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Alarm Management In Intensive Care – Ucsf Study: Lessons Learned And Future Challenges, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

False Ventricular Tachycardia Alarm Suppression In The Icu Based On The Discrete Wavelet Transform In The Ecg Signal, Rebeca Salas-Boni, Yong Bai, Patricia Harris, Barbara J. Drew, Xiao Hu

Patricia Harris

Heart Rate Turbulence In Patients With Respiratory Failure [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Prelimimary Findings From The “Analysis Of Patient Bedside Monitor Alarms” Study, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Heart Rate Turbulence In Patients With Acute Respiratory Failure [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Comparison Of 1-Year Survival And Heart Rate Variability In Acute Coronary Syndrome. [Abstract], Patricia R.E. Harris, Phyllis K. Stein, Barbara J. Drew

Patricia Harris

Heart Rate Turbulence And Risk Stratification In Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients. [Abstract 0153], Patricia Harris, P. K. Stein, Barbara J. Drew

Patricia Harris

Heart Rate Turbulence And Risk Stratification In Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Comparison Heart Rate Variability And One-Year Survival In Acute Coronary Syndrome [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Preliminary Comparison Of Exercise Reporting Between Electronic And Paper Logs [Abstract], D. Donesky-Cuenco, P. R.E. Harris, H. Nguyen, S. Wolpin, V. Carrieri-Kohlman

Patricia Harris

To Breathe: The Lived Experience Of Mechanical Ventilation. [Abstract], P. R.E. Harris, E. Pillor, R. Nelson

Patricia Harris

The Experience Of Mechanical Ventilation [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Anomalia Anorretal: Relato De Caso Clínico / Anorectal Malformations: A Case Report, Everton Fernando Alves, Jucélia Lins Dos Santos Oliveira, Maria Do Rosário Martins

Everton Fernando Alves

A Anomalia Anorretal é uma importante causa de obstrução gastrintestinal, com alta taxa de morbi-mortalidade em recém-natos. Há diversos mecanismos patológicos possíveis para explicar esta malformação e duas explicações clássicas de sua gênese são um defeito de recanalização do tubo intestinalou uma interrupção no suprimento sanguíneo durante a vida intra-uterina, entretanto a causa ainda é desconhecida. Desta forma, o presenteestudo tem por objetivo descrever um caso clínico de uma criança internada em um Hospital do Município de Maringá-PR, portadora de uma anomalia anorretal (Ânus imper-furado). Para este estudo, foram coletados dados do prontuário da criança, exame físico e uma entrevista …

Long-Term Mechanical Ventilation In A Critical Care Unit: Existing In An Everyday World, Patricia Johnson, Winsome St John, Wendy Moyle

Patricia Johnson

Aim: This paper reports a study to describe and interpret the meaning of being on long-term mechanical ventilation.

Background: Patients who require mechanical ventilation in a critical care unit for prolonged periods of time are typically sicker than those who are ventilated for shorter periods. Despite advances in treatment modalities for critically ill patients, many still require long-term mechanical ventilation for 7 days or more. Therefore, caring for a long-term ventilated patient is often an everyday occurrence for critical care nurses; however, there is insufficient evidence of the meaning of this experience from a patient perspective.

Method: We used an …

University Of California, San Francisco, School Of Nursing, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Medication Administration Safety: Implementing A Systems Approach [Poster], Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

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Reclaiming The Everyday World: How Long-Term Ventilated Patients In Critical Care Seek To Gain Aspects Of Power And Control Over Their Environment, Patricia Johnson

Patricia Johnson

Critical care nurses are increasingly seeking to base patient care on evidence derived from research studies. The purpose of this study was to explore the meanings former patients attributed to being on long-term mechanical ventilation in a critical care unit (CCU) in Australia. Using Heideggerian phenomenology, unstructured interviews were undertaken with nine participants. Data were analysed thematically using the method developed by van Manen. Thematic analysis revealed four major themes. This article presents the findings from the theme titled: Reclaiming the everyday world, which describes how the study participants gained comfort from the presence of nurses and their families, sought …

Critical Care Course Lecturer For Class On Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Critical Care Course Lecturer For Series In Respiratory Failure And Ventilator Management, Patricia Harris

Patricia Harris

Critical Care Nurses Be Aware: Lemierre's Syndrome Is On The Rise, Roseanne Jane, Patricia Johnson

Patricia Johnson

Lemierre's syndrome (LS) typically occurs in previously healthy young adolescents and young adults who become acutely ill following an attack of pharyngotonsillitis. Also known as post anginal sepsis, those afflicted develop pyrexia, rigours and multiple metastatic abscesses that lead to septic thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. In the pre-antibiotic era this particularly virulent syndrome had a mortality rate in excess of 90%, but since the introduction of antibiotics and the widespread treatment of throat infections, it has became almost unknown. However, due to a number of factors, including a reduction in the use of antibiotics for the treatment of …