVerlag, 3 Edition, 2012, ISBN 9788847016002. «Infection Control In The Intensive Care Unit (ICU)», third edition, is a comprehensive book regarding the clinical microbiology of critically ill patients. It includes thirty chapters gathered under the same five different thematic networks as ...

Book Review: Manual of Childhood Infections

The fourth edition of this manual appears nearly five years after the third edition was published. It has been updated and re-written with the aim of improving the evidence-based management of pediatric infections. Emerging infections, nosocomial infections and antimicrobial resistance are covered in new chapters and updated existing ones. The new edition is also aimed at increasing the interna...

Book Review: Starting or Strengthening a Drug Bulletin - A Practical Manual

The Effect of Using a Log Book on Nursing Students’ Clinical Competence in Intensive Care Unit

Introduction: Clinical education is a complex process in which various factors are involved. Clinical competence assessment in nursing profession is very important and one of important issues in clinical education is the improvement of its quality which requires continuous evaluation. Log book is considered as one of the most effective clinical evaluation methods. The present study was condu...

Surgical Intensive Care Patients

Background Delirium is an independent predictor of increased length of stay, mortality, and treatment costs in critical care patients. Its incidence may be underestimated or overestimated if delirium is assessed by using subjective clinical impression alone rather than an objective instrument. Objectives To determine frequency of discrepancies between subjective and objective delirium monitorin...