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From "Airway scares me" to "I would say I'm pretty comfortable": quality improvement for reducing time to obtain equipment for adult advanced airway management in a rural emergency department.
CJEM
January 2025
School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Background: Management of the adult airway is one of the most stressful and time-critical procedures in emergency medicine. In the Cowichan District Hospital, a rural hospital in British Columbia, Emergency Department (ED) staff were uncomfortable with acquiring the equipment needed for adult advanced airway management and the mean length of time to acquire the equipment was 319 s. The aim of this quality improvement (QI) project was to decrease the time to obtain the equipment needed for adult advanced airway management by nurses and physicians in the Cowichan District Hospital ED to less than 90 s by May 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNovel, standardized sample collection from the brain-nose interface.
Methods
January 2025
Noselab GmbH, Widenmayerstr. 27, 80538 Munich, Germany.
Background: Diagnostics for neurodegenerative diseases lack non-invasive approaches suitable for early-stage biochemical screening and routine examination of neuropathology. Biomarkers of neurodegenerative diseases pass through the brain-nose interface (BNI) and accumulate in nasal secretion. Sample collection from the brain-nose interface presents a compelling prospect as basis for a non-invasive molecular diagnosis of neuropathologies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVascular Pain and Nurse Burden in Peripheral Administration of Fosaprepitant/Fosnetupitant: A Prospective Observational Study.
Anticancer Res
January 2025
Department of Nursing, Yamagata University Hospital, Yamagata, Japan.
Background/aim: Vascular pain associated with NK1 receptor antagonists, particularly fosaprepitant, remains a significant challenge in cancer chemotherapy. The present study investigated the incidence of vascular pain with the administration of fosaprepitant and fosnetupitant and assessed the psychological burden on nurses performing venipuncture.
Patients And Methods: We conducted a prospective observational study involving 115 cancer patients receiving NK1 receptor antagonists via peripheral venous catheters.
Effectiveness of behavior change techniques to address barriers to follow-up colonoscopy: results from an online survey and randomized factorial experiment.
Ann Behav Med
December 2024
Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Nonattendance at colonoscopy is associated with reduced colorectal cancer (CRC) survival.
Purpose: The aim of this research was to quantify barriers to colonoscopy and test the effectiveness of behavior change techniques (BCTs) to address them.
Methods: Two studies were conducted.
Comfort-Promoting Interventions for the Elderly in Hospital Settings.
Geriatrics (Basel)
December 2024
Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1649-023 Lisboa, Portugal.
The comfort of the elderly in hospital settings requires special attention from the health care professionals involved, particularly nurses, since hospitalization often generates suffering and discomfort. In such contexts, it is essential to consider the specific characteristics of the elderly, taking into account their life experiences and their needs, to promote the health, well-being, and comfort of this population. Hence, the present work aimed to explore the nursing interventions that promote comfort among the elderly in hospital settings.
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