Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials and More
With a full-color design and concise, easy-to-read chapters, Critical Care Medicine: The Essentials and a Bit More covers the core elements of critical care, with a unique focus on the pathophysiology underlying clinical... read more
Metabolic-based Biomarkers Have Potential to Triage Children with Sepsis
A new study has validated potential biomarkers for a sepsis-triage model to distinguish sepsis patients requiring care in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) from sepsis identified in the pediatric emergency department... read more
The Patients Were Saved. That’s Why the Families Are Suing
What happened to Beatrice Weisman before dawn on Aug. 29, 2013, was not supposed to happen: The medical staff at Maryland General Hospital found her in cardiac arrest, resuscitated her and kept her alive. The matriarch of... read more
Hemodynamic Monitoring: Invasive and Noninvasive Clinical Application
Praised by nursing students for its straightforward language and readability, this interdisciplinary reference on bedside hemodynamic monitoring covers the technical aspects of clinical monitoring, including diagnostic and... read more
What It’s Like in Pediatric Critical Care
As a medical student, do you ever wonder what it's like to specialize in pediatric critical care? Meet Joanna Kuppy, MD, a critical care pediatrician and assistant professor of pediatrics at Rush University Medical Center,... read more
A New Bill Introduced in the House Would Protect Millions of Health Care Workers
A group of House Democrats introduced a bill to help protect millions of nurses and other health care workers from the high rates of violence they experience on the job. The new bill, called the "Workplace Violence Prevention... read more
Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care
A comprehensive text on respiratory care for neonates, infants, and children, Neonatal and Pediatric Respiratory Care, 4th Edition provides a solid foundation in the assessment and treatment of respiratory care disorders.... read more
A Bold New Strategy for Stopping the Rise of Superbugs
Scientists have pinpointed a molecule that accelerates the evolution of drug-resistant microbes. Now they're trying to find a way to block it. The British chemist Leslie Orgel reputedly once said that "evolution is cleverer... read more
Implanted Organs That Won’t Be Rejected
Breakthrough development uses a patient's own stomach cells, cutting the risk of an immune response to implanted organs. Israeli researchers report that they have invented the first fully personalized tissue implant, engineered... read more
Cost-effectiveness of Procalcitonin Testing to Guide Antibiotic Treatment Duration in Critically Ill Patients
Although the impact of PCT guidance on total healthcare-related costs during the initial hospitalisation episode is likely negligible, the lower in-hospital mortality may lead to a non-significant increase in costs over a... read more
Is a Golden Age of Resuscitation on the Horizon?
Is emergency medicine on the verge of "the dawn of a new golden age of resuscitation?" That's the bold prediction from CPR innovator Keith Lurie, MD, a professor of internal and emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota,... read more
Lab-grown ‘Mini Brains’ Produce Electrical Patterns That Resemble Those of Premature Babies
'Mini brains' grown in a dish have spontaneously produced human-like brain waves for the first time — and the electrical patterns look similar to those seen in premature babies. The advancement could help scientists to... read more
The Patient, The Whole Patient and Nothing But The Patient
In this short opinion piece, career and consumer advisor Belinda MacLeod-Smith challenges us to consider crucial elements of whole patient care, and how they can be impacted by limiting factors. Caring for someone with ongoing,... read more
Intensive Care Medicine in 2050: The Future of ICU Treatments
It's unlikely that any of the three of us will still be around, but we can imagine how our children would describe their experience if they were admitted to the ICU in 2050. Here is what they might say: "The hospital is definitely... read more
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives
Practicing nurse and New York Times columnist Theresa Brown invites us to experience not just a day in the life of a nurse but all the life that happens in just one day on a busy teaching hospital’s cancer ward. In the... read more
Transient Systolic Anterior Motion with Junctional Rhythm After Mitral Valve Repair in the ICU
This case report shows that junctional rhythm can cause deterioration of SAM, LVOTO, and MR, and can lead to unstable hemodynamics in a patient with right ventricular failure after MVR. Atrial pacing can resolve SAM, LVOTO,... read more
Effect of Bag-Mask Ventilation vs Endotracheal Intubation During CPR on Neurological Outcome After OHCA
Among patients with out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest (OHCA), the use of BMV compared with ETI failed to demonstrate noninferiority or inferiority for survival with favorable 28-day neurological function, an inconclusive... read more
Impact of Drug and Equipment Preparation on Pre-hospital Emergency Anesthesia Procedural Time, Error Rate and Cognitive Load
Pre-preparation of Preparation on Pre-hospital Emergency (PHEA) equipment and drugs resulted in safer performance of PHEA and has the potential to reduce on-scene time by up to a third. In total 23 experiments were completed,... read more
The Accuracy of Noninvasive Cardiac Output and Pressure Measurements with Finger Cuff
The finger cuff method provides a reasonable estimate of CO and blood pressure, which does not meet the criteria for clinical interchangeability with the currently used invasive devices. Finger cuff is an easy-to-use hemodynamic... read more
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers
Something's gone terribly wrong. Doctors are among the most technology-avid people in society; computerization has simplified tasks in many industries. Yet somehow we've reached a point where people in the medical profession... read more
How Doctors Responded After NRA Told Them To “Stay In Their Lane”
If the goal of the National Rifle Association (NRA) was to get doctors' attention, the Tweet posted recently certainly did its job. The NRA editorial that accompanied the Tweet included the following statement: "some doctors’... read more
Electronic Health Records & Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infection
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH), as part of the American Reinvestment & Recovery Act of 2009, was created to accelerate the pace of technology diffusion in the American healthcare... read more
