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Publikováno v:
Case Reports in Medicine, Vol 2009 (2009)
Impalement injuries are a unique form of penetrating trauma and are typically associated with a fall onto the object (Steele, 2006). We present the case of a 45-year-old man who reportedly slipped in his bathtub and fell onto a broomstick. Radiograph
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https://doaj.org/article/fbfaddea790b4faeaea4368b98660167
Publikováno v:
Critical care medicine. 45(4)
Objectives Escalation of commitment is a business term that describes the continued investment of resources into a project even after there is objective evidence of the project's impending failure. Escalation of commitment may be a contributor to hig
Autor:
Carla C. Braxton, Elizabeth Carlton, Niaman Nazir, Jessica McDonnell, John Alley, Jessica Heimes, Michael Moncure, Tracy Rogers, Nina Shik, Todd Lansford
Publikováno v:
Surgical Infections. 12:99-103
We hypothesized that strict enforcement of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention (VAPP) strategies would decrease the incidence of VAP and improve patient outcomes.This retrospective study examined 696 consecutive ventilated patients in a
Autor:
Elizabeth Carlton, Carla C. Braxton, Mendy Kling-Smith, Michael Moncure, Jonathan D. Mahnken, Chad M. Cannon
Publikováno v:
Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection & Critical Care. 67:1426-1430
Currently, specific triage criteria, such as blood pressure, respiratory status, Glasgow Coma Scale, and mechanism of injury are used to categorize trauma patients and prioritize emergency department (ED) and trauma team responses. It has been demons
Autor:
Ryan Endress, Michael Moncure, Carla C. Braxton, Elizabeth Carlton, Nina Shik, Todd Lansford, Kahdi F. Udobi, Roy R. Danks
Publikováno v:
Surgical Infections. 8:505-510
We hypothesized that implementing evidence-based ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) prevention (VAPP) strategies would decrease the incidence of VAP, and that VAP affects patient outcomes.A prospective study was performed with 331 consecutive vent
Publikováno v:
JAMA surgery. 149(6)
Importance Although the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has defined 6 core competencies required of resident education, no consensus exists on best practices for reaching resident proficiency. Surgery programs must develop resour
Publikováno v:
Surgical Clinics of North America. 80:949-956
Transport of critically ill or injured patients in the hospital is a necessary part of ICU care. Although the overall severity of misadventures occurring during patient transfer is minimal, potential complications risk patient deterioration in settin
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 61:1277-1279
Autor:
Carla C. Braxton
Publikováno v:
Surgical infections. 13(5)
Surgical complications are multifactorial but often are attributable to deficiencies in the quality of care. This review examines how quality is defined in surgery, the modalities employed to measure quality, and the approaches to improving the quali
Publikováno v:
The Journal of ambulatory care management. 33(2)
In the landmark document Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine lists 6 aims of healthcare, one of which is that healthcare has to be effective. One means of improving the effectiveness of healthcare includes the creation of evidence-b