American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
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Am. J. Crit. Care
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Comparative Study
Nurses' Perceptions of In-Hospital Versus Telephone Availability of an Intensivist at Night in an Intensive Care Unit.
Evidence suggests that in-person management by nighttime intensivists does not change patients' mortality rates in high-intensity intensive care units. ⋯ Nurses perceive improvements with nighttime intensivists in several domains. Future work is needed to determine whether such perceptions translate into improved outcomes for staff or patients.
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The association of family-witnessed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and subsequent advance directives in the medical intensive care unit is unknown. ⋯ For unclear reasons, family-witnessed CPR in the medical intensive care unit is associated with a similar rate of subsequent CPR efforts and lower rates of return of spontaneous circulation and survival to hospital discharge.