Ineffective Airway Clearance Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plans

Ineffective Airway Clearance Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plans

Ineffective airway clearance is the inability to clear secretions or obstructions from the respiratory tract. This can be detrimental to breathing and create complications. Secretions can be problematic as a result of... read more

Dyspnea and Dyspnea-Associated Anxiety in ICU Patients

Dyspnea and Dyspnea-Associated Anxiety in ICU Patients

Dyspnea is frequently associated with anxiety, prolonged days on mechanical ventilation, and worse quality of life after discharge. It can also increase the risk of posttraumatic stress disorder post ICU discharge. However,... read more

Heat Shock Protein 27 in COVID-19 and non-COVID ARDS Pathogenesis

Heat Shock Protein 27 in COVID-19 and non-COVID ARDS Pathogenesis

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common cause of hypoxemic respiratory failure in intensive care units that has increased dramatically as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In both COVID-19 and non-COVID... read more

Efficacy of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy in Patients with AHRF

Efficacy of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy in Patients with AHRF

This study suggests that high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy in general respiratory wards may be a potential rescue therapy for patients with respiratory failure. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) potentially monitors... read more

ICU Protocols: A Step-wise Approach, Vol II

ICU Protocols: A Step-wise Approach, Vol II

The second edition of this highly successful book includes up-to-date notes on the step-wise management of clinical emergencies encountered in everyday intensive care units (ICU). Each thoroughly revised chapter provides... read more

Intravenous Vitamin C for COVID-19 Patients

Intravenous Vitamin C for COVID-19 Patients

In hospitalized patients with COVID-19, vitamin C had low probability of improving the primary composite outcome of organ support–free days and hospital survival. Enrollment was terminated after statistical triggers... read more

Oxygenation Improvement in Hyperinflammatory Ovine ARDS Treated with Methylprednisolone

Oxygenation Improvement in Hyperinflammatory Ovine ARDS Treated with Methylprednisolone

Early and persistent improvement in oxygenation was seen only in hyperinflammatory ovine ARDS treated with methylprednisolone, while hemodynamic situation and survival was improved in both injury models and corticosteroid... read more

Uncovering Heterogeneity in Sepsis

Uncovering Heterogeneity in Sepsis

Among critically ill patients with sepsis, subtype strategies using clinical, biomarker, and transcriptomic data do not identify comparable patient populations and are likely to reflect disparate clinical characteristics... read more

Pediatric Sepsis Phenotype with Persistent Hypoxemia, Encephalopathy, and Shock

Pediatric Sepsis Phenotype with Persistent Hypoxemia, Encephalopathy, and Shock

We derived and validated the persistent hypoxemia, encephalopathy, and shock phenotype, which is highly reproducible, clinically relevant, and associated with HTE to common adjuvant therapies in children with sepsis. We... read more

Damage Control Resuscitation: Identification and Treatment of Life-Threatening Hemorrhage

Damage Control Resuscitation: Identification and Treatment of Life-Threatening Hemorrhage

This book provides a comprehensive overview of damage control resuscitation (DCR), an evidence-based approach to the resuscitation of patients with severe life-threatening hemorrhage (LTH). It focuses on both civilian... read more

Platelets and Fibrinogen Matter When Bleeding on ECMO

Platelets and Fibrinogen Matter When Bleeding on ECMO

Fibrinolysis is poorly investigated in ECMO patients, partly due to a lack of routine laboratory tests evaluating fibrinolysis. Hence, hyperfibrinolysis may be a contributor to bleeding risk during ECMO treatment. However,... read more

Handbook of Evidence-Based Critical Care

Handbook of Evidence-Based Critical Care

This updated and revised edition of the classic bedside pocket reference remains the gold standard in critical care medicine. The new edition maintains Dr. Marik's trademark humor and engaging writing style, while adding... read more

Scheduled Intravenous Opioids

Scheduled Intravenous Opioids

Maintaining comfort and analgesia is fundamental to providing adequate care in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Pain assessment and its control remain the highest priorities and concerns among survivors of critical illness... read more

Genetic Causal Factors of ARDS

Genetic Causal Factors of ARDS

This comprehensive study highlights the importance of utilizing the MR-pheWAS framework in unraveling the complex etiology and pathogenesis of ARDS, and further underlines the value of integrating blood-based biomarkers into... read more