Category Archives: Critical Care

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Cystic fibrosis is a familial disease which affects the lungs, the pancreas and the whole body.The disease is caused by a mutation in one gene, the one that orders the mucus, and the digestive juices.
People with Cystic fibrosis have lung infections which does them breathing difficulties.
The lung infections can be treated, but not cured. Individuals who have the disease have symptoms like venous sinus infections, diarrhoea and poor growth.
Almost 30,000 american individuals have Cystic fibrosis and it is considered the most common life-shortening inherited disease.

WASHINGTON — Doctors always said allergies and asthma were behind Laura Mentch’s repeated lung and sinus infections. Only when she turned 50 did she discover the real culprit — a disease notorious for destroying children’s lungs.

“It’s not really mild CF, it’s delayed CF,” says Nick, whose study was published last month in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.If so, his findings may have ramifications for babies as well. How? In recent years, every state has begun screening newborns for cystic fibrosis, so that patients can start life-extending treatment before that first infection ever hits.

Back when we were young–my wife used to ask me would I kiss away her tears as she passed into the next life is she should die before me.  I would tell her, “Lady I have never touched a dead body, and I don’t plan on starting with yours.”  I meant it too, but I really thought I would probably die before she did after all I was five years older than she was and at the time I was in worse health than her so far as either of us knew.

Earlier this year she took a turn for the worse and had to spend some time in the hospital.  Suddenly we began thinking that she might not get to come home again.  About two and one-half weeks later she had to go in the (CCU) critical care unit.  She went back to the regular room, but later had to go back in CCU again.  I spent almost all my time right there by her side after that.  As she began having a more difficult time breathing, I saw tears come into her eyes.  I gently wiped them away and kissed her cheek and forehead repeatedly.

Article by Wiley Long

High-deductible health insurance plans can help many Americans who currently face dangerous inequities in healthcare. Such insurance typically costs less in monthly premiums because you agree to pay for your expenses up to a deductible amount. After the deductible is met, insurance takes over with coverage for major accident or illness expenses.

These plans have the potential to save lives by offering less expensive premiums that more people can afford. That can lower the number of people who will be subjected to inferior medical care that has been exposed in multiple studies.

Information has been gathered regarding both adults and children, and regarding both illnesses and injuries that has repeatedly shown that those without health insurance are given inferior medical care.

The Myth that Hospitals Have to Treat Everyone Equally

Among the general U.S. population, people who are uninsured are about half as likely to receive critical care services as those with insurance, according to a systematic review of the literature by the American Thoracic Society’s Health Disparities Group.

The literature also showed that uninsured patients who are admitted to intensive care units are less likely to have invasive procedures or pulmonary artery catheterizations. Most startling of all, uninsured patients are more likely to have life support withdrawn than patients with insurance.

Do We Complain With our Life?

Have you complained about the heat wave or traffic jam?

Have you complained about too much snow or not enough money to buy clothes?

Or do you complain with your life?

This article is for us to take time to think before we complain about our life!

In 2007, I was in CCU (Critical Care Unit) for 12 days because of my brain aneurysm rupture or a subarachnoid brain hemorrhage.  In the CCU at Albany Medical Center, doctors ordered nurses to check my speaking and motor function of my legs and arms every two hours and went over ‘what-if’ scenarios.  I got the impression that they doubted my recovery of being normal.

But, with my amazing and unexpected improvements and better outputs of blood draining through the ONE hole they drilled at my head, I was promoted to transfer to the ICU from the CCU.   At the ICU, I did not know what was going on around me for the first few days.  A couple of days after being in the ICU, I started seeing more and noticed more what was like being in the ICU.  There were about 12 hospital beds with of course each patient and different illness, and hospital staffs including nurses and doctors were available to accommodate a multitude of situations for each patient. 

Critical care nursing is the delivery of specialised care to critically ill patients or patients with the potential to become critically ill – that is, those who have or are susceptible to life-threatening illnesses or injuries. Such patients may be unstable, have complex needs and require intensive and vigilant critical care nursing. The Department of Health categorises acute hospital patient care into levels from 0 to 3:

Level 0 is normal acute ward care.
Level 1 is acute ward care with the input of critical care specialists, e.g. outreach. This may be required because of recent discharge from a critical care unit or because the patient’s condition or therapy/equipment used in their care means increased intervention is needed.
Level 2 is high dependency care for patients requiring an increased level of monitoring owing to their condition or potential for deterioration or patients with single organ failure/support. Nurse to patient ratios for this level of care are usually one nurse to two patients.
Level 3 is intensive care for patients with two or more organ failure/support or requiring mechanical ventilation. Nurse to patient ratios for this level of care are usually one nurse to one patient.