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The value of surgical applications (App) that prepare patients for major surgery has yet to be demonstrated. With the development of a new successful training programme ERAS+, for patients undergoing major surgery [1] , we wished to understand if an ERAS+ App would be seen as useful by this group.
Communication is central to the safe and effective delivery of critical care. We present a retrospective analysis of hospital incident reports attributed to communication that were generated by 30 intensive care units in the North West of England from 2009 to 2014. We reviewed when during the critical care pathway incidents occur, the personnel inv...
Kidney disease can be defined as acute or chronic kidney injury. Acute kidney injury is measured directly via glomerular filtration rate and indirectly via urea and electrolyte levels. Acute kidney injury can be classified via the RIFLE criteria.
Chronic kidney injury is a progressive and irreversible condition, which is defined as an estimated glo...
Therapeutic interventions administered on Critical Care are often dosed on the basis of patient body size, to ensure treatments are effective in achieving their goals and to prevent harm from overdose. Many treatment modalities use predicted weights estimated from descriptors such as sex, weight and height to reduce error that is associated with us...
Stress ulcers are gastric mucosal defects that occur as a result of the physiological stress associated with serious illness. They may result in overt gastrointestinal bleeding in up to 8.5% of patients admitted to the intensive care unit. Numerous risk factors for stress ulceration have been identified including shock, sepsis, burns, head injury,...