Back to Search
Start Over
Nurse-Driven Titration of Continuous Insulin Infusion in Post–Cardiac Surgery Patients
- Source :
- Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing. 31:188-192
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2012.
-
Abstract
- This article describes the unique practice of nurse-driven titration of continuous insulin infusion in post-cardiac surgery patients in the intensive care unit at a tertiary care teaching hospital. A prospective quality assurance study was conducted to support our innovative practice.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Blood Glucose
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Emergency Nursing
Critical Care Nursing
Tertiary care
Teaching hospital
law.invention
Insulin infusion
Insulin Infusion Systems
Postoperative Complications
law
Diabetes Mellitus
medicine
Humans
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
Arizona
Middle Aged
Intensive care unit
Organizational Innovation
Cardiac surgery
Intensive Care Units
Treatment Outcome
Emergency medicine
Female
business
Quality assurance
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 07304625
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c3cd82420a38bd740430413043cdb6ff
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/dcc.0b013e31824e013b