Many children admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care for management of serious illness recover quickly. This is reflected in a mean length stay <5 days many tertiary level critical care units. A small proportion infants and require prolonged paediatric intensive stay, due severity their illness, complexity medical nursing required, presence underlying co-morbidity. cohort patients have pa...

1National Consultant in intensive therapy, Chair and 1st Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wrocław Medical University, Poland 2Department of Medical Law, Chair of Forensic Medicine, Wrocław Medical University, Poland 3Chair and 2nd Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy, Wrocław Medical University, Poland 4National Consultant in anaesthesiology and intensive ther...

BACKGROUND Factors previously shown to influence patient care include effective decision making, team work, evidence based practice, staffing and job satisfaction. Clinical rounds have the potential to optimise these factors and impact on patient outcomes, but use of this strategy by intensive care nurses has not been reported. OBJECTIVES To determine the effect of implementing Nursing Rounds...

Transfer of patients from the cardiac intensive care unit to the general ward, is one of the main reasons for anxiety. Given that the transfer anxiety may be due to receive at least, inconsistent or do not receive enough information before the patients leaving the intensive care unit, Therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of information provision on anxiety levels in patients tran...

Children with medical complexity (CMC) are a growing population of diagnostically heterogeneous children characterized by chronic conditions affecting multiple organ systems, the use of medical technology at home as well as intensive healthcare service utilization. Many of these children will experience either a respiratory-related complication and/or they will become established on respiratory...

malnutrition of patients in intensive care units of arak hospitals, in 1389     ebrahimi fakhar h [1] , salemi z [2]     received: 12 mar, 2012 accepted: 25 jun , 2012     abstract   background & aims: this study was performed to determine the nutrition condition of intensive care units patients in arak hospitals in 1388.  materials & methods: in this sectional study 115 eligible patients (71ma...

background: we presumed that the surgeon himself has an impact on the results after coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) as there is no unique protocol for the discharge of post-operative cardiac patients at our institution. therefore, we examined whether the surgeon himself has an impact on the intensive care unit (icu) stay of isolated cabg patients. methods: we prospectively studied a tota...

the aim of present study was to determine the impact of two different icu management model, open and semi closed, on resources utilization in intensive care unit.retrospective cohort analysis using data from hospital database was applied to compare the effect of icu management model on icu length of stay and bed disposition of 1064 patients admitted to the general icu of imam khomeini hospital ...

aims: endotracheal suctioning is a vital process to keep the airways open. the method of performing endotracheal suctioning has a great effect on its complications and effectiveness. this study was carried out with the aim of assessing gap between the knowledge and performance of nurses' working in intensive care units (icu) in tracheal suctioning.   methods: in this cross sectional study,...