Reported roles of care partners in a specialized weaning centre-perspectives of patients, care partners, and health care providers.

Background: Care partners are individuals chosen by a person with an illness to support their care during hospitalization. Patients with persistent critical illness have longer than average critical care admission and often other conditions including dysphagia, communication vulnerability, severe physical deconditioning, the need for an artificial airway, and difficulty weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation. Family presence has been identified as important for patients experiencing persistent critical illness in specialized weaning centers.

Towards a Responsive, Sustainable and Collaborative Model of Care at Toronto's Michael Garron Hospital.

In 2008, Michael Garron Hospital, transformed its approach to care delivery. The rationale: to improve quality, increase safety and boost patient and staff engagement and satisfaction. The Coordinated Care Team (CCT) model has enabled nurses to not only work to their full scopes of practice within a team of interprofessional providers and unlicensed staff, but also helped create a culture of safety and patient-centredness in a value-driven context.

A prospective, randomized trial comparing conventional transurethral prostate resection with PlasmaKinetic vaporization of the prostate: physiological changes, early complications and long-term followup.

Purpose: We compared standard transurethral prostate resection with bipolar PlasmaKinetic prostate vaporization for bladder outflow obstruction using a Gyrus PlasmaKinetic Plasma V bar.

Materials And Methods: A total of 160 men were enrolled in a prospective, randomized trial. Those at higher risk for cancer were excluded by prostate specific antigen and digital rectal examination with or without transrectal ultrasound biopsy.

Validation of the ethanol breath test and on-table weighing to measure irrigating fluid absorption during transurethral prostatectomy.

Objective: To determine the agreement between on-table weighing and the ethanol breath test in measuring the fluid absorption of patients during transurethral prostatectomy (TURP), and to assess the practicality of on-table weighing in the clinical setting.

Patients And Methods: The absorption of irrigating fluid by the patient during TURP can lead to adverse sequelae, including cardiac stress. Despite modern techniques irrigant may still be absorbed and therefore methods to detect absorption are important.

A comparison of 1.5% glycine and 2.7% sorbitol-0.5% mannitol irrigants during transurethral prostate resection.

Purpose: We performed a prospective randomized trial comparing glycine 1.5% with 2.7% sorbitol-0.