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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Main Author: Taipale, Priscilla Gail
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29278