Revue de l'infirmière
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Revue de l'infirmière · Oct 2012
Review Case ReportsReceiving family of a patient in intensive care.
Pierre is currently working in the intensive care unit (ICU). The rules for visitors are strict. ⋯ Standards of hygiene have to be respected carefully. This evening Pierre accompanies the husband of a Japanese tourist whose health is in a critical condition.
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Long time the preserve of psychiatry, music therapy is today used in general care. At Necker University Children's Hospital in Paris, it forms part of the treatment of multifactorial pain, with the collaboration of nursing teams.
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Galenic science is interested in the art and the way of formulating an active principle with an excipient in order for it to be administered to the patient. The pharmaceutical forms envisage different administration routes, including by mouth. Nurses need to handle and sometimes modify the pharmaceutical form of a drug to make it easier for the patient to take. This requires vigilance.
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As no screening test exists, most cases of lung cancer are diagnosed when the disease is already at a locally advanced or metastatic stage, which has a negative impact on the prognosis. The epidemiological evolution of this cancer is worrying, notably with regard to the explosion in the number of women affected.