Practical Guidance for Evidence-Based ICU Family Conferences

Practical Guidance for Evidence-Based ICU Family Conferences

Because most critically ill patients lack decision-making capacity, physicians often ask family members to act as surrogates for the patient in discussions about the goals of care. Therefore, clinician-family communication... read more

Collaborative Practice in Critical Care Settings

Collaborative Practice in Critical Care Settings

This practical and evidence-based workbook offers a series of assessment, implementation and evaluation activities for professionals working in critical care contexts. Designed to improve the quality of care delivery,... read more

How to Improve Worldwide Early Enteral Nutrition Performance in ICUs?

How to Improve Worldwide Early Enteral Nutrition Performance in ICUs?

Early enteral nutrition (EEN), typically started within 48 h after ICU admission, is recommended to be superior over delayed enteral nutrition and parenteral nutrition. The ESICM Working Group on Gastrointestinal Function... read more

Research Optimizes Comprehensive Medication Management: Defines the Patient Care Process of CMM

Research Optimizes Comprehensive Medication Management: Defines the Patient Care Process of CMM

The Patient Care Process for Delivering Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) provides a common definition of comprehensive medication management (CMM) and common language to describe the patient care process for delivering... read more

Precision Medicine, Genome Sequencing, and Improved Population Health

Precision Medicine, Genome Sequencing, and Improved Population Health

Despite controversy, major health systems across the globe are obtaining and making use of genome sequence data in patients they care for, hoping this approach will prove beneficial.1 Genome sequencing technology, a key driver... read more

Business of Critical Care and Value/Performance Building

Business of Critical Care and Value/Performance Building

New, value-based regulations and reimbursement structures are creating historic care management challenges, thinning the margins and threatening the viability of hospitals and health systems. The Society of Critical Care... read more

Integration of Nurse Practitioners Into the Critical Care Team

Integration of Nurse Practitioners Into the Critical Care Team

As the demands of critical care medicine increase one viable option to meet needs is the addition of a nurse practitioner to the traditional structure of the critical care team. The purpose of this article is to convey our... read more

Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support

Optimizing Strategies for Clinical Decision Support

As a result of a collaboration between the NAM and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, this NAM Special Publication summarizes and builds upon a meeting series in which a multi-stakeholder... read more

Reflections on the ICU Liberation ABCDEF Bundle Improvement Collaborative

Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Brenda Pun, DNP, RN, ACNP, about the ICU Liberation ABCDEF Bundle Improvement Collaborative. Dr. Pun reflects upon Collaborative work, including origins and logistics of the project, team training... read more

Nurses make me a better doctor

Nurses make me a better doctor

I firmly believe that the relationship between a nurse and physician should be one of collaboration without hierarchy. It takes a very special person to become a nurse. Without them, physicians cannot function. I thank all... read more

Why digital disruption is only starting in healthcare

Disruption often is viewed as a positive noun in the business world. Particularly in healthcare, such disruption can result in increased understanding and enhanced outcomes, among other benefits. Healthcare has clearly... read more

Building Global Collaboration in Acute Care Research

Dr. Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with John C. Marshall, MD, FRCSC, FACS, about his talk given at the 46th Critical Care Congress in Honolulu, Hawaii on, "Building Global Collaboration in Acute Care Research." Dr. Marshall discusses... read more

Greater collaboration between ICU nurses and ICU physicians may minimize VAP risk

Greater collaboration between ICU nurses and ICU physicians may minimize VAP risk

Greater collaboration between ICU nursing and medicine could help to minimize ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), according to a study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.... read more