Download or read book Critical Illness Outside the ICU An Issue of Critical Care Clinics written by David N. Hager and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2024-05-29 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. David N. Hager, Kyle Gunnerson, and Stephen Macdonald bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Critical Illness Outside the ICU. Top experts cover key topics such as flight transport of the critically ill; models of critical care in the emergency department; in-hospital triage; rapid response teams; early warning systems; ICU without walls; and more. Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics the role of intermediate care; PACU care; critical care in rural settings; critical care in austere settings; tele-ICU support; alternate care pathways for the patient with multimorbidity; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on critical illness outside the ICU, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Post intensive Care Syndrome Chronic Critical Illness An Issue of Critical Care Clinics E Book written by Carol Hodgson and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Post-intensive Care Syndrome & Chronic Critical Illness, with topics including: Chronic Critical Illness; Chronic Critical Illness and Predicting Outcomes; Persistent Critical Illness; Rehospitalization and Preventing CCI; Measuring Post-Intensive Care Syndrome; Post-Intensive Care Syndrome and teh Role of the ICU Clinician; Frailty and the Association between Long-Term Recovery After ICU; The Role of the Muscles in Post-Intensive Care Syndrome; Intensive Care Nutrition and Post-Intensive Care Recovery; Early mobilization in the ICU to Improve Long Term Recovery; The Use of Sedation in the ICU and Long-Term Outcomes; Cognitive Function after Critical Illness; Anxiety and Depression after ICU; and Family and Support Networks after ICU.
Download or read book Post Intensive Care Syndrome and Chronic Critical Illness an Issue of Critical Care Clinics written by Carol Hodgson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Critical Care Clinics focuses on Post-intensive Care Syndrome & Chronic Critical Illness, with topics including: ?Chronic Critical Illness; Chronic Critical Illness and Predicting Outcomes; Persistent Critical Illness;?Rehospitalization and Preventing CCI; Measuring Post-Intensive Care Syndrome; Post-Intensive Care Syndrome and teh Role of the ICU Clinician; Frailty and the Association between Long-Term Recovery After ICU; The Role of the Muscles in Post-Intensive Care Syndrome;?Intensive Care Nutrition and Post-Intensive Care Recovery; Early mobilization in the ICU to Improve Long Term Recovery; The Use of Sedation in the ICU and Long-Term Outcomes; Cognitive Function after Critical Illness; Anxiety and Depression after ICU;?and Family and Support Networks after ICU.
Download or read book Enhancing the Quality of Care in the ICU An Issue of Critical Care Clinics written by Robert C Hyzy and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Critical Care Clinics edited by Dr. Robert Hyzy on Enhancing the Quality of Care in the ICU features topics such as: Taking Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Rates to Zero, Preventing ICU Delirium, Avoiding Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea, Reducing ventilator associated complications and pneumonia, Can Venous Thromboembolism be avoided?, Preventing urinary catheter associated infections, Improving ICU quality through collaboratives, Do performance measures enhance patient quality in the ICU, and The Future of Quality in the ICU.
Download or read book Pediatric Critical Care An Issue of Critical Care Clinics E Book written by Lauren R. Sorce and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2023-03-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editors Drs. Lauren R. Sorce and Joy D. Howell bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Pediatric Critical Care. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as point-of-care ultrasound for pediatric critical care providers; transfusion strategies in the 21st century; global pediatric critical care; workforce diversity; and more. Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including pediatric redeployment: unique challenges created by COVID-19; ECMO then and now; PCCM in 21st century and beyond; pediatric critical care outcomes; cardiac output monitoring; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on pediatric critical care, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Pediatric Critical Care Medicine An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America E Book written by Kathleen L. Meert and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics in this issue represent the most current research areas of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN). The CPCCRN is a national pediatric critical care research network that is charged with investigating the efficacy of treatment and management strategies to care for critically ill and injured children, as well as to better understand the pathophysiological basis of critical illness and injury in childhood. The proposed authors are past and present principal and co-investigators affiliated with the CPCCRN; the proposed topics represent the individual author’s area of clinical and research expertise. Each review article is an up-to-date review of the topic relevant to practicing clinicians and trainees in critical care medicine, with incorporation of the most recently published research findings pertinent to the topic, some of which may be the author’s own. The specific articles are devoted to the following topics: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in pediatric and cardiac ICU; Approach to the critically ill pediatric trauma patient; Transfusion Decision Making in Pediatric Critical Illness; Pathophysiology and management of ARDS in children; Ventilator associate pneumonias in critically ill children; Mechanical ventilation and decision support in pediatric intensive care; Inflammation, pathobiology, phenotypes and sepsis: From meningococcemia to H1N1-MRSA, to Ebola; Immune paralysis in pediatric critical care; Molecular biology of critical illness; Sedation in pediatric critical illness; Delirium in pediatric critical illness; Challenges of drug development in pediatric intensive care; Potential of All Steroid Hormone Subclasses as Adjunctive Treatment for Sepsis; Morbidity: Changing the outcome paradigm; and End-of-Life and Bereavement Care in Pediatric Intensive Care Units.
