How informatics can help your hospital prevent infections

How informatics can help your hospital prevent infections

Hospitalists have a powerful tool to help them fight outbreaks of Clostridium difficile and other infectious agents: electronic health record data. Sara Murray, MD, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of... read more

Malbrain Fluid Overload

Malbrain Fluid Overload

Fluid overload is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In this presentations an overview is given of the different definitions followed by a step-by-step description of the deleterious effects of fluid overload... read more

Hospitalists can help improve antibiotic stewardship

Hospitalists can help improve antibiotic stewardship

Hospitalists can, and should, help curb unnecessary antibiotic use. Nearly three-quarters of patients who have been diagnosed with community acquired pneumonia are receiving antibiotics for longer periods than necessary,... read more

Happy 100th Anniversary to the RSNA

Happy 100th Anniversary to the RSNA

This week the Radiological Society of North America, a.k.a. RSNA, is holding its annual meeting in Chicago. RSNA is an international society of radiologists, medical physicists and other medical professionals with more than... read more

Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son’s Birth & Heart Disease

Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son’s Birth & Heart Disease

Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William "Billy" Kimmel. At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and is now home with his family.... read more

The effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality for emergency general surgery

The effect of day of the week on short- and long-term mortality for emergency general surgery

The effect of day of the week on outcome after surgery is the subject of debate. The aim was to determine whether day of the week of emergency general surgery alters short- and long-term mortality. Dr Mike Gillies and... read more

CHS using virtual critical care for heart patients

CHS using virtual critical care for heart patients

It just might be the future of medicine. Using cameras, microphones and medical sensors, heart surgeons and cardiologists inside the Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute at Carolinas HealthCare System are treating patients... read more

SCCM Congress Session Centers on Physician-Assisted Suicide

SCCM Congress Session Centers on Physician-Assisted Suicide

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS/E) is a topic of intense debate in society, not least among critical care medicine specialists, who treat many patients at or near the end of life. Watch a video that features... read more

Redirecting Videolaryngoscopy

Redirecting Videolaryngoscopy

The debate of VL versus DL is not a new one and most will remember several years ago when respected voices were making strong statements about the impending irrelevance of DL as they hailed a new standard intubation device,... read more

Bariatric surgery may protect against heart failure

Bariatric surgery may protect against heart failure

Bariatric surgery appears to reduce substantially the risk of heart failure.... read more

Scientists film bacteria's maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs

Scientists film bacteria's maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs

In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to... read more

Hypoxic guard systems in anesthesia systems

Hypoxic guard systems in anesthesia systems

Critical Care News met with Dr Jan Hendrickx, an expert in kinetics of inhaled agents and carrier gases, to hear his first impressions of the active hypoxic guard O2GUARD in anesthesia machine FLOW-i. Watch when Dr Hendrickx... read more

New Podcast Follows Up on SSC Concepts and Implementation

In the newly available iCritical Care podcast SCCM Pod-326 Surviving Sepsis Campaign: Creating Spread for Quality Improvement, Ludwig Lin, MD, speaks with Jane Taylor, Ed.D, about quality improvement science and her contributions... read more