题目:Common complications in the surgical intensive care unit
作者:Robert G. Sawyer, MD, FACS; Carlos A. Tache Leon, MD
杂志:(Crit Care Med 2010;38[Suppl.]:S483–S493)
摘要:
resources, and personnel needed to care for patients who have been
severely injured, present with acute surgical emergencies, require
prolonged and complex elective surgical procedures, or have severe
underlying medical conditions. Correcting the immediately evident
physiologic derangement is only the first step in the care of these
patients, because in many cases their prognosis and ultimate outcome
will depend on whether additional insults accrued during their
intensive care unit and hospital stay will prevent them from a full
recovery. The nature, number, and complexity of the interventions
used to provide advanced support requires a unique attention to the
concept of patient safety, particularly when the population involved
is that most vulnerable to injury and with the least amount of
physiologic reserve to recover from it. The medical community, the
public, and even regulatory agencies have focused on specific preventable
complications that are common in surgical and injured
patients, such as medical errors, healthcare-associated infections,
and venous thromboembolism. Enough scientific knowledge has
been obtained through well-conducted clinical trials to generate
detailed evidence-based guidelines for the prevention and management
of some of these pathologies, but still there are outstanding
questions in terms of the applicability of the recommendations to the
critically ill. In addition to clinical and technical expertise, performance
improvement and quality monitoring activities provide direction
for system solutions required to properly address many complications
that are not provider specific. (Crit Care Med 2010;
38[Suppl.]:S483–S493)
KEY WORDS: intensive care units; cross infection; pneumonia;
ventilator-associated; catheter-related infections; pulmonary embolism;
venous thromboembolism; postoperative complications;
medical errors; critical care; quality assurance; health care
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