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Clinical Trial Testing Vitamin and Steroid Combination in Sepsis Patients Underway at Emory

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Clinical Trial Testing Vitamin and Steroid Combination in Sepsis Patients Underway at Emory

A new clinical trial at Emory University and 45 other sites around the U.S. will test a combination of vitamins and steroids in patients diagnosed with sepsis. Sepsis is caused by the body’s overwhelming... read more

 
 
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

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Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this stimulating and important book is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power of slumber. Walker is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology... read more

 
 
Effect of Targeted Polymyxin B Haemoperfusion on 28-Day Mortality in Patients With Septic Shock and Elevated Endotoxin Level

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Effect of Targeted Polymyxin B Haemoperfusion on 28-Day Mortality in Patients With Septic Shock and Elevated Endotoxin Level

In adult patients with septic shock and high circulating endotoxin activity, does the use of polymyxin B hemoperfusion therapy significantly decrease 28-day mortality? Among patients with septic shock... read more

 
 
Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation and Difficult Weaning in Critical Care

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Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation and Difficult Weaning in Critical Care

This book establishes the indications for the use of NIV in the context of weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation. It provides a comprehensive overview of key topics relevant for correct practical... read more

 
 
Evaluating Delivery of Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in Six ICUs Using Electronic Health Record Data

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Evaluating Delivery of Low Tidal Volume Ventilation in Six ICUs Using Electronic Health Record Data

Despite low mean tidal volume in the cohort, a significant percentage of patients were exposed to a prolonged duration of high tidal volumes which was correlated with higher mortality. Detailed ventilator... read more

 
 
Approach to the Critically Ill Child: Shock

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Approach to the Critically Ill Child: Shock

If you mainly treat adults or both adults and children like me, then you have probably heard the (very annoying) quote, “kids are not just small adults”, and so I won’t say it again.... read more

 
 
Comparing Percutaneous to Open Access for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pediatric Respiratory Failure

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Comparing Percutaneous to Open Access for Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Pediatric Respiratory Failure

The proportion of pediatric patients undergoing percutaneous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulation is increasing. Mechanical and physiologic complications occur with both methods of cannulation,... read more

 
 
Mechanical Ventilation in Patient with Respiratory Failure

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Mechanical Ventilation in Patient with Respiratory Failure

This handbook covers the principles of mechanical ventilation, making them easy to understand and apply in clinical settings. Presented in an accessible style and supplemented by a wealth of illustrations... read more

 
 
Stronger evidence for vitamin C use in sepsis treatment

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Stronger evidence for vitamin C use in sepsis treatment

A new meta-analysis reveals a positive correlation between incorporating vitamin C in the treatment of sepsis and favorable patient outcomes. Results of the meta-analysis showed a marked reduction in mortality... read more

 
 
Implementing a Standardized Nurse-driven Rounding Protocol in a Trauma-surgical ICU

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Implementing a Standardized Nurse-driven Rounding Protocol in a Trauma-surgical ICU

We instituted several interventions in our trauma and surgical ICU aimed at improving communication and teamwork between RNs and MDs. Informal feedback indicated greater satisfaction among RNs and MDs... read more

 
 
High-Acuity Nursing

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High-Acuity Nursing

High-Acuity Nursing provides a comprehensive knowledge set needed to care for adult patients with complex, unpredictable conditions across settings, from high-skill, long-term facilities to critical care... read more

 
 
An Incurable Disease Is On The Rise In California, And Scientists Say Climate Change Could Cause It To Spread To Much Of The Western US

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An Incurable Disease Is On The Rise In California, And Scientists Say Climate Change Could Cause It To Spread To Much Of The Western US

A fungus that thrives in dry soil and warm weather has caused a record number of infections in California. Experts fear climate change will cause it to spread across the western US. Valley fever, a fungal... read more

 
 
Real-Time Patient-Provider Video Telemedicine Integrated with Clinical Care

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Real-Time Patient-Provider Video Telemedicine Integrated with Clinical Care

Telemedicine by means of video visits can increase patient access to care, but there is little evidence about broad integration of video visits into existing clinical care, particularly for primary care.1,2... read more

 
 
Hepatic Critical Care

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Hepatic Critical Care

This book focuses on the critical care of the patient with acute, acute on chronic and chronic liver failure as well as the peri-operative care of the patient with liver transplantation. Each of these... read more

 
 
What should we stop doing in the ICU?

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What should we stop doing in the ICU?

Intensive care is an interesting specialty. From all the early excitement in the 1970s, passing through two decades of intensive physiological use at the bedside, intensive care landed on the rough ground... read more

 
 
Metabolic sepsis resuscitation: the evidence behind Vitamin C

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Metabolic sepsis resuscitation: the evidence behind Vitamin C

Sepsis resuscitation generally focuses on hemodynamics. Rivers of ink have been spilled writing about oxygen delivery and fluid responsiveness. This is clearly important, but it's possible that our... read more

 
 
Last Year, The Flu Put Him In A Coma. This Year He’s Getting The Shot

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Last Year, The Flu Put Him In A Coma. This Year He’s Getting The Shot

Charlie Hinderliter wasn’t opposed to the flu shot. He didn’t have a problem with vaccinations. He was one of about 53 percent of Americans who just don’t get one. An estimated 80,000... read more

 
 
Doubling Down on Re-Expansion Pulmonary Edema: Treatment Approach and Ventilator Management

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Doubling Down on Re-Expansion Pulmonary Edema: Treatment Approach and Ventilator Management

The treatment of choice for a pneumothorax is a chest tube, and when the small pig-tail catheter doesn’t do the job, the answer is to replace it with a larger bore – right? Not so fast. The exact mechanism... read more

 
 
Should Pediatric Intensive Care Be Centralized? Trent vs. Victoria

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Should Pediatric Intensive Care Be Centralized? Trent vs. Victoria

The mortality rate is lower among children admitted to specialist pediatric intensive care units (ICUs) than among those admitted to mixed adult and pediatric units in non-tertiary hospitals. In the UK,... read more

 
 
Effect of Bronchodilation, Exercise Training, and Behavior Modification on Symptoms and Physical Activity in COPD

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Effect of Bronchodilation, Exercise Training, and Behavior Modification on Symptoms and Physical Activity in COPD

Tiotropium/olodaterol, with or without ExT, improved EET in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) taking part in an SMBM program. Combination bronchodilation, with or without ExT,... read more

 
 
Is this the real life… or is this just fantasy?

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Is this the real life… or is this just fantasy?

As Emergency physicians we need frequent exposure to critically unwell patients in order to hone our resuscitation skills. It is often said that the mark of a good critical care clinician is one who runs... read more

 
 
Conflicts of interest disclosure forms and management in critical care clinical practice guidelines

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Conflicts of interest disclosure forms and management in critical care clinical practice guidelines

The current conflicts of interest (COIs) disclosure forms of selected professional societies provide more attention to financial disclosures and COIs and less attention to detecting and managing intellectual... read more

 
 
Policies That Limit Emergency Department Visits and Reimbursements Undermine the Emergency Care System

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Policies That Limit Emergency Department Visits and Reimbursements Undermine the Emergency Care System

Emergency department (ED) visit rates in the United States have been rising over the past 2 decades, outpacing population growth.1 These visits are portrayed in the lay press as unnecessary visits that... read more

 
 
Implementing a bedside assessment of respiratory mechanics in patients with ARDS

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Implementing a bedside assessment of respiratory mechanics in patients with ARDS

Implementing a systematic respiratory mechanics test leads to frequent individual adaptations of ventilator settings and allows improvement in oxygenation indexes and reduction of the risk of overdistention... read more

 
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