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In this issue: Statins and diabetes risk; new treatment guideline for diabetes; new pertussis vaccine recommendation; antibiotics and rhinosinusitis; fluoroquinolones and cystitis; and FDA actions.
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The purpose of this article was to apply aviation communication principles and strategies to the field of critical care medicine, particularly crisis communication situations.
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This is a report of a secondary analysis of data from the original Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Network low-tidal-volume study, which demonstrated improved survival with ventilator tidal volumes of 6 (vs 12) mL/kg predicted body weight in patients meeting the American-European consensus definition of acute lung injury (ALI) or ARDS.
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In this issue: New treatment for prostate cancer; avastin and breast cancer; new CMS disclosure rule; and FDA actions.
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Patients have referred to receiving mechanical ventilatory support as, "the most inhumane ever experienced".... While mechanical ventilation is one of the most commonly used treatment modalities in the ICU, this life-saving modality causes great anxiety, distress, and discomfort in patients.
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This study was a secondary analysis of data from an earlier randomized clinical trial comparing one antibiotic vs two (meropenem alone or meropenem plus ciprofloxacin) as early empiric therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
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Lyon and colleagues performed a retrospective cohort study of the relationship between insurance status and 30-day mortality, as well as the use of five common ICU procedures, among 138,720 adult patients admitted to ICUs in Pennsylvania in fiscal years 2005 and 2006.
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