Critical Care

08/01/2008 - "Most of the public and trauma professionals would prefer palliative care when doctors determine that aggressive critical care would not be beneficial in saving their lives. "
01/01/2013 - "This may be increasingly beneficial in trauma models in which the trauma surgeons also serve as critical care intensivists."
07/01/2004 - "Integration of trauma care into the surgical residency program has been valuable both for function of the trauma center and as a teaching enhancement for trauma and critical care as reflected by significantly improved American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination scores. "
03/01/2013 - "The intensivist model of critical care is feasible, and there is room for improvement in the care of major trauma patients. "
12/01/2007 - "A doctor with critical care skills deployed on the MERT is associated with improved survival in victims of major trauma. "

01/01/2006 - "Appropriate positioning of the critically ill patient can dramatically improve gas exchange, resulting in a shorter stay in the critical care unit and an improved outcome. "
07/01/2013 - "With its powerful ability to monitoring and support of organs, the survival rate of critically ill patients has been improved significantly by critical care medicine. "
01/01/2005 - "Future challenges will include providing an adequate workforce; ensuring critical care is delivered to the right patients at the right time; converting advances in our understanding of the biology of critical illness into improved care and outcomes; and partnering successfully with patients, families, and society in forging the critical care of the future."
07/01/2014 - "Neurocritical care has been at the forefront of our thinking and, more latterly, as a specialty we have had the technology and means to develop this focus, educate the next generation and show that outcomes can be improved-first in adult critical care and now the task is to translate these benefits to critically ill children. "
11/01/2013 - "Although studies demonstrating improved clinical outcomes for critically ill patients managed by focused critical care echocardiography are generally lacking, there is evidence to suggest that some intermediate outcomes are improved. "

06/01/2011 - "Over the past 30 years, techniques of early excision and grafting along with enhancement of critical care have significantly improved survival following burn injury. "
01/01/2007 - "Advances in critical care and surgical management have significantly improved survival after burn injury over the past several decades. "
01/01/1992 - "The treatment of THS was performed by means of negative aero-ionization which turned effective in children after abdominal surgery, in burn and critical care units."
01/01/2014 - "Advances in treatment and critical care have largely improved the survival following burns; therefore, the importance of quality of life in burn patients is an issue beyond question. "
03/01/2000 - "However, coincident with refinements in resuscitation, operative techniques, and critical care, survival rates for children with burns seem to have improved. "

01/01/2005 - "The critical care nurse's role is to better QOL by improving the ICU survivor's transition into the post-ICU period through improved mobility, good management of sedation, pain, sleep and, most importantly, discharge planning."
11/01/2015 - "Providing safe and effective pain relief is a primary goal of neonatal critical care specialists to ensure good outcomes. "
10/14/2003 - "Preoperative visiting by a critical care pain nurse has improved patient care within the intensive care and high dependency units of Leicester General Hospital. "
10/01/2000 - "However, a significantly greater percentage of non-ACT nurse anesthetists placed epidurals and central lines and were involved in pain management and critical care consultations. "
12/01/2011 - "It is recommended that patient's self-report of pain should be obtained as often as possible as the "gold standard." Unfortunately in critical care, many factors can alter verbal communication with patients, making pain assessment more difficult. "

12/01/2009 - "Just as simple tools have helped reduce bloodstream infections, our hope is that the toolkit presented here will help critical care teams to meet the important communication needs of ICU families."
04/01/1989 - "Infection control standards and methods to manage the risk of infection are appropriate areas of research for critical care nursing and hold the potential for improved patient outcomes for this vulnerable group of transplant patients."
03/01/2014 - "Use of shoe covers in critical care area is not helpful in preventing infections of common ICU pathogens and length of stay in ICU patients; nor has it decreased the mortality."
10/01/2015 - "The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between nursing job satisfaction and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in adult critical care. "
05/01/2015 - "Rapid detection of health-care-associated bloodstream infection in critical care using multipathogen real-time polymerase chain reaction technology: a diagnostic accuracy study and systematic review."