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Nursing Neurologic Assessments After Cardiac Operations

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1 Nursing Neurologic Assessments After Cardiac Operations
Anna T. Bickert, MSN, RN, Cindy Gallagher, BSN, RN, Amy Reiner, BSN, RN, Walter J. Hager, BSN, RN, Mark M. Stecker, MD, PhD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 85, Issue 2, Pages (February 2008) DOI: /j.athoracsur Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

2 Fig 1 Illustration of the Neurologic Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) evaluation. (From Beauchamp K, Baker S, McDaniel C, et al. Reliability of nurses’ neurological assessments in the cardiothoracic surgical intensive care unit. Am J Crit Care, 2001;10:298–305. Reprinted with permission from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.) The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

3 Fig 2 (A) Graph of the time to achieve each Neurologic Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) score in patients as a function of discharge status to home (filled circles) or elsewhere (open circles). (B) Graph of the time to achieve each NICE score in patients with (open circles) and without (filled circles) new postoperative neurologic deficits. Data are presented with the standard deviation. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

4 Fig 3 Kaplan-Meier survival curves using reaching a Neurologic Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) score of 8 as criterion in patients as a function of discharge status to home (solid line) or elsewhere (dashed line). The numbers represent the patients at risk in each group. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.athoracsur ) Copyright © 2008 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions


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