Oct 11, 2022

Up to 70% of ICU patients will experience some form of organ malfunction or failure throughout their stay. Inadequate organ function must be restored for there to be any hope of a positive outcome, wh...

Oct 11, 2022

Intensive care units (ICU) face a significant challenge in facilitating patient-caregiver and family-caregiver communication. As a result of these fluctuations, standard comprehension tests are not fe...

Oct 11, 2022

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can cause intrathoracic airway closure and a drop in lung volume below the functional residual capacity. But excessive insufflation may cause chest distension and p...

Oct 11, 2022

The current best practices in malnutrition screening and assessment, estimation of energy needs for patients with obesity, the risks and management of sarcopenic obesity, the value of tailored nutriti...

Oct 11, 2022

This research aimed to examine the effectiveness and safety of remimazolam besylate and propofol for keeping patients on long-term mechanical breathing sedated at a moderate level. Adults who required...

Oct 07, 2022

After cardiothoracic surgery, it might be difficult to make a clinical diagnosis of ICU-acquired pneumonia. Failing to meet the Johanson criteria (a chest x-ray infiltrate, purulent tracheal secretion...

Oct 07, 2022

When the duration between inspirations is too short for the patient to exhale to their functional residual capacity, a condition known as intrinsic PEEP arises. Intrinsic PEEP can arise from a variety...

Oct 07, 2022

Oxygen levels in patients are typically monitored by pulse oximetry. However, there has been little research done on why people with darker skin pigmentation are more likely to have measurement inaccu...

Oct 07, 2022

Acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS is a devastating side effect of a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Recent research has pinpointed pre-transplant risk factors for ARDS after HSCT. Th...

Oct 07, 2022

Results from a 6-minute walk test (6MWT) with continuous monitoring of blood oxygen saturation SpO2 showed that certain people with respiratory disorders may have values throughout the test that are l...

Oct 03, 2022

Patients with sepsis frequently receive dexmedetomidine treatment. Some debate exists regarding how well it helps septic patients. Dexmedetomidine use in patients with sepsis has been the subject of n...

Sep 23, 2022

This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of various electronic relaxation devices in reducing stress-related symptoms often reported in the intensive care unit (ICU). A randomized cross-over approach ...

Sep 23, 2022

It has been hypothesized that renal hypoperfusion is a factor in the progression of acute kidney injury (AKI) in severely ill COVID-19 patients. However, there is scant evidence to back up this claim....

Sep 23, 2022

Renal replacement therapy (RRT) techniques and treatment regimens may influence kidney recovery in critically sick patients with acute kidney damage. The purpose of this research was to compare the ou...

Sep 23, 2022

After leaving the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), many people who have survived a serious illness are left with considerable physical and psychological handicaps. Nutrition remains a challenge, especially ...

Sep 23, 2022

A meeting to discuss the value, role, and open questions regarding supplemental parenteral nutrition (SPN) along with oral or enteral nutrition (EN), particularly in the setting of an intensive care u...

Sep 23, 2022

High-flow nasal cannulae (HFNC), non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIV), and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) are all forms of advanced respiratory assistance that might be necessary for up to...

Sep 22, 2022

Quantitative studies of SARS-CoV-2 have mostly focused on the upper respiratory tract or plasma viral Ribonucleic acid (RNA), with mixed results regarding their correlation with clinical outcomes. The...

Sep 14, 2022

The pandemic delayed surgeries across all subspecialties and levels of care in both the acute phase of the pandemic and after the release of COVID-19 vaccines. “It is important to evaluate ou...

Sep 06, 2022

Understanding the intra-observer variability of the CRT was a primary goal of the study. Finally, they noticed fingertip CRT in sepsis patients with volume expansion within the first 24 hours of ICU a...