Loretta T Lee
Loretta T Lee
Hyperglycemia is a common problem in the diabetic patient after an acute stroke. Maintaining therapeutic blood glucose levels in diabetics during extreme physiologic stress can present extreme challenges. Reasonably tight, yet therapeutic, ...
Theresa M Wadas
Theresa M Wadas
Despite newer neuroimaging techniques, timely and accurate diagnosis of acute stroke remains a significant challenge. The ability to identify stroke patients rapidly using a biologic biomarker would be highly beneficial. Inflammation follow...
Cindy J Fuller,Jill T Jesurum
Cindy J Fuller
Migraine is a prominent cause of recurrent pain, affecting 12% of the population. In several case series, approximately 50% of migraineurs with aura were found to have patent foramen ovale (PFO). The pathophysiological mechanism is speculat...
Hyperacute ischemic stroke management: reperfusion and evolving therapies [0.03%]
超急性缺血性卒中的治疗：再灌注和治疗方法的新进展
Anne W Wojner Alexandrov
Anne W Wojner Alexandrov
Management of acute ischemic stroke patients is organized around several priorities aimed at ensuring optimal patient outcomes, the first of which is reperfusion therapy, followed by determination of pathogenic mechanism by provision of a c...
Postgraduate fellowship education and training for nurses: the NET SMART experience [0.03%]
护师研究生 Fellowship 教育和培训：NET SMART 项目经验
Anne W Wojner Alexandrov,Mary Brethour,Fern Cudlip et al.
Anne W Wojner Alexandrov et al.
The Neurovascular Education and Training in Stroke Management and Acute Reperfusion Therapy (NET SMART) program for advanced practice nursing (APN) offers a first-of-its-kind, academic, postgraduate, fellowship program for APNs that is mode...
Anne W Wojner Alexandrov
Anne W Wojner Alexandrov
Chris Winkelman,Beverly Maloney,Janet Kloos
Chris Winkelman
Obese patients in the ICU present unique challenges to the health care team and specific challenges to nurses. This article reviews the science and art of resource use for obese patients in the ICU. Staff nurses and advanced practice nurses...
Obesity-related risks and prevention strategies for critically ill adults [0.03%]
肥胖相关的危重成人患者的风险及预防策略
Margaret McAtee,Rebecca J Personett
Margaret McAtee
In America today, more than one third of adults are obese. Increasingly, obese patients are admitted to critical care units. Critical care nurses must have additional knowledge and skills to identify health risks to obese patients and imple...
Sherry N VanHoy,V Tereceita Laidlow
Sherry N VanHoy
Recently, the impact of obesity on the outcomes of trauma patients has been the focus of several investigations. There have been several studies addressing the impact of obesity on trauma patients. These studies have explicated the impact o...
Barbara Leeper
Barbara Leeper
Obesity has become a major health problem in the United States and is well known to be a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease. Many clinicians perceive obesity, particularly severe or morbid obesity, to be associated wi...