Stories Category: Intensive Care
Practical Trends in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2018
This book offers an essential guide to managing the most-debated hot topics of practical interest in anesthesia and intensive care. It reviews the state of the art in issues concerning both intensive care medicine and anesthesia,... read more
Triage and Flow Management in Sepsis
Septic patients had a lower priority for ICU admission and longer waiting times for an ICU vacancy than patients with other critical conditions. Overall, this implied a 2.7-fold increased risk of mortality in septic patients. The... read more
Critical Care Doctors Placed Humans in Suspended Animation For The First Time
Critical care doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death. Samuel Tisherman,... read more
Left Ventricular Wall Findings in Non-electrocardiography-gated CE-CT After ECPR
Few studies have reported left ventricular wall findings in contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR). This study examined left ventricular wall CE-CT findings... read more
Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest
Therapeutic hypothermia has emerged as a very important treatment option for patients with cardiac arrest as it provides significant protection from developing neurologic injury once the patient has been successfully resuscitated.... read more
Serum Creatinine in the Critically Ill Patient With Sepsis
A 73-year-old man underwent esophageal resection for cancer. He had a history of hypertension that was treated with an angiotensin receptor blocker. Preoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was 98 mL/min/1.73... read more
Long-term Cognitive Impairment After ARDS
Reducing the practical burden of cognitive recovery following critical illness depends crucially on understanding the links between brain injury and lung injury. New deficits in learning and memory, and new development... read more
Complications in Acute Care Surgery: The Management of Difficult Clinical Scenarios
This text provides the reader a starting point for the most difficult and uncommon complications in acute care surgery. It is designed to provide options to that ubiquitous intra-operative or bedside question "Well, now what... read more
Low-flow Assessment of Current ECMO/ECCO2R Rotary Blood Pumps and the Potential Effect on Hemocompatibility
The role of blood pumps in contributing to adverse effects at the lower blood flow rates used during ECCO2R is shown here to be significant. Current rotary blood pumps should be used with caution if operated at blood... read more
Temporal Trends in the Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
The use of therapeutic hypothermia decreased in a large US registry of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest soon after the publication of a study supporting more lenient temperature thresholds. Concurrent with... read more
Anxiety, Depression and PTSD After Critical Illness
Survivors of intensive care are known to be at increased risk of developing longer-term psychopathology issues. We present a large UK multicentre study assessing the anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder... read more
Association of Corticosteroid Treatment With Outcomes in Adult Patients With Sepsis
In this meta-analysis of 37 RCTs (including 9564 patients), corticosteroid treatment was significantly associated with reduced 28-day mortality, ICU mortality, and in-hospital mortality among patients with sepsis. However,... read more
Lactate and Stepwise Lactate Kinetics Used to Guide Resuscitation
Lactate is an important parameter for monitoring tissue perfusion at present. Lactate kinetics are particularly important to evaluate the response of ICU patients. Therefore, lactate can be the starting point for resuscitation,... read more
Probiotics Linked to Bloodstream Infections in ICU Patients
People carry a community of microbes in and on our bodies, and they can have a powerful influence on our physiology in many ways. Probiotics, which are live microbes, are intended to improve human health, and they sometimes... read more
