Early Mobility in ICU: From Patient to Physician

Early Mobility in ICU: From Patient to Physician

In the ICU, motion means life. Dr. Paul Wischmeyer, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, Duke University gives an overview of the challenges associated with early mobility in ICU, and the importance of implementing protocols.... read more

Pediatric Patient and Family Perspective on Pediatric ICU Experience & Survivorship

Pediatric Patient and Family Perspective on Pediatric ICU Experience & Survivorship

In this video a 7-year old who spent 662 days in the PICU after a severe burn injury requiring ECMO sits down with her parents to detail their journey with critical illness and recovery during the 6th Annual Johns Hopkins... read more

Helping Without Harming

Helping Without Harming

You've been resuscitating the patient for hours and finally caught up with volume. You come back on your next shift only to find your colleague has been diuresing them all day. What the heck were they thinking!?! This normal... read more

Choosing the Right Hemodynamic Platform

Choosing the Right Hemodynamic Platform

Choosing the Right Hemodynamic Platform: ABG, SV to PAC – Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCNS-BC, NP-BC Barbara McLean, MN, RN, CCNS-BC, NP-BC Critical Care Clinical Specialist Critical Care Division Grady Health System... read more

Sepsis: A Threat That Needs a Global Solution

Sepsis: A Threat That Needs a Global Solution

Flavia R. Machado, MD, PhD, gives a plenary talk at the 47th Critical Care Congress, “Sepsis: A Threat That Needs a Global Solution.”... read more

Pandemics Cross Borders: How to Tackle Them From a Global Perspective

Pandemics Cross Borders: How to Tackle Them From a Global Perspective

Steve A. Webb, MD, gives a plenary talk at the 47th Critical Care Congress, “Pandemics Cross Borders: How to Tackle Them From a Global Perspective.”... read more

Get Ready for a Massive Influx of Untriaged Patients

Get Ready for a Massive Influx of Untriaged Patients

When a mass casualty incident occurs, emergency physicians are quickly thrust onto the front lines. That is precisely what happened on October 1st at Sunrise Emergency Department in Las Vegas the night Stephen Paddock opened... read more

What have been the major recent advances in delirium research and care?

Editor-In-Chief-Elect Giuseppe Citerio discusses the recent article focused on the intensive care delirium research agenda in Intensive Care Medicine (ICM). For this evidence-based paper, a multinational and inter-professional... read more

New study finds stress levels skyrocket for family members of ICU patients

New study finds stress levels skyrocket for family members of ICU patients

New research by Intermountain Healthcare finds family members of patients in ICU have anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress lasting months. It's the first study of its kind to investigate the link between cortisol... read more

Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation

Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation

Being a doctor typically involves high-intensity, time-pressured working patterns. These can lead to sleep deprivation and fatigue, effecting doctors' health, well-being and performance, their safety and that of their patients.... read more

Renal Recovery – RRT Modality

Renal Recovery – RRT Modality

Renal recovery - does the choice of renal replacement therapy matter?... read more

Updates on Sepsis from WSC

Updates on Sepsis from WSC

Fourth session from the World Sepsis Congress Spotlight: Maternal and Neonatal Sepsis - Updates on Sepsis.... read more

Maryland emergency doctors find new life-saving use in old machine

Maryland emergency doctors find new life-saving use in old machine

A little used machine designed to detox people who overdose on Tylenol and other medications found another use. Doctors at Shock Trauma used it to save a teenage gunshot victim and then a college football player and an amateur... read more