... reporting
barriers partly owing to fewer liability concerns, and an
opportunity to study recovery patterns [75]. Ideally, error
reporting should be voluntary, anonymous, centralized to
increase ... Herout PM, Erstad BL: Medication errors involving continu-
ously infused medications in a surgical intensive care unit.
Crit Care Med 2004, 32:428-432.
80. Stambouly JJ, McLaughlin LL, Mandel...
... education in
nursing: perceptions of practice in acute settings. Journal of Advanced Nursing 17(2): 164±72.
The Development of Cardiothoracic Surgical Nursing 5
counterproductive particularly in patients ... nitroglycerine
and sodium nitroprusside may also result in arterial hypoxaemia during
administration most likely due to an increase in NO release resulting in an
increa...
... are becoming important in critical
care. Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine (third edition) remains the only book
exclusively dedicated to infectious diseases in critical care.
Importantly, ... care.
Importantly, Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine (third edition) is written from the
infectious disease perspective by clinicia...
...
and understanding of those abroad, who are interested in the particularities
of water management in the Netherlands.
Water Management
in the Netherlands
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Introduction 7
1 The development of water management...
... Certification/Qualification. In this backdrop, Project Management
Institute was founded in 1969 by five forward-thinking individuals who understood the value of
networking, sharing process information and discussing ... e-Government projects in developing countries including in India
raises important and serious questions about the justifiability of the huge investments in fi...
... statement on training in critical care
ultrasonography.
Following the development of the Statement on Com-
petence, a working group met in 2009 to develop guide-
lines for training in critical care ultrasonography.
Represent ... basic
level critical care echocardiography and general critical
care ultrasound should be a required part of the training
of every ICU phy...
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expressed as a percentage of the preceding value.
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in Critical Care
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in Critical Care
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with severe meningococcal sepsis.
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SE Lapinsky
Mount Sinai Hospital and the Interdepartmental Divisi...
... crystalloid solutions was
used in critically ill patients with burns, hypovolemia, or
hypoalbuminemia [9]. Perhaps it is no surprise that the use of
albumin in the United Kingdom decreased by ... use of
albumin when the Cochrane Injuries Group published a
systematic review suggesting there may be a 6% (95%
confidence interval [CI], 3–9%) absolute increase in mortality
when albumin as co...
... research
participants and in public trust in the research enterprise.
Challenges in oversight and monitoring
The lack of effective oversight and monitoring in clinical
research makes it similar in many respects ... monitoring and oversight
for ethical and high quality clinical research.
Keywords critical care research, institutional accountability, institut...
... assessments of cerebrospinal fluid from ventricular
and lumbar drains. Lumbar inflammation was consistently
Review
Year in review in
Critical Care
, 2004: sepsis and multi-organ
failure
James ... proinflammatory response to
infection in patients with septic shock.
Insulin and glycemia in sepsis
Rusavy and colleagues [16] compared energy expenditure
and glucose...
... Team
work training in the areas of conflict resolution, learning styles
and giving feedback will help the staff to work together to
create and achieve an inspiring vision [12]. Although the
financial ... work.
Competing interests
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
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now routinely utilized for assessing healthcare quality. As with
Commentary
The essential nature of healthcare databases in critical care
medicine
Greg S Martin
Department ... or within a specific healthcare delivery
system. In the field of critical care medicine, there are
databases such as Project Impact Critical Care Medici...