Exploring the concept of "resuscitability" in an adult trauma population.
Exploring the concept of "resuscitability" in an adult trauma population.
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探索成人创伤人群中“可复苏性”的概念。
DOI:
10.1097/01.ans.0000319569.91631.d1
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2008
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Zeitzer,MindyB
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Zeitzer,MindyB
Resuscitability is a concept often used during the resuscitation of injured patients but remains unnamed, unexplored, and undefined. This article explores resuscitability as it pertains to nurses caring for adult trauma patients for the purposes of concept development. After a review of the literature, dimensions discovered include physiologic, legal, ethical, and societal. Development of the concept of resuscitability can be used to address issues related to trauma resuscitations. Trauma nurses care for severely injured patients on each of the dimensional levels identified and thus understanding the meaning of resuscitability will help nurses better care for their injured patients. Key words: concept analysis, resuscitability, traumaRESUSCITABILITY as a concept is often discussed in the nursing and medical literature through various means but remains unnamed, unexplored, and undefined. The existing literature related to resuscitability is fragmented into separate and individual thoughts or issues such as how to consider an unconscious patient’s autonomy. Although these thoughts or issues related to resuscitability are often discussed, they have not been integrated into 1 idea or concept, particularly in relation to the resuscitation of injured patients. Interestingly, the term has been doc-