Tag: diagnostics
ICM White Paper Proposes Infection Prevention Roadmap Integrating AMR and Sepsis
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the devastating global health and societal implications an infection can have when there are no preventative interventions or treatment options available. Many countries and most... read more
Pediatric Pneumonia Research Priorities in the Context of COVID-19
Operational research on health system capacities, and evaluating optimized delivery of existing treatments, diagnostics and case management approaches are needed. This list should act as a catalyst for collaborative research,... read more
Patients’ Perspectives on Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Acute COPD Exacerbations
Patients' perspectives showed that point-of-care diagnostics and treatment of acute COPD in exacerbation was considered a qualitative offer by the patients and their relatives. At the same time, it was crucial that the emergency... read more
Deconstructing the Way We Use Pulmonary Function Test Race-Based Adjustments
Race is a social construct. It is used in medical diagnostic algorithms to adjust the readout for spirometry and other diagnostic tests. The authors review historic evidence about the origins of race adjustment in spirometry,... read more
Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring: Basics and New Horizons
This book describes how to monitor and optimize cardiovascular dynamics using advanced hemodynamic monitoring in perioperative and intensive care medicine. The book outlines basic skills of hemodynamic monitoring, different... read more
Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Critical Care Medicine
Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Critical Care Medicine 4E has been fully updated and revised. The clinical diagnostic approach to common infectious disease problems in the CCU is the underlying theme... read more
Change in Out-of-Hospital 12-lead ECG Diagnostic Classification in Patients Resuscitated From OHCA
Change in 12-lead ECG classification from OH to ED setting in patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) was common (49%). The OH STEMI classification changed to a less ischemic (non-STEMI) ED classification... read more
Image-Guided Management of COVID-19 Lung Disease
This book offers a detailed and up-to-date overview of image-guided diagnostics in COVID-19 lung disease. A range of image-guided CT and ultrasound procedures in different chest regions are described. For each procedure,... read more
Thoracic Ultrasound and Integrated Imaging
This book focuses on thoracic ultrasound, a versatile, diagnostically accurate, low-cost, noninvasive and non-ionizing imaging technique. Thanks to portable devices, the method can be used to provide quick and accurate diagnoses... read more
Rapid Screening of Critically Ill Patients for Low Plasma Vitamin C Concentrations Using sORP
Hypovitaminosis C and vitamin C deficiency are common in critically ill patients and associated with organ dysfunction. Low vitamin C status often goes unnoticed because determination is challenging. The static oxidation... read more
POCUS in Cardiorespiratory Arrest
The POCUS-CA (Point-of-care ultrasound in cardiac arrest) is a diagnostic tool in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department setting. The literature indicates that in the patient in a cardiorespiratory arrest it... read more
The Exciting Future of Our Physical Exam with POCUS
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is the natural progression of what Laennec started over 200 years ago, a tool he would undoubtedly add to his diagnostic repertoire were he able to, as he did with Auenbrugger’s percussion... read more
State of the Art Techniques in Critical Care Echocardiography
This book covers all aspects of modern techniques used in the rapidly developing field of adult critical care echocardiography, 3D transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, myocardial tissue velocity and deformation... read more
Emerging Advances have the Potential to Change the Future of Sepsis Care
In recent years, many advances in the sepsis literature have occurred, including new definitions, changes to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) bundles, new pharmacologic agents, and adjunct treatments. There are also... read more
Impact of ABCDE Bundle Implementation in the ICU on Specific Patient Costs
Full ABCDE bundle implementation resulted in a decrease in total hospital laboratory costs and total hospital laboratory and diagnostic resource utilization while leading to an increase in physical therapy costs. The full... read more
Diagnostic Errors in Pediatric Critical Care
Knowledge of diagnostic errors in the PICU is limited. Future work to understand diagnostic errors should involve a balanced focus between studying the diagnosis of individual diseases and uncovering common system- and process-related... read more
Laryngeal Radiation Fibrosis: A Case of Failed Awake Flexible Fibreoptic Intubation
In patients with severe upper airway narrowing because of radiation fibrosis, an awake fibreoptic intubation may be impossible and a tracheotomy is the only means of securing this airway; however, there may be no evident... read more
Diagnostic accuracy of prehospital serum S100B and GFAP in patients with mild TBI
Early prehospital and in-hospital S100B levels 0.10 μg/L was 100% (95%CI: 89.1;100.0) in prehospital samples and 100% (95% CI 89.1;100.0) in in-hospital samples. The specificity was 15.4% (95%CI: 12.4;18.7) in prehospital... read more
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in the Emergency Department
Subarachnoid hemorrhages (SAH) are frequently misdiagnosed; therefore, we believe it is imperative to address the diagnosis and initiation of early management in the emergency medicine department to minimize poor outcomes... read more
POCUS of the Heart and Lungs in Patients with Respiratory Failure
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a focus oriented tool for differentiating among cardiopulmonary diseases. Its value in the hands of emergency physicians, with various ultrasound experience, remains uncertain. We tested... read more
Bedside Voluntary and Evoked Forces Evaluation in ICU Patients
Around one third of intensive care unit (ICU) patients will develop severe neuromuscular alterations, known as intensive care unit-acquired weakness (ICUAW), during their stay. The diagnosis of ICUAW is difficult and often... read more
Validation of Sputum Gram Stain for Treatment of CAP and HCAP
The usefulness of sputum Gram stain in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is controversial. There has been no study to evaluate the diagnostic value of this method in patients with healthcare-associated pneumonia... read more
