OBJECTIVES To describe three levels of hospital-based critical care centers to optimally match services and personnel with community needs, and to recommend essential intensive care unit services and personnel for each critical care level. PARTICIPANTS A multidisciplinary writing panel of professionals with expertise in the clinical practice of critical care medicine working under the directi...

patients safety status in intensive care unit of urmia hospitals from nurses viewpoint     sheikhbaklu m [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, baghaie r [3]     received: 9 apr , 2013 accepted: 15 jun , 2013     abstract   background & aims : patient safety is central to high quality care, and keeping it in a standard level can lead to success in accessing the treatment outcomes. this study evaluate...

PAWTUCKET – In a conversation on the relationship between spirituality and medicine, Gowri Anandarajah, MD, spoke of her formative years in London as a Hindu educated in schools which incorporated Christian beliefs. This gave her an early perspective on Eastern/Western thought. But it was a singular experience dealing with a critically ill patient as a medical student that ignited her intellect...

BACKGROUND Specialist health services are often organised on a regionalised basis whereby clinical resources and expertise are concentrated in areas of high population. Through a high volume caseload, regionalised facilities may provide improved clinical outcomes for patients. In some cases, regionalisation may be the only economically viable way to organise specialist care. While regionalisati...

objective: professional nursing is recognised for having high working anxiety levels due to continuous interaction with patients, their family and colleagues in a high stress working environment. as a compilation of non cognitive skills and abilities, emotional intelligent could be helpful in controlling stress and increasing the individual’s productivity at work. intensive care units’ employee...

abstract background: the use of coping strategies in reducing the adverse effects of stress can be helpful. nero‑linguistic programming (nlp) is one of the modern methods of psychotherapy. this study aimed to determine the effect of nlp on occupational stress in nurses working in critical care units of urmia. materials and methods: this study was carried out quasi‑experimentally (before–after) ...

background: malnutrition is an important factor in the survival of critically ill patients. the purpose of the present study was to assess the nutritional status of patients in the intensive care unit (icu) on the days of admission and discharge via a detailed nutritional assessment.  methods: totally, 125 patients were followed up from admission to discharge at 8icus in shiraz, iran. the patie...

BACKGROUND Every day throughout the UK, ambulance services seek medical assistance in providing critically ill or injured patients with pre-hospital care. OBJECTIVE To identify the current availability and utilisation of physician-based pre-hospital critical care capability across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. DESIGN A postal and telephone survey was undertaken between April and Dece...

background and aims: in order to plan for preventing and decreasing the rate of nursing errors, understanding of nurse’s perception of nursing errors could be very helpful. this study was thus designed to examine the critical care nurses perception of nursing errors from view point of critical care nurses. methods: this study was conducted in 9 hospitals in qazvin province located in north of i...

We recommend several actions that could improve hospitals' abilities to deliver critical care during epidemics involving large numbers of victims. In the absence of careful pre-event planning, demand for critical care services may quickly exceed available intensive care unit (ICU) staff, beds and equipment, leaving the bulk of the infected populace without benefit of potentially lifesaving crit...