Nursing care and post-operative delirium in the cardiac surgery intensive care unit
Post-operative delirium is a debilitating and costly adverse event that has detrimental effects on patients’ recovery and complicates nursing care. Its numerous risk factors make the disorder seem unavoidable and unpreventable. Although pre-operative and intra-operative risk factors for delirium may...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29278 |