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Fagan and colleagues at Denver Health Medical Center examined electronic data collected on all adult patients who generated a medical surgical acute-care room charge during a recent 6-month period and remained on the ward for at least 24 hours.
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This study conducted in five ICUs at two academic hospitals in San Francisco sought to describe how comfort care is presented to surrogates and if physicians beliefs on whether life support should be withdrawn are associated with the option of comfort care being presented.
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Nutritional support is an essential component of caring for critically ill patients.
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he American College of Surgeons in 2008 released the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) updates (eighth edition) with recommendations based on evidence-based medicine in addition to the expert consensus.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the usual method of physician-directed weaning from mechanical ventilation to a weaning protocol directed and managed by bedside ICU nurses.
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In this multicenter observational study carried out in eight ICUs in France, Cracco and colleagues evaluated the safety of fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) when performed in acutely ill, nonintubated patients who were receiving supplemental oxygen and/or noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NIPPV).
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In this issue: Calcium supplementation in women; type 2 diabetes treatments and pancreatitis risk; treating chronic idiopathic urticaria; rivaroxaban and VTE; and FDA actions.
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These two reports of large, multicenter, randomized, controlled trials of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) as compared to conventional lung-protective ventilation (LPV) in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) were electronically published on the same day in The New England Journal of Medicine.