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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Tim 07:37 I was going to say the terminology really came from the legal literature that we kind of adopted, I think in that 2017 statement. But I remember very clearly, not too long after the 2017 statement was published, our office administrative assistant said, hey Tim, you got a phone call from someone I didn’t recognized.

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Sepsis Survivors Face Continued Risk of Hospital Readmissions

Daily Nurse

Despite the success of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, which has reduced sepsis prevalence and related deaths by nearly 30% from 1990 through 2017, there is a growing concern about the post-discharge outcomes for survivors.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. Alex: Yeah.

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Challenges for paediatric critical care provision.

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

The pandemic demonstrated that capacity was not just about beds or a ventilator, but reliant on the presence of a knowledgeable, highly skilled RN 29,30. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2017-313915 NHS England. A third of our population must be able to receive critical care when they need it. eClinicalMedicine. 102776,ISSN 2589-5370, [link].

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Journey into the Life of a Rescue Flight Nurse

The Nurse Break

When a position became available at RACQ LifeFlight Rescue in 2017, it was appealing because of its diverse and dynamic characteristics to a nursing role. The majority are adult patients with all types of conditions, commonly cardiac, complex medical and surgical, or trauma – they are often intubated and ventilated and on inotropes.

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100 Men in Nursing – amazing male nurses, midwives and students

The Nurse Break

Titration of ventilation settings, CRRT troubleshooting, vasopressor management, and supporting loved ones, all the while trying to manage documentation and patients who are critically unwell or aggressive as a result of ICU delirium. Read our Q&A with Ethan when he was a student HERE. Shea | Graduate Nurse.

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