Burnout among Respiratory Therapists and Perception of Leadership: A Cross Sectional Survey Over Eight Intensive Care Units.

Background: Burnout syndrome (BOS) is a job-related stress disorder featured by three main cardinal manifestations: emotional exhaustion (EE), reduced personal accomplishment (PA), and depersonalization (DP).

Aim: We aimed to report the prevalence of burnout and the impact of leadership and work condition on the burnout among respiratory therapists (RT) are front-line practitioners in many critical settings.

Methods: We surveyed RT in eight intensive care units (ICU) at five tertiary hospitals, under one medical corporation, using three instruments: the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services Survey for Medical Personnel, Condition of Work Effectiveness Questionnaire (CWEQ), and Leadership behaviours scale.

Analysis of the Performance of Daily Cardiac Surgery Score (CASUS) in Patients with Mixed Racial Profile after Cardiac Surgery: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.

Objective: The aim was to look at the Cardiac Surgery Score (CASUS) assessment after cardiac surgery, and compare it with the intensive care unit (ICU) mortality and morbidity, in a racially diverse group of patients, in a single center.

Design: Clinical retrospective study analyzing data from 319 patients over a 1-year duration.

Setting: Cardiothoracic intensive care unit (CTICU) of a tertiary care center.

Making every death count: institutional mortality accuracy at Ola During Children's Hospital, Sierra Leone.

Introduction: health care data accuracy feeds the development of sound healthcare policy and the prioritisation of interventions in scarce resource environments. We designed a retrospective study at the sole paediatric government hospital in Sierra Leone to examine mortality statistics, specifically: the accuracy of mortality data collected in 2017; and the quality of cause of death (CoD) reporting for 2017.

Methods: the retrospective audit included all available mortality statistics collected at the hospital during the 2017 calendar year.

Nurse-led implementation of ETAT+ is associated with reduced mortality in a children's hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Background: In the wake of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in Sierra Leone, secondary care facilities faced an increase in admissions with few members of medical staff available to assess and treat patients. This led to long waiting times in hospital outpatient departments. The study was undertaken in the outpatient department of Ola During Children's Hospital (the tertiary paediatric hospital for Sierra Leone) in the period immediately following the EVD epidemic of 2014-2015.

Mortality and morbidity in oesophageal atresia.

Background: Several classification systems exist to predict mortality in oesophageal atresia, the most widely quoted of these being over 20 years old. No classification system exists to predict morbidity. We sought to test whether these classification systems remain relevant and to determine whether they can be useful to predict morbidity.

"High Frequency/Small Tidal Volume Differential Lung Ventilation": A Technique of Ventilating the Nondependent Lung of One Lung Ventilation for Robotically Assisted Thoracic Surgery.

With the introduction of new techniques and advances in the thoracic surgery fields, challenges to the anesthesia techniques had became increasingly exponential. One of the great improvements that took place in the thoracic surgical field was the use of the robotically assisted thoracic surgical procedure and minimally invasive endoscopic thoracic surgery. One lung ventilation technique represents the core anesthetic management for the success of those surgical procedures.