Recognize the Tipping Points in Vital Signs: Beware the Treacherous Triads

[摘要] Late in 2011, we passed a true milestone in critical care: the 50th anniversary of the concept of a coronary care unit (CCU). In October 1961, a California cardiologist named Morris Wilburne1 published the first description of a CCU as a program of care distinguished from the existing model of an intensive care unit (ICU). In contrast to the wide array of medical and surgical health problems that might bring patients into the then sometimes noisy and nearly always brightly lighted ICU, the CCU was envisioned as a more restful milieu where patients at high risk for sudden death due to acute myocardial infarction could be continuously and electronically monitored by nurses with expertise in the recognition and immediate treatment of life-threatening cardiac dysrhythmias.

[学科分类] 护理学

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