Heart & lung : the journal of critical care
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The purpose of the study was to examine the relationships among the intensity of intubated patients' negative emotional responses to being unable to speak and selected personal and situational variables. ⋯ Results from this study extend prior research and support the need for nurses to facilitate communication and to support self-esteem in patients receiving ventilatory assistance, particularly in the early days of intubation. Implications for future research are discussed.
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To quantify the current practice patterns of mechanical ventilation for respiratory failure in pediatric patients. ⋯ Most of the surveyed pediatric critical care physicians practice permissive hypercapnia in the treatment of their patients who receive ventilatory assistance. More than 90% of surveyed pediatric critical care physicians are presently using inverse ratio ventilation and high-frequency oscillatory ventilation. These data suggest that these innovative modes of therapy are already accepted as part of the standard therapeutic spectrum by the surveyed group of physicians.