{"title":"The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Critical Care and Palliative Care.","authors":"Clareen Wiencek","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2024385","DOIUrl":"10.4037/aacnacc2024385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"35 2","pages":"110-111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141288769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit: The Standard of Care.","authors":"Clareen Wiencek","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2024525","DOIUrl":"10.4037/aacnacc2024525","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intensive care unit-based palliative care has evolved over the past 30 years due to the efforts of clinicians, researchers, and advocates for patient-centered care. Although all critically ill patients inherently have palliative care needs, the path was not linear but rather filled with the challenges of blending the intensive care unit goals of aggressive treatment and cure with the palliative care goals of symptom management and quality of life. Today, palliative care is considered an essential component of high-quality critical care and a core competency of all critical care nurses, advanced practice nurses, and other intensive care unit clinicians. This article provides an overview of the current state of intensive care unit-based palliative care, examines how the barriers to such care have shifted, reviews primary and specialist palliative care, addresses the impact of COVID-19, and presents resources to help nurses and intensive care unit teams achieve optimal outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"35 2","pages":"112-124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141288764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Palliative Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.","authors":"Noreen Crain, Joy Miller","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2024104","DOIUrl":"10.4037/aacnacc2024104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purposes of this review are to describe differences between palliative care for adult patients and palliative care for pediatric patients, both generally and in the intensive care unit; to highlight ethical considerations for pediatric intensive care unit patients by using illustrative cases; and to examine the impact of these ethical considerations on decision-making for children and their families.</p>","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"35 2","pages":"134-145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141288765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronic Health Record Goes on Trial: Negligent Design That Resulted in Brain Damage.","authors":"Linda Harrington","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2024480","DOIUrl":"10.4037/aacnacc2024480","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"35 1","pages":"10-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140066051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stopping Delirium Using the Awake-and-Walking Intensive Care Unit Approach: True Mastery of Critical Thinking and the ABCDEF Bundle.","authors":"Kali Dayton, Mark Hudson, Heidi Lindroth","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2023159","DOIUrl":"10.4037/aacnacc2023159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"34 4","pages":"359-366"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11019856/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138463489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measurement Strategies for The Joint Commission Health Care Disparities Standard: Implementing Hospital-Based Requirements in Heart Failure-Part 2.","authors":"Stephanie Barnes, Jill Engel, Bradi B Granger","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2023852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4037/aacnacc2023852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"34 3","pages":"246-254"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10117750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrasonography for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections, Noninfectious Cysts, Foreign Bodies, and Burns in the Critical Care Setting.","authors":"Kelli A Craven, Kyle Luckey-Smith, Susanna Rudy","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2023182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4037/aacnacc2023182","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are multiple opportunities for the use of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of skin and soft tissue differentials. Ultrasonography is inexpensive, easily reproducible, and able to provide real-time data in situations where condition changes and progression are common. Not only does bedside ultrasonography provide the clinician an in-depth look beyond epidermal structures into body cavities, it remains a safe, nonionizing radiating, effective, cost-efficient, reliable, and accessible tool for the emergency management of life- and limb-threatening integumentary infections. Unnecessary invasive procedures are minimized, providing improved patient outcomes. Integumentary abnormalities secondary to trauma, surgery, and hospitalization are common among critical care patients. This article provides a brief overview and evidence-based recommendations for the use of ultrasonography in the critical care setting for integumentary system conditions, including common skin and soft tissue differentials, foreign bodies, and burn depth assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"34 3","pages":"228-239"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10117759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resuscitation Quality Improvement: Improving Clinicians' Performance.","authors":"Sergio Mota","doi":"10.4037/aacnacc2023833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4037/aacnacc2023833","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Although cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) renewal occurs every 2 years, quality of performed CPR at the study site was below American Heart Association (AHA) standards. Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) is a new AHA program with the premise that practicing CPR more frequently using audiovisual feedback can improve performance.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To identify whether performance of chest compressions during training reassessments improves with RQI.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study used a preintervention-postintervention design. Critical care nurses from 2 intensive care units performed a baseline round of chest compressions. These baseline data reflected CPR performance with traditional training. The next week, participants completed RQI training. Two weeks after RQI training, participants performed chest compressions. Five weeks after RQI training, participants performed a third round of chest compressions. The compressions performed 2 and 5 weeks after RQI used audiovisual feedback.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Thirty nurses participated. Before intervention, the mean (SD) for overall compression compliance was 32.68% (26.96%), depth was 67.76% (30.15%), and rate was 39.95% (27.41%). The first postintervention (RQI plus 2 weeks) mean (SD) increased to 75.33% (33.70%) for overall compression compliance, 97.43% (12.04%) for depth, and 80.89% (29.35%) for rate. The second postintervention (RQI plus 5 weeks) mean (SD) decreased slightly to 73.16% (36.36%) for overall compression compliance, 96.57% (13.04%) for depth, and 78.75% (31.83%) for rate.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Frequent CPR using RQI technology, with its immediate audiovisual feedback, helps maintain skills, which may improve patient outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46461,"journal":{"name":"AACN Advanced Critical Care","volume":"34 3","pages":"182-188"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10111000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}