ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF INTENSIVE CARE UNIT NURSES TOWARDS OPEN ENDOTRACHEAL SUCTIONING FOR MECHANICALLY VENTILATED PATIENT IN FOUR SELECTED GOVERNMENT PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN ADDIS ABABA,ETHIOPIA

... ICU-acquired hyponatraemia, while baseline creatinine, mechanical ventilation and level of care were associated with ICU-acquired hypernatraemia Outcomes of care Length of stay and mortality in the ICU and ... determine both the aetiology of the ICU-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia and clinicians' responses Second, our study was observational in natur...

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... study of physicians’ knowledge of the pulmonary artery catheter Pulmonary Artery Catheter Study Group JAMA 1990, 264:2928-2932 10 Dalen JE, Bone RC: Is it time to pull the pulmonary artery catheter? ... done by properly trained physicians [9] The potential risks are significant, however, and in many situations PACs contribute only to unnecessary morbidity and mort...

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... Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) The precision of the assay calculated by the intra-assay and inter-assay coefficient of variation was

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... is in accordance with an earlier study by the Scottish national ICU registry [14] This means that the short LOS in the Finnish nonsurvivors may in part be explained by the higher severity of these ... the lifecycle principle in which rationing is performed on the basis of age as well as prognosis [20] An earlier Finnish study of the ICU treatment of the elder...

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... advantage of being readily available and easily incorporated into general ICU databases without additional data collection Customized versions of SAPS II and MPM II24 for septic patients were introduced ... With increasing international travel and the trend toward globalization, an international perspective on the outcome following sepsis is becoming increasingly importa...

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... for daily interruption of sedation and × for sedation algorithm) ; the lines represent the composite SOFA for each group (thick line for daily interruption of sedation; dashed line for sedation algorithm) ... daily interruption of sedation time for the Sequential treated Failure Assessment (SOFA) overand sedationgroup of patients treated by daily interrupti...

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... analysed the results and drafted the article MS was involved in critically revising the draft JG made substantial contributions to the data analysis GB was substantially involved in the analysis, ... Proportion of medicationorder entry (CPOE) using the Clinical Informacomputerised physician order entry (CPOE) using the Clinical Information System with 95% confide...

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... months after discharge 34 TAPQOL months after discharge 33 TAPQOL and months after discharge 22 6-11 years questionnaires returned TACQOL-PF months after discharge 21 TACQOL-PF months after discharge ... of life of children after admission to an intensive care unit Intensive Care Med 2003, 29:795-800 Ambuehl J, Karrer A, Meer A, Riedel T, Sc...

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... cycle In addition, an amplitude index was calculated as follows: Amplitude index = amplitude ÷ mean of variables × 100 Statistical analysis Data were analyzed with SPSS and Statview ANOVA was ... eleven neonates (59.4%) were intubated and 72 neonates (38.5%) received oxygen Rhythmicity analysis Results of the analyses of rhythmicity are summarized in Table To ensure the...

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... common oral problems including the oral manifestations of HIV/AIDS Given shrinking health budgets, economic constraints and the diminishing capacity for oral health personnel to handle the burden of ... in the Bui division concurring with the findings of Gessler et al [34] Less than half of the TH had formal training Furthermore, the training was not stan...

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... al.: Short-term prediction of threatening and violent behaviour in an Acute Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based on patient and environment characteristics BMC Psychiatry 2011 11:44 Submit your ... Reduction of stimuli, or 4: Control of behaviour) If more than one reason was present, the physician indicated the dominating category “Physician’s pred...

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... interests 16 Financial support 17 None Authors' contributions 18 Dr Fartoukh had full access to the data and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis 19 ... remains the cornerstone for the management of severe haemoptysis Bedside clinical evaluation and early fiberoptic bronchoscopy may safely screen patients...

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... patient of gaining valuable information regarding the cardiovascular system and oxygen delivery [6] Bioimpedance cardiography offers an apparently attractive noninvasive way of estimating cardiac output ... Firstly, by comparing two continuous methods of cardiac output measurement, the inevitable errors of synchronization using intermittent methods are virtually eliminate...

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... with 47%) and any allergies they may have, and every individual drug entry was authorised With intermittent and scheduled therapy the mandatory fields of drug, dose, route and frequency meant that ... Start and stop dates and changes in dose were always recorded and identifiable in comparison with handwritten prescriptions where changes in doses were less likely to...

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... remifentanil infusions in ICU patients with varying degrees of renal impairment, including patients with severe renal dysfunction A series of down-titrations of the remifentanil infusion were ... safety profiles of remifentanil administered by continuous intravenous infusion for up to 72 hours in ICU patients with varying degrees of renal impairment...

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