Articles: adult.
-
Pediatr Crit Care Me · Nov 2007
Extubation after cardiothoracic surgery in neonates, children, and young adults: One year of institutional experience.
Describe risk factors associated with successful and early extubation in the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. DESIGN:: Retrospective chart review. SETTING:: University hospital, cardiac intensive care unit. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN ⋯ Extubation without the need for reintubation can be achieved in nearly all children following cardiothoracic surgery. The majority of successful extubations can be achieved within 24 hrs of surgery.
-
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the new Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society Guideline for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults for nurse practitioner (NP) practice using evidence-based practice principles. The major recommendations for diagnosis, treatment, site of care, and prevention are also summarized. In general, the guideline meets the criteria of evaluation of practice guidelines, although the methods used for the literature search are not adequately described. The guideline was not developed with the input from primary care providers; however, it is appropriate for NPs who work in a variety of settings, including primary care.
-
Burn injuries remain a global problem even though they are largely preventable. Adequate knowledge is essential to good burn safety practices. ⋯ We elicited a paucity of burn safety knowledge in the population studied, but a high level of formal education corresponded to a higher degree of burn safety knowledge. There is a need to introduce burn safety education into the school curriculum at all levels of education in order to increase burn safety awareness.
-
This article has been withdrawn at the request of the author(s) and/or editor. The Publisher apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy.
-
Int J Evid Based Healthc · Sep 2007
Nursing administration of medication via enteral tubes in adults: a systematic review.
Background Enteral tubes are frequently inserted as part of medical treatment in a wide range of patient situations. Patients with an enteral tube are cared for by nurses in a variety of settings, including general and specialised acute care areas, aged care facilities and at home. Regardless of the setting, nurses have the primary responsibility for administering medication through enteral tubes. ⋯ Some of the evidence that was identified included that nurses should consider the use of liquid form medications as there may be fewer tube occlusions than with solid forms in nasoenteral tubes and silicone percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy tubes. Nurses may need to consider the sorbitol content of some liquid medications, for example, elixirs, as diarrhoea has been attributed to the sorbitol content of the elixir, not the drug itself. In addition, the use of 30 mL of water for irrigation when administering medications or flushing small-diameter nasoenteral tubes may reduce the number of tube occlusions.