Critical care nursing clinics of North America
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This article provides an overview of the literature reviewing the stresses and needs of families of critically ill children. These needs and stresses are summarized and organized to provide a framework for the research-based standard of care that is presented for parents of critically ill children.
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Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am · Dec 1992
Needs of families of critically ill patients: state of the science and future directions.
This article provides an overview of the needs of families of critically ill patients and offers suggestions for future research. Continuous, systematic study about the needs of families of critically ill patients is necessary for nursing to be responsive to the health care needs of society in the 21st century.
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When the pregnant woman develops an acute or critical illness requiring invasive hemodynamic monitoring, it is imperative to consider physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy that impact on assessment parameters. Awareness of both the alterations in these parameters and the changes in arterial blood gas values guide nursing care that continues to support perfusion and oxygenation needs unique to pregnancy. When critical care capabilities are not available in the labor and delivery unit, the obstetric patient is most often transferred to a medical or surgical intensive care unit. In such cases, consultation with obstetric staff is warranted.