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... requiring intensive care. The intensive care unit, or ICU, setting hence has two primary roles, according to the ...
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... educational program for respiratory care practitioners and ICU nurses emphasizing correct practices for the prevention ... reinforcing the information were posted throughout the ICU and respiratory care departments. Measurements and ... and for each hospital separately. Overall 635 of 792 ICU nurses (80.1%) and 215 of 239 respiratory therapists ...
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... of nosocomial pathogens in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. METHODS: Sterile swab samples were obtained ... 10 keyboards and 8 pairs of faucet handles in the medical ICU at Tripler Army Medical Center during a period of 2 ... respective rooms, and on other keyboards throughout the ICU, including the doctors' station. CONCLUSIONS: The ...
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... to perform a detailed job analysis of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' jobs. BACKGROUND: The WEBIC-questionnaire is ... task is. Using the WEBIC, information is gathered about ICU nurses' qualitative workload, and typical job-related risks for ICU nurses' well-being at work can be mapped. METHODS: A ...
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Conversion of an intensive care unit (ICU) from an open unit to isolation rooms permitted study of ... to patient-staff interactions were recorded. All ICU patients were monitored daily for signs of and selected ... by organisms colonizing the patient upon admission to the ICU. The isolation rooms did not appear to reduce nosocomial ...
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... Because nosocomial infection is common in the ICU, design features can affect the risk of infection ... as well as the regulations and guidelines related to ICU design and infection control practices. Not only is their ...
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... bright lighting have been acknowledged disadvantages of ICU's since their establishment. Data are available regarding ... can lead to measures that will reduce the noise level in ICU's. Redding, J.S. Hargest, T.S. Minsky, S.H. Critical Care ...
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... their spouses received care in an intensive care unit (ICU). Seven partners were interviewed using a narrative ... for the partners to see their critically ill spouse in the ICU. It was important to be able to be present; nothing else ...
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... because again, they're not as sick as they are in the ICU, but they're still sicker than they would be on the ...
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... assumption that they are role models for the rest of the ICU staff. Studies on practical and efficient means to ...
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... noise levels in different sites of an intensive care unit (ICU) for nephrology and dialysis were evaluated before and ...
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... and/or psychologic responses. Because patients in the ICU are isolated from familiar surrounds and have little ... documented: cardiovascular arousal, sleep deprivation, "ICU psychosis" with delusions and hallucinations, and ... arousal has not been studied in a noncardiac surgical ICU (SICU) population, nor has a precise method of ...
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... visible in operating rooms (OR) and intensive care units (ICU) for use in bedside documentation. Recently, they have ... of computers used in an OR, a surgical and a pediatric ICU of a tertiary teaching hospital. Methods: Sterile swab ... Conclusion: Microbial contamination in the CPU of OR and ICU computers is too low, for designating them as a reservoir ...
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The incidence of infection in the intensive care unit (ICU) is one of the highest in the hospital and yet facilities ... and disinfection programmes are essential to render the ICU relatively pathogen free and compliance with handwashing ... high-risk area. Infection control teams should support ICU personnel in their efforts to upgrade facilities and help ...
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... and infectious complication (IC) on intensive care unit (ICU) costs and length of stay (LOS). Design: Retrospective, ... All children admitted to a multidisciplinary pediatric ICU during the fiscal year 1994. Interventions: None ... The occurrence of complications in the pediatric ICU is associated with meaningful increases in LOS and ...
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... errors in adult patients in a medical intensive care unit (ICU) was studied. METHODS: Medication errors were identified in a community teaching hospital medical ICU using a direct observation technique whereby nurses were ... of wrong administration time errors in an adult medical ICU. DeYoung, J. L. Vanderkooi, M. E. Barletta, J. F. ...
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... causes of sleep disturbance in an intensive care unit (ICU). The implementation of guidelines may potentially change ... nighttime guidelines on light and noise levels in an ICU. SETTING: A modern surgical ICU, subdivided into six identical three-bed rooms. PATIENTS: ...
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... critically ill patients and should be routinely applied by ICU nurses who have received training on how to administer ... for care, also are safe and logical interventions that ICU nurses should use to help patients sleep. Progressive ... these substances is unclear. In summary, we recommend that ICU nurses implement music therapy, environmental ...
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... of the 7,407 nosocomial infections (25%) occurred in the ICU patients. Several factors point to a compelling argument ... resources be assigned to the prevention and control of ICU infections: ICU patients often have serious device-related infections and ...
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... volunteers were admitted to an intensive-care unit (ICU) for 4 days and 3 nights. The psychological and ... feelings of depression attributable solely to being in an ICU setting are inconsistent with the type of environment ... senses, particularly sight, sound, and taste within the ICU. Tanimoto, S. Takayanagi, K. Yokota, H. Yamamoto, Y. ...
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... (20 mechanically ventilated) medical intensive care unit (ICU) patients with continuous polysomnography (PSG) and ... index was 1.9 +/- 2.1 arousals/h sleep. Conclusions: (1) ICU patients are qualitatively, but not necessarily ...
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... isolated from 12 of 170 hospitalized intensive care unit (ICU) patients, of which 16 were considered to be clinically ... as the strain causing the outbreak. As a result the ICU was closed, equipment and the environment cleaned, with ...
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... organizations, and researchers has turned to improving the ICU experience for patients and families. This article ... the lessons already learned can significantly improve the ICU experience for most patients and families. Jastremski, ...
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... Some studies have indicated that family visits to the ICU have detrimental effects on physiologic parameters such ... interactions with comatose head-injured patients in the ICU. Walker, J.S. Eakes, G.G. Siebelink, E. Journal of Trauma ...
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... by open-bay rooms to single-bed rooms in an exemplary ICU. We used the findings of a study of an actual ICU in which the association between the locations of ...