Critical care nurse
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Critical care nurse · Apr 2015
ReviewTraining Forward Surgical Teams for Deployment: The US Army Trauma Training Center.
Since the late 1980s, the US Army has been deploying forward surgical teams to the most intense areas of conflict to care for personnel injured in combat. The forward surgical team is a 20-person medical team that is highly mobile, extremely agile, and has relatively little need of outside support to perform its surgical mission. In order to perform this mission, however, team training and trauma training are required. ⋯ The training staff of the ATTC is a specially selected 10-person team made up of active duty personnel from the Army Medical Department assigned to the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, Florida. The ATTC team of instructors trains as many as 11 forward surgical teams in 2-week rotations per year so that the teams are ready to perform their mission in a deployed setting. Since the first forward surgical team was trained at the ATTC in January 2002, more than 112 forward surgical teams and other similar-sized Department of Defense forward resuscitative and surgical units have rotated through trauma training at the Ryder Trauma Center in preparation for deployment overseas.
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Critical care nurse · Apr 2015
ReviewBedside nurses leading the way for falls prevention: an evidence-based approach.
Incidence and characteristics of patient falls and fall prevention programs have been a topic of interest in the literature; however, few articles on fall reduction strategies written by staff nurses have been published. Falls in hospitalized patients are serious threats to patient safety. According to Morse, sequelae of falls are the second leading cause of death in the United States. ⋯ A fall is the most reported safety incident in inpatients and occurs in all adult clinical areas. Accidental falls are among the most common incidents reported in hospitals and occur in approximately 2% of all hospital stays. Growing evidence indicates that falls occurring in the hospital can be reduced with planning and intervention techniques
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Critical care nurse · Apr 2015
Nurse-physician collaboration and hospital-acquired infections in critical care.
Nurse-physician collaboration may be related to outcomes in health care-associated infections. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between nurse-physician collaboration and health care-associated infections in critically ill adults. ⋯ Nurse-physician collaboration was significantly related to health care-associated infections.
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Critical care nurse · Apr 2015
Comparative Study Observational StudyPrognostic value of initial elevation in cardiac troponin I level in critically ill patients without acute coronary syndrome.
Cardiac troponin I levels are often obtained to help rule out acute coronary syndrome. ⋯ Critically ill patients without acute coronary syndrome with elevated levels of cardiac troponin I at admission had higher mortality and more intubations than did control patients.