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Nursing care of the mechanically ventilated patient: What does the evidence say?
- Source :
- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. 23:4-14
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2007.
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Abstract
- Summary The care of the mechanically ventilated patient is a fundamental component of a nurse's clinical practice in the intensive care unit (ICU). Published work relating to the numerous nursing issues of the care of the mechanically ventilated patient in the ICU is growing significantly, yet is fragmentary by nature. The purpose of this paper is to provide a single comprehensive examination of the evidence related to the care of the mechanically ventilated patient. In part one of this two-part paper, the evidence on nursing care of the mechanically ventilated patient was explored with specific focus on patient safety: particularly patient and equipment assessment. This article, part two, examines the evidence related to the mechanically ventilated patient's comfort : patient position, hygiene, management of stressors (such as communication, sleep disturbance and isolation), pain management and sedation.
- Subjects :
- Mechanical ventilation
Sleep disorder
medicine.medical_specialty
Isolation (health care)
business.industry
Sedation
medicine.medical_treatment
MEDLINE
Pain management
Critical Care Nursing
medicine.disease
Intensive care unit
law.invention
Nursing care
Patient safety
law
medicine
medicine.symptom
business
Intensive care medicine
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09643397
- Volume :
- 23
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....aae7042f5d0626e56a7add34e742207b