Perceptions of UK clinicians towards postoperative critical care

Lactic acidosis update for critical care clinicians.

Lactic acidosis is a broad-anion gap metabolic acidosis caused by lactic acid overproduction or underutilization. The quantitative dimensions of these two mechanisms commonly differ by 1 order of magnitude. Overproduction of lactic acid, also termed type A lactic acidosis, occurs when the body must regenerate ATP without oxygen (tissue hypoxia). Circulatory, pulmonary, or hemoglobin transfer di...

The impact of the UK ‘Act FAST’ stroke awareness campaign: content analysis of patients, witness and primary care clinicians’ perceptions

BACKGROUND The English mass media campaign 'Act FAST' aimed to raise stroke awareness and the need to call emergency services at the onset of suspected stroke. We examined the perceived impact and views of the campaign in target populations to identify potential ways to optimise mass-media interventions for stroke. METHODS Analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted as part of two qualit...

Robotic Telepresence in a Medical Intensive Care Unit--Clinicians' Perceptions.

BACKGROUND Robotic telepresence has been used for outsourcing of healthcare services for more than a decade; however, its use within an academic medical department is not yet widespread. Intensive care unit (ICU) robots can be used to increase access to off-site supervising physicians and other specialists, reducing possible wait time for difficult admissions and procedures. OBJECTIVE To stud...

Perceptions of Critical Care Nurse Preceptors

Postoperative critical care: overnight intensive recovery.

equally in ENT and ophthalmic theatres. However, those recommendations relating to phenylephrine concentration and dose appear to be speci®cally relevant to ENT surgery. The weakest commercially available ocular phenylephrine preparation is 2.5%. It is doubtful whether a 10-fold reduction in phenylephrine concentration would result in clinically useful pupillary dilatation. Had our surgeons use...