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Robert E. St. John
Publikováno v:
Critical Care Nurse. 23:83-88
Autor:
Robert E. St. John, Philip D. Thomson
Publikováno v:
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. 11:423-435
Advances in technology now permit a variety of noninvasive respiratory monitoring options for clinicians. Perhaps a more complex issue is determining how much monitoring is needed as part of routine patient care. This article reviews selected noninva
Autor:
Robert E. St. John
Publikováno v:
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. 11:7-17
Maintenance of a patent airway that allows adequate gas exchange is fundamental to the management of any critically ill patient. In the intensive care setting, a number of artificial airways are used clinically, such as oral and nasopharyngeal airway
Publikováno v:
Heart & Lung. 27:285-292
To determine (1) the relationship between results from 2 methods to measure glucose in tracheobronchial aspirates, (2) the effect of blood glucose levels on tracheobronchial glucose levels, and (3) the relationship between results from 2 methods to m
Autor:
Steven D. Shapiro, Ellen Trovillion, Robert E. St. John, Marin H. Kollef, Benjamin Von Harz, Patricia Silver, Donna Prentice
Publikováno v:
Chest. 112:765-773
To determine whether patient transport out of the ICU is associated with an increased risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia.Prospective cohort study.ICUs of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, a university-affiliated teaching hospital.Five hundred t
Autor:
Robert E. St. John, Paul M. Reading
Publikováno v:
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. 5:271-280
Although aerosols, especially bronchodilators, are routinely administered to ventilator-assisted patients, the practice lacks scientific proof that it improves the outcome of respiratory failure. Using sensitive instruments, investigators have found
Autor:
Stephanie Gianino, Robert E. St. John
Publikováno v:
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. 5:1-16
Early identification and treatment of malnutrition in hospitalized patients remain important aspects of care, especially in critically ill patients. Thorough knowledge of a patient's nutritional history, physical assessment and clinical laboratory fi
Autor:
Robert E. St. John, Kathy A. Baker
Publikováno v:
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. 3:621-627
Conventional modes of mechanical ventilation such as assist-control and intermittent mandatory ventilation continue to be the standard supportive therapy for the treatment of adults with acute respiratory failure. Pressure-controlled inverse-ratio ve
Autor:
Robert E. St. John, Stephen S. Lefrak
Publikováno v:
AACN Advanced Critical Care. 1:248-259
As a result of technological progress and a better understanding of respiratory disease processes, new modes of mechanical ventilation for the critically ill patient have been developed. These new methods may offer specific advantages over traditiona
Autor:
Jill Feldman Malen, Robert E. St. John
Publikováno v:
Critical care nursing clinics of North America. 16(3)
Airway assessment and management is one of the primary responsibilities of nurses caring for the critically ill adult. Common types of artificial airways, such as endotracheal and tracheostomy tubes, require clinicians to have a complete understandin