Some components of ventilator bundles may not improve patient outcomes
1. Based on this retrospective cohort analysis, most of the commonly used ventilator-bundles, including head-of-bed elevation, sedative infusion interruptions, spontaneous ...
Tag: intensive care
No mortality difference between early and delayed renal replacement therapy: The AKIKI trial
1. Critically ill patients in the ICU with severe acute kidney injury (AKI) who were randomized to early renal replacement ...
Rehabilitation beneficial for patients with respiratory failure
1. In this randomized controlled trial, rehabilitation therapy, over the short term, did not reduce the time to discharge in ...
Among sepsis survivors, primary care interventions not associated with improved mental health outcomes
1. Compared to standard care, 6 months of primary care interventions were not associated with any improvement in mental health-related ...
Aspirin does not decrease the incidence of ARDS in at-risk patients
1. Among at-risk patients in the emergency department, administration of aspirin within 24 hours of presentation was not associated with ...
Misperceptions about prognosis among surrogates of critically ill patients
1. Discordant expectations about a critically ill patient’s prognosis were common among surrogate decision makers and were due both to ...
Sepsis associated with susceptibility to further infections and immunosuppression
1. Patients with sepsis were predisposed to ICU-acquisition of further infections. 2. Sepsis is associated with a degree of immunosuppression. ...
Early, goal-directed therapy does not reduce mortality in septic shock [ProMISe trial]
1. Early, goal-directed therapy was shown to reduce mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock in a single-center, randomized controlled ...
Tight glycemic control common in ICUs despite evidence-based literature
1. Publication of the Leuven I trial resulted in increased tight glycemic control and hypoglycemia in critically ill adults. 2. ...
Poor pre-ICU functional status associated with post-ICU mortality
1. In a cohort of elderly adults more than 70 years of age admitted to an ICU, more than half ...
