Publications by authors named "Luca Peressoni"
Aim: To describe the experiences of Italian nurses who have been urgently and compulsorily allocated to a newly established COVID-19 sub-intensive care unit.
Background: In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, no studies have documented the experience of nurses urgently reallocated to a newly created unit.
Method: A qualitative descriptive study.
Background: Adequate nutrition of critically ill patients plays a key role in the modulation of metabolic response to stress.
Objective: This paper presents the development of a protocol for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed at comparing clinical outcomes of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) administered with standard and protein-fortified diet. Together with the RCT study protocol, the results of the observational analysis conducted to assess the feasibility of the RCT are presented.
Aim: To re-evaluate the face and content validity of the Nursing Activity Score currently adopted in evaluating activities that best describe workloads in intensive care units and their weight in describing average nursing time consumption.
Background: The Nursing Activity Score calculates the amount of nursing time that each patient will require over the next 24 hours. It has been widely used around the world since its first validation in 2003.
Objectives: To determine the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit (CAM-ICU), a clinical assessment tool to detect delirium among Intensive Care Unit patients.
Design: Validation study.
Research Methodology: Fifty-seven patients admitted to three medical and surgical Intensive Care Units were recruited.