Protocols and Hospital Mortality in Critically Ill Patients
Is healthcare quality being sabotaged by the ongoing flood of clinical protocols?
Category : intensive care : Health & Medical
Severe Cardiovascular Collapse After ET Intubation in the ICU
What factors interact with hemodynamic conditions during endotracheal intubation?
Looking Ahead at Medscape Critical Care in 2004
What changes will the New Year bring in critical care medicine?
Communication of Prognosis and Implications for Hospice Referral
Why don't nurses, who are ideally situated to facilitate communication about prognosis and hospice referral, always assume this task?
Work Schedules and Sleep in Critical Care Nurses
Does shift work create a critical sleep problem for ICU nurses?
Protocol Watch Effect on the Surviving Sepsis Campaign
Bundled services could help to improve ICU sepsis management. Find out how grouping key actions makes all the difference.
The Highs and Lows of Blood Pressure
Find out more about the mechanical and physiological aspects of blood pressure in addition to the role of changes in regional resistances in the determination of tissue perfusion and shock management.
Intrinsic Positive End-Expiratory Pressure in ARDS Subjects
Were the variations in intrinsic PEEP between the study groups in the ARDS Network study of low tidal volume ventilation clinically important?
Do Windows Affect Outcomes Among Patients in ICUs?
An ICU room with natural light may help sleep for some patients, but how does it impact the bottom line?
Mortality Prediction for 14 Days of Mechanical Ventilation
How well does the ProVent 14 model predict mortality within 1 year?
Ask the Experts - Use of Muscle Relaxants in the ICU
How popular is the use of muscle relaxants in the intensive care unit (ICU)?
Patient Discharge to a Care Facility After Critical Illness
What are the most common factors that increase a patient's risk of discharge to a care facility after ICU hospitalization?
Medical Tourism and Setting up a Private Practice Abroad
Many foreign physicians train in the United States. What challenges do they face when they return home? How does the growing trend in medical tourism impact their practice?
Preventive Strategies for Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
Many factors contribute to the development of ventilator acquired pneumonia, but how many factors can we influence to prevent it?
Patient Discharge to a Care Facility After Critical Illness
What are the most common factors that increase a patient's risk of discharge to a care facility after ICU hospitalization?
HRV as a Predictor of Cardiac Dysrhythmias During Weaning
Arrhythmias can induce myocardial ischemia and lead to unsuccessful weaning. Can they be cut off at the pass?
Intensive Care Use and Mortality After Healthcare Reform
What lessons can be gleaned from Massachusetts healthcare reform?
Early Decompressive Craniectomy and Duraplasty
Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Glasgow Coma Scale < 8) occurs in 60% of polytraumatized children after car accidents or child abuse, and it is associated with a high mortality and morbidity.
Preventive Strategies for Ventilator-associated Pneumonia
Many factors contribute to the development of ventilator acquired pneumonia, but how many factors can we influence to prevent it?
Skype and FaceTime Updates With Parents in the NICU
Providing updates via videoconferencing offers a new means of communicating with parents when they are unable to visit the NICU.