Bjaed.org

Patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported …

WEBImproving quality, service, and patient outcomes is an important focus for health care providers. The NHS outcomes framework to improve quality of care can be broadly …

Actived: Just Now

URL: https://www.bjaed.org/article/S2058-5349(17)30058-6/fulltext

Breathing in the prone position in health and disease

WEBNormal breathing with healthy lungs. In an awake, spontaneously breathing, non-obese subject, both chest wall and respiratory system mechanics are minimally …

Category:  Health Go Health

Transfer of the critically ill adult patient

WEBCritically ill patients are in a dynamic and often precarious physiological state; transfer potentially exposes them to additional harm and instability. The goal of critical …

Category:  Health Go Health

Nutrition in critical care

WEBThe Tight Calorie Control Study (TICACOS) compared nutrition guided by resting EE (intervention) with a weight-based regimen (control: 25 kcal kg −1 day −1) …

Category:  Nutrition Go Health

Social bias, discrimination and inequity in healthcare: mechanisms

WEBIn high-intensity work domains, such as anaesthesia and intensive care, high-quality decision-making is critical for achieving good outcomes for patients. In a previous article …

Category:  Health Go Health

Implications of complexity theory for clinical practice and …

WEBMedicine, like many other scientific fields, is founded upon the classical Cartesian method of reductionism, where a problem is broken down into its smallest components, examined, …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

Prehospital organization and management of a mass casualty …

WEBThe last two decades have seen healthcare systems increasingly involved in the management of mass casualties with an incidence of 3–4 major incidents per year …

Category:  Health Go Health

Consent in anaesthesia, critical care and pain medicine

WEBMedicine is becoming less paternalistic; increasing importance is being given to autonomy and self-determination in medical decision-making. The belief that …

Category:  Medical,  Medicine Go Health

Social bias, discrimination and inequity in healthcare: …

WEBSocial bias can be defined as discrimination for, or against, a person or group, or a set of ideas or beliefs, in a way that is prejudicial or unfair. Social bias may operate …

Category:  Health Go Health

Systems-based models for investigating patient safety incidents

WEBPatient safety incidents are events where a patient experienced or could have experienced harm during an encounter with healthcare. The aim of investigating an …

Category:  Health Go Health

What is clinical governance

WEBClinical governance may be defined as ‘the framework through which healthcare organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their …

Category:  Health Go Health

Anaesthetic and surgical management of rib fractures

WEBRib fractures represent a substantial health burden; one in five patients admitted after trauma will have at least one rib fracture, and mortality directly correlates with the …

Category:  Health Go Health

Update on hypertensive disorders in pregnancy

WEBHypertensive disorders during the peripartum period are common and are accompanied by increased maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. They encompass …

Category:  Health Go Health

Preoperative hypertension: perioperative implications and …

WEBSystemic arterial hypertension is one of the most important treatable causes of population morbidity and mortality. It is common, affecting one in four adults in …

Category:  Health Go Health

Opioid stewardship

WEBOpioids have the potential for both enormous benefits and significant harm to society. Opioid misuse continues to have major impacts on health and mortality …

Category:  Health Go Health

Fluids in traumatic haemorrhage

WEBThe use of fluids in the management of traumatic haemorrhage has changed from large volume fluid resuscitation to damage control resuscitation, with significant …

Category:  Health Go Health

Major burns: Part 1. Epidemiology, pathophysiology and initial

WEBA burn injury is the coagulative destruction of the skin and its structures by thermal, chemical, electrical or mechanical energy. A major burn is defined according to …

Category:  Health Go Health

Hospital response to a major incident: initial considerations and

WEBAll NHS providers in the UK are required by law to prepare for large-scale emergencies and major incidents.1 A health-related major incident is described as any occurrence …

Category:  Health Go Health

Mentoring for doctors in the UK: what it can do for you, your

WEBMentoring has been used since ancient times. The term ‘mentor’ is derived from Homer's Odyssey, in which Mentor (actually the goddess Athena, disguised as …

Category:  Health Go Health