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- Bjurling-Sjöberg, Petronella, 1968-, et al.
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A regional three-piece intervention providing training opportunities and uniform routines by Clinical Training Centers, proACT training and NEWS2
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Globally a considerable number of in-hospital patients develop preventable critical conditions and even cardiac arrest. This poster presents a three-piece intervention performed in order to provide uniform routines and systematic and coordinated training opportunities for the staff. The intervention increased staff’s awareness of how to prevent, identify and act upon critical conditions and built their self-confidence. This indicates that the staff’s ability to take adequate measures for patients in deterioration improved, which possibly enhance quality of care and patient safety.
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- Santesson, Ia, et al.
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Capability to identify and manage critical conditions : effects of an interprofessional training intervention
- 2024
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Ingår i: BMC Medical Education. - : BioMed Central (BMC). - 1472-6920. ; 24:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The burden of critical illness is a global issue. Healthcare systems often fail to provide essential emergency and critical care for deteriorating patients, and the optimal strategy for ensuring safe care is not fully known. This study aimed to explore the capability to identify and manage critical conditions and to evaluate how an interprofessional training intervention that included theory as well as high-fidelity simulation (proACT) in the short and long term affected the capability.Methods: A questionnaire study was performed. A cross-sectional survey of all in-hospital nurses and physicians in a Swedish region (n538) and a longitudinal cohort of participants entering the proACT course during a six-month period (n99) were included. Descriptive and comparative statistics were generated. Additionally, qualitative content analysis was performed for free text answers.Results: The findings demonstrated that the intervention improved the individual healthcare professionals' competence with a sustained effect over time. The coverage of proACT trained staff increased from 13.2% to 26.5%, but no correlation was observed with workplace conditions that support safe care. Collaboration and workplace climate were perceived to be mainly positive, but for safer care, an overall need for improved competence and staffing was emphasized.Conclusions: The present study confirms previously identified issues and the need for improvements in the care of critically ill patients in general hospital wards. It supports the notion that a training intervention, such as proACT, can increase the capability to identify and manage patients with critical conditions. All healthcare professions increased the competence. Hence, more effort is needed to enable staff of all professions to participate in such training. Studies of interventions cover higher number of trained staff in the setting are warranted to clarify whether the training can also improve workplace conditions that support safe care of deteriorating and critically ill patients.
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- Santesson, Sabina, et al.
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Airborne chemistry coupled to Raman spectroscopy
- 2003
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Ingår i: Analytical Chemistry. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1520-6882 .- 0003-2700. ; 75:9, s. 2177-2180
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, the use of airborne chemistry (acoustically levitated drops) in combination with Raman spectroscopy is explored. We report herein the first Raman studies of crystallization processes in levitated drops and the first demonstration of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection in this medium. Crystallization studies on the model compounds benzamide and indomethacin resulted in the formation of two crystal modifications for each compound, suggesting that this methodology may be useful for investigation of polymorphs. SERS detection resulted in a signal enhancement of 27 000 for benzoic acid and 11 000 for rhodamine 6-G. The preliminary results presented here clearly indicate that several important applications of the combination between Raman spectroscopy and acoustic drop levitation can be expected in the future.
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