Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
1 |
Editorial
To instill or not to instill – is it still a question? | |
Brenda May Morrow | 2 |
Guest Editorial
Visitors in the intensive care unit | |
Portia Janine Jordan | 4 |
Articles
The needs of patient family members in the intensive care unit in Kigali, Rwanda | |
Paul Munyiginya, Petra Brysiewicz | 5-8 |
Paediatric Index of Mortality scores: An evaluation of function in the paediatric intensive care unit of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital | |
Lincoln John Solomon, Brenda M Morrow, Andrew Charles Argent | 8-13 |
Knowledge of intensive care nurses in selected care areas commonly guided by protocols | |
Helen Perrie, Shelley Schmollgruber, Judith C Bruce, Piet J Becker | 14-18 |
Exploring healthcare professionals’ perceptions regarding family-witnessed resuscitation in a hospital in Kigali, Rwanda | |
Placide Havugitanga, Petra Brysiewicz | 18-21 |
The effect of normal saline instillation on cardiorespiratory parameters in intubated cardiothoracic patients | |
Shelley Schmollgruber, Judith C Bruce, Joany C Rachidi, Piet J Becker | 22-27 |
A prospective comparison of the efficacy and safety of fully closed-loop control ventilation (Intellivent-ASV) with conventional ASV and SIMV modes | |
Avraham Abutbul, Sigal Sviri, W Zbedat, David Michael Linton, Peter Vernon van Heerden | 28-32 |