Download or read book Patient and Family Experience in the ICU An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America written by Judy E Davidson and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In collaboration with Consulting Editor, Dr. Cynthia Bautista, Dr. Judy Davidson has put together a comprehensive issue on family and patient experience in the ICU. Expert authors have contributed clinical review articles on the following topics: Humanizing Intensive Care: From Theory to Practice; FiCare; Patient's Own Pets in the ICU; Sleep in the ICU; Implementation of a Patient and Family-Centered ICU Peer Support Program at a Veterans Affairs Hospital; Understanding the Experiences of Patients and Families in the ICU: More than Engagement; Implementing a Patient and Family Communication Bundle in the ICU; Integrating Primary Palliative Care into the ICU: The Critical Care Nurse Communicator Program; Bereavement Care in the Adult ICU: Directions for Practice; A review on the Use of Diaries; Supporting Families of Patients with Rare or Unusual Critical Illnesses; and Meeting the Special Needs of Families of CTICU patients. Readers will come away with the information they need to improve family and patients experiences in the ICU.
Download or read book Palliative Care in Critical Care An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America E Book written by Tonja Hartjes and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensive care units (ICUs) provide comprehensive, advanced care to patients with serious or life-threatening conditions and consequently, a significant amount of end-of-life care (EOLC). Indeed, approximately 20% of deaths in the U.S. are associated with an ICU stay, and nearly half of U.S. patients who die in hospitals experience an ICU stay during the last 3 days of life. Despite the commonality of the ICU experience, ICU patients typically suffer from a range of distressing symptoms such as pain, fatigue, anxiety, and dyspnea, causing families significant distress on their behalf. Thus, there is a growing imperative for better provision of palliative care (PC) in the ICU, which may prevent and relieve suffering for patients with life threatening illnesses. Effective palliative care is accomplished through aggressive symptom management, communication about the patient and family’s physical, psychosocial and spiritual concerns, and aligning treatments with each patient’s goals, values, and preferences. PC is also patient-centered and uses a multidisciplinary, team-based approach that can be provided in conjunction with other life-sustaining treatments, or as a primary treatment approach. Failure to align treatment goals with individual and family preferences can create distress for patients, families, and providers. If implemented appropriately, palliative care may significantly reduce the health care costs associated with intensive hospital care, and help patients avoid the common, non-person centered treatment that is wasteful, distressing, and potentially harmful. Due to the success of many PC programs, administrators, providers, and accrediting bodies are beginning to understand that palliative care in the ICU is vital to optimal patient outcomes.
Download or read book Advanced Practice in Critical Care written by Sarah McGloin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Practice in Critical Care provides experiencedcritical care nurses with a clear and distinct evidence base forcontemporary critical care practice. Central to the book is theapplication of research and evidence to practice and therefore,case studies and key critical care clinical situations are usedthroughout to guide the reader through the patient care trajectory. Each chapter introduces an initial patient scenario and as thechapter progresses, the patient scenario develops with thetheoretical perspectives and application. In this way, it isevident how multi-organ dysfunction develops, impacting upon andinfluencing other body systems, demonstrating the multi-organimpact that is often experienced by the critically ill patient. Inthis way, consequences of critical illness such as acute renalfailure, haemostatic failure and liver dysfunction are explored.Throughout the text, key research findings and critical caretreatment strategies are referred to, applied and evaluated in thecontext of the given patient case study. Advanced assessmenttechniques are explained and the underlying pathophysiology isdiscussed in depth. Advanced Practice in Critical Care is anessential resource for experienced practitioners within criticalcare whom primarily care for patients requiring high dependency orintensive care.
Download or read book Improving Critical Care Survivorship written by Kimberley J. Haines and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive overview of improving critical care survivorship. Comprised of four sections, the text presents interventions that can be used to improve patient outcomes and reduce the burden of post-intensive care syndrome across the arc of care, from the ICU to returning home. The first section of the text focuses on preventing adverse outcomes in the ICU, with an emphasis on implementing early mobilization, engaging and supporting families, and employing various forms of therapy. The second section revolves around enhancing recovery post-ICU, focusing on physical and neurocognitive rehabilitation programs, peer support, and poly-pharmacy management. Community reintegration is the subject of the third section, with emphasis on socioeconomic reintegration, healthcare utilization, and volunteerism in ICU recovery. The book concludes with a section on future considerations, specifically spotlighting preliminary ideas that address long-term sequelae and international collaboration to solve critical care challenges. Written by experts in the field, Improving Critical Care Survivorship: A Guide for Prevention, Recovery, and Reintegration is a valuable resource for critical care clinicians and researchers interested in improving the quality of patient survival after ICU admission.
Download or read book Surviving Intensive Care written by Derek C. Angus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years, intensive care has focused on avoiding immediate death from acute, life-threatening conditions. However, there are increasing reports of a number of lingering consequences for those who do indeed survive intensive care. Examples include on-going high risk of death, neurocognitive defects, significant caregiver burden, and continued high healthcare costs. Surviving Intensive Care, written by the world's experts in this area, is dedicated to better understanding the consequences of surviving intensive care and is intended to provide a synopsis of the current knowledge and a stimulus for future research and improved care of the critically ill.
