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Harbrecht and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh studied the effects of a targeted protocol for respiratory assessment and management in patients admitted to the hospital's neurosurgery step-down, trauma/surgery step-down, and trauma/surgery general units.
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Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) occurs as a complication of neurosurgical emergencies including traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intracranial hemorrhage or due to medical illnesses, such as meningitis or fulminant hepatic failure.
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In this issue: Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors, FDA Actions, and FDA Warnings.
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For many years, infection-control experts have focused on improving the hand hygiene habits of health care providers.
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The NICO monitor (Respironics, Inc.) uses co2 production, estimated from changes in exhaled CO2 during a brief period of rebreathing, to determine cardiac output via the Fick relationship.
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In 2003, Burns and colleagues published a cochrane review of available studies examining the effects of early direct extubation to non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in adult patients receiving invasive mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure.
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In this study examining both the attainment of nutritional goals and the incidence of complications related to enteral feeding, patients in the medical ICU of a university-affiliated tertiary hospital in Taiwan were randomized to nutritional support via nasoduodenal (ND) vs nasogastric (NG) tubes.
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Early in my career as a respiratory therapist, we had an unusual piece of equipment in the ICU the Birdmobile. This distinctive piece of equipment was a souped-up walker with wheels, to which we added a Bird Mark 7 ventilator, oxygen tanks, and a seat.
