Critical Care - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To characterize the effects of critical illness in the daily lives and functioning of acute respiratory distress syndrome survivors. Survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome, a systemic critical illness, often report poor quality ... Read more...

Using research to determine support for a policy on family presence during resuscitation.

30 Aug 2009 National guidelines and professional organizations have recommended allowing family presence during resuscitation and bedside invasive procedures. Studies found that only 5% of critical care units have written policies. Periodic requests by family ... Read more...

The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit.

30 Aug 2009 This article presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating how critical care nurses include families in end-of-life care. The major theme, "Supporting the Families' Journey Through the Dying Process," illustrates how critical care ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Critical Care - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 29 Sep 2009
• Using research to determine support for a policy on family presence during resuscitation. 30 Aug 2009
• The "big picture": communicating with families about end-of-life care in intensive care unit. 30 Aug 2009
• Intergenerational views of hardiness in critical care nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• [The needs of the critical patients' relatives in the emergency department and how they are met] 30 Aug 2009
• An ethical framework for developing and sustaining a healthy workplace. 29 Jun 2009
• Emotional and behavioral changes in parents of children affected by hemolytic-uremic syndrome associated with verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli: a qualitative analysis. 29 Apr 2009
• Exploring patients' experiences of a nurse-led follow-up service after critical care. 29 Apr 2009
• Rituals, death and the moral practice of medical futility. 29 Apr 2009
• Innovative solutions--the art of improvisation: patient and family preferences for visitation in critical care. 29 Apr 2009
• Hope and change in critical care. 29 Apr 2009
• Critical care nurses' work environments 2008: a follow-up report. 30 Mar 2009
• Craft your own healthy work environment: got your BFF? 30 Mar 2009
• Perceived met and unmet needs of family members of patients in the pediatric intensive care unit. 30 Mar 2009
• The essence of life purpose. 30 Mar 2009
• The use of mirrors in critical care nursing. 30 Mar 2009
• Medical futility: a paradigm as old as Hippocrates. 27 Feb 2009
• Pet visitation. 27 Feb 2009
• The consultative process used in outreach: a narrative account. 30 Dec 2008
• AHRQ healthcare exchange: promoting adoption of innovations. 30 Dec 2008

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Technical information about 'Critical Care'

Definition: Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.

Descriptor UI: D003422

Alternative terms: Critical Care; Care, Critical;

Related Mesh Headings: Intensive Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.190; N02.421.585.190;

History Note: 75