Safety of Patient Mobilization and Rehabilitation in the ICU

Safety of Patient Mobilization and Rehabilitation in the ICU

Patient mobilization and physical rehabilitation in the ICU appears safe, with a low incidence of potential safety events, and only rare events having any consequences for patient management. Heterogeneity in the definition... read more

One Nation Under Stress

One Nation Under Stress

In an eye-opening new film, Dr Sanjay Gupta explores the link between stress and the continuing fall in US life expectancy. In the documentary, which premiered on HBO, Gupta speaks with scientists, affected individuals and... read more

Prognostic Accuracy of the Serum Lactate Level, the SOFA Score and the qSOFA Score for Mortality Among Adults with Sepsis

Prognostic Accuracy of the Serum Lactate Level, the SOFA Score and the qSOFA Score for Mortality Among Adults with Sepsis

Sepsis is a common critical condition caused by the body’s overwhelming response to certain infective agents. Many biomarkers, including the serum lactate level, have been used for sepsis diagnosis and guiding treatment.... read more

Textbook of Critical Care

Textbook of Critical Care

Comprehensive, concise, and readable, Textbook of Critical Care, 7th Edition, brings you fully up to date with the effective management of critically ill patients, providing the evidence-based guidance you need to overcome... read more

Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients Who Received Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients Who Received Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Although overall survival of ICU patients was 15.9%, patients requiring pressors and who experienced a CPA in an ICU were half as likely to survive to discharge and to be discharged home than patients not taking pressors.... read more

Moving On as an ICU Family After the Death of a Respected Leader

Moving On as an ICU Family After the Death of a Respected Leader

Paul Young is an intensive care specialist at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand where he is the co-clinical leader at Wellington ICU. He is also medical director of Wakefield Hospital ICU, Deputy Director at the Medical... read more

ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Mean Systemic Filling Pressure

ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Mean Systemic Filling Pressure

Consider sitting deep within the hull of this cruise ship, ignorant to the outside. A leak is sprung and ocean begins to rush in. Thinking quickly you activate the bilge pump which, appropriately, ejects the ocean outside... read more

The Association Between Visiting Intensivists and ICU Outcomes

The Association Between Visiting Intensivists and ICU Outcomes

During a period of service reconfiguration, intensivists routinely rostered to work in one ICU worked in another of the hospital's four ICUs. "Home" intensivists were those who continued to work in their usual... read more

Optimizing Ceftolozane-tazobactam Dosage in Critically Ill Patients During Continuous Venovenous Hemodiafiltration

Optimizing Ceftolozane-tazobactam Dosage in Critically Ill Patients During Continuous Venovenous Hemodiafiltration

Ceftolozane-tazobactam (C/T), the combination of a new cephalosporin with a classic β-lactamase inhibitor, is currently considered the most active betalactam antibiotic against P. aeruginosa. Despite several case reports... read more

In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

In-hospital cardiac arrest is common and associated with a high mortality rate. Despite this, in-hospital cardiac arrest has received little attention compared with other high-risk cardiovascular conditions, such as stroke,... read more

The Effects of Family Functioning on the Development of Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Their Parents Following Admission to the PICU

The Effects of Family Functioning on the Development of Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Their Parents Following Admission to the PICU

Both children and parents have alarmingly high rates of acute stress and posttraumatic stress following the child's PICU admission. Although family function did not emerge as a predictor in this study, further understanding... read more

Optimizing Continuous RRT in the ICU

Optimizing Continuous RRT in the ICU

The consideration of acute kidney injury, its incidence and its impact on the outcome of patients has grown continuously in recent years, leading to an increase in the use of renal replacement therapy (RRT) techniques. Recent... read more

Does De-escalation of Anti-MRSA Therapy for Culture-negative Pneumonia Affect Patient Outcomes?

Does De-escalation of Anti-MRSA Therapy for Culture-negative Pneumonia Affect Patient Outcomes?

Nosocomial pneumonia is a common hospital-acquired infection and has a high mortality rate in the critically ill. Because drug-resistant bacteria like Pseudomonas aeruginosa and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus... read more

The Effect of Diaries Written by Relatives for ICU Patients on PTSD

The Effect of Diaries Written by Relatives for ICU Patients on PTSD

The results of this study will inform ICU nurses about the effects, strengths and limitations of prompting relatives to author a diary for the patient. This will allow the diary intervention to be tailored to the individual... read more