High quality prompt care of all people with hip and other fragility fractures is a key component of helping with patient outcomes and bed occupancy during the coronavirus pandemic. Anaesthetists have a key role in ensuring... Read More

Since the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan in December 2019 and its subsequent evolution to a pandemic in March 2020, there has been growing interest in the utility of lung ultrasound in the workup and management... Read More

The 2019 Coronavirus outbreak was declared a global Public Health Emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 30th January 2020. In order to ensure immediate access to relevant systematic reviews, this Cochrane Library... Read More

A large cohort of international experts was able to achieve consensus regarding many recommendations for the best care of children with sepsis, acknowledging that most aspects of care had relatively low quality of evidence... Read More

In general, randomized clinical trials in CS are difficult to perform and only three randomized trials adequately powered to detect differences in clinical outcomes achieved completion of the required number of patients.... Read More

With a focus on evidence-based, state-of-the-art information throughout, the eighth edition of Irwin and Rippe’s Intensive Care Medicine offers authoritative guidance to the wide variety of specialty physicians and... Read More

Centers for Disease Control (CDC), published methodology for 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) testing and is currently in the process of applying for an emergency waiver to allow medical-testing facilities to perform these... Read More

Portions of the current WHO guidelines regarding fluid management are dangerously misguided. The first two recommendations suggest limiting fluid administration in patients with ARDS and patients who aren’t shocked,... Read More

Neuroprognostic approaches to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy vary among physicians and are often not consistent with current guidelines. The overall inconsistency in approaches and deviation from evidence-based recommendations... Read More

Seminal studies at Vanderbilt University Medical Center over the past two decades by pulmonary and critical care specialist Wes Ely, M.D. and colleagues have spurred ICU delirium research, and the resulting body of evidence... Read More

Objective data and expert guidance on managing critically ill patients in unique question-based chapters that focus on best practices. Now thoroughly updated by Drs. Clifford S. Deutschman, Patrick J. Neligan, and nearly... Read More

This book establishes the indications for the use of NIV in the context of weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation. It provides a comprehensive overview of key topics relevant for correct practical application, including... Read More

Variable practices regarding extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) line management exist worldwide based on recommendations lacking specific ECMO content and context. This survey identified evidence gaps regarding several... Read More

Two simple and available upon admission clinical predictors of group A streptococcus (GAS) documentation identified among a large cohort of surgically proven necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs). The results show that... Read More