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Helping a family on a very special day.
(Care to Share., The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, 2022-12-21)Staff Nurse Kim Burke works on our Integrated Critical Care Unit (ICCU) and she went out of her way to make sure patient Geoffrey Dudson could enjoy his daughter’s big day. -
Critical Care follow-up clinic, COVID-19 challenges and future plans.
(Care to Share, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, 2022-12-21)The Critical Care Follow-up Clinic aims to provide support from experienced staff to patients and their relatives. Patients who have been seriously ill on a ventilator in intensive care for more than three days are assessed ... -
Airway management, intensive care requirement, and corticosteroid use in cervicofacial infection: a Maxillofacial Trainee Research Collaborative (MTReC) study.
(British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Elsevier, 2022-08-27)Cervicofacial infection (CFI) is a frequently encountered presentation to Oral and Maxillofacial Departments (OMFS). The United Kingdom has recently seen cessation of all routine community dental treatment due to the ... -
International study on microcirculatory shock occurrence in acutely ill patients.
(Critical Care Medicine, Wolters Kluwer, 2015-01-01)Objectives: Microcirculatory alterations are associated with adverse outcome in subsets of critically ill patients. The prevalence and significance of microcirculatory alterations in the general ICU population are unknown. ... -
The third ultrasound dimension in anaesthesia and intensive care.
(British Journal of Anaesthesia, Elsevier, 2015-03-01)No abstract available. -
COVID-19 and critical care capacity: can we mitigate demand?
(Respirology, Wiley, 2021-12-05)No abstract available. -
Emergency management of neck stoma patients during the coronavirus pandemic: a national nurse survey.
(British Journal of Nursing, Mark Allen Publishing., 2021-06-24)Background: Neck stoma patient care involves significant clinical complexity. Inadequate staff training, equipment provision and infrastructure have all been highlighted as causes for avoidable patient harm. Aims: To ... -
Psychological distress and trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic: survey of doctors practising anaesthesia, intensive care medicine, and emergency medicine in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
(British Journal of Anaesthesia, Elsevier, 2021-08-01)No abstract available. -
Neck stoma patients: is vital information displayed at the bedside?
(British Journal of Nursing, Mark Allen Publishing, 2016-03-14)Tracheostomies are common procedures in head and neck and critical care practice, with 50% of airway-related deaths attributable to complications such as occlusion or displacement. The National Tracheostomy Safety Project ... -
A safe approach to percutaneous tracheostomy for COVID-19 patients in intensive care.
(Cureus, Cureus Inc., 2021-04-24)The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has placed a burden on critical care facilities worldwide. Patients who remain critically unwell with COVID-19 require prolonged periods of ventilation, and the burden of both ... -
Research priorities by professional background - A detailed analysis of the James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership.
(Journal of the Intensive Care Society, SAGE Publications, 2016-05-01)The Intensive Care Foundation, in partnership with the James Lind Alliance, has supported a national project to identify and prioritise unanswered questions about adult intensive care that are important to people who have ... -
Haemodiafiltration as an effective treatment option for massive paracetamol overdose.
(BMJ Case Reports, BMJ Publishing Ltd, 2019-04-05)An 84-year-old woman presented to hospital with severe clinical and metabolic sequelaesequelae of a massive paracetamol overdose (concentration=822 mg/L). In spite of N-acetylcysteine therapy, she deteriorated with evidence ... -
Postgraduate education and specialty training in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic: experience from a large teaching hospital in the United Kingdom
(Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, Termedia Publishing House Ltd., 2020-12-04)No abstract available. -
Dynamic individual vital sign trajectory early warning score (DyniEWS) versus snapshot national early warning score (NEWS) for predicting postoperative deterioration.
(Resuscitation, Elsevier., 2020-11-09)Aims: International early warning scores (EWS) including the additive National Early Warning Score (NEWS) and logistic EWS currently utilise physiological snapshots to predict clinical deterioration. We hypothesised that ... -
A case of Paget-Schroetter syndrome (PSS) in a young judo tutor: a case report.
(Journal of Medical Case Reports, Springer Nature, 2016-03-18)Background: We present a case of unsuspected Paget-Schroetter syndrome (also called effort thrombosis), one of the rare causes of upper extremity deep vein thrombosis. To the best of our knowledge, this was the first such ... -
Support after patient death in the intensive care unit: Why 'I' is an important letter in grief.
(Nursing in Critical Care, Published, 2020-08-19)At the time of writing, we are mindful of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the morally distressing situations experienced in intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide. We are also sensitively aware that some readers may be experiencing ... -
What's in this special issue
(Nursing in Critical Care, Wiley, 2020-08-19)The modern intensive care unit (ICU) is an environment of high acuity and mortality in comparison with other in‐hospital areas. Despite the medical technology and intensive care offered to patients, recovery is not always ...
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