Sedation scoring and managing abilities of intensive care nurses post educational intervention.

Background: Inappropriate sedation assessment can jeopardize patient comfort and safety. Therefore, nurses' abilities in assessing and managing sedation are vital for effective care of mechanically ventilated patients.

Aims And Objectives: This study assessed nurses' sedation scoring and management abilities as primary outcomes following educational interventions.

Intervention to improve intensive care nurses' knowledge of sedation assessment and management.

Background: Sedation management is an integral component of critical care practice. It requires the greatest attention of critical care practitioners because it carries significant risks to patients. Therefore, it is imperative that nurses are aware of potential adverse consequences of sedation therapy and current sedation practice recommendations.

Postoperative death in a patient with unrecognized arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia syndrome.

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia is an inherited disease causing fatty replacement of heart tissue. This disease often presents as T-wave inversion in the anterior leads of the electrocardiogram (ECG) with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias. In older patients, progressive right and left ventricular failure can develop.