Articles: intensive-care-units.
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Arch Pediat Adol Med · Dec 1994
Comparative StudyComparison of neonatal nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and residents in the neonatal intensive care unit.
To compare patient care delivery by neonatal nurse practitioners and physician assistants with that of pediatric residents in the intensive care setting. ⋯ Neonatal nurse practitioners and physician assistants are an effective alternative to residents for patient care in the neonatal intensive care unit.
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Dec 1994
ReviewChildren visiting members of their family receiving treatment in ICUs: a literature review.
Occasionally people ask if children can visit members of their family who are patients in our intensive care unit (ICU). To allow us to devise a unit policy based on research, the author felt it necessary to review literature concerning child visitors to ICUs, more specifically the reasons why they should or should not be allowed to visit. ⋯ The literature reviewed suggested that no reasons have been found not to allow children to visit but that advice should be given to the parents allowing them to come to the final decision. If the parents then decide to allow the child to visit, further support for all the family should be given.
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Critical care medicine · Dec 1994
Comparative StudyCritical care medicine: observations from the Department of Veterans Affairs' intensive care units.
To study the critical care medicine programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs. ⋯ The results of this study suggest that the Department of Veterans Affairs would benefit from increasing the number of critical care medicine board eligible/certified directors, and increasing the program's participation in accredited critical care medicine fellowship training programs and research endeavors. Overall, however, we conclude that the Department of Veterans Affairs' critical care medicine program is at least comparable to nationwide ICUs in the parameters evaluated.
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To identify objective factors, available at the time of surgical evaluation, associated with outcome for patients in the medical ICU undergoing abdominal surgery. ⋯ The number of organ system derangements and the severity of illness, as assessed by APACHE II, appear to be useful discriminators of outcome for patients in the medical ICU undergoing abdominal surgery. These data suggest potential outcome predictors for this selected group of patients in the ICU.