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COVID-19 critical care guideline offers support for frontline clinicians
The target users of this guideline are frontline clinicians, allied health professionals, and policy makers involved in the care of patients with...
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Here’s what ICUs are putting up against COVID-19
Society of Critical Care Medicine takes inventory of the nation’s resources.
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Lombardy ICU capacity stressed to breaking point by COVID-19 outbreak
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No sedation fails to improve mortality in mechanically ventilated patients
ORLANDO – The lack of sedation did significantly improve certain secondary endpoints, including a reduced number of thromboembolic events and...
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What hospitalists need to know about COVID-19
Hospitalists will be at the front line of care for patients suffering from coronavirus infection.
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Guidance defines vaping-related respiratory syndrome
ORLANDO – The guidance is designed to help critical care professionals efficiently identify those individuals at high risk of respiratory failure...
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Medicare beneficiaries get few home health visits after ICU stay
ORLANDO – The beneficiaries received an average of less than one visit per week in the month after ICU discharge, while a third received no visits...
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Opioid use disorder up in sepsis hospitalizations
ORLANDO – “While we don’t necessarily screen every sepsis patient for endocarditis, if it’s an opioid use disorder patient – particularly one with...
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Critical care admissions up for pediatric opioid poisonings
ORLANDO – Attempted suicide has represented an increasingly large proportion of these severe poisonings.
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As novel coronavirus outbreak evolves, critical care providers need to be prepared