The Oxygen Revolution: The Definitive Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) & Other Disorders

The Oxygen Revolution: The Definitive Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) & Other Disorders

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is based on a simple idea—that oxygen can be used therapeutically for a wide range of conditions where tissues have been damaged by oxygen deprivation. Inspiring and informative, The... read more

Vasopressin for Acute Hemorrhage?

Vasopressin for Acute Hemorrhage?

Vasoactive medications are one of the pillars of management of shock in Emergency Departments. Inopressors, namely Norepinephrine and Epinephrine, are the two most commonly used pressors in US Emergency Departments, used... read more

Modeling Cardiac Dysfunction Following Traumatic Hemorrhage Injury

Modeling Cardiac Dysfunction Following Traumatic Hemorrhage Injury

Cardiac dysfunction (CD) importantly contributes to mortality in trauma patients, who survive their initial injuries following successful hemostatic resuscitation. This poor outcome has been correlated with elevated biomarkers... read more

The Protective Effects of Regional Hypothermia on Injured Limbs Combined with Hemorrhagic-shock & Tourniquet

The Protective Effects of Regional Hypothermia on Injured Limbs Combined with Hemorrhagic-shock & Tourniquet

The aim of this study is to investigate the protective effects of regional hypothermia (RH) on rabbits' limbs injured by a steel-ball combined with hemorrhagic-shock, and then employed tourniquet over-time, tried to identify... read more

Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation

Textbook of Neonatal Resuscitation

#1 Best Seller! New 7th Edition! Powerful resource for interactive, simulation-based teaching and learning! The Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) is an educational program jointly sponsored by the American Academy of... read more

Ventilation Rates and Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival Outcomes

Ventilation Rates and Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival Outcomes

In this multicenter cohort, ventilation rates exceeding guidelines were common. Among the range of rates delivered, higher rates were associated with improved survival to hospital discharge. Arterial blood pressure and... read more

Critical Care Doctors Placed Humans in Suspended Animation For The First Time

Critical Care Doctors Placed Humans in Suspended Animation For The First Time

Critical care doctors have placed humans in suspended animation for the first time, as part of a trial in the US that aims to make it possible to fix traumatic injuries that would otherwise cause death. Samuel Tisherman,... read more

Left Ventricular Wall Findings in Non-electrocardiography-gated CE-CT After ECPR

Left Ventricular Wall Findings in Non-electrocardiography-gated CE-CT After ECPR

Few studies have reported left ventricular wall findings in contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) after extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR). This study examined left ventricular wall CE-CT findings... read more

Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest

Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest

Therapeutic hypothermia has emerged as a very important treatment option for patients with cardiac arrest as it provides significant protection from developing neurologic injury once the patient has been successfully resuscitated.... read more

Use of Vasopressor Increases the Risk of Mortality in Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock

Use of Vasopressor Increases the Risk of Mortality in Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock

Use of vasopressor for traumatic hemorrhagic shock was associated with mortality after controlling for biases (trauma severity; volume of fluid resuscitation). Among 236,698 trauma patients, 3,551 were included in the... read more

Lactate and Stepwise Lactate Kinetics Used to Guide Resuscitation

Lactate and Stepwise Lactate Kinetics Used to Guide Resuscitation

Lactate is an important parameter for monitoring tissue perfusion at present. Lactate kinetics are particularly important to evaluate the response of ICU patients. Therefore, lactate can be the starting point for resuscitation,... read more

Cardiac Intensive Care

Cardiac Intensive Care

Using a multidisciplinary, team-oriented approach, this unique title expertly covers all the latest approaches to the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with critical cardiac illness. Led by Dr David L. Brown,... read more

Dispatcher-assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Traumatic Patients with OHCA

Dispatcher-assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Traumatic Patients with OHCA

Dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DA-CPR) was not associated with better outcomes for traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in achieving a short-term sustained return of spontaneous circulation... read more

Fluid Resuscitation: Evidence-based Solutions?

Fluid Resuscitation: Evidence-based Solutions?

Intravenous (IV) fluid prescribing is one of the commonest tasks carried out by junior doctors. I still remember around this time last year when I was fresh out of medical school and had just been let loose on the wards,... read more

Early vs. Delayed Administration of Norepinephrine in Patients with Septic Shock

Early vs. Delayed Administration of Norepinephrine in Patients with Septic Shock

This study investigated the incidence of delayed norepinephrine administration following the onset of septic shock and its effect on hospital mortality. Our results show that early administration of norepinephrine in... read more

Targeted Temperature Management for Cardiac Arrest with Nonshockable Rhythm

Targeted Temperature Management for Cardiac Arrest with Nonshockable Rhythm

Among patients with coma who had been resuscitated from cardiac arrest with nonshockable rhythm, moderate therapeutic hypothermia at 33°C for 24 hours led to a higher percentage of patients who survived with a favorable... read more

Early Prognostication of Neurological Outcome by HRV in Adults with Out-of-Hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Early Prognostication of Neurological Outcome by HRV in Adults with Out-of-Hospital Sudden Cardiac Arrest

The present data indicate that heart rate variability (HRV) analysis could be useful for early prognostication for comatose patients during hypothermic TTM within 24 h after ROSC. The value of HRV as a prognosticator... read more