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Inventing the Future: Barlow and Beyond
Syfte: Syftet med studien var att kartlÀgga preventiva omvÄrdnadsÄtgÀrder för att förhindra ventilator-associerad pneumoni pÄ en thoraxintensivvÄrdsavdelning. Bakgrund: De vanligaste vÄrdrelaterade infektionerna pÄ intensivvÄrdsavdelningar Àr pneumonier och bland dessa Àr 80 % ventilatorassocierade. VÄrdrelaterade infektioner innebÀr stora kostnader för samhÀllet och ökat vÄrdlidande för den drabbade patienten. För att förhindra uppkomsten av ventilator-associerad pneumoni (VAP) finns ett antal omvÄrdnadsÄtgÀrder som har visat sig vara effektiva vad gÀller att motverka VAP. Design: Studien Àr en journalgranskning med retrospektiv deskriptiv design. Metod: Ett klusterurval gjordes dÀr patienter som vÄrdats minst tvÄ pÄbörjade dygn i respirator valdes ut. Totalt togs 126 journaler fram varav 17 journaler exkluderades och slutligen ingick totalt 109 journaler i studien. Journalerna granskades med hjÀlp av ett protokoll dÀr följande omvÄrdnadsÄtgÀrder kontrollerades: tandborstning, munvÄrd med klorhexidinlösning, antal utförda kufftrycksmÀtningar, registrerat kufftryck, höjd huvudÀnda, subglottisaspiration, sederingsgrad enligt Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS) samt gurgling med klorhexidinlösning. Datan analyserades i statistikprogrammet SPSS. Resultat: Deltagarna delades in i tvÄ grupper utifrÄn Älder (grupp 1 †69 Är, grupp 2 ℠70 Är). MunvÄrd med klorhexidin var den ÄtgÀrd som utfördes flest gÄnger per dygn med medianvÀrde fyra i bÄda Äldersgrupperna. DÀrefter följde kufftrycksmÀtning med en median pÄ tvÄ kontroller per dygn. MedianvÀrdet för höjd huvudÀnda var ett i bÄda grupperna. Tandborstning var den ÄtgÀrd som utfördes minst antal gÄnger. Det var inga signifikanta skillnader mellan de olika Äldersgrupperna vad gÀller utförda omvÄrdnadsÄtgÀrder. Konklusion och kliniska implikationer: En rimlig bedömning Àr att kontinuerlig uppdatering betrÀffande den senaste forskningen hos vÄrdpersonal samt revidering av PM kommer att ge bÀttre vÄrdresultat, kortare vÄrdtider, mindre kostnader för samhÀllet och mindre vÄrdlidande. Resultatet pekar pÄ behov av antingen bÀttre följsamhet till befintliga rekommendationer, eller noggrannare och tydligare dokumentation av utförda ÄtgÀrder
Inventing The Future 2005 Planning Retreat
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Aline Girard a visitĂ© pour nous la bibliothĂšque publique de Seattle dans le cadre de la confĂ©rence de mi-mandat de la section des bibliothĂšques mĂ©tropolitaines de lâIfla (ex-Intamel), qui a rĂ©uni 58 participants du 6 au 11 mai 2007 sur le thĂšme « The changing face of metropolitan libraries : Inventing the future, anchored in the past »
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From Communism to Postcapitalism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelsâ The Communist Manifesto (1848)
History bears testament to the Manifestoâs planetary circulation, global readership and material impact. Interpretations of this short document have affected the lives of millions globally, particularly in the second half of the twentieth century. The text is somehow able to outline the complex theoretical foundations for the worldâs most enduring critique of capitalism in a comprehensible and persuasive language, and as such, readers of all classes, professions, nations and ethnicities have drawn on â and in many cases warped and manipulated â its valuable insights. Whilst arguing for the importance of the Manifesto as an anti-imperial book and exploring the reasons for its viral circulation, this chapter will also show that it is a self-reflexive text that predicts its own historic impact. It is the formal and generic â or, in fact, âliteraryâ â qualities of this astonishing document that have given it such primacy in the canon of anti-imperial and anti-capitalist writing
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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed
Attributing scientific and technical progress: the case of holography
Holography, the three-dimensional imaging technology, was portrayed widely as a paradigm
of progress during its decade of explosive expansion 1964â73, and during its subsequent
consolidation for commercial and artistic uses up to the mid 1980s. An unusually
seductive and prolific subject, holography successively spawned scientific insights, putative
applications and new constituencies of practitioners and consumers. Waves of forecasts,
associated with different sponsors and user communities, cast holography as a field on the
verge of successâbut with the dimensions of success repeatedly refashioned. This retargeting
of the subject represented a degree of cynical marketeering, but was underpinned by
implicit confidence in philosophical positivism and faith in technological progressivism.
Each of its communities defined success in terms of expansion, and anticipated continual
progressive increase. This paper discusses the contrasting definitions of progress in holography,
and how they were fashioned in changing contexts. Focusing equally on reputed âfailuresâ of some aspects of the subject, it explores the varied attributes by which success and failure were linked with progress by different technical communities. This important case illuminates the peculiar post-World War II environment that melded the military, commercial and popular engagement with scientific and technological subjects, and the
competing criteria by which they assessed the products of science
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