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Although current guidelines recommend delaying neuroprognostication during therapeutic hypothermia following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, this review of 55 consecutive patients so managed found that a "poor prognosis" designation was arrived at during the hypothermia period in most of them, including six patients who were eventually discharged with a favorable neurologic outlook.
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Wunsch and associates describe two patients who suffered respiratory arrest requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation while receiving polymyxin B.
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In this issue: Statins and diabetes risk; new treatment guideline for diabetes; new pertussis vaccine recommendation; antibiotics and rhinosinusitis; fluoroquinolones and cystitis; and FDA actions.
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The purpose of this article was to apply aviation communication principles and strategies to the field of critical care medicine, particularly crisis communication situations.
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This is a report of a secondary analysis of data from the original Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Network low-tidal-volume study, which demonstrated improved survival with ventilator tidal volumes of 6 (vs 12) mL/kg predicted body weight in patients meeting the American-European consensus definition of acute lung injury (ALI) or ARDS.
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In this issue: New treatment for prostate cancer; avastin and breast cancer; new CMS disclosure rule; and FDA actions.
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Patients have referred to receiving mechanical ventilatory support as, "the most inhumane ever experienced".... While mechanical ventilation is one of the most commonly used treatment modalities in the ICU, this life-saving modality causes great anxiety, distress, and discomfort in patients.
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This study was a secondary analysis of data from an earlier randomized clinical trial comparing one antibiotic vs two (meropenem alone or meropenem plus ciprofloxacin) as early empiric therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
