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Since the publication of the initial IDSA Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in 2003, hospital administrators have been scrambling to improve their numbers.
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Unfractionated heparin (UH) is commonly used in acutely ill hospital patients at risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE).
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Among 413 patients who underwent placement of a removable inferior vena cava filter following trauma for prophylaxis or treatment of pulmonary thromboembolism and survived to hospital discharge, subsequent removal of the filter was attempted in 116 of them and successful in only 91 (22%).
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IVIG is safe and effective for worsening Myasthenia Gravis, but has no effect on the natural course of Miller Fisher syndrome.
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This pilot study from the Medical and Coronary ICUs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center sought to identify factors associated with the development of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following critical illness.
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Although prognostic information is viewed as very important to family members of incapacitated, critically ill patients, little is known about what prognostic information clinicians provide during family conferences.
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Several studies have suggested that procalcitonin may be a useful biochemical marker to differentiate sepsis from other, non-infectious, causes of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), such as pancreatitis.
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Systemic and pulmonary inflammation are key in the development and progression of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Lack of improvements in inflammatory markers and in the lung injury score (LIS) by day 7 are associated with higher mortality.
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Van den Berghe et al have recently reported the results of intensive insulin therapy (IIT) on morbidity and mortality in medical intensive care unit patients.
