A Global Perspective on AKI After Major Surgery

A Global Perspective on AKI After Major Surgery

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an abrupt decline in kidney function occurring within hours or days. In patients having surgery, postoperative AKI is a major complication associated with adverse outcomes including mortality.... read more

Fleisher & Ludwig’s Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Fleisher & Ludwig’s Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Fleisher & Ludwig's Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine has long been acknowledged as the indispensable comprehensive clinical reference on diagnosing and managing emergent health issues in children. Now, a new editorial... read more

Epidemiology of Surgery Associated Acute Kidney Injury (EPIS-AKI)

Epidemiology of Surgery Associated Acute Kidney Injury (EPIS-AKI)

In a comprehensive multinational study, approximately one in five patients develop PO-AKI after major surgery. Increasing severity of PO-AKI is associated with a progressive increase in adverse outcomes. Our findings indicate... read more

Impact of Variations in the Nursing Care Supply-Demand Ratio on Postoperative Outcomes and Costs

Impact of Variations in the Nursing Care Supply-Demand Ratio on Postoperative Outcomes and Costs

Improving surgical outcomes is a priority during the last decades because of the rising economic health care burden. The adoption of enhanced recovery programs has been proven to be part of the solution. In this context,... read more

Spotlight on Aortic Stenosis and Dissection

Spotlight on Aortic Stenosis and Dissection

This Focus Issue on valvular heart disease contains the State of the Art Review article "ESC/EACTS vs. ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of severe aortic stenosis" by Grace Lee from the Temerty Faculty of Medicine in... read more

The High-risk Surgical Patient

The High-risk Surgical Patient

It is well known that certain diseases and patient conditions are associated with increased perioperative risk. The aim of this book is to define and identify the clinical factors that warrant a broader and more detailed... read more

Trauma Group Publishes Action Plan, Makes Data Available for Secondary Analyses

Trauma Group Publishes Action Plan, Makes Data Available for Secondary Analyses

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has long advocated for the creation of a US National Trauma System to improve quality of care, decrease inequities, and save lives as one of its top legislative priorities, part of which... read more

House Officer’s Guide to ICU Care

House Officer’s Guide to ICU Care

Your Must-Have Guide for Navigating the ICU The House Officer's Guide to ICU Care is an eminently practical handbook for junior house officers, medical students, PAs, and nurses that offers nuts-and-bolts guidelines for optimal... read more

High Rate of PICS Among SICU Survivors

High Rate of PICS Among SICU Survivors

Through the successful implementation of a multidisciplinary critical care outpatient clinic (CCOC), this study identifies an exorbitant rate of postintensive care syndrome (PICS) among surgical intensive care unit (SICU)... read more

Nasotracheal Intubation on Postoperative Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease

Nasotracheal Intubation on Postoperative Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease

Nasotracheal intubation (NTI) is feasible and safe in neonatal cardiac surgery. System-level engagement with stakeholders is necessary to change clinical practice. NTI facilitates early SLP evaluation and treatment and significantly... read more

Postoperative Sepsis Infection Can Be Identified Using Gene Expression Signatures

Postoperative Sepsis Infection Can Be Identified Using Gene Expression Signatures

Host biomarker signatures may be able to identify postoperative infection or sepsis up to three days in advance of clinical recognition. If validated in future studies, these signatures offer potential diagnostic utility... read more

Damage Control in Trauma Care: An Evolving Comprehensive Team Approach

Damage Control in Trauma Care: An Evolving Comprehensive Team Approach

This book describes current, evidence-based guidelines for damage control interventions across the field of trauma care with the aim of enabling clinicians to apply them to best effect in daily clinical practice. Emphasis... read more

The impact of physical medicine and rehabilitation consultation on clinical outcomes in the SICU

The impact of physical medicine and rehabilitation consultation on clinical outcomes in the SICU

The impact of a physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) consultation on clinical outcomes in critically ill surgical patients remains unclear. The aim of this study is to examine whether the patients who received PM&R... read more

PPIs Should Not Be Prescribed for Upper GI Bleeds

PPIs Should Not Be Prescribed for Upper GI Bleeds

The topic of PPIs for upper GI bleeds was one of the first posts on First10EM. There is no new evidence, and the bottom line is the same (just don’t use them), so if you are a long time reader, you can probably skip this... read more