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National Intensive Care Week 7th June – 12th June 2022

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 Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are specialist wards within hospitals that provide treatment and monitoring to the sickest of patients. Such areas are staffed by specially trained healthcare professionals and often contain sophisticated monitoring equipment. ICUs are also sometimes called critical care units (CCUs) or intensive therapy units (ITUs).

Intensive care treatment is needed if someone is seriously ill and requires intensive treatment and close monitoring, or if they're having surgery and intensive care can help them recover. People who are patients within these areas, normally have issues with one or more of their organs, e.g. they are unable to breathe on their own and therefore require the additional medical care provided from an ICU.

The aim of National Intensive Care Week is to celebrate the incredible work that happens in critical care; and to say thank you to those professionals who work within such areas.

For more information surrounding Intensive Care medicine and facilities, please visit the Intensive Care Society and NHS websites:

https://www.ics.ac.uk/Society/

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/intensive-care/

 RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of intensive care medicine and facilities and also supporting those who are being treated by or work within intensive care facilities, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

BOOKS:

  • Post-intensive care syndrome / Preiser, Jean-Charles; Herridge, Margaret S., editor.; Azoulay, Elie, 1967-; European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. 2020 [Cham, Switzerland : Springer]
  • Critical care / Waldmann, Carl.; Rhodes, Andy.; Soni, Neil.; Handy, Jonathan M. 2019 2nd ed [Oxford : Oxford University Press]
  • ABC of intensive care / Nimmo, Graham R.; Singer, Mervyn. 2011 2nd ed [Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell]. Also available as a Keele and NHS ebook.

  • Anaesthesia, Pain & Intensive Care / Islamabad : T.H. Khan. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards, NHS ejournal 1999 onwards, & Open Access 2009 onwards.]
  • Intensive care medicine / Heidelberg: Springer [Available as a Keele ejournal 1975 onwards, NHS ejournal 1997 onwards, & in print 2009 - 2011.]
  • Journal of Intensive Care / London : BioMed Central [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2013 onwards, & Open Access 2013 onwards.]
  • Critical care medicine / Baltimore, MD : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins [Available as a Keele ejournal 2005 – 2008, NHS ejournal 1995 onwards, & in print 2000 - 2011.]
  • Nursing in critical care / Oxford, England ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2003 onwards & in print 1996 - 2011.]
  • Intensive and Critical Care Nursing / [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards, NHS ejournal 2003 onwards with 2-month embargo, & in print 1994 - 2012.]
  • Annals of intensive care / Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2011 onwards, & Open Access 2011 onwards.]
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • Samir Jaber, Giuseppe Citerio & Arthur S. Slutsky; “Acute respiratory failure and mechanical ventilation in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: why a special issue in ICM?”, Intensive Care Medicine, 2020, Vol. 46 Pt. 12, pp. 2131–2132. [Available via NHS and Keele ejournals.]
  • Hermes, C ; Petersen-Ewert, C; “Agency work in intensive care : Impact of temporary contract work on patient care in intermediate care and intensive care units”, Medical clinic - intensive care and emergency medicine, 2022, Vol.117 Pt.1, pp.16-23. Article in German, but abstract available in English. [Available via NHS ejournals.]
  • Katja Erne, Samuel E. J. Knobel, Aileen C. Naef, Stephan M. Gerber, Tim Fischer, Fred W. Mast, Joerg C. Schefold, Bjoern Zante, Tobias Nef & Marie-Madlen Jeitziner; “Influence of noise manipulation on retention in a simulated ICU ward round: an experimental pilot study”, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2022, Vol. 10 Pt.1, Article 3, doi:10.1186/s40635-022-00430-1 . [Available via NHS and Keele ejournals.]
  • Noome, M ; Dijkstra, B.M ; Leeuwen, E. van ; Vloet, L.C.M; “Effectiveness of supporting intensive care units on implementing the guideline ‘End-of-life care in the intensive care unit, nursing care’: a cluster randomized controlled trial”, Journal of advanced nursing, 2017 Vol.73 Pt.6, pp.1339-1354. [Available via Keele ejournals.]
  • Chuang, Chien-Huai ; Tseng, Pei-Chi ; Lin, Chun-Yu ; Lin, Kuan-Han ; Chen, Yen-Yuan; “Burnout in the intensive care unit professionals A systematic review”, Medicine (Baltimore), 2016, Vol.95 Pt.50, pp.e5629 [Available via NHS and Keele ejournals, & Open Access.]
  • Hakimzada, Mariam; O'Brien, Aileen; Wigglesworth, Harriet; “Exploring the attitudes of the nursing staff towards the use of body worn cameras in psychiatric inpatient wards”, Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, 2020, Vol. 16 Pt.2  pp.75-84. [Available via NHS ejournals.]
  • Liang Y, Li J, Pan W.; “Family satisfaction in the intensive care unit: The influence of disease severity, care relationship, patient anxiety and patient pain.”, Intensive & Critical Care Nursing., 2021, Vol. 63. doi:10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102995. [Available via NHS and Keele ejournals.]
  • Roze des Ordons, A. L. et al. , “Family participation in ICU rounds-Working toward improvement”, Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 2022, Vol. 26 Pt. 6, pp. 1620–1628. [Available via NHS and Keele ejournals.]
  • Haines KJ, Sevin CM, Hibbert E, et al., “Key mechanisms by which post-ICU activities can improve in-ICU care: results of the international THRIVE collaboratives.”, Intensive care medicine, 2019, Vol. 45 Pt. 7, pp. 939-947. [Available via NHS and Keele ejournals.]

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:

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For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/.

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