منابع مشابه
Withdrawal of care.
The CT scan looked bad. It showed a large right frontal and temporal hemorrhage with midline shift, blood in the subarachnoid cisterns, and lurking in the Sylvian fissure the spherical shadow of a middle cerebral artery aneurysm. The patient was lying just a few steps away from the computer screen in the neurointensive care unit, a thin, grey-haired woman in her mid-seventies, attached to a ven...
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Managing acute alcohol withdrawal in critical care presents a unique challenge to the critical care nurse. The prominence of alcohol use within the Australian community means that many critical care admissions involve acute alcohol withdrawal, an alcohol induced illness, or indeed an unrelated admission with underlying heavy alcohol intake. Current statistics suggest 1 in 5 Australians drink to...
متن کاملImproving alcohol withdrawal outcomes in acute care.
CONTEXT Excessive alcohol consumption is the nation's third leading cause of preventable deaths. If untreated, 6% of alcohol-dependent patients experience alcohol withdrawal, with up to 10% of those experiencing delirium tremens (DT), when they stop drinking. Without routine screening, patients often experience DT without warning. OBJECTIVE Reduce the incidence of alcohol withdrawal advancing...
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OBJECTIVES To compare the modes of death and factors leading to withdrawal or limitation of life support in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in a developing country. METHODS Retrospective analysis of all children (< 12 years) dying in the PICU from January 1995 to December 1995 and January 1997 to June 1998 (n = 148). RESULTS The main mode of death was by limitation of treatment in 6...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0317-1671,2057-0155
DOI: 10.1017/s0317167100006478