AKI Risk Factors in ICU Patients Using Colistin

AKI Risk Factors in ICU Patients Using Colistin

Colistin, an antibiotic of polymyxin group, has recently been increasingly used in the treatment of multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria. However, it has serious adverse effects such as acute kidney injury (AKI). We... read more

COVID-19 Airway Management and Ventilation Strategy for Critically Ill Older Patients

COVID-19 Airway Management and Ventilation Strategy for Critically Ill Older Patients

This book describes the issues and challenges that clinicians encountered in the management of older critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers practical information on how to manage them. Older... read more

Omadacycline Treatment of Severe Pneumonia Complicated with ARDS During COVID-19

Omadacycline Treatment of Severe Pneumonia Complicated with ARDS During COVID-19

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) has a significant value in the diagnosis of Chlamydia psittaci infection. Timely treatment of omadacycline can improve prognosis and provide a promising new option for the treatment... read more

Sepsis Management: PIRO and MODS

Sepsis Management: PIRO and MODS

This book is unique in approaching multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) from the perspective of its pathophysiological mechanism, and addressing aspects that are overlooked in most of the available literature. Eminent... read more

Haloperidol vs. Placebo in ICU Patients with Delirium

Haloperidol vs. Placebo in ICU Patients with Delirium

We assessed long-term outcomes in acutely admitted adult patients with delirium treated in intensive care unit (ICU) with haloperidol versus placebo. In acutely admitted adult ICU patients with delirium, haloperidol treatment... read more

Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between

Doctors heal, or try to, but as nurses we step into the breach, figure out what needs to be done for any given patient today, on this shift, and then, with love and exasperation, do it as best as we can. Critical Care... read more

Ilofotase Alfa Doesn’t Improved Survival Among Critically Ill Patients with SA-AKI

Ilofotase Alfa Doesn’t Improved Survival Among Critically Ill Patients with SA-AKI

Sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) in patients admitted to an intensive care unit is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. There is currently no pharmaceutical treatment. Although we found no... read more

Efficacy of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy in Patients with AHRF

Efficacy of High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy in Patients with AHRF

This study suggests that high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) therapy in general respiratory wards may be a potential rescue therapy for patients with respiratory failure. Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) potentially monitors... read more

ICU Protocols: A Step-wise Approach, Vol II

ICU Protocols: A Step-wise Approach, Vol II

The second edition of this highly successful book includes up-to-date notes on the step-wise management of clinical emergencies encountered in everyday intensive care units (ICU). Each thoroughly revised chapter provides... read more

Oxygenation Improvement in Hyperinflammatory Ovine ARDS Treated with Methylprednisolone

Oxygenation Improvement in Hyperinflammatory Ovine ARDS Treated with Methylprednisolone

Early and persistent improvement in oxygenation was seen only in hyperinflammatory ovine ARDS treated with methylprednisolone, while hemodynamic situation and survival was improved in both injury models and corticosteroid... read more

Handbook of Evidence-Based Critical Care

Handbook of Evidence-Based Critical Care

This updated and revised edition of the classic bedside pocket reference remains the gold standard in critical care medicine. The new edition maintains Dr. Marik's trademark humor and engaging writing style, while adding... read more

Inflammatory Subphenotypes in Patients at Risk of ARDS

Inflammatory Subphenotypes in Patients at Risk of ARDS

We identified hyper- and non-hyperinflammatory subphenotypes in patients at risk of ARDS upon presentation to the emergency department. These subphenotypes remained identifiable over time and a hyperinflammatory subphenotype... read more

Effect of Mechanical Ventilation Under Intubation on Respiratory Tract Change of Bacterial Count

Effect of Mechanical Ventilation Under Intubation on Respiratory Tract Change of Bacterial Count

Mechanical ventilation under intubation may cause dysregulation of lower respiratory microbiota in rats. The most common 'second strike' in mechanically ventilated patients is a pulmonary infection caused by the ease with... read more

Haloperidol Efficacy to Decrease Delirium Burden in Critically Ill Patients

Haloperidol Efficacy to Decrease Delirium Burden in Critically Ill Patients

This trial, that was stopped early, did not show evidence that haloperidol reduces delirium and coma in critically ill patients with delirium. The beneficial effects on some agitation-related outcomes and lower sedative... read more