Articles Tagged With: ICU
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Older ICU Survivors Often Receive New and Persistent Prescriptions for Sedatives After Discharge
In this population-based cohort study of older intensive care unit survivors, one in 15 of them received a new prescription for a sedative within a week of discharge, and more than half had recurrent prescriptions.
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Adjuvant Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy in Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia
In this meta-analysis, all-cause mortality, ICU admission, and incidence of adverse events were similar in patients who received corticosteroids compared to standard care. However, the corticosteroid therapy group recorded a lower incidence of progression to mechanical ventilation.
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Cultural Sensitivity in End-of-Life Discussions in the Intensive Care Unit
When clinicians treat patients and communicate with families who come from cultures that are different from their own, cultural sensitivity can improve the experience for families.
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Practice Alert Provides Critical Care Nurses Safety Tips for Prone Positioning
The technique that became well known during the COVID-19 pandemic remains a standard tactic for managing acute respiratory distress syndrome.
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CEASE Bundle Alleviates ICU Alarm Fatigue
Nurses in an ICU successfully alleviated alarm fatigue with a bundle. The CEASE bundle focuses on changing electrodes and using appropriate monitors.
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Do Race and Ethnicity Affect the Likelihood of ICU Admission?
Patients who identify with racial or ethnic minority groups and present with sepsis or acute respiratory failure are more likely to be admitted to the ICU when compared to white patients.
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Management of COPD Exacerbations in the ICU: What’s New?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations continue to negatively affect health status, including disease progression and mortality, making optimization of the critically ill COPD patient imperative.
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Short-Term Use of Haloperidol Did Not Decrease Risk of Mortality in ICU Patients with Delirium
The use of scheduled intravenous haloperidol in intensive care unit patients with delirium did not result in additional days alive and out of the hospital at 90 days as compared to placebo.
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Does Surviving an ECMO Stay Put Patients at Greater Risk for Mental Health Problems?
Survivors of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) demonstrated a modest increase in risk of new mental health diagnoses after discharge vs. ICU survivors who do not undergo ECMO.
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Novel Bedside Procedure Improves Tracheostomy Outcomes
Nurse-driven initiative led to zero incidents of tracheostomy medical device-related pressure injuries for three years.