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Care of intensive care unit patient

Known as: Care, Critical, Critical care, intensive care unit patient 
Health care provided to a critically ill patient during a medical emergency or crisis.
National Institutes of Health

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Critical care medicine specialtyEmergencies [Disease/Finding]Procedure note:Find:Pt:Hospital:Doc:Pediatric critical care medicineSpecialty Type - Critical care

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Surgical Intensive Care

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patient care

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Review
2008
Review
2008
Organizational characteristics of the austere intensive care unit: The evolution of military trauma and critical care medicine; applications for civilian medical care systems
Critical care in the U.S. military has significantly evolved in the last decade. More recently, the U.S. military has implemented… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
A protocolized approach to identify and manage hyperglycemia in a pediatric critical care unit*
Introduction: Hyperglycemia is a risk factor for poor outcome in critically ill patients, and glycemic control may decrease… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Access to intensive care unit beds for neurosurgery patients: a qualitative case study
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the process used to decide which patients are admitted to the intensive… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Recognition and Prevention of Hospital Violence
  • B. Keely
  • Dimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN
  • 2002
  • Corpus ID: 33929047
Violence is the second leading cause of death in the workplace. Most acts of violence in the healthcare setting go unreported… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Intensive care nurses' experiences with end-of-life care.
BACKGROUND With much attention being focused on how patients die and whether or not they are provided appropriate care, the care… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Population requirement for adult critical-care beds: a prospective quantitative and qualitative study
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Strengthening the in-hospital chain of survival with rapid defibrillation by first responders using automated external defibrillators: training and retention issues.
1994
1994
Intensive care unit psychosis revisited: understanding and managing delirium in the critical care setting.
Delirium occurs frequently in critically ill patients, yet this syndrome is often unrecognized and poorly understood. Health… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Hepatocyte culture systems for artificial liver support: Implications for critical care medicine (bioartificial liver support)
ObjectiveThe primary purpose of this review article is to familiarize critical care practitioners with newly developing… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Critical care nurse perceptions of family needs.
Family needs research has for the most part focused on the families' perceptions when a significant other is admitted to the… 
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