Background Early assessment and management of patients with sepsis can significantly
reduce its high mortality rates and improve patient outcomes and quality of life. Objectives …

Cardiac output monitoring in the critically ill patient is standard practice in order to ensure
tissue oxygenation [1] and has been traditionally accomplished using the pulmonary artery …

Objectives The increasing use of sepsis screening in the Emergency Department (ED) and
the Sepsis-3 recommendation to use the quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment …

Cell death and release of proinflammatory mediators contribute to mortality during sepsis.
Specifically, caspase-11–dependent cell death contributes to pathology and decreases in …

Background Nurses alter their monitoring behavior as a patient's clinical condition
deteriorates, often detecting and documenting subtle changes before physiological trends …

Introduction Emergency nurses play a key role in the initial triage and care of patients with
potentially life-threatening illnesses. The aims of this study were to (1) evaluate the impact of …

First described in 1955 by Goodwin et al as a minimally invasive treatment for urinary
obstruction causing marked hydronephrosis, percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN) placement …

Objective: To determine whether automated identification with physician notification of the
systemic inflammatory response syndrome in medical intensive care unit patients expedites …

Purpose Previous research has explored nurses´ experience with the implementation of
early detection alert systems, and nurses and physicians' perceptions of sepsis …

Respiratory rate is the sentinel and arguably most important vital sign because its normal
values are breached before those of other vital signs in nearly all states of clinical decline …