The World Congress of Intensive Care is the official biennial gathering of over 80 critical care societies, from all over the world and across all domains of critical care. Our program includes world class speakers and studies that will have implications for ICU and trauma patients all over the world presented for the very first time. But like no Congress you have seen before is the chance to get up close with Australian wildlife in our trade hall petting zoo.
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In this retrospective analysis of data sets from patients with sepsis, 4 clinical phenotypes were identified that correlated with host-response patterns and clinical outcomes, and simulations suggested these phenotypes may... read more

The thoroughly revised 2nd edition of the Oxford Textbook of Critical Care is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text covering all aspects of adult intensive care management. Uniquely the book takes a problem-orientated approach... read more

The machine-learning-based AKIpredictor achieved similar discriminative performance as physicians for prediction of AKI-23, and higher net benefit overall, because physicians overestimated the risk of AKI. This suggests an... read more

This article presents a close look at the Corporeal Compression at the Onset of Septic shock (COCOONs). Fluid overload in septic intensive care unit (ICU) patients is common and strongly associated with poor outcome. There... read more

This is the first book exploring the unique dynamics created by a multidisciplinary trauma team and how crisis management strategies can improve teamwork and communication and, potentially, improve patient resuscitation... read more

Nurses’ attitudes toward sedating patients receiving mechanical ventilation have shifted in the past decade, with fewer nurses now believing that all patients should be sedated. However, more than half of nurses still... read more

For most patients and their families, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is an unanticipated event that causes substantial psychological distress. For patients, short- and long-term consequences include delirium,... read more

A comparison between sepsis-2 and sepsis-3 populations using a national critical care database. In an ICU database, compared with Sepsis-2, Sepsis-3 identifies a similar sepsis population with 92% overlap and much smaller... read more

Including critical care pharmacists in the multidisciplinary ICU team improved patient outcomes including mortality, ICU length of stay in mixed ICUs, and preventable/non-preventable adverse drug events. From the 4,725 articles... read more

A crash course in Critical Care! Stabilize, treat, and save your sickest patients in the ed or the field – with ACEP’s ultimate resuscitation guide. packed with succinct evidence-based chapters written by the nation’s... read more

The rate of publication of studies using machine learning to analyze routinely collected ICU data is increasing rapidly. The sample sizes used in many published studies are too small to exploit the potential of these methods.... read more

Sepsis is a heterogeneous disease and identification of its subclasses may facilitate and optimize clinical management. This study aimed to identify subclasses of sepsis and its responses to different amounts of fluid resuscitation.... read more

Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a major cause of death in developed countries and the detection of microorganisms is essential in managing patients. Despite major progress has been made to improve identification of microorganisms,... read more

Whether mechanical ventilation (MV) induces neurotoxicity that can trigger or accelerate chronic cognitive disorders is controversial. The relationship between MV and neurocognitive impairment, that persisted at hospital... read more

Take the best possible care of adult critical care patients with Critical Care Medicine: Principles of Diagnosis and Management in the Adult! Editors Dr. Joseph Parrillo and Dr. Phillip Dellinger, two of the most respected... read more

Clinical examination has reasonable discriminative value for assessing 90-day mortality in acutely admitted ICU patients. In our study population, a single, protocolized clinical examination had similar prognostic abilities... read more

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating the sudden emergence of severe lung disease linked to vaping in 14 states. CDC is providing consultation to the departments of health in Wisconsin,... read more

Crisis Management in Acute Care Settings: Human Factors and Team Psychology in a High-Stakes Environment is unique in providing a comprehensive overview of the human factors issues relevant to patient safety during acute... read more

A longer prehospital EMS CPR duration is independently associated with a lower proportion of patients with a favorable neurological outcome. The association between prehospital EMS CPR duration and neurological outcome differed... read more