Instant Access, Delayed Understanding: The Challenge of Instant Results in Critical Care

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Instant Access, Delayed Understanding: The Challenge of Instant Results in Critical Care

Written By: Stefanie Cappucci, MD; Alexandra Reynolds, MD; Matthew Jaffa, MD

You walk into the room of your patient, a 55-year-old woman recovering after a large left frontal IPH. Her course has been complicated by ventilator-associated pneumonia and septic shock.

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NCC Mobility

Written By: Desiree Cihelka, PhD, ARNP-C, ANVP-C; Rhonda Finnie, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, ANVP-BC, ASC-BC

As the field of neurocritical care advances with new knowledge and technology leading to improved survival, promoting functional recovery and avoiding preventable adverse events due to immobility has become increasingly important.

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Neurocritical Care in Disorders of Consciousness: Do We Have the Education We Need to Provide Care? Results of a Pilot Survey

Written By: Brooke Murtaugh, OTD, OTR/L, CBIST; Sahar Zafar, MD, MBBS; Shraddha Mainali, MD

Disorders of Consciousness (DoC) is a complex syndrome of impaired arousal and awareness after severe brain injury. Behavioral phenotypes of coma, vegetative state and minimally conscious state are included within the spectrum of consciousness disorders.¹

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Finding Her Voice Again: Vanessa’s Story of Hope

Written By: Lauren Koffman, DO, MS

Vanessa was used to an active lifestyle; she was a mother of a three-year-old daughter and had a career as a school-based speech pathologist. Summers were filled with spending time with her daughter and family trips to Colorado.

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