Articles: critical-care.
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A standard to meet high expectations. Assuring quality care for families of intensive care patients.
1. To give truly holistic care, nurses need to appreciate the family stress response to critical care hospitalisation. 2. Standard setting is an ideal way of meeting relatives' self-perceived needs in intensive care. 3. All staff should be involved with implementation for it to be successful.
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Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Nov 1993
Review Case ReportsPressure support ventilation: reducing the work of breathing during weaning.
Pressure support ventilation decreases the work of breathing by providing the patient with positive airway pressure during the inspiratory phase. The use of this type of ventilatory support is likely to increase over the next few years for patients, especially during the weaning period. By understanding how pressure support ventilation works and what patient parameters need to be monitored, the critical care nurse can help patients decrease respiratory muscle fatigue during weaning and thus decrease the weaning time for these patients.