Intensive care
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Summary
| Description | This presentation describes the establishment and operation of an intensive care ward in a community hospital. The intensive care unit is discussed, initially, as part of a larger program of progressive patient care. This program groups patients according to their care needs and consists of six elements: intensive care, intermediate care, self care, long-term care, home care and outpatient care. The presentation discusses the steps involved in planning for the establishment of the intensive care unit. In this hospital, criteria for patient classification were developed by the medical and nursing staffs to determine which patients were to be considered critically or seriously ill, and, therefore, in need of constant surveillance. A checklist based on the patient's need for observation was developed and used in a daily observation of the patient population for three months. As a result of these observations the number of beds to be allocated to intensive care was determined. The physic |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Wagner, Charles F., Strachan, Josephine., United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities., United States. Public Health Service. Audiovisual Facility. |
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Attribution: Wagner, Charles F., Strachan, Josephine., United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilities., United States. Public Health Service. Audiovisual Facility.