Ideal for any medic or health professional embarking upon an intensive care rotation or specialism, this simple bedside handbook provides handy, pragmatic guidance to the day-to-day fundamentals of working... read more

Intravenous Fish Oil (Omegaven) approved by FDA for use in total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in pediatric patients in the United States. Omegaven 10% Emulsion is a fish oil emulsion administered intravenously... read more

There is growing interest in patient and family participation in critical care – not just as part of the bedside, but as part of educational and management organization and infrastructure. This offers... read more

Written by experts in the field, Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Guide to Understanding, Engaging and Supporting at the Bedside is a state-of-the-art reference for all clinicians who work with families... read more

Almost 1,000 healthcare professionals have joined the Sepsis Coordinator Network since its launch two months ago. There’s a saying that teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success and if the... read more

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) difficult airway algorithm recommends that if initial attempts at tracheal intubation after the induction of general anesthesia are unsuccessful, the practitioner... read more

How do we Identify specific Remote ICU investment and emerging trends? Does the Remote ICU performance meet the customer’s requirements? How do we manage Remote ICU Knowledge Management (KM)? How... read more

Advocacy group alleges that emergency medical workers in Minnesota gave patients ketamine injections without consent, despite known risks. A consumer-advocacy group is filing a complaint with the US government... read more

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign recently released an update to the bundles of care it recommends for “sepsis” patients. You may have heard of the three-hour bundle, which essentially means that... read more

Dr. Wung is addressing an important component of critical care nursing: the role of technology in patient care. She has assembled top authors to provide current clinical information in the following areas:... read more

Of the studied ultrasound nICP methods, ONSD is the best estimator of Intracranial Pressure (ICP). The novel combination of ONSD ultrasonography and vTCD of the straight sinus is a promising and easily... read more

Unlike dementia, which is constant and gets progressively worse, delirium tends to come and go, fluctuating even in the course of a day. The symptoms are transitory, yet for people who develop delirium,... read more

Physicians have an intense 70-year history of enthusiasm, skepticism, fear, and reconciliation with albumin products since their market introduction in the late 1940s. Despite its cumbersome production... read more

Since the rate of gastrointestinal bleeding requiring endoscopic hemostasis is not different comparing patients with and without stress ulcer prophylaxis, and the increase in hospital-acquired pneumonia... read more

Nonsusceptibility to first-line antibiotics is associated with decreased survival in GNBSIs. DTR is a simple bedside prognostic measure of treatment-limiting coresistance. The Premier Database was analyzed... read more

Magnesium sulfate has been used as an adjunct medication for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF) due to its ability to lessen sinus node depolarization via calcium antagonism. Prior studies investigating... read more

In this single-center randomized clinical trial involving patients admitted to the ICU, adding early in-bed leg cycling exercises and electrical stimulation of the quadriceps muscles to a standardized... read more

Emergency physicians (EPs) are experts in emergent airway management and thus must be confident managing mechanical ventilation. Hospital-wide bed shortages mean that EPs will be managing admitted patients... read more

Out-of-hours discharge from an ICU is strongly associated with both in-hospital death and ICU readmission. These effects persisted across all definitions of “out of hours” and across healthcare systems... read more

Chronic high alcohol consumption significantly increases the risk of ARDS. This finding suggests that patients admitted to hospital should be screened for chronic alcohol use. Seventeen observational studies... read more