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Article: ICU nursing: death of patient post-CABG surgery tied to substandard nursing care.
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- Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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The patient was sent to the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).
The physician's post-operative orders specified one-to-one nursing care in the ICU.
The patient was on an intra-aortic balloon pump, a medical device implanted in the operating room inside the distal arch of the descending aorta through an opening in the femoral artery, connected to a driving Helium gas pump designed to pulse on at diastole and off at systole in synchronization with set points in the patient's EKG waveforms, the overall goal being to assist cardiac recovery by lessening myocardial systolic oxygen demand.
At 1:00 ...