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Portrait of Dymphna Cusack, author [picture]
No full textCondition: Good.; Part of collection: Ion Idriess glass plate negative collection.; Title from signature on image.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3299415. "My love, Dymphna Cusack 1954"--signature on image
Alien Registration- Cusack, Annie L. (Millinocket, Penobscot County)
No full texthttps://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/7551/thumbnail.jp
Alcohol, tobacco & other drugs : guidelines for nurses and midwives : a framework for policy & standards, & clinical guidelines
No full textCusack, Lynette. De Crespigny, Charlotte Francis, 1948- Drug and Alcohol Services Council (S. Aust.) Flinders University of South Australia. School of Nursing and Midwifery. South Australian Alcohol and Other Drug Nursing and Midwifery Statewide Action Group. Western Australia. Drug and Alcohol Offic
Call for national dialogue: adapting standards of care in extreme events. We are not ready
No full textAbstract not availableLynette Cusack, Kristine Gebbi
A repeated measures, randomised cross-over trial, comparing the acute exercise response between passive and active sitting in critically ill patients
No full textEarly mobilisation of critically ill patients is safe and beneficial, but the metabolic cost of exercise remains unquantified. This study compared the acute exercise response in critically ill participants during passive and active sitting. Method: We conducted a prospective, randomised, cross-over study, in ventilated patients receiving rehabilitative physiotherapy. Ten participants completed a passive chair transfer, or a sit on the edge of the bed, followed by the alternate exercise activity on the consecutive day. The primary outcome measure was oxygen consumption. Results: In comparison to resting supine, a passive chair transfer elicited no change in oxygen consumption, carbon dioxide production or minute ventilation; but mean arterial pressure (91.86 mmHg (95% CI 84.61 to 99.10) to 101.23 mmHg (95% CI 93.35 to 109.11) (p = 0.002)) and heart rate (89.13 bpm (95% CI 77.14 to 101.13) to 97.21 bpm (95% CI 81.22 to 113.20) (p = 0.008)) increased. Sitting on the edge of the bed resulted in significant increases in oxygen consumption (262.33 ml/min (95% CI 201.97 to 322.70) to 353.02 ml/min (95% CI 303.50 to 402.55), p = 0.002), carbon dioxide production (171.93 ml/min (95% CI 131.87 to 211.98) to 206.23 ml/min (95% CI 151.03 to 261.43), p = 0.026), minute ventilation (9.97 l/min (95% CI 7.30 to 12.65) to 12.82 l/min (95% CI 10.29 to 15.36), p < 0.001), mean arterial pressure (86.81 mmHg (95% CI 77.48 to 96.14) to 95.59 mmHg (95% CI 88.62 to 102.56), p = 0.034) and heart rate (87.60 bpm (95% CI 73.64 to 101.56) to 94.91 bpm (95% CI 79.57 to 110.25), p = 0.007). When comparing the 2 activities, sitting on the edge of the bed elicited a significantly larger increase in oxygen consumption (90.69 ml/min (95% CI 44.04 to 137.34) vs 14.43 ml/min (95% CI -27.28 to 56.14), p = 0.007) and minute ventilation (2.85 l/min (95% CI 1.70 to 3.99) vs 0.74 l/min (95% CI -0.92 to 1.56), p = 0.012). Conclusion: Sitting on the edge of the bed is a more metabolically demanding activity than a passive chair transfer in critically ill patients.</p
Over the Counter (OTC) analgesic use by Aboriginal people in Adelaide: Report March 2011
No full textde Crespigny C, Wilson C, Chong A, Cusack L, Valadian S and Beshara
S65 Raised CK Levels in Severe Asthmatics Admitted to the Critical Care Unit- A Retrospective Cohort Analysis
No full textIntroduction and Aims Acute severe asthma is a life threatening condition. Mechanical ventilation may be indicated in about third of asthmatics admitted to the intensive care unit and has a mortality rate of 8%.1 Several reports have identified elevated CK levels during an episode of acute severe asthma. Intense muscular workload during an acute episode and drugs such as steroids, anaesthetic induction agents, aminophylline and salbutamol are all implicated in raising plasma CK levels. Our aim was to retrospectively evaluate the CK levels and clinical implications in patients with acute severe asthma, who were admitted to our intensive care unit.Methods This was a retrospective survey of all asthmatics admitted to intensive care unit between October 2009 and July 2011. Patient’s case notes were screened to identify demographics and clinical details.Results Thirty asthmatics with 37 admissions were identified. Three patients had multiple admissions. Mean age was 37 and two third were female. Twelve patients had CK levels performed as part of clinical management. Seven patients (58%) had CK levels ≤320 IU/ml and 5 patients (42%) had CK levels ≥320 IU/ml. Patients with raised CK levels had more intubations, ICU days and hospital days. IV aminophyline and IV salbutamol infusions were more frequent in patients with raised CK levels. The elevated CK was noted on average 1.8 days after the admission (Table 1). Three patients with raised CK levels had severe renal failure with evidence of myoglobinuria. Statistical analysis is not performed due to small number of patients.Discussions Acute severe asthmatics may develop raised CK levels with evidence of myoglobinuria and subsequent renal failure. The exact mechanisms are not fully explored. Intravenous beta2-agonists with combination of IV aminophylline may be a contributory factor. Prospective studies are needed to evaluate the path ophysiological mechanisms and clinical implications
Pre-hospital clinical management of heat stress
No full textby Lynette Cusack, Paul Arbon and Jamie Rans
Industrial considerations for nurses responding to disasters
No full textLenson, Shane; Ranse, Jamie; Cusack, Lynett
Honour and recognition in the German novel of banditry ca 1800
No full textThis article performs a reading informed by Honneth’s theory of recognition of the two best-known German novels of banditry of the 1790s, Johann Heinrich Zschokke’s Abaellino der große Bandit (1794) and Christian August Vulpius’ Rinaldo Rinaldini (1799) in an effort to understand how popular literature participates in and reflects upon the discourse on honour and recognition around 1800. Its status as popular genre makes the novel of banditry (Räuberroman) a potentially interesting source on shifts in the theory and practice of honour as experienced by ordinary Europeans at the turn of the 19th century. The genre was found to relate to the honour discourse not directly, but in the manner of a heterotopia, simultaneously located outside that discourse and referentially connected to it. Taken in isolation, the novel of banditry is not an informative source on the changing role of honour and new patterns of intersubjective recognition in late 18th century Europe. Seen as part of a particular constellation of textual production and reception, however, the genre sheds light on the aporias of honour experienced by those socially marginal ‘new readers’ intent on exploiting literature in the struggle for enhanced social recognition.Peer reviewe
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