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The aim of providing good oral care is to decrease the microflora load present in a patient's oral cavity. Poor oral health has been linked to increased levels of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP),...
Acts of communication through handovers, ward rounds, shift exchanges and team meetings are examples of when information is exchanged between nurses and between nurses and other health professionals.
There are mixed reports on whether randomised controlled trials for children and young people are more or less likely to end prematurely (Schandelmaier et al, 2017; Dufetelle et al, 2018), which is...
Considering co-production, PPI and service user involvement in research, it can be unclear how children and young people have been involved and the impact they have had. In a review of the literature...
TLOC accounts for 3% of all attendance in emergency departments in the UK (Petkar et al, 2006) and has a lifetime prevalence of 50% (NICE, 2014). Data shows vast international differences in admission...
There are two types of respiratory failure (O'Driscoll et al, 2017, for the British Thoracic Society):.
A wheelchair-bound 82-year-old female with documented dementia presented to the emergency department (ED) following syncopal episodes. Eight months earlier a single-chamber VVI pacemaker had been...
‘At death you break up: the bits that were you Start speeding away from each other for ever With no one to see.’ .
Recognising that a patient may be nearing the end of their life is a key consideration. Early recognition of dying is vital to allow for discussions to be started about the patient's wishes, for...
Consciousness can refer to either the state of wakefulness, awareness, or alertness in which most humans function while not asleep. Decreased consciousness is considered to be present when there is a...
Play therapy is a communication tool used to alleviate chronic, mild and moderate psychological and emotional conditions in children (Play Therapy UK, 2017). The focus for this article is the role...
Acute pyelonephritis, known in clinical practice as an upper urinary tract infection (UTI), is defined as a tubulointerstitial disorder characterised by inflammation of the renal parenchyma caused by...
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