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Limits on using the clock drawing test as a measure to evaluate patients with neurological disorders.

Jan 02, 2023

The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is used as a quick-to-conduct test for the diagnosis of dementia and a screening tool for cognitive impairments in neurological disorders. However, the association between...

Experiences with cross-sectional healthcare and treatment in heart failure patients: implications for medical education.

Jan 02, 2023

to explore how cross-sectional healthcare and treatment is experienced a) by patients with advanced heart failure and multimorbidity and b) by hospital-employed healthcare professionals.Individual tel...

Moral Distress in Canadian Intensivists: A Complex Interplay of Contextual and Relational Factors.

Jan 02, 2023

Healthcare professionals experience moral distress when they cannot act based on their moral beliefs because of perceived constraints. Moral distress prevalence is high among critical care (ICU) clini...

Cerebrovascular complications and outcomes of critically ill adult patients with infective endocarditis.

Jan 02, 2023

Neurological complications are associated with poor outcome in patients with infective endocarditis (IE). Although guidelines recommend systematic brain imaging in the evaluation of IE patients, the a...

Analysis of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) in Critically Ill Adults

Dec 29, 2022

The following is a summary of "Health-related quality of life, one-year costs and economic evaluation in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in critically ill adults" published in the November 2022 is...

Effects of Temporary MCS Techniques on Thrombocytopenia

Dec 27, 2022

The following is a summary of "Impact of temporary mechanical circulatory support strategies on thrombocytopenia" published in the November 2022 issue of Critical Care by Dwaah, et al. Thromboc...

Critically Sick Patients' Admission Serum Salt and Osmolarity Don't Impact ADS

Dec 27, 2022

The following is a summary of "Admission serum sodium and osmolarity are not associated with the occurrence or outcomes of acute respiratory distress syndrome in critically ill" published in the Octob...

Prospective Investigation of Respiratory Rate Utilizing Expiratory Time Constant

Dec 27, 2022

The following is a summary of "Determining respiratory rate using measured expiratory time constant: A prospective observational study" published in the October 2022 issue of Critical Care by Depta, e...

Metformin and Survival in Diabetes-related In-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Dec 22, 2022

The following is a summary of "Association between metformin and survival outcomes in in-hospital cardiac arrest patients with diabetes" published in the October 2022 issue of Critical Care by Jin, et...

Using Lung Ultrasonography to Predict Gas-exchange in COVID-19 Patients

Dec 22, 2022

The following is a summary of "Lung ultrasound to predict gas-exchange response to prone positioning in COVID-19 patients: A prospective study in pilot and confirmation cohorts" published in the Octob...

ECMO-rescued Pregnant Women with ARDS in a Multicenter Cohort Study

Dec 19, 2022

The following is a summary of "Delivery decision in pregnant women rescued by ECMO for severe ARDS: a retrospective multicenter cohort study" published in the October 2022 issue of Critical Care by Ja...

In Eurobact II, COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 Infections were Compared

Dec 19, 2022

The following is a summary of "Different epidemiology of bloodstream infections in COVID-19 compared to non-COVID-19 critically ill patients: a descriptive analysis of the Eurobact II study" published...

Metabolic Change and N-formylmethionine Circulation in Critical Illness

Dec 19, 2022

The following is a summary of "Circulating N-formylmethionine and metabolic shift in critical illness: a multicohort metabolomics study," published in the October 2022 issue of Critical Care by Sigurd...

Genomic islands and their role in fitness traits of two key sepsis-causing bacterial pathogens.

Dec 19, 2022

To survive and establish a niche for themselves, bacteria constantly evolve. Toward that, they not only insert point mutations and promote illegitimate recombinations within their genomes but also ins...

Postoperative infections after non-elective cesarean section - a retrospective cohort study of prevalence and risk factors at a single center in Denmark administering prophylactic antibiotics after cord clamping.

Dec 19, 2022

Mothers giving birth by non-elective cesarean section have considerably higher risk of developing postoperative infection, than mothers giving birth by elective cesarean section. Meta-analyses have sh...

Multi-method study of the implementation of Cognitive Symptom Management and Rehabilitation Training (CogSMART) in real-world settings.

Dec 19, 2022

Cognitive Symptom Management and Rehabilitation Training (CogSMART) and Compensatory Cognitive Training (CCT) are evidence-based compensatory cognitive training interventions that improve cognition in...

Alcohol consumption affects the late endocrine consequences of mild traumatic brain injury.

Dec 19, 2022

Currently there are no widely applied methods which could identify, at the time of head trauma, those mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients who later develop pituitary dysfunction. The effect of...

Oxygen Targets and 6-month Cardiac Arrest Outcome: TTM2 Sub-study

Dec 15, 2022

The following is a summary of "Oxygen targets and 6-month outcome after out of hospital cardiac arrest: a pre-planned sub-analysis of the targeted hypothermia versus targeted normothermia after Out-of...

Continuous Versus Intermittent Enteral Feeding in Critical Patients

Dec 15, 2022

The following is a summary of "Comparison of continuous versus intermittent enteral feeding in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis," published in the October 2022 issue of C...

Patient, Clinician, and Researcher Perspectives on VR/AR in Critical Care Medicine

Dec 13, 2022

The following is a summary of "Virtual and augmented reality in critical care medicine: the patient’s, clinician’s, and researcher’s perspective" published in the October 2022 issue of Critical ...

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