Introduction: External bleeding is the leading preventable cause of death from traumatic injuries. Implementation guidelines for its control have been associated with a significant reduction in mortality. The objectives this study were to provide characterisation trauma patients external and compare outcomes specific autonomous interventions applied by nurses prehospital care. Methods: A non-ra...

Lucia Rita Del Vecchio, MD, Emergency Department, Policlinico Universitario, Rome, Italy Roberto Torre, RN, ANS, Nurse Coordinator, Emergency Department, Policlinico Universitario, Rome, Italy (✉) Elhalabieh Elias Attalla, MD, Emergency Department, Policlinico Universitario, Rome, Italy Anna Federici, RN, ANS, Nurse Coordinator, Undergraduate School of Nursing, Viterbo, Italy Giuliano Bertazzon...

aims: the revised geneva score (rgs), a standardized clinical prediction rule for pulmonary embolism (pe), was recently developed. we have measured its predictive accuracy, performing an external retrospective validation in a cohort of emergency department (ed) patients, filtered by symptomatology and not by clinical suspicion, to allow its use in nursing practice.   methods: the clinical proba...

As emerges from the articles by Drs. Pastor et al1 and Sanchís et al,2 it seems that, fortunately, chest pain units (CPU) have begun to get interesting results from the patient care point of view. Thus, the fact that approximately 80% of low-risk patients with chest pain can be discharged with safety from hospital emergency departments (HED) within 24 hours, following performance of ergometry, ...

Objective: To identify the management skills needed for this professional at an emergency care unit. Method: An exploratory descriptive qualitative study conducted with eight nurses in which semi-structured interviews with nonparticipating systematic observation were conducted; the data was processed by content analysis. Results: The categories which emerged from the content analysis served as ...

CHECKLIST ACCORDING TO PRACTICE-BASED EVIDENCE Ahmad Ghadami, Ali reza Irajpour, Sorour Mosleh, Fereshteh Baradaran Fard, Maryam Azari, Shokouh Sajadi, Mohammad Reza Sanaei. Assistant Professor, Ulcer Repair Research Center, Department of Operating Room, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Associate Professor, Department of Adult Nursing, Scho...

introduction. to promote the quality of surgical cares in operating room, the potential abilities of professional staff should be developed through studying related majors. in addition, training human powers is one of the important tasks of teaching system and college students are considered as national talents. although, intelligence is an important factor, motivation is more significant than ...

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