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Alarm reductions don’t improve ICU response times
December 5, 2017
TORONTO – Cutting back alarm numbers in the ICU did not lead to better alarm-response times at Harlem Hospital.
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Intense urine output monitoring beneficial in ICU
December 2, 2017
Patients who underwent intensive urine output monitoring received less fluid in their first 24 hours than did those who received less intensive monitoring.
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Improving the risk assessment of patients with acute pulmonary embolism
November 21, 2017
Hospital-based physicians inadequately assess for severity of pulmonary embolism in patients and fail to ask for consultations from specialists.
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Doctors’ and nurses’ predictions of ICU outcomes have variable accuracy
November 14, 2017
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?
November 13, 2017
TORONTO – Improvements in hospital practices may be the key to success.
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VIDEO: Balanced crystalloids protect kidney better than saline
November 1, 2017
TORONTO – Vanderbilt University Medical Center is transitioning from primarily using saline to balanced crystalloid IV fluids to prevent adverse renal events in hospitalized patients.
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When do patients with SSTIs require hospital admission and IV antibiotics?
October 23, 2017
Skin and soft tissue infections encompass a wide variety of clinical presentations and severity, and can be mimicked by a number of noninfectious medical conditions.
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Sepsis response team does not improve mortality/organ dysfunction
October 23, 2017
A sepsis response team did not have a positive effect on mortality or organ dysfunction in septic patients, compared with standard treatment by a primary care team, according to a study abstract scheduled to be presented at CHEST 2017.[[{"fid":"206723","view_mode":"medstat_image_full_text","fiel...
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Ideal intubation position still unknown
October 17, 2017
For an endotracheal intubation, the sniffing position may be a better choice than the ramped position, a new study suggests.
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Bringing critical care training to hospitalists
October 16, 2017
Tens of thousands of hospitalists triage and manage critically ill patients, often with limited or no support from critical care specialists.