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-Newly-adopted national regulations limiting house staff work hours that accentuate the shortage of critical care staff.
-The difficulty in providing comfortable care with patients subjected to multiple negative sensory inputs including monitoring sounds, alarms, technical language, and procedures.
-The increasing number of disciplines included in the CVT critical care team.
-The well-documented compromises in medical practice safety. These challenges were coupled with a major limitation:
-The lack of multi-disciplinary educational activities for health care professionals that focus on the specialty of CVT critical care.