Critical Care Alert – April 1, 2017

April 1, 2017

• The Clinical Utility of Measuring Dead Space Ventilation in Critical Illness

  Here are some of the technologic and physiologic aspects of capnography as they relate to dead space ventilation and their application in the management of critically ill patients.

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• The ABCs of In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

  In this large, propensity-matched cohort study of patients who experienced an in-hospital cardiac arrest, patients who underwent endotracheal intubation had worse survival to hospital discharge than patients who were not intubated.

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• Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines Bundle: Studying How Improved Compliance Might Affect Outcomes

  Improved compliance with the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines bundle was associated with a non-statistically significant decrease in the in-hospital mortality of severe sepsis patients.

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