Prone positioning is one of the few interventions in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) which has a proven mortality reduction. Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, severe ARDS cases have sharply... read more

Fundamental concepts of respiratory physiology and the day-to-day duties of a respiratory care professional. Utilizing the wide degree of topics covered, including airway management, understanding ventilator waveforms, and... read more

In patients with or at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), nebulised heparin did not improve self-reported performance of daily physical activities, but was well tolerated and exploratory outcomes suggest... read more

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is scaling back its authorization of the use of convalescent blood-plasma for COVID-19 patients in an effort to guide physicians who have faced a confusing thicket of data about the... read more

At 6 months after acute infection, COVID-19 survivors were mainly troubled with fatigue or muscle weakness, sleep difficulties, and anxiety or depression. Patients who were more severely ill during their hospital stay had... read more

Hot on the heels of FDA approval for its AI-guided cardiac ultrasound software, Caption has received a $4.95m grant from the Gates Foundation to create a version that could speed up pneumonia diagnosis, the leading killer... read more

The first step-by-step manual for any nurse in any specialty to stop nurse burnout, build a more ideal career and a more balanced life. Chart your course from Nurse Burnout to Your Ideal Career using this first comprehensive... read more

Since the initial outbreak of COVID-19, there have been reports of many people living with a new condition named post-COVID syndrome. These people are young and old, and they experience symptoms long after the infection has... read more

One third of critically ill patients with Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and non-Middle East respiratory syndrome severe acute respiratory infection demonstrated a subphenotype... read more

A Comprehensive Resource for Administrating Point-of-Care, Emergency, and Clinical Ultrasound. This book addresses the wide range of issues that face the program leader – from how to choose a site and how to negotiate for... read more

Mean opioid consumption is increased 24 months after ICU admission despite the lack of evidence for long-term opioid treatment. Given the high number of ICU entries and risk of excess mortality for chronic users, preventing... read more

The majority of second intubation attempts were undertaken by emergency consultants and registrars. A change from a non-consultant intubator to a consultant intubator of any specialty for the second attempt and intubation... read more

While the supraclavicular approach to the subclavian vein has been described since 1965, it is generally employed much less often than the “traditional” infraclavicular approach. Although randomized trials are... read more

Outcomes of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest depend on time to therapy initiation. We hypothesize that it would be feasible to select refractory out-of-hospital cardiac... read more

With its succinct coverage of all core critical care nursing topics, this evidence-based text is the perfect resource for both practicing nurses and nursing students alike. Using the latest, most authoritative research, this... read more

Over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been hundreds of deaths among healthcare staff from Covid and many thousands off sick or self-isolating, but many hospital staff say they still don’t feel properly... read more

Irrespectively to the amount of perioperative fluid administered, goal-directed therapy (GDT) strategy reduces postoperative complications, but not perioperative mortality. The metanalysis included 21 RCTs enrolling 2,729... read more