Palliative Care Considerations For Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Under COVID-19

Palliative Care Considerations For Patients With Cardiovascular Disease Under COVID-19

COVID-19 has dramatically altered our world, health care systems and supply chains. Older adults with cardiovascular disease especially those over 80 years suffer disproportionately. This pandemic has stressed the capacity... read more

Cardiologists Join COVID-19 Front Line in Converted Cardiac ICUs

Cardiologists Join COVID-19 Front Line in Converted Cardiac ICUs

The Mount Sinai Health System in New York is one of many systems in the U.S. that has been adapting in the attempt to care for the influx of patients with known or suspected COVID-19. As elective surgeries are no longer... read more

Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care

The contents of this book are a selection taken from materials that have been developed during the preparation of continuing education courses (distance learning), whose scientific advisor is the volume editor, Professor... read more

Respiratory Drive in the ARDS: Pathophysiology, Monitoring, and Therapeutic Interventions

Respiratory Drive in the ARDS: Pathophysiology, Monitoring, and Therapeutic Interventions

Neural respiratory drive, i.e., the activity of respiratory centres controlling breathing, is an overlooked physiologic variable which affects the pathophysiology and the clinical outcome of acute respiratory distress syndrome... read more

Early Prediction of Sepsis From Clinical Data

Early Prediction of Sepsis From Clinical Data

Diverse computational approaches predict the onset of sepsis several hours before clinical recognition, but generalizability to different hospital systems remains a challenge. A total of 104 groups from academia and industry... read more

Changes in Anesthetic and Postoperative Sedation-Analgesia Practice Associated With Early Extubation Following Infant Cardiac Surgery

Changes in Anesthetic and Postoperative Sedation-Analgesia Practice Associated With Early Extubation Following Infant Cardiac Surgery

The implementation of an early extubation clinical practice guideline resulted in a reduction in the dose of opioids and benzodiazepines without a change in volatile anesthetic agent used in the operating room. Intraoperative... read more

Predicting Adverse Hemodynamic Events in Critically Ill Patients

Predicting Adverse Hemodynamic Events in Critically Ill Patients

The art of predicting future hemodynamic instability in the critically ill has rapidly become a science with the advent of advanced analytical processed based on computer-driven machine learning techniques. How these... read more

Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation

Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation

#1 Best Seller! New 7th Edition! Powerful resource for interactive, simulation-based teaching and learning! The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) is an educational program jointly sponsored by the American Academy of... read more

Snapshots of Hemodynamics

Snapshots of Hemodynamics

This new edition reviews recent developments in genetics and molecular biology and new noninvasive measurement techniques that have enabled vast improvements in the measurement and understanding of cardiovascular hemodynamics.... read more

Targeted Temperature Management for Cardiac Arrest with Nonshockable Rhythm

Targeted Temperature Management for Cardiac Arrest with Nonshockable Rhythm

Among patients with coma who had been resuscitated from cardiac arrest with nonshockable rhythm, moderate therapeutic hypothermia at 33°C for 24 hours led to a higher percentage of patients who survived with a favorable... read more

Association Between Titin Loss-of-Function Variants and Early-Onset Atrial Fibrillation

Association Between Titin Loss-of-Function Variants and Early-Onset Atrial Fibrillation

In a case-control study, there was a statistically significant association between an LOF variant in the TTN gene and early-onset AF, with the variant present in a small percentage of participants with early-onset AF (the... read more

Cardiovascular Dynamics in Critically Ill Patients

Cardiovascular Dynamics in Critically Ill Patients

Although widely used among physicians and frequently present in the literature, the words "stable" and "unstable" to describe cardiovascular dynamics in critically ill patients can have different meanings to different people... read more

Pulmonary Embolism Hospitalization, Readmission, and Mortality Rates in US Older Adults

Pulmonary Embolism Hospitalization, Readmission, and Mortality Rates in US Older Adults

Over the past 15 years, advances have occurred in the diagnosis and management of pulmonary embolism (PE).1 Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is now the routine diagnostic test. The availability of risk... read more

12 Great Summer Reads for Intensivists

12 Great Summer Reads for Intensivists

From fascinating medical memoirs to horrifying accounts of medical mistreatment in the past two centuries, these books will make you aware of how far medicine has come and how far it has yet to go. Surgeries without anesthesia,... read more