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🌟 NEW Goals of Care 🌟 These concise documents aim to address frequently asked questions regarding patient treatment, making vital information easily accessible to our medical team. Our next spotlight illuminates "Goals of Care - The Family Meeting." 📋 This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions on conducting family meetings, including who should attend, pre-briefing protocols, discussion topics, and expected outcomes, including code status decisions. From facilitating communication to ensuring shared decision-making, this primer equips medical teams with essential tools for compassionate patient care. Hang it up in key areas like the ICU, Resident workroom, Surgeon's lounge, or anywhere else you see fit! Let's empower our surgeons with the knowledge they need to deliver compassionate care. https://lnkd.in/g5VpDhK6

This webinar will surely add value to neurocritical care in Nigeria.

🌟 Introducing Our Goals of Care Initiative 🌟 These concise documents aim to address frequently asked questions regarding patient treatment, making vital information easily accessible to our medical team. Our first spotlight is on "Goals of Care for Surgeons: A Primer." 📋 This comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instructions on navigating Goals of Care discussions with patients and their families. From the ICU to the Surgeon's lounge, this primer is a valuable resource for enhancing patient care. Hang it up in key areas like the ICU, Resident workroom, Surgeon's lounge, or anywhere else you see fit! Let's empower our surgeons with the knowledge they need to deliver compassionate care. 🌟

Join our webinar on 22 May, where Chandana Samaranayake MD, Head of Clinical Solutions and Consulting at Ascom, shares our vision of how technology can provide a better work environment and improve patient experience, without compromising outcomes. Reserve your spot today and learn how can a calmer ICU environment be created (link in the 1st comment)

All gratitude and thanks to the authors of this interesting article. Simplified ultrafiltration - aquapheresis - practiced even on a peripheral venous approach, in case of resistance to diuretics or to avoid some adverse effects induced by high doses of diuretics, probably can be an effective method of decongestion (fluid overload) from the intravascular space, but especially from the interstitium, using low flow of ultrafiltration so that the capillary refill is not exceeded by the QUF in combination with special measures of monitoring of hematocrit (to observe changes in hemoconcentration) and SvO2 (directly on the extracorporeal device and complementary) along with diuresis monitoring by measuring UO and sCr. could be an alternative to consider for Extracorporeal methods.

Meet the Ambu® aScope™ BronchoSampler™: our patented, closed-loop sampling system is designed for basic and high-end critical care procedures. It simplifies sampling in ICU/Critical Care because it can done by a single clinician for greater efficiency: • One package • One-handed • One clinician In fact, research published in Respiration found that our BronchoSampler simplified sampling in 95% of procedures. Learn more: https://ow.ly/7zpZ50Rxpha #ICU #criticalcare #bronchoscopy

ICU's game-changer: The tool that's worth every penny Hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP), also called nosocomial, is all too common in the ICU. And outcomes are dreadful. This means that anything that lowers rates of HAP, even an expensive tool, can literally be a lifesaver. But what if this tool cost pennies? (or, in hospital dollars, $3,450.52) The bacterial makeup of the mouth and the lungs is affected mainly by the thinks we put into our mouth and the way we take care of our teeth, gum and tongue. So what if something as simple as toothbrushing could slash HAP by 33% and ICU death rates by 19%? Especially considering that it's hard to find a downside. Even more so when you understand that previous approaches like using oral rinses with chlorhexidine actually INCREASED HAP (I explain why this probably happens in the video). Find out 3 other ways to improve oral health in the video. https://lnkd.in/gdmZfTBK Important tool I mentioned in the video as well https://amzn.to/3NTXDOe

Am I the only one feeling this? Working as an emergency physician, I feel that we aren’t recognised a lot in public. Patients come to us with their profound complaints like severe pain, chest discomfort, weakness in the limbs, I can go on but yeah, we stabilise them and make sure they are comfortable and refer them to the specific specialist and they move out to icu or rooms or sometimes they go home. The specialist whom we are referring gets the credit and all the recognition whereas emergency physicians get nothing but a priceless satisfaction when we resuscitate a patient. Even after we resuscitate the cardiologist or the thoracic surgeon or whomsoever it is gets the credit if the patient recovers and gets discharges. We might present with research papers, be very good at our skills like intubations, lines and the way we think to rule out the diagnosis in a very quick span..woah that’s great really great, not just one patient at a time but many sometimes but all these efforts go in vain. #emergencymedicine

🔍 The Importance of Patient Positioning Devices in the Operating Theatre 🔍 In the operating theatre, proper patient positioning is vital for both safety and surgical success. Devices from Trulife, D. A. Surgical, Ergotrics and Natus Products, and others are essential for preventing pressure injuries and maintaining patient stability during procedures. Pressure injuries are a significant concern, with an estimated annual treatment cost in Australia ranging from $983 million to $2.3 billion AUD. With the average cost per injury reaching up to $168,000 AUD𝟙, investing in proper positioning tools is both a health and economic imperative. Ensuring stable and safe patient positioning not only helps prevent these costly injuries but also supports better surgical outcomes. Stay tuned as we explore how these devices make a difference in surgical procedures. #patientsafety #surgicalcare #operatingtheatre #healthcareinnovation 𝟙 Son Nghiem, Jill Campbell, Rachel M Walker, Josh Byrnes, Wendy Chaboyer, Pressure injuries in Australian public hospitals: A cost of illness study, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Volume 130,2022,104191,ISSN 0020-7489

[Singapore] What is SmartCare/PS: http://t4.life/PVY the automated clinical protocol designed to accelerate weaning patients off the ventilator and to free up time for other tasks such as earlier mobilisation of the patients. Learn more about how SmartCare/PS can improve clinical outcomes and shorten ICU stay.