Critical care patients

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) capacity management is essential to provide high-quality healthcare for critically ill patients. Yet, consensus on the most favorable ICU design is lacking, especially whether ICUs should deliver dedicated or non-dedicated care. The decision for dedicated or non-dedicated ICU design considers a trade-off in the degree of specialization for individual patient care and efficient use of resources for society.

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Health professionals in Colombian and many parts of the world, in some cases, work in precarious conditions and intend to migrate to other countries in search of better living conditions for themselves and their families, which results in inadequate distribution worldwide and in the quality of care throughout the health system, which can ultimately influence the quality of life of patients in their health-disease processes.

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Strong cultures of workplace safety and patient safety are both critical for advancing safety in healthcare and eliminating harm to both the healthcare workforce and patients. However, there is currently minimal published empirical evidence about the relationship between the perceptions of providers and staff on workplace safety culture and patient safety culture.

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Screening of cancer is the maximum effort and critical element for providing health related care in order to decrease cancer related dealt because of the disease burden is in its advanced stages. Unfortunately, advanced-stage presentation and late diagnosis of cancers endure a problem in low-income countries including Ethiopia. However, there is scarcity of published articles about the problem in Ethiopia.

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This is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind question-and-answer text for medical professionals and apprentices concentrating on the growing subspecialty of surgery in critical care and emergency surgery. Covering all surgical aspects of critical care and acute or emergency surgery, it is an ideal learning and review text for surgical residents and trainees who care for these patients and those taking the Surgical Critical Care Board Examination.

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In the time that has elapsed since the publication of the first edition, significant advances have altered the way we care for surgical patients. Continuing progress in surgical critical care enables us to operate an older and sicker patients. More effective means of maintaining adequate circulation and oxygenation in the face of sepsis and other complications continue to reduce surgical mortality.

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Part 1 book "Feline emergency and critical care medicine" includes contents: Approach to the critically ill cat, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr), shock, trauma, anesthesia for critically ill feline patient, anesthetic protocols for systemically healthy cats, analgesia in the critically ill cat, fluid therapy, nutritional support for the critically ill feline patient, respiratory emergencies and pleural space disease, upper airway disease, lower airway disease,... and other contents.

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Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) shows lasting benefits in advanced melanoma; however, not all patients respond to this treatment and many develop potentially life-threatening immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Identifying individuals who will develop irAEs is critical in order to improve the quality of care.

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We describe a case series of five infants (age range: 1–90 days; 4 females and 1 male) who presented to Al Jalila Children’s intensive care units (ICU) with complex multisystem disorders. Patients were Emirati, Kenyan, Jordanian, Filipino, or Pakistani.

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Part 1 book "Understanding medical surgical nursing" includes contents: Critical thinking and the nursing process; evidence based practice; issues in nursing practice; cultural influences on nursing care; complementary and alternative modalities; nursing care of patients in pain; nursing care of patients with cancer; nursing care of patients having surgery; nursing care of patients with emergent conditions and disaster bioterrorism response,... and other contents.

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Part 1 book "Fast facts for the critical care nurse - Critical care nursing in a nutshell" includes content: Critical care nursing overview, the importance of documentation, advance directives and organ donation, withdrawal of treatment and palliative care, basic patient care in the critical care setting, patient nutrition, the sterile field, pre procedural patient preparation and consciouns sedation, isolation precautions and personal protective equipment, everything iv.

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Part 2 book "Fast facts for the critical care nurse - Critical care nursing in a nutshell" includes content: The respiratory station; arterial blood gases, arterial lines and pulmonary artery catheters; discussing dialysis and continuous renal replacement therapy; cardiac specialty equipment; surgical and orthopedic recovery guidelines; the neuro ICU; general cardiac care and post coronary artery bypass graft patients; transplant patients; burn unit basics.

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Part 2 book "Obstetric anesthesia" includes contents: Pregnancy induced hypertension and preeclampsia, obstetric hemorrhage, obesity, coexisting disease and other issues, complications of labor and delivery, fetal assessment and care, management of later complications of obstetric anesthesia and analgesia, critical care of the obstetric patient, neonatal resuscitation

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Part 2 book "Communication skills for nurses" includes content: Active listening; admitting patients; situation, background, assessment, response (SBAR), documentation; managing criticism and compliments; communication scenarios; care and compassion in nursing.

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Boerhaave’s syndrome is the spontaneous rupture of the esophagus, which requires early diagnosis and treatment. Symptoms may vary, and diagnosis can be challenging. We highlight that early diagnosis and appropriate surgical treatment are essential for optimum outcome in patients with esophageal rupture. We emphasize the importance of critical care support, particularly in the early stages of management.

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Dermoid cysts are developmental abnormalities occurring between the third and fifth week of embryogenesis. These lesions can initially develop as intracranial or extracranial and persist throughout the patient’s lifetime.

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Cytomegalovirus establishes life-long latency after primary infection in childhood. Cytomegalovirus reactivation has been well reported in immune-compromised patients; however, in the last few years it has been observed that cytomegalovirus reactivation also occurs in critically ill patients without exogenous immunosuppression, which increases length of intensive care unit stay and mortality rate.

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Part 1 book "Small animal emergency and critical care for veterinary technicians" includes content: Critical thinking -skill of observation and interpretation; monitoring of the critically ill or injured patient; patient’s lifeline - intravenous catheter, fluid therapy, transfusion medicine, nutritional support for the critically ill patient, oxygen therapy techniques, mechanical ventilation, pain assessment and treatment, supporting the critically ill or injured through physical rehabilitation techniques,... and other contents.

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Part 2 book "Small animal emergency and critical care for veterinary technicians" includes content: Emergency receiving; management of patients in shock; cardiopulmonary cerebrovascular resuscitation; traumatic emergencies; hematologic emergencies; cardiovascular emergencies the authors and publisher wish to acknowledge craig c. cornell for previous contributions to this chapter; respiratory emergencies; gastrointestinal emergencies; metabolic and endocrine emergencies; urologic emergencies; reproductive emergencies.

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Part 1 book "Kirk's current veterinary therapy XV" includes content: Crystalloid fluid therapy, colloid fluid therapy, catecholamines in the critical care patient, shock, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, drug incompatibilities and drug drug interactions in the ICU patient, nutrition in critical care, stabilization of the patient with respiratory distress, acute respiratory distress syndrome, oxygen therapy, ventilator therapy for the critical patient.... and other contents.

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