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Cleaning Stethoscopes with Ethanol-based Cleaner vs Isopropyl Alcohol — Which Is Better?
For many years, infection-control experts have focused on improving the hand hygiene habits of health care providers. -
Can Mixed Venous Saturation Be Monitored Non-invasively?
The NICO monitor (Respironics, Inc.) uses co2 production, estimated from changes in exhaled CO2 during a brief period of rebreathing, to determine cardiac output via the Fick relationship. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Critical Care Alert September 2009 Issue in PDF
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Extubation to Non-invasive Ventilation for Weaning Reduces Mortality, Morbidity, and Length of Stay
In 2003, Burns and colleagues published a cochrane review of available studies examining the effects of early direct extubation to non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in adult patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure. -
Gastric or Duodenal Feeding Tubes: Does It Matter?
In this study examining both the attainment of nutritional goals and the incidence of complications related to enteral feeding, patients in the medical ICU of a university-affiliated tertiary hospital in Taiwan were randomized to nutritional support via nasoduodenal (ND) vs nasogastric (NG) tubes. -
Special Feature: Get out of Bed and Walk!
Early in my career as a respiratory therapist, we had an unusual piece of equipment in the ICU the Birdmobile. This distinctive piece of equipment was a souped-up walker with wheels, to which we added a Bird Mark 7 ventilator, oxygen tanks, and a seat. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Critical Care Alert August 2009 Issue in PDF
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Quality of Life Among Survivors of ICU Admission for COPD
This paper reports on a comprehensive follow-up of patients with severe airway obstruction who were admitted to 92 ICUs or to 3 high-dependency respiratory units in the United Kingdom during 2002 and 2003.