Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Case Studies in Adult Intensive Care Medicine

Guiding FFICM and EDIC exam candidates through the intensive care medicine curriculum, this book provides 48 case studies mapped to eight key areas of study in the UK and European syllabuses. Cases include clinical vignettes,... read more

Quality of Life of Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness Symptoms in Long-Term Intensive Care Survivors

Quality of Life of Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Weakness Symptoms in Long-Term Intensive Care Survivors

Intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW) symptoms were disturbingly common in the majority of long-term survivors, indicating that symptoms persist up to 10y and frequently impair QoL. However, only a small number of... read more

Sepsis and the Obesity Paradox: Size Matters in More Than One Way

Sepsis and the Obesity Paradox: Size Matters in More Than One Way

Our retrospective analysis suggests that although patient size (i.e., body mass index) is a predictor of in-hospital death among all-comers with sepsis—providing further evidence to the obesity paradox—it adds that illness... read more

Effects of Telemedicine ICU Intervention on Care Standardization and Patient Outcomes

Effects of Telemedicine ICU Intervention on Care Standardization and Patient Outcomes

In this pre-post observational study, telemedicine ICU intervention was associated with improvements in care standardization and decreases in ICU and hospital mortality and length of stay. The mortality benefits were mediated... read more

Training Multidisciplinary Healthcare Workers to Reinforce ICUs in Times of Need

Training Multidisciplinary Healthcare Workers to Reinforce ICUs in Times of Need

ESICM is to carry out a C19 SPACE programme funded by the European Commission for the training of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals not regularly working in ICUs, to give extra support to ICUs during the COVID-19... read more

Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality and Organ Support in Patients with Severe COVID-19

Effect of Hydrocortisone on Mortality and Organ Support in Patients with Severe COVID-19

Among patients with severe COVID-19, treatment with a 7-day fixed-dose course of hydrocortisone or shock-dependent dosing of hydrocortisone, compared with no hydrocortisone, resulted in 93% and 80% probabilities of superiority... read more

Bacterial Profile of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Concept, Review, Methods, Observations, Inference

Bacterial Profile of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia: Concept, Review, Methods, Observations, Inference

ICU is a hotbed of infections and measures are taken to prevent these infections. Ventilator associated pneumonia is one of the Intensive Care Unit related infections. This book tells us what ventilator associated pneumonia... read more

Shorter Resident Shifts May Not Improve Patient Safety

Shorter Resident Shifts May Not Improve Patient Safety

Residents who worked schedules that eliminated extended shifts made a greater number of serious errors than those who worked schedules with shifts of 24 or more hours, a trial in the New England Journal of Medicine reported. The... read more

Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Serology Assays Reveals a Range of Test Performance

Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 Serology Assays Reveals a Range of Test Performance

Appropriate use and interpretation of serological tests for assessments of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exposure, infection and potential immunity require accurate data on assay performance.... read more

Artificial Neural Networks Improve Prediction and Risk Classification in ICU Patients

Artificial Neural Networks Improve Prediction and Risk Classification in ICU Patients

A supervised machine learning model using artificial neural networks (ANN) predicted neurological recovery, including survival excellently, and outperformed a conventional model based on logistic regression. Among the data... read more

Respiratory Support in Patients with COVID-19

Respiratory Support in Patients with COVID-19

Non-invasive respiratory support could be useful in treating COVID-19-related acute respiratory failure (ARF). A rational use of different techniques (oxygen therapy, CPAP, NIV or HFOT) by a trained pulmonologist could allow... read more

Variation in Hospital Visitor & ICU Communication Policies Due to COVID-19

Variation in Hospital Visitor & ICU Communication Policies Due to COVID-19

A new study documents how 49 of those hospitals reacted, and how those efforts varied. It finds that virtually all hospitals put in place a "no visitors" blanket policy. But 59% of hospitals did allow some exceptions to this... read more

Perceived Barriers to Rapid Response Team Activation Among Nurses

Perceived Barriers to Rapid Response Team Activation Among Nurses

The purpose of this literature review was to investigate the major barriers nurses face when it is necessary to seek additional assistance and resources by calling the rapid response team (RRT) in order to manage and stabilize... read more

ICU Capacity is More About the Clinicians Than The Number of Beds

ICU Capacity is More About the Clinicians Than The Number of Beds

Each time communities experience surges of COVID-19, concerns arise over the availability of hospital and intensive care unit beds in affected regions. To monitor ICU capacity, several states have begun to track and publicly... read more