Critical Care Alert – December 1, 2013

December 1, 2013

• Burnout Syndrome Among Critical Care Professionals: A Cause for Alarm

  While burnout occurs in any occupation, this paper will focus on ICU nurses and physicians.

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• ICU Feeding Strategy and Acute Lung Injury Outcomes

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• The Vexing Problems of Lung-Protective Ventilation: Asynchrony, Work of Breathing, and Sedation

  This single-center, prospective, observational study examined the effects of clinician adjustments in ventilator settings or sedation/analgesic dosing on breath stacking (an inspiratory effort that causes the ventilator to deliver two consecutive breaths without an intervening expiratory phase).

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