Nursing strategies for the mechanically ventilated patient.

The goal of this manuscript is to provide a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary review of the best nursing practices of caring for mechanically ventilated patients. By reviewing human medicine literature, the authors will extrapolate procedures that have been found to be most effective in reducing the risk of mechanical ventilation (MV) complications. Paired with review of the current standards in veterinary medicine, the authors will compile the best practice information on mechanically ventilated patient care, which will serve as a detailed resource for the veterinary nursing staff.

Investigating the educational experiences of transnational students: Differences in academic integration, social integration, and institutional and goal commitment.

Background: Despite the growing popularity of transnational education, there is a dearth of quantitative research regarding how transnational students experience higher education.

Aims: This comparative study sought to explore differences in educational experiences between transnational and onshore domestic students enrolled either at the Australian (domestic) or Singapore (transnational) campus of an Australian university.

Sample And Methods: An online survey gathered responses from 199 domestic students and 313 transnational students.

A multicenter observational study investigating care errors, staffing levels, and workload in small animal intensive care units.

Objective: To investigate associations among care errors, staffing, and workload in small animal ICUs.

Design: Multicenter observational cohort study conducted between January 2017 and September 2018.

Setting: Three small animal teaching hospital ICUs.

Investigation of burnout syndrome and job-related risk factors in veterinary technicians in specialty teaching hospitals: a multicenter cross-sectional study.

Objectives: To investigate veterinary technician burnout and associations with frequency of self-reported medical error, resilience, and depression and job-related risk factors.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study using an anonymous survey conducted between November 2017 and June 2018.

Setting: Four referral teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada.

The relationship between adjunctive drinking, blood ethanol concentration and plasma corticosterone across fixed-time intervals of food delivery in two inbred mouse strains.

Schedules of intermittent food delivery induce excessive fluid intake, termed schedule-induced polydipsia (SIP), and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation is important for the expression and maintenance of this adjunctive behavior. Previous work has focused on examining the relationship between water intake and plasma corticosterone (CORT) in rats at a single or a limited range of fixed time (FT) intervals. However, little remains known regarding SIP and the corresponding stress response (1) across the bitonic function that epitomizes adjunctive behavior, (2) when ethanol is the available fluid, and (3) when a species other than rat or multiple strains are studied.