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Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep Disruption in Adult Patients in the ICU

Under the auspices of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, this executive summary aims to provide the most clinically meaningful and novel aspects, by section, of the PADIS guidelines that clinicians,... read more

 
 
The Healer’s Power

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The Healer’s Power

Although the physician’s use and misuse of power have been discussed in the social sciences and in literature, they have never been explored in medical ethics until now. In this book, Dr. Howard... read more

 
 
Unplanned Early Hospital Readmission Among Critical Care Survivors

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Unplanned Early Hospital Readmission Among Critical Care Survivors

Although some readmissions are medically unavoidable, for many ICU survivors complex health and psychosocial issues contribute concurrently to early rehospitalisation. Care pathways that anticipate and... read more

 
 
Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics

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Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics

Children in precarious health present particular problems for healthcare professionals because of their intimate relation to their family, and because of the family’s need to provide major long-term... read more

 
 
Effect of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment on clinical outcomes in ICU patients with infection and sepsis patients

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Effect of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment on clinical outcomes in ICU patients with infection and sepsis patients

Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic treatment in ICU patients with infection and sepsis patients results in improved survival and lower antibiotic treatment duration. Mortality in the 2252 procalcitonin-guided... read more

 
 
Interventional Critical Care: A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners

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Interventional Critical Care: A Manual for Advanced Care Practitioners

This book provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of the interventional procedures that can be performed in intensive care settings. The book addresses fundamentals of the indications and technical... read more

 
 
Activin Type II Receptor Blockade for Treatment of Muscle Depletion in COPD

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Activin Type II Receptor Blockade for Treatment of Muscle Depletion in COPD

Blocking the action of negative muscle regulators through the activin type II receptors with bimagrumab treatment safely increased skeletal muscle mass but did not improve functional capacity in patients... read more

 
 
Predictors of Return to Work in Survivors of Critical Illness

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Predictors of Return to Work in Survivors of Critical Illness

Major trauma, lower GCS and increased hospital length of stay predicted inability to return to work due to health at six-months post-ICU admission. Compared to employed patients, those who had not returned... read more

 
 
Hemodynamic Consequences of Severe Lactic Acidosis in Shock States

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Hemodynamic Consequences of Severe Lactic Acidosis in Shock States

Deleterious hemodynamic effects of severe lactic acidosis are largely suggested by experimental data, although not fully confirmed by human studies. Pending the effectiveness of an etiological treatment,... read more

 
 
Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide

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Emergency & Critical Care Pocket Guide

The most popular pocket reference in emergency nursing – now in a new edition! The Emergency amp; Critical Care Pocket Guide has been an essential resource for physicians, paramedics, and nurses... read more

 
 
All Good Doctors Listen to Nurses

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All Good Doctors Listen to Nurses

Medicine, what a noble profession. As the keepers of human health and longevity, we are entrusted with a huge but solemn responsibility. It’s an ancient artwork, passed through the generations from... read more

 
 
Battle of Portable Ultrasound Devices

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Battle of Portable Ultrasound Devices

So here is Part 1 of the as promised portable ultrasound reviews. The aim, to un-muddy the water a bit for you all over choice and functionality. There are so many put there at the moment, we wanted to... read more

 
 
Intensive care in severe malaria: Report from the task force on tropical diseases by the WFSICCM

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Intensive care in severe malaria: Report from the task force on tropical diseases by the WFSICCM

Severe malaria is common in tropical countries in Africa, Asia, Oceania and South and Central America. It may also occur in travelers returning from endemic areas. Plasmodium falciparum accounts for most... read more

 
 
Long-term survival in patients with septic acute kidney injury is strongly influenced by renal recovery

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Long-term survival in patients with septic acute kidney injury is strongly influenced by renal recovery

In patients with sepsis, recovery by hospital discharge is associated with long-term survival similar to patients without AKI. Of the 1742 patients who survived to hospital discharge, stage 2–3 AKI occurred... read more

 
 
S1PR2 deficiency decreased macrophage pyroptosis and improved survival in E. coli sepsis

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S1PR2 deficiency decreased macrophage pyroptosis and improved survival in E. coli sepsis

Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 2 (S1PR2) deficiency decreased macrophage pyroptosis and improved survival in E. coli sepsis. These beneficial effects were attributed to the decreased caspase-11 activation... read more

 
 
Laryngeal Injury and Upper Airway Symptoms After Oral Endotracheal Intubation With Mechanical Ventilation During Critical Care

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Laryngeal Injury and Upper Airway Symptoms After Oral Endotracheal Intubation With Mechanical Ventilation During Critical Care

Laryngeal injury from intubation is common in the ICU setting. Guidelines for laryngeal assessment and postextubation surveillance do not exist. A systematic approach to more robust investigations could... read more

 
 
Co-Occurrence of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Problems Among 406 Survivors of Critical Illness

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Co-Occurrence of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Problems Among 406 Survivors of Critical Illness

In this multicenter cohort study, one or more post-intensive care syndrome problems were present in the majority of survivors, but co-occurring problems were present in only one out of four. Education... read more

 
 
Validation and Clinical Implications of the IDSA/ATS Minor Criteria for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia

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Validation and Clinical Implications of the IDSA/ATS Minor Criteria for Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia

These findings support the use of the IDSA/ATS minor criteria to predict hospital mortality and guide ICU admission in inpatients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) who do not require emergency mechanical... read more

 
 
The Dyspnoea-inactivity Vicious Circle in COPD: Development and External Validation of a Conceptual Model

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The Dyspnoea-inactivity Vicious Circle in COPD: Development and External Validation of a Conceptual Model

The vicious circle of dyspnoea-inactivity has been proposed, but never validated empirically, to explain the clinical course of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We aimed to develop and validate... read more

 
 
Initial Inflammatory Profile in Community-acquired Pneumonia Depends on Time since Onset of Symptoms

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Initial Inflammatory Profile in Community-acquired Pneumonia Depends on Time since Onset of Symptoms

Time since symptom onset modifies the systemic inflammatory profile at Community-acquired Pneumonia (CAP) diagnosis. This information has relevant clinical implications for management, and it should be... read more

 
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