Background: Disease is an abnormal process that affects all aspects of the human life. The hospital environment and particularly the intensive care unit (ICU) causes stress in the patient and his/her family. So the critically ill patient necessary to assess the ICU Delirium.Aim: This study was designed to assess the prevalence of ICU delirium patients admitted in Intensive Care Unit.
Subjects and methods: A descriptive study was conducted among patients admitted inIntensive Care Unit at Puducherry. Sample size was 30, selected through purposive sampling. The approach used was Quantitative approach and descriptive design was used in this study. The investigator assessed the ICU delirium among patients using the Richmond Agitation and Sedation Scale and CAM-ICU Scale.
Results:The data revealed that ICU delirium is present in the current scenario and majority of the cases are differentiating it from hypoactive and hyperactive ICU delirium rather than considering the patient to be in a drowsy or sedative state. The evidence suggests that out of 30% of the subjects, who developed ICU delirium 6.67% of them had hypoactive ICU delirium and 23.33% had hyperactive ICU delirium.
Conclusion:ICU delirium is now becoming a major threat to the health care professionals because many of the studies reveals that the percentage of patients suffering from ICU delirium is being increasing day by day amidst this technological developments. It has really become a challenge for the health professionals to detect ICU delirium at the earliest so that they can prevent the cognitive impairment.
Aim: This study aimed to identify the skin problems due to hand sanitizers among children in selected area at Puducherry.
Materials and Methods: A descriptive study to assess the skin problems due to sanitizer’s usage among children in selected area at Puducherry. The research approach adopted for this study was quantitative in nature, the present study undertaken with 150 samples with convenient sampling technique to select the samples. The tool used for this study were non-standardized tools (yes/ no type questions).
Results: The result of analysis for association between the levels of skin damage due to sanitizer’s usage among children’s. Majority of children’s 122(81.3%) had moderate level of the skin problems, 20(13.3%) had mild level of skin problems and 8(5.4%) had severe level of skin problems.
Conclusion: The study concluded that most of the children 122(81.3%) had moderate level of skin problems. This findings associated with their availability of health care system that is government sector and gender female. The chi square value is p<0.001 level. The parents should be more accountable to take care of their children and teaching them about good practice of sanitizer, the community nurse should take part regarding assessing all this skin issues and possible prevention and curative measures for those at home set up as well as referring them to their nearest first referral unit.
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