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2024 12 Mar
Critical care pharmacists have grown in numbers and effectiveness, but their need exceeds availability. Their contributions, role, and benefits are discussed with how to justify adding these highly trained practitioners to your critical care team. Introduction I was asked recently what the most important change I had seen during the...Read more
2019 25 Jun
Our online survey about how you handle patient-ventilator asynchronies is now closed and the winners have been drawn! The majority of survey participants consider asynchronies to be either very critical or extremely critical for patient safety (66%) and patient comfort (77%). Waveform analysis is the most common method of monitoring and recognizing...Read more
2016 30 Nov
Whether they are called handoffs or handovers, it is known from the literature that the transfer of patient information between caregivers at shift changes has the potential for error. Although the U.S. Joint Commission requires healthcare providers to implement a standardised approach to handoff communication as a national patient safety goal, clear...Read more
2016 11 Mar
There has been good progress in the last decade to ensure that the patient voice is heard at all levels, including in research and service planning. However there is still more to be done, and this article sets out the case for meaningful intensive care patient and relative involvement and how this can be achieved. Why Involve Former Intensive...Read more
2014 04 Apr
A recent study, presented at the meeting of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) in Washington and published by the New England Journal of Medicine, has cast a doubt over therapy used in more than 80 countries and prescribed to treat hypertension that does not respond to drugs. Renal artery denervation is an intervention in which nerve connections...Read more