The purpose of this article was to apply aviation communication principles and strategies to the field of critical care medicine, particularly crisis communication situations.
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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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.
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).
Children with diabetes, especially type 1, remain at risk for developing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). This may seem confounding in a modern society with such advanced medical care, but the fact remains that children who are type 1 diabetics have an incidence of DKA of 8 per 100 patient years.
