Articles: intensive-care-units.
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To examine regional variations in the incidence of late-onset neonatal infections in Australian and New Zealand neonatal units. ⋯ Coagulase-negative staphylococci are the commonest cause of late-onset sepsis of babies in neonatal units. There were no major regional differences in the incidence of, or the organisms causing, late sepsis.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Apr 1996
Practice Guideline GuidelineNursing implications of the department of health guidelines on admission to and discharge from intensive care and high dependency units. A joint statement from the British Association of Critical Care Nurses and The Royal College of Nursing Critical Care Forum.
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Int J Obstet Anesth · Apr 1996
Critically ill parturient women and admission to intensive care: a 5-year review.
Thirty-nine parturient women were admitted to a general intensive care unit (ICU) from April 1989 to March 1994 and of these four were readmitted (total 43 admissions). Twelve women were admitted to the obstetric unit from peripheral hospitals in different regions, but no requirement for intensive care was perceived on referral. Six women were transfered directly into the intensive care unit from different hospitals in the region. ⋯ A multidisciplinary approach to management is practised and specialist interventions included haemofiltration and haemodialysis (18%) and radiological arterial embolisation (10%). Ventilatory and inotropic support were given in 38% and 41% of patients respectively. Only one patient died on the intensive care unit, this was from multiorgan failure secondary to sepsis.