Apr 03, 2019

WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Improper removal of personal protective equipment (PPE) contaminates health care workers interacting with patients who are on contact precautions for multi...

Apr 01, 2019

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - Doctors' conversations with families about care for critically ill patients often fail to address patients' values and preferences, acc...

Apr 01, 2019

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Pulmonology for March 2019. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as th...

Apr 01, 2019

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Critical Care for March 2019. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as ...

Mar 29, 2019

FRIDAY, March 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Intake of omega-3 and omega-6 is associated with pediatric asthma morbidity and may modify the response to indoor particulate matter (PM), according to a stu...

Mar 29, 2019

FRIDAY, March 29, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- From 2012 to 2017, the proportion of U.S. adults who perceived electronic-cigarettes to be as harmful as or more harmful than cigarettes increased, according...

Mar 18, 2019

Previous research indicates that rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, affecting more than 3 million adults in the US. Prior studies have also found that fo...

Mar 18, 2019

The death of a pediatric patient with sepsis spurred New York to mandate statewide sepsis treatment in 2013, which included a 1-hour bundle of blood cultures, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and a 20 mL/k...

Mar 12, 2019

Pressure controlled ventilation (PCV) is commonly used to manage both adult and pediatric populations. However, there is very little evidence distinguishing the efficacy of PCV over that of volume con...

Mar 08, 2019

While patient autonomy is important to consider when managing patients with any chronic condition at any age, healthcare professionals tend to assume that older adults desire more of a paternalistic a...

Feb 28, 2019

When conducting care conferences with families in the pediatric ICU, communicating important news and pausing to allow family participants time to express emotions and provide feedback appears to give...

Feb 25, 2019

To determine the association of depressive and PTSD symptoms with cardiac arrest survivors' long-term recovery perceptions—after accounting for cognitive status, functional independence, and medical...

Feb 23, 2019

The following was originally posted by PW blogger Jasmine Marcelin, MD, to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases blog.   The following was previousl...

Feb 22, 2019

New research was presented at SCCM 2019, The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Annual Congress, from February 17 to 20 in San Diego. The features below highlight some of the studies presented at t...

Feb 21, 2019

The following was originally posted by PW blogger Kelly Cawcutt, MD, to the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Infectious Diseases blog.   Fever has plagued mankind thr...

Feb 07, 2019

Because cough is the single most common complaint for which patients seek medical care in the ambulatory setting, it is important for clinicians to have a management plan on how to approach the proble...

Jan 28, 2019

By Andy Skean Senior Editor   Multiple studies have reported that septic patients have better outcomes if they are treated at centers with high yearly case volumes of sepsis, according to ...

Jan 17, 2019

Let me open up my world to you and share with you the stories that helped me throughout my medical and personal journey, and how I got lost in books.   I was 13 and woke up late one Su...

Jan 11, 2019

Patients with asthma account for 9.5 percent of all emergency room visits in the U.S. annually, with the highest percentage for children aged 5–17, according to the Centers for Disease Control and P...

Dec 25, 2018

Evidence indicates that opioid infusions are commonly used to manage patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). However, children with prolonged exposure to opioids frequently deve...