Articles: intensive-care-units.
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Comput Methods Programs Biomed · Oct 1994
TANIT AIM project (A2036): Telematics for ANaesthesia and Intensive Therapy.
On-going work relating to the development of advanced telematics systems for Critical Care environments is described. This work is in part sponsored by the Commission of European Communities under the AIM TANIT project. Two example departments have been selected for piloting in the project: Intensive Care and Anaesthesia. The objective of this paper is to outline the complex issues that need to be addressed when developing such systems.
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With the increase in the number of critically ill patients needing extended periods of time in the ICU and the subsequent shortage of ICU beds, hospitals have examined ways to use the PACU as an alternative for the short-term critically ill patient. This article identifies common problems encountered by the PACU staff, and the author suggests criteria for establishing and implementing guidelines for successful integration of these short-term critically ill patients without losing sight of the PACU's goals and compromising patient care. The criteria for establishing guidelines were based on the personal experience of the author in developing a program for ICU overflow patients, as well as from experiences of other PACU nurses working in PACUs where successful guidelines currently are used.
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To determine the importance of the following care factors previously associated with hospital quality on survival from pediatric intensive care: size of the intensive care unit (ICU), medical school teaching status of the hospital housing the ICU, specialist status (pediatric intensivist), and unit coordination. ⋯ Characteristics indicative of the best overall hospital quality may not be associated, or may be negatively associated, with quality of care in specialized care areas, including the pediatric ICU.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Individualized developmental care for the very low-birth-weight preterm infant. Medical and neurofunctional effects.
To investigate the effectiveness of individualized developmental care in reducing medical and neurodevelopmental sequelae for very low-birth-weight infants. ⋯ Very low-birth-weight preterm infants may benefit from individualized developmental care in the neonatal intensive care unit in terms of medical and neurodevelopmental outcome.