Tag: research
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
Diabetes Risks and Outcomes in COPD Patients
The relationship between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and diabetes remains incompletely understood. This study evaluated diabetes risk and post-diabetes outcomes in COPD patients with and without exacerbations.... read more
Critical Illness, Disability, and the Road Home
Ability to participate in the community is an important outcome for all patients after a major illness, it signposts reaching the end of the road home. A patient's ability to return to the priority tasks of daily living impacts... read more
Effect of Procalcitonin-guided Antibiotic Treatment on Mortality in Acute Respiratory Infections
Use of procalcitonin to guide antibiotic treatment in patients with acute respiratory infections reduces antibiotic exposure and side-effects, and improves survival. Widespread implementation of procalcitonin protocols in... read more
Effect of Azithromycin on Asthma Exacerbations and Quality of Life in Adults with Persistent Uncontrolled Asthma
Adults with persistent symptomatic asthma experience fewer asthma exacerbations and improved quality of life when treated with oral azithromycin for 48 weeks. Azithromycin might be a useful add-on therapy in persistent asthma.... read more
Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better than Radiologists
Stanford researchers have developed a deep learning algorithm that evaluates chest X-rays for signs of disease. In just over a month of development, their algorithm outperformed expert radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia.... read more
Outcomes after Angiography with Sodium Bicarbonate and Acetylcysteine
Intravenous sodium bicarbonate and oral acetylcysteine are widely used to prevent acute kidney injury (AKI) and associated adverse outcomes after angiography without definitive evidence of their efficacy. Among patients at... read more
Predicting outcomes after trauma to the brain
UMMS researchers help develop novel tool to predict survival after penetrating brain injury. Using the new tool they developed, the SPIN-Score (Surviving Penetrating Injury to the Brain), two factors were by far the strongest... read more
