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Pediatric Critical Care: A Primer for All Clinicians

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Pediatric Critical Care: A Primer for All Clinicians

Pediatric critical care is an emotionally and intellectually demanding field of medicine; however, it is at its core the discipline focused on saving and improving the lives of children affected by acute and chronic illnesses,... read more

 
 
Effect of Titrating PEEP with Esophageal Pressure-Guided Strategy vs Empirical High PEEP-Fio2 Strategy on Death and Days Free From Mechanical Ventilation Among Patients With ARDS

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Effect of Titrating PEEP with Esophageal Pressure-Guided Strategy vs Empirical High PEEP-Fio2 Strategy on Death and Days Free From Mechanical Ventilation Among Patients With ARDS

Among patients with moderate to severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), PES-guided positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), compared with empirical high PEEP-Fio2, resulted in no significant difference in death... read more

 
 
Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

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Sepsis Management in Resource-limited Settings

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It constitutes a unique source of knowledge and guidance for all healthcare workers who care for patients with sepsis and septic shock in resource-limited settings. More... read more

 
 
Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

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Guidelines for the Management of Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Update of the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines, Third Edition. Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants, Children, and Adolescents in 2019: Some Overdue Progress, Many Remaining Questions, and Exciting Ongoing Work in the... read more

 
 
Microbial Strategies to Reduce Pathogens and Drug Resistance in Clinical Settings

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Microbial Strategies to Reduce Pathogens and Drug Resistance in Clinical Settings

Healthcare‐associated infections (HAIs) are a global concern, affecting all western hospitals, and profoundly impairing the clinical outcome of up to 15% of all hospitalized patients. Persistent microbial contamination... read more

 
 
Severe Trauma and Sepsis: Organ Damage and Tissue Repair

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Severe Trauma and Sepsis: Organ Damage and Tissue Repair

This book discusses recent progress in organ damage and tissue repair following severe trauma and sepsis. In part 1, it introduces the theory and clinical practice in organ damage. In part 2, it covers all the subjects of... read more

 
 
How Should We Relate to Unreasonable Families in the ICU?

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How Should We Relate to Unreasonable Families in the ICU?

Most families have never suffered through a loved one experiencing prolonged critical illness and respiratory failure (defined as ventilator dependence for weeks, usually with a tracheostomy). But each year, more do. An estimated... read more

 
 
I Spent 4 Weeks Near Death In The ICU

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I Spent 4 Weeks Near Death In The ICU

I spent 4 weeks near death in the ICU. Here’s what I learned struggling for my life. My mind and body had to relearn everything: how to brush my hair, put on socks and take a sit-down shower. Although it was frustrating... read more

 
 
Appropriate Treatment for Bloodstream Infections Due to Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae and Escherichia Coli

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Appropriate Treatment for Bloodstream Infections Due to Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae and Escherichia Coli

Tigecycline monotherapy was a choice if the strains exhibited MIC ≤0.5 mg/L, and colistin monotherapy was not suitable. Our findings can initiate additional clinical studies regarding the efficacy of tigecycline in carbapenem-resistant... read more

 
 
Moral Distress in the Health Professions

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Moral Distress in the Health Professions

This is the first book on the market or within academia dedicated solely to moral distress among health professionals. It aims to bring conceptual clarity about moral distress and distinguish it from related concepts. Explicit... read more

 
 
Even Proper Technique Exposes Nurses’ Spines To Dangerous Forces

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Even Proper Technique Exposes Nurses’ Spines To Dangerous Forces

In this close-up screenshot from a simulation video, you can see the exact moment NPR correspondent Daniel Zwerdling endured dangerous levels of stress on his spine while re-creating the way nurses push their patients in... read more

 
 
Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis with Proton Pump Inhibitors or Histamin-2 Receptor Antagonists in Adult Intensive Care Patients

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Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis with Proton Pump Inhibitors or Histamin-2 Receptor Antagonists in Adult Intensive Care Patients

In this updated systematic review, we were able to refute a relative change of 20% of mortality. The occurrence of GI bleeding was reduced, but we lack firm evidence for a reduction in clinically important GI bleeding. The... read more

 
 
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

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How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship, the heart of medicine, is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and... read more

 
 
Effect of Occupancy on Critically Ill Admissions

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Effect of Occupancy on Critically Ill Admissions

Effect of Emergency Department and ICU Occupancy on Admission Decisions and Outcomes for Critically Ill Patients. The volume of ICU admissions from the ED has increased around 50% from 2001-2009. Hospitals struggle with this... read more

 
 
Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery

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Operative Techniques and Recent Advances in Acute Care and Emergency Surgery

The aim of this book is to identify and shed new light on the main surgical practices involved in acute care and trauma surgery. Adopting an evidence-based approach, a multidisciplinary team of surgeons and intensivists illustrate... read more

 
 
Sleep Deprived-Patients in ICU May Fail to Get Off Ventilation

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Sleep Deprived-Patients in ICU May Fail to Get Off Ventilation

Attempts to wean intubated, critically ill patients off mechanical ventilators were less successful when the patients exhibited atypical sleep or pathological wakefulness, researchers reported. The findings suggest that sleep... read more

 
 
Choice of Catheter Size for Infants in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

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Choice of Catheter Size for Infants in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Small size central vascular catheters display optimal rheologic performances in terms of pressures and flows particularly when the renal replacement therapy (RRT) device is equipped with pumps proportional to central vascular... read more

 
 
ECMO in the Critical Trauma Patient

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ECMO in the Critical Trauma Patient

Growing evidence suggests the potential use of Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for the treatment of refractory respiratory failure in adults, but the clinical benefit in polytraumatic patients is not clear. The... read more

 
 
Electronic Hand Hygiene System Fails to Improve Staff Satisfaction in ICU

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Electronic Hand Hygiene System Fails to Improve Staff Satisfaction in ICU

A study published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control examined the effect of introducing an electronic hand hygiene surveillance and intervention system into an ICU. Researchers introduced the system into... read more

 
 
Potassium Homoeostasis and Pathophysiology of Hyperkalaemia

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Potassium Homoeostasis and Pathophysiology of Hyperkalaemia

Since determination of potassium levels may be afflicted with various errors, potassium levels should be determined using a standardized set-up ensuring high accuracy and precision of measurements. Potassium levels may be... read more

 
 
Annals of B-Pod: Neurogenic Shock

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Annals of B-Pod: Neurogenic Shock

Shock is defined as the failure of circulation to provide adequate oxygenation to meet cellular demand. To better identify and manage this compromised physiologic state, shock is subcategorized into four overlapping mechanistic... read more

 
 
Diagnosis of Nonventilated Hospital-acquired Pneumonia

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Diagnosis of Nonventilated Hospital-acquired Pneumonia

Nonventilated hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) poses several barriers for diagnosis compared with VAP, and the available knowledge is limited. A call for further research in diagnosis of nonventilated HAP is urgent. NV-HAP... read more

 
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