Critical Care
Clinical
Improving the risk assessment of patients with acute pulmonary embolism
Hospital-based physicians inadequately assess for severity of pulmonary embolism in patients and fail to ask for consultations from specialists....
Clinical
Doctors’ and nurses’ predictions of ICU outcomes have variable accuracy
How accurate are doctors and nurses at predicting survival and functional outcomes in critically ill patients?
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ARDS incidence is declining. Is it a preventable syndrome?
TORONTO – Improvements in hospital practices may be the key to success.
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VIDEO: Balanced crystalloids protect kidney better than saline
TORONTO – Vanderbilt University Medical Center is transitioning from primarily using saline to balanced crystalloid IV fluids to prevent adverse...
Clinical
When do patients with SSTIs require hospital admission and IV antibiotics?
Skin and soft tissue infections encompass a wide variety of clinical presentations and severity, and can be mimicked by a number of noninfectious...
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Sepsis response team does not improve mortality/organ dysfunction
A sepsis response team did not have a positive effect on mortality or organ dysfunction in septic patients, compared with standard treatment by a...
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Ideal intubation position still unknown
For an endotracheal intubation, the sniffing position may be a better choice than the ramped position, a new study suggests.
Clinical
Bringing critical care training to hospitalists
Tens of thousands of hospitalists triage and manage critically ill patients, often with limited or no support from critical care specialists.
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Wait at least 2 days to replace central venous catheters in patients with candidemia
SAN DIEGO – It likely will reduce 30-day mortality.
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Negative nasal swabs reliably predicted no MRSA infection
SAN DIEGO – But physicians often prescribed vancomycin anyway, accumulating potentially avoidable treatment days.