Older Adults in Critical Care, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

1st Edition, Volume 35-4 - October 16, 2023
Editor: Deborah Garbee
Language: English
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In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Deborah Garbee brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Older Adults in Critical Care. Top experts in the field provide readers with the latest on Delirium in Older Adults, Sepsis Across the Continuum, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, and more.

Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
Forthcoming Issues
Preface
Do We Really Listen, Improving End-of-Life Conversations
Key points
Introduction
Background
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Appendix
The 4M Model
Key points
Introduction
Summary
Clinics care points
Biofilm and Hospital-Acquired Infections in Older Adults
Key points
Introduction
What is biofilm?
How biofilms influence disease states
How biofilm impacts the critical elderly
Clinic care points
Discussion
Summary
Disclosure
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: Challenges and Considerations for Care Transitions
Key points
Progressive supranuclear palsy: challenges and considerations for care transitions
Progressive supranuclear palsy comorbidities
Summary
Clinics care points
The Sensitive Care of the Elder Orphan in Critical Care Environments
Key points
Introduction
Background
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Declaration of conflicting interests and funding
The Role and Initiatives Led by the Sepsis Coordinator to Improve Sepsis Bundle Compliance and Care Across the Continuum
Key points
Background
Why a sepsis coordinator?
Improving sepsis core measure compliance
Clinics care points: evidence-based pearls
Initiatives to reduce readmissions
Components of a personal sepsis pathway assessment tool for sepsis survivors
Discussion: ongoing opportunities
Disclosure
An Interprofessional Precision Health Model for Assessment of Caregiver Impact on Polypharmacy in Elderly Intensive Care Unit Patients: A Team-Based Proposal
Key points
Introduction
Background
Importance of precision health to nursing science
Purpose
The research questions
Search strategies
Selection process
Findings
Nursing
Pharmacy
Medicine
Interprofessional approach
Synthesis of literature
Implications for practice, policy, research, and education
Summary
Clinics care points
Transition of Care for Older Adults Undergoing General Surgery
Key points
Introduction
Transition of care from outpatient to perioperative environment
Transition of care from the perioperative environment to critical care
Transition of care from critical care to the acute care setting
Transition of care from acute care to outpatient
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Substance Use Disorder in Critical Care
Key points
Introduction
Background
Discussion
Recommendations
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Identification and Best Practice Management of Comorbid Geri-Psych Conditions in Critical Care
Key points
Introduction
Background
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
A Team Approach to Bundle Compliance
Key points
Introduction
Background
Planning
Implementation
Outcomes
Summary
Clinics care points
Polypharmacy in the Cardiovascular Geriatric Critical Care Population: Improving Outcomes
Key points
Introduction
State of the issue
Polypharmacy
Deprescribing
Tools to facilitate appropriate prescribing and appropriate deprescribing
Team-based approach to polypharmacy
Roles of the interprofessional team
Recommendations for future research
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure
Acute Care for Elders and Nurses Improving Care for Health System Elders Models in Acute Care: Are We Still Using These Geriatric Models of Care?
Key points
Introduction
Background
Summary
Clinics care points
Disclosure

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