Tag: research
A Research Agenda for Communication Between Health Care Professionals and Patients Living With Serious Illness
Poor communication by health care professionals contributes to physical and psychological suffering in patients living with serious illness. Patients may not fully understand their illness, prognosis, and treatment options... read more
Top 10 Critical Care Trials for 2017
We held a poll within our editorial group, rating all 36 of the published trials from 2017 that we have summarised and critiqued. We considered the importance of the clinical question, how game changing the conclusion was... read more
How Big Tech Is Going After Your Health Care
When Daniel Poston, a second-year medical student in Manhattan, opened the App Store on his iPhone a couple of weeks ago, he was astonished to see an app for a new heart study prominently featured. People often learn about... read more
Endoscopic Treatment versus Shunting for Hydrocephalus
In sub-Saharan Africa, a large number of infants are affected by hydrocephalus that develops after neonatal ventriculitis and is often associated with poor developmental outcomes. New research findings are summarized in a... read more
FDA Approves Angiotensin-II for Septic Shock
The FDA approved angiotensin-II (Giapreza) as a new intravenous vasopressor for septic shock and other forms of distributive shock. The first new FDA-approved vasopressor in decades, angiotensin-II could significantly change... read more
Optimizing Quality and Efficiency of Critical Care Delivery
Providing "health" care is expensive, and providing "sick" care is even more expensive. Here we will outline a newly packaged, high-yield opportunity for your institution regarding optimization of your critical care service... read more
Guidelines for the Content of Statistical Analysis Plans in Clinical Trials
While guidance on statistical principles for clinical trials exists, there is an absence of guidance covering the required content of statistical analysis plans (SAPs) to support transparency and reproducibility. Recommendations... read more
Investing in Physicians’ Well-being is Just Good Business
The moral and ethical reason for physician practices, hospitals and academic centers to address physician burnout should be obvious, but a new medical journal article makes the case for why addressing doctors' well-being... read more
Alleviating ICU Survivors’ Burden
In a review paper, a team of international researchers highlights how critical illness and critical care affect longer-term outcomes. According to the authors, the severity of acute illness determines the degree of impairment... read more
What Can Psychologists Do in Intensive Care?
As awareness has grown of the great distress intensive care patients may suffer, units have begun recruiting psychologists to their teams. Intensive care unit psychologists aim to assess and reduce distress for patients,... read more
Inpatient antiviral treatment reduces ICU admissions among influenza patients
Administering inpatient antiviral influenza treatment may reduce admissions to the ICU among adults hospitalized with flu, according to a study presented at ID Week 2017, an infectious diseases meeting. While interventions... read more
Four in Five U.S. Physicians Have Been Affected by Cyberattacks
More than four in five U.S. physicians (83 percent) have experienced some form of a cybersecurity attack, according to new research released by Accenture and the American Medical Association (AMA). This, along with additional... read more
Hypovitaminosis C and vitamin C deficiency in critically ill patients despite recommended enteral and parenteral intakes
Critically ill patients have low vitamin C concentrations despite receiving standard ICU nutrition. Septic shock patients have significantly depleted vitamin C levels compared with non-septic patients, likely resulting from... read more
Alarm Reductions Don’t Improve ICU Response Times
It will take more than a reduction in alarms to address the issue of alarm fatigue in the ICU; a change in the ICU staff culture is needed, suggests new research. A program run at Dr. Kunadu's hospital showed that cutting... read more
Why Nursing Burnout is A Priority
Nursing burnout is still seen as a "soft" topic. How do we know that? Well, it is still a dilemma that organizations do not know what to do with. That and it is often bumped from the agenda. Think about it- what comes first?... read more
3D-Printed Organs Could Let Surgeons Practice and Plan Dangerous Operations
An international team of researchers has used 3D-printing technology to produce individually-tailored model organs. These dummy organs could one day improve your chances of surviving surgery, by allowing doctors to plan and... read more
Clinical Examination, Critical Care Ultrasonography and Outcomes in the Critically Ill
In the Simple Intensive Care Studies-I (SICS-I), we aim to unravel the value of clinical and haemodynamic variables obtained by physical examination and critical care ultrasound (CCUS) that currently guide daily practice... read more
The Epidemiology of Hospital Death Following Pediatric Severe Sepsis
Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Scott L. Weiss, MD, MSCE, about the article, "The Epidemiology of Hospital Death Following Pediatric Severe Sepsis: When, Why, and How Children With Sepsis Die," published in the September... read more
A New Algorithm Identifies Candidates for Palliative Care by Predicting When Patients Will Die
End-of-life care can be stressful for patients and their loved ones, but a new algorithm could help provide better care to people during their final months. A paper published in arXiv by researchers from Stanford describes... read more
The Impact of Mean Arterial Pressure on Functional Outcome Post Trauma-Related Acute Spinal Cord Injury
Although no definitive conclusions could be reached based on the data collected, this study does give valuable insight into future avenues of research on the topic of hemodynamic management in traumatic ASCI as well as provides... read more
Dr. Paul Wischmeyer Brings Humanity To Medicine
Dr. Paul Wischmeyer's journey to becoming an internationally-renowned critical care and perioperative nutrition researcher and clinician began at the age of 15 when a bout of strep throat and a prescription for antibiotics... read more
Increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria hinders treatment of kidney infections
Researchers use hospital emergency room data from around the country to document emergence of E. coli strain that fights medication. They recommend development of new antibiotics and treatment guidelines.... read more
