special characteristics of care environments have always presented nurses with some challenges. one particular situation is futile care, which is frequently accompanied by countless moral and legal challenges. the dominant atmosphere in futile care may cause moral distress to nurses and lead to a sense of guilt, pain, suffering, job dissatisfaction, and eventually cause nurses to leave the job....

THE pioneer mobile cardiac ambulance designed by Drs Pantridge and Geddes, is centred on the cardiac unit of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. The inpatient intensive care unit consists of eight single cubicles-situated in the centre of two communicating wards. Each cubicle is equipped for continuous monitoring of the patient, both at the bedside and also on an eight channel central monitor...

Rapid Response Systems have been introduced in the last decade to increase patient safety and decrease the rate of cardiorespiratory arrest on the hospital wards and readmission to the intensive care units. In this article we share our experience at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto on implementation and evolution of a pediatric rapid response team; the process, barriers, and ongoing ch...

background and objective:acinetobacter spp.a gram-negative coccobacillus is increasingly reported as important cause of nosocomial infections. multi-drug resistance (mdr) ofacinetobacterspp., raises concerns over our ability to treat serious infections with these organisms. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency and associated risk factors for infections with mdr acinetobacter spp...

background and purpose: organizational commitment has been on a downward trend among medical staff in different sections of the health care system. this study aimed to investigate the level of organizational commitment among the nurses engaged in the intensive care units (icus) of mazandaran heart center in sari, iran. methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted at the educational ...

conclusions the frequency of nis in this hospital was lower in comparison with other worldwide studies. however, low incidence of health care-associated infections in our study may be due to under diagnosis and underreporting of such infections by health care staff. results the incidence of nis was low (i.e. < 2%). among 16936 admitted patients in this hospital, 174 patients (79 males and 95 fe...

incidence of imipenem-resistant acinetobacter baumannii in a general intensive care unit (icu)

OBJECTIVE Increased inflammatory response is related to severity and outcome in community-acquired pneumonia, but the role of inflammatory biomarkers in deciding intensive care unit admission is unknown. We assessed the relationship between inflammatory response, prediction for intensive care unit admission, delayed intensive care unit admission, and outcome in patients with community-acquired ...

evaluation of serum albumin level and its effect on prognosis in patients admitted to intensive care unit    valizadeh hasanloei ma [1] , norozinia h [2] *, shateri k [3] , bakhtyari l [4] , hosseinpour h [5]     received: 18 sep , 2013 accepted: 21 nov , 2013   abstract   background & aims : albumin and globulin are the largest components of the body proteins. albumin is a protein made in the ...