Most Recent Articles from American Journal of Critical Care

• Evidence-based practice: use of the ventilator bundle to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia 

  * PURPOSE To examine critical care nurses' knowledge about the use of the ventilator bundle to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia. * PURPOSE...

  01/01/07 by Arlene F. Tolentino-DelosReyes · More from publication

• Awareness of neurogenic pulmonary edema may lead to early intervention in brain-injured patients 

  I read and enjoyed the article titled "Neurogenic Pulmonary Edema Due to Traumatic Brain Injury: Evidence of Cardiac Dysfunction" (September 2006:...

  11/01/06 by Sandra Smith · More from publication

• Pericarditis 

  A 23-year-old ski lift attendant in Telluride, a skiing village in southern Colorado, was awakened one morning with chest pains that lessened when...

  11/01/06 by Laurie G. Futterman · More from publication

• Manufacturers can solve our blood pressure cuff problem 

  The difficulty of measuring blood pressure in patients whose upper arms are too large for a blood pressure cuff poses a challenge to nurses, but it...

  11/01/06 by David A. Sherman · More from publication

• Comparison of anxiety between smokers and nonsmokers with acute myocardial infarction 

  * BACKGROUND Increased anxiety correlates with increased complications after acute myocardial infarction. Anxiety levels and use of anxiolytic...

  11/01/06 by Sharon L. Sheahan · More from publication

• Use of local anesthesia for arterial punctures 

  * BACKGROUND Except for intravenous therapy, arterial access is the most common invasive procedure performed on critically ill patients. Arterial...

  11/01/06 by Timothy L. Hudson · More from publication

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