Damage Control Resuscitation: Identification and Treatment of Life-Threatening Hemorrhage

Damage Control Resuscitation: Identification and Treatment of Life-Threatening Hemorrhage

This book provides a comprehensive overview of damage control resuscitation (DCR), an evidence-based approach to the resuscitation of patients with severe life-threatening hemorrhage (LTH). It focuses on both civilian... read more

ECPR for Hypothermic Refractory Cardiac Arrests in Temperate Climates

ECPR for Hypothermic Refractory Cardiac Arrests in Temperate Climates

Accidental hypothermia designates an unintentional drop in body temperature below 35 °C. There is a major risk of ventricular fibrillation below 28 °C and cardiac arrest is almost inevitable below 24 °C. In such cases,... read more

Handbook of Intravenous Fluids

Handbook of Intravenous Fluids

This easy to use pocket book covers all aspects of intravenous fluid therapy in critically ill patients from applied physiology to bedside clinical management succinctly. It includes updated and evidence-based content on... read more

Feasibility of HEMS Performed Prehospital E-CPR in Pediatric Cardiac Arrests

Feasibility of HEMS Performed Prehospital E-CPR in Pediatric Cardiac Arrests

This case-series shows that a properly trained regular Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) crew of only two health care professionals (doctor and flight nurse) can establish Extracorporeal-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation... read more

Doppler Ultrasound Identified Venous Congestion in Septic Shock

Doppler Ultrasound Identified Venous Congestion in Septic Shock

Venous congestion is a pathophysiological state where high venous pressures cause organ edema and dysfunction. Venous congestion is associated with worse outcomes, particularly acute kidney injury (AKI), for critically ill... read more

Optimal Fluid Therapy for Sepsis Management in Critically Ill Adults

Optimal Fluid Therapy for Sepsis Management in Critically Ill Adults

For a study, researchers aimed to analyze the fluid treatment in septic critically ill adults. About 20% to 30% of patients were admitted to an ICU with sepsis. In sepsis patients, investigators observed intravenous fluid... read more

Checklists and Consistency of Care After Resuscitation From IHCA

Checklists and Consistency of Care After Resuscitation From IHCA

In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) with the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is a clinical scenario associated with potentially devastating outcomes. Our study demonstrated improved consistency in completing post-ROSC... read more

VA-ECMO in High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

VA-ECMO in High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

High-risk Pulmonary Embolism (PE) has an ominous prognosis and requires emergent reperfusion therapy, primarily systemic thrombolysis (ST). In deteriorating patients or with contraindications to ST, Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal... read more

Multiple Electrolytes Solution vs. Saline as Bolus Fluid for Pediatric Septic Shock Resuscitation

Multiple Electrolytes Solution vs. Saline as Bolus Fluid for Pediatric Septic Shock Resuscitation

Among children presenting with septic shock, fluid resuscitation with MES (balanced crystalloid) as compared with 0.9% saline resulted in a significantly lower incidence of new and/or progressive AKI during the first 7 days... read more

Correlation of Common Carotid Artery Blood Flow Parameters With TTE-CO for Assessing Fluid Responsiveness After PLR Test in Critically Ill Patients

Correlation of Common Carotid Artery Blood Flow Parameters With TTE-CO for Assessing Fluid Responsiveness After PLR Test in Critically Ill Patients

The passive leg raising (PLR) test is a simple, non-invasive method of knowing fluid responsiveness by acting as an internal-fluid challenge. The PLR test coupled with a non-invasive assessment of stroke volume would be the... read more

Fluid Responsiveness Evaluation with Integrated Ultrasonographic Approach

Fluid Responsiveness Evaluation with Integrated Ultrasonographic Approach

In a group of non-ventilated patients, who had already undergone the initial resuscitation, we demonstrated that the evaluation of the fluid responsiveness (FR) based on echocardiography and lung ultrasound increased the... read more

Traumatic Hemorrhage and Chain of Survival

Traumatic Hemorrhage and Chain of Survival

Trauma is the number one cause of death among Americans between the ages of 1 and 46 years, costing more than $670 billion a year. Following death related to central nervous system injury, hemorrhage accounts for the majority... read more

Resuscitative TEE

Resuscitative TEE

The use of ED resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a practical modality that provides useful diagnostic and therapeutic information for critically ill patients in the emergency department, with an excellent... read more

Duration of Device-Based Fever Prevention After Cardiac Arrest

Duration of Device-Based Fever Prevention After Cardiac Arrest

While fever prevention for 72 hours after cardiac arrest has been endorsed by international guidelines since 2005, there is a lack of randomized control trial (RCT) generated data supporting this after the initial 24 hours... read more