Articles: critical-care.
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Successful organ transplantation offers patients with end stage organ failure the chance of a normal life. The recognition of brain death allowed the use of beating heart donors and this has enabled multiple organ procurement from a single donor. Suitable patients with severe brain injury resulting in brain death, who may be potential organ donors, are to be found on both neurosurgical and general intensive care units. ⋯ The management of brain injury before death often results in abnormalities of fluid balance, due to fluid restriction and diuretic therapy. Other problems such as acute endocrine failure and the impact of their correction on ultimate organ function remains to be elucidated. Good donor maintenance in the intensive care unit and operating theatre is essential if optimal function of the transplanted organ is to occur.
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Dimens Crit Care Nurs · Jan 1989
Retention technique #4. Developing retention strategies within your internship program.
Internship programs are a well-established method of recruiting and preparing nurses for practice in critical care. This author describes how to incorporate strategies into a program that may enhance the retention of the nurse, following the internship program.