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Risk of Respiratory Failure Evolves After Sepsis Onset

Daily Nurse

The researchers recommend future proactive studies focusing on the effects of fluid resuscitation and other care processes on the need for mechanical ventilation in this patient population. Risks decreased with time for the SOFA score and congestive heart failure and varied for four comorbidities and three culture results.

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Clinical Education – but I don’t have time…

The Nurse Break

In my first blog Clinical Education – whose job is it anyway , I discussed the essential need to make education core business to our nursing and organisational responsibilities, but we also need to broaden the way we think about what contributing to clinical education means.

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ECMO Nurse – The Fascinating And Intense World

The Nurse Break

Patients are pronounced dead in the field after 45 minutes of advance resuscitation if there is no return of circulation (ROSC). Take for example disease progression in COVID patients, no one would have a good understanding of this before 2021. But together we learned and shared experiences to better these patientscare.

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Journey into the Life of a Rescue Flight Nurse

The Nurse Break

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. Most transfers from the RACQ LifeFlight Rescue Brisbane base are inter-facility transfers to secondary or tertiary hospitals for definitive patient care.

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How To Become a Registered Nurse

Nurse.com

A registered nurse is, “An individual who has graduated from a state-approved school of nursing, passed the NCLEX-RN examination, and is licensed by a state board of nursing to provide patient care,” according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). Performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.

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A Complete Guide to Peri-anaesthesia & Perioperative Nursing: Part 1

The Nurse Break

As the medical team finishes the procedure, the scrub nurse will apply the dressings, then the anaesthetic team takes over patient care. Basic life support encompasses all areas involving patient assessment, deterioration and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Scout nurse. Basic life support.

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AI for surrogate decision making?!? Dave Wendler, Jenny Blumenthal-Barby, Teva Brender

GeriPal

If you look at the recordings of discussions they have with their doctors and even sort of the intonation when they talked about resuscitation, maybe that gives you information you could use to predict. Now there’s looking at online behavior. Teva has this really nice paper. So how authentic is that to represent myself?

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