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Brushing away the risk: The crucial role of daily toothbrushing in preventing hospital-acquired pneumonia

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

A phenomenon that skilled nursing teams have long appreciated was recently highlighted in a recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine , researchers Ehrenzeller and Klompas shed light on a critical yet often overlooked aspect of healthcare — oral hygiene and daily toothbrushing.

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4 anaesthetic emergencies you need to know

The Nurse Break

Original full article here when we interviewed him about his career. In this instance, the normal care would be to use a bag valve mask and ventilate or breathe for the patient, however in a CICO event, you are unable to ventilate and hence unable to oxygenate. 4 anaesthetic emergencies that new nurses need to be aware of?

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Anxiety Sensitivity Affects Patients’ Care, Recovery

Daily Nurse

Clinicians need to have a better understanding of the potential impact of patients’ anxiety sensitivity, or “fear of fear,” according to an article published in American Journal of Critical Care ( AJCC ).

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles. ICU care was pretty rudimentary.

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CRNA Helped Save Martin Luther King’s Life After 1958 Stabbing

Daily Nurse

As the AANA article put it, the governor was worried “that Harlem Hospital was not fit to treat Dr. King, but he also wanted to show respect for the Black community by endorsing Harlem Hospital and its staff.” She is confident that “The time saved by [performing the surgery] then and there at Harlem Hospital did save King’s life.”

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5 NICU conditions and pieces of special equipment you must know

The Nurse Break

Written by Joshua Roberts originally in the FULL ARTICLE about NICU nursing. Also called bronchopulmonary dysplasia, it can often be caused by needing prolonged oxygen therapy, pulmonary damage during mechanical ventilation, infections, or simply underdeveloped lungs due to prematurity. This ventilator is essentially a drum.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

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Eric: Well, this is the part that I love about your article, too, is that it’s not just these big, big family meetings where miscommunication happens. Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. And I think of the Doug White article?

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