Stories Category: Intensive Care
The Fight Against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention. By one estimate 70,000 Americans will die in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a shocking number, of course, but it is far fewer... read more
COVID-19 NIV: Helmet vs Mask
Over the past few weeks there has been a shift in the management of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Many seem to have moved away from an intubate early strategy to the use of high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and noninvasive... read more
On the Front Lines in Fight Against COVID-19
As a worldwide pandemic washes over the St. Louis region, the Washington University Medical Campus is eerily quiet. Most visitors, students, staff and research faculty are no longer on campus. Limited patients come to its... read more
New NICE Guidelines on VTE Management
In the midst of everything that is going on with COVID-19 it is easy to see how important non coronavirus stuff can get overlooked. But we still need to keep our eyes open. After a 3 year process involving many meetings,... read more
COVID-19 Patients with Respiratory Failure: What Can We Learn From Aviation Medicine?
Patients with COVID-19 may present to hospitals and emergency medical services with an atypical form of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Although anecdotal, a common clinical pattern has emerged, with a remarkable... read more
COVID-19: Two More Trials Just Published on Remdesivir
Currently, there are no approved medications for the treatment of COVID-19, but, there are many investigational agents that have shown antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro. Unfortunately in vitro studies do... read more
Big Data to Help Predict Individual Trauma Patient Outcome
Chinese researchers are using big data to help identify trauma patients who could experience potential adverse health events in the emergency department through the aid of a clinical decision support system. It was developed... read more
Pandemic Science Out of Control
A toxic legacy of poor-quality research, media hype, lax regulatory oversight, and vicious partisanship has come home to roost in the search for effective treatments for COVID-19. The rush to offer unproven treatments... read more
Nationwide System to Centralize Decisions Around ECMO Use for Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in Japan
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading in Japan. The number of patients who need extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is expected to increase; however, the clinical characteristics of the patients... read more
POCUS for COVID-19
This session peaked with 308 international participants logged on but many were watching in groups so likely to have been lots more tuned in! No longer Cinderella's ugly sister compared to Echo, lung ultrasound (LUS) is clearly... read more
COVID-19: Thrombosis and Anticoagulation
Early reports have shown that COVID-19 is most likely causing a hypercoagulable state, however the prevalence of acute VTE and exactly how to treat it is an evolving area. Limited data suggest pulmonary microvascular thrombosis... read more
Lessons From Ebola and Cholera Could Help Us Get Out of This Sooner
Two front-line emergency physicians recommend three specific and immediate interventions that can help stop COVID-19 here in the U.S. They are easy and inexpensive, and each of us with our friends, family, and neighbors—both... read more
VExUS Ultrasound Score – Fluid Overload and Venous Congestion Assessment
Proper fluid management while avoiding fluid overload can be one of the most difficult parts of practicing medicine. Unfortunately, many physicians using ultrasound mainly rely on Inferior Vena Cava (IVC) measurements to... read more
Fast Facts for the Critical Care Nurse
This newly updated, quick-access guide for critical care nurses covers the most common admitting diagnoses and reviews their causes, signs and symptoms, and interventions. Critical care nursing requires astute assessment,... read more
Low-dose Dopamine in Patients with Early Renal Dysfunction
Administration of low-dose dopamine by continuous intravenous infusion to critically ill patients at risk of renal failure does not confer clinically significant protection from renal dysfunction. The groups assigned dopamine... read more
Predicting NIV Failure in Hypoxemic Patients
Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is applied worldwide to patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure. It is often applied as an attempt to avoid invasive mechanical ventilation. However, the application of NIV is often... read more
Trying Not to Intubate Early & Why ARDSnet may be the Wrong Ventilator Paradigm
Many of us have been working under the paradigm that COVID-19 PNA eventually develops into ARDS in the sickest patients. It appears to me that these patients don’t fit into this paradigm. Many have normal to high compliance... read more
