Critical Care - Standards
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency.

30 Oct 2009 We reviewed and classified all patient safety incidents submitted from critical care units in England and Wales to the National Patient Safety Agency for the first quarter of 2008. A total of 6649 incidents were submitted from 141 organisations ... Read more...

Upgrading the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' evidence-leveling hierarchy.

30 Aug 2009 In August 2008, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' (AACN's) Evidence-Based Practice Resource Work Group met to review current AACN Practice Alerts and to identify new Practice Alerts to be created. The work group was also tasked with ... Read more...

Prevention and treatment of medical and neurological complications in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage.

30 Jul 2009 Treatment of patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage not only involves securing the aneurysm by endovascular coiling or surgical clipping but also prevention and treatment of the medical and neurological complications of the bleed. These ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Critical Care - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Review of patient safety incidents submitted from Critical Care Units in England & Wales to the UK National Patient Safety Agency. 30 Oct 2009
• Upgrading the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' evidence-leveling hierarchy. 30 Aug 2009
• Miles to go before we sleep. 30 Aug 2009
• Pay for performance in critical care: an executive summary of the position paper by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. 30 Aug 2009
• Peter Pronovost: champion of checklists in critical care. 6 Aug 2009
• Prevention and treatment of medical and neurological complications in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. 30 Jul 2009
• [Expert's formalized recommendations. Glycemic control in ICU and during anaesthesia: useful recommendations] 5 Jul 2009
• Sepsis bundles: time for a nursing initiative? 29 Jun 2009
• Burn rehabilitation and research: proceedings of a consensus summit. 29 Jun 2009
• Therapeutic temperature management: why, who, when, where, and how. 29 Jun 2009
• Through the wire. Telemedicine program helps improve critical care in rural region. 27 Jun 2009
• Glucose control in the intensive care unit: a roller coaster ride or a swinging pendulum? 31 May 2009
• A clarion call for change. 30 May 2009
• [Acute thoracic pain: Chest Pain Unit - the certification campaign of the German Society of Cardiology] 29 Apr 2009
• Preliminary national survey of pharmacist involvement in trauma resuscitation. 29 Apr 2009
• Guidelines for the Provision and Assessment of Nutrition Support Therapy in the Adult Critically Ill Patient: Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.). 29 Apr 2009
• An evaluation of the impact of a tracheostomy weaning protocol on extubation time. 29 Apr 2009
• [Overview of the proceedings of the International Symposium of AACC on Critical and Point-of Care Testing, Barcelona, September 17-20, 2008] 29 Apr 2009
• Intensive care unit occupancy and patient outcomes. 29 Apr 2009
• Prediction equations to determine caloric requirements in critically ill patients. 30 Mar 2009

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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