Download or read book Infection in the Intensive Care Unit An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America E Book written by Todd Tartavoulle and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical care units are high-risk areas which contribute to increased health care costs and increased patient morbidity and mortality. Patients in critical care units are commonly confronted with existing and the potential to develop infections. Critical care practitioners play a crucial role as initial providers to critically ill patients with infections through the delivery of timely and appropriate therapies aimed to prevent and treat patient infections. The responsibility of critical care practitioners include prudent delivery of care to treat current infections as well as ensuring the delivery of care does not increase the development of new infections. Aggressive infection control measures are needed to reduce infections in critical care settings. Dissemination of scholarly work on the topic of infection in critically ill patients can play a role in improving patient outcomes. The information provided on infections in this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics promotes the dissemination of current literature on a series of timely and relevant infection topics in critical care environments.
Download or read book Textbook of Post ICU Medicine The Legacy of Critical Care written by Robert D. Stevens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving critical illness is not always the happy ending we imagine for patients. Many ICU survivors suffer from a range of long-lasting physical and psychological issues such end stage renal disease, congestive heart failure, cognitive impairment, neuromuscular weakness, and depression or anxiety, which affect their overall quality of life and ability to lead productive lives. This lingering burden or 'legacy' of critical illness is now recognized as a major public health issue, with major efforts underway to understand how it can be prevented, mitigated, or treated. The Textbook of Post-ICU Medicine: The Legacy of Critical Care discusses the science of the recovery process and the innovative treatment regimens which are helping ICU survivors regain function as they heal following trauma or disease. Describing the major clinical syndromes affecting ICU survivors, the book delineates established or postulated biological mechanisms of the post-acute recovery process, and discusses strategies for treatment and rehabilitation to promote recovery in the ICU and in the long term. The chapters are written by an interdisciplinary panel of leading clinicians and researchers working in the field. The book serves as a unique reference for general practitioners, internists and nurses caring for long term ICU survivors as well as specialists in intensive care medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and rehabilitation medicine.
Download or read book Infection Challenges in the Critical Care Unit An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America written by May M. Riley and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Editor May M. Riley brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Infection Challenges in the Critical Care Unit. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as Implementing an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Pulmonary Infections, Including Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP), Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI), and more. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on Infection Challenges in the Critical Care Unit, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews. Contains 8 relevant, practice-oriented topics including Epidemiology of Invasive Fungal Disease; Management of Sepsis; Multidrug-Resistant Candida Species and Candidiasis Infections; Infections in Geriatric Patients; Transmission and Multidrug-Resistant Organisms; and more.
Download or read book Diagnostic Excellence in the ICU Thinking Critically and Masterfully An Issue of Critical Care Clinics E Book written by Paul Bergl and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest editor Paul Bergl brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Diagnostic Excellence in the ICU. Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on the latest updates in Diagnostic Excellence in the ICU, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
Download or read book Intensive Care Unit in Disaster An Issue of Critical Care Clinics written by Marie Baldisseri and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Marie Baldisseri, Mary Reed, and Randy Wax, in collaboration with Consulting Editor John Kellum, is devoted to Intensive Care Unit in Disaster. Topics in this issue include: Intensive care role in disaster management; Preparing the ICU for disaster; Augmenting capacity; Triage; Natural disasters; Biological/pandemic disasters; Chemical disasters; Radiation; Anthropogenic (terrorist/criminal act) disasters; Special populations (i.e., chronically ill, morbidly obese, pregnant); Pediatrics; Austere environments; Hospital as disaster Ground Zero; and Special considerations (i.e., mental health, ethics, public relations).
Download or read book Evidence Based Practice of Critical Care E Book written by Clifford S. Deutschman and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care, 2nd Edition, presents objective data and expert guidance on managing critically ill patients in unique question-based chapters that focus on best practices. Now thoroughly updated by Drs. Clifford S. Deutschman, Patrick J. Neligan, and nearly 200 critical-care experts, this highly regarded title remains the only book of its kind that provides a comprehensive framework for translating evidence into practice, making it a valuable resource for both residents and practitioners. Tap into the expertise of nearly 200 critical-care experts who discuss the wide variety of clinical options in critical care, examine the relevant research, and provide recommendations based on a thorough analysis of available evidence. Think through each question in a logical, efficient manner, using a practical, consistent approach to available management options and guidelines. Find the information you need quickly with tables that summarize the available literature and recommended clinical approaches. Navigate a full range of challenges from routine care to complicated and special situations. Stay up to date with new issues and controversies such as the redefinition of sepsis • changing approaches to fluid administration • immune suppression in sepsis • monitoring the microcirculation • the long-term sequelae of critical illness • minimizing ventilator associated lung injury • the benefits of evidence-based medicine management guidelines • rapid response teams • and more. Benefit from all-new sections covering persistent critical illness and the role of advanced practice nurses and physician assistants in the ICU.
