Mobilizing patients in the intensive care unit: improving neuromuscular weakness and physical function.

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Effectiveness of a central line bundle campaign on line-associated infections in the intensive care unit.

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Duration of Withdrawal of Life Support in the Intensive Care Unit and Association with Family Satisfaction

Gerstel , E . ; Engelberg , R . A . ; Koepsell , T . ; Curtis , J . R .
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Presentation: ICU Emergency Airway Management

Critical Care Bulletin: http://www.slideshare.net/fergua/icu-emergency-airway-management?type=powerpoint ..... blood pressure (1); blood procalcitonin (1); bowel management

Slideshare is a website containing free to view/share presentations on a wide range of topics not just clinical.

Quality Improvement Program to Reduce Pressure Ulcers in an ICU

Benoit RA Jr, Watts C. The effect of a pressure ulcer prevention program
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This quasi-experimental practice improvement program was conducted in a 14-bed adult general ICU at the Royal North Shore Hospital, a 600-bed metropolitan teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia. The hospital is a tertiary referral facility for a wide range of speciality services such as spinal, renal, neuroscience, and burns. In this and other Australian ICUs, an accredited ICU staff specialist is ultimately responsible for the admission and management of all patients.

Renal failure in the intensive care unit : acute kidney injury compared to end - stage renal failure

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Marlies Ostermann ; Ren& # 233 ; Chang and the Riyadh ICU Program Users Group
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The effect of intensive care unit staffing model on tidal volume in patients with acute lung injury

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Colin R Cooke ; Timothy R Watkins ; Jeremy M Kahn ; Miriam M Treggiari ; Ellen Caldwell ; Leonard D Hudson and Gordon D Rubenfeld
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Assessing the reliability of the Sedation - Agitation Scale between nurses and doctors in a New Zealand ICU

Ruseckaite R . ; Bucknall T .
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Using consensus methods to develop clinical practice guidelines for intensive care : The Intensive Care Collaborative project

Rolls K . D . ; Elliott D .
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Australian Critical Care articles

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The future of intensive care : Focus on nursing
Verger J .
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ICU patient's transfer anxiety : A prospective cohort study
Gustad L . T . ; Chaboyer W . ; Wallis M .
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Transition to intensive care nursing : Establishing a starting point
Boyle M . ; Butcher R . ; Conyers V . ; Kendrick T . ; MacNamara M . ; Lang S .
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Procalcitonin levels in acute exacerbation of COPD admitted in ICU: a prospective cohort study

Research article Procalcitonin levels in acute exacerbation of COPD admitted in ICU: a prospective cohort study

Daubin C, Parienti JJ, Vabret A, Ramakers M, Fradin S, Terzi N, Freymuth F, Charbonneau P, du Cheyron DBMC Infectious Diseases 2008, 8:145 (23 October 2008)[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

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Pressure Modes of Mechanical Ventilation: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Suzanne M. Burns, RN, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM, FAANP

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High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation in Adults: Clinical Considerations and Management Priorities
Louise Rose, PhD, MN, Adult Ed Cert, BN, ICU Cert

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Sedation Management in the Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Patient
Eunice M. Fuchs, RN, MS, ACNP, CCNS, CCRN; Kathryn Von Rueden, RN, MS, FCCM

Standards of practice in UK emergency departments before, during and after conscious sedation

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S T Adams
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Frontal EEG for intensive care unit sedation : treating numbers or patients ?

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Peter V Sackey
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