Paediatric Intensive Care Units
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1. InfecÃÃo hospitalar em unidade de terapia intensiva pediÃtrica / Healthcare-associated infection in a poaediatric intensive therapy unit
This thesis is presented in the form of three articles, the aim of which was to identify risk factors for healthcare-associated infection (HAI) in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and estimate the effect of these factors on the time elapsed until the first episode of bloodstream infection, confirmed by laboratory exams (BSI-LCBI). The first article is
Publicado em: 2007
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2. Paediatric use of intensive care.
OBJECTIVES--To determine the number of children from a defined population who use intensive care facilities, to analyse bed occupancy data for those children, and to estimate the number of intensive care beds required to satisfy this demand throughout the year. DESIGN--Examination of admission data books from intensive care units within the four Birmingham h
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3. Factors affecting the outcome of maternity care. II. Neonatal outcomes and resources beyond the hospital of birth.
Analysis of data about perinatal mortality and indicators of resources at maternity hospitals in the West Midlands region between 1977 and 1983 showed that paediatric staff ratios were inversely related to in-house mortality rates. In this paper, the outcomes for and resources used by transferred babies are added to those of the hospital of birth for three o
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4. Pro/con clinical debate: do colloids have advantages over crystalloids in paediatric sepsis?
Despite decades of resuscitating patients with intravenous fluids in intensive care units, it is somewhat surprising that very little consensus exists regarding the type of fluid physicians should choose. Factors that influence decisions are often local culture or politics, hospital administrators, history (i.e. 'I've always done it this way') and budgets, a
BioMed Central.
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5. The pathophysiology of medication errors: how and where they arise
Errors arise when an action is intended but not performed; errors that arise from poor planning or inadequate knowledge are characterized as mistakes; those that arise from imperfect execution of well-formulated plans are called slips when an erroneous act is committed and lapses when a correct act is omitted.Some tasks are intrinsically prone to error. Exam
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