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Guidance defines vaping-related respiratory syndrome
February 23, 2020
ORLANDO – The guidance is designed to help critical care professionals efficiently identify those individuals at high risk of respiratory failure.
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Medicare beneficiaries get few home health visits after ICU stay
February 23, 2020
ORLANDO – The beneficiaries received an average of less than one visit per week in the month after ICU discharge, while a third received no visits.
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Opioid use disorder up in sepsis hospitalizations
February 23, 2020
ORLANDO – “While we don’t necessarily screen every sepsis patient for endocarditis, if it’s an opioid use disorder patient – particularly one with a bloodstream infection – then that’s almost certainly something you should be doing.”
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Critical care admissions up for pediatric opioid poisonings
February 19, 2020
ORLANDO – Attempted suicide has represented an increasingly large proportion of these severe poisonings.
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As novel coronavirus outbreak evolves, critical care providers need to be prepared
February 18, 2020
Despite “substantial uncertainty” over impact outside China, any influx of seriously ill patients could strain EDs, inpatient units, or ICUs.
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ID consult for Candida bloodstream infections can reduce mortality risk
January 12, 2020
More patients survived Candida bloodstream infections when they had ID consultations.
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Experts call to revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act
January 3, 2020
A neurologist and her colleagues propose changes with the goal of clarifying and harmonizing procedures for determining death by neurologic criteria.
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Improving sepsis-related outcomes
December 12, 2019
A dedicated quality improvement project shows results.
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Opinion
Guideline: Diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia
November 22, 2019
The practice guideline was jointly written by an ad hoc committee of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Geriatric IBD hospitalization carries steep inpatient mortality
November 21, 2019
SAN ANTONIO – A major unmet need exists for better guideline-directed management of geriatric patients hospitalized for IBD.
