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However, in the face of pending shock, brain perfusion will be preserved (sats still about 20 points lower than pulse ox reading ...

First steps are to warm the baby, position the baby (sniffing position), dry and stimulate the baby to breathe (slap or flick so ...

In-house deliveries require transport from labor and delivery (L&D) to the NICU. This is accomplished in a warm transport Is ...

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Chapter 20 A PRIMER ON CLINICAL RESEARCH AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN CRITICAL CARE Peter Minneci, MD i. Introduction Ideally, the ...

treatments for a disease process to determine if they lead to differences in a particular outcome. The most common and simplest ...

Database studies range in their objectives and can include: descriptive studies of cohorts of patients with a specific disease; ...

collected prospectively for important variables, which can control for severity of illness. Although valuable, these studies are ...

appropriateness of the control group in the trial; specifically, did the control group receive routine care as it is practiced a ...

Cardiology, and Infectious Disease Society of America. A consensus guideline is typically developed by a group of national and i ...

III. Quality Improvement in Critical Care Despite high levels of evidence or established guidelines with recommendations for “be ...

into identifying a high priority disease or treatment as the “process” to improve and then applying a series of principles to un ...

medicine have demonstrated the importance of including a multi-disciplinary team with members from all levels of the process inc ...

self-driven motivation for improvement. Understanding reasons for non-compliance may identify barriers to implementation that ne ...

References Ventilation with lower tidal volumes as compared with traditional tidal volumes for acute lung injury and the acute ...

Nadel, S., et al., Drotrecogin alfa (activated) in children with severe sepsis: a multicentre phase III randomised controlled t ...

Mangione-Smith, R., et al., The quality of ambulatory care delivered to children in the United States. N Engl J Med, 2007. 357( ...

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