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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Daily physiological goal-setting: medical prescription and nursing adherence in a London teaching hospital ICU
Authors:
MK Khan, S Alawad, M Thavasothy
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
Individual, clearly defined physiological goal-setting can help to optimize patient care [
1]. At our ICU, eight physiological goals can be prescribed on the daily ICU observation chart. These include Hb, MAP, ICP, CPP, pO
2, pCO
2, fluid balance and sedation scores. We performed a prospective audit assessing doctors' compliance with goal-setting, nursing adherence to these, and what goals nurses used when none were documented. …