ICU Nurses-An Impact Factor on Patient Turnover in Cardiac Surgery in Western Denmark?

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe changes in performance indicators such as length of stay [LOS] in the intensive care unit [ICU] and ventilation time, during the last six years in an attempt to identify associations between patient and systemic performance indicators, including the impact of nurse turnover.

Design: A retrospective study of prospectively registered data (2013-2018). Propensity- score matching was performed to establish comparable groups.

Evaluation of pre-hospital trauma triage criteria: a prospective study at a Danish level I trauma centre.

Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the precision of our trauma triage protocol [based on the American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma (ACS COT)] in identifying severely injured defined as an injury severity score (ISS) > 15. Our hypothesis was that isolated mechanism-of-injury criteria were responsible for a significant over-triage leading to over-use of our trauma team.

Design: A prospective cohort study.