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New study addresses uncertainties related to accurately describing sedation levels

The lack of consensus or accepted definition for light sedation presents challenges to critical care practitioners seeking to follow guidelines related to pain, agitation and delirium.

2 May 2022

CHEST and Three Lakes Foundation collaborate to reduce delays in diagnosing Interstitial Lung Diseases

Three Lakes Foundation and the American College of Chest Physicians recently announced their collaboration on a multiphase educational initiative aiming to reduce the time it takes to diagnose patients with Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD).

19 Apr 2022

COVID-19 vaccine reduced the risk of hospitalizations in children during the Omicron period

Results of a new multicenter study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that vaccination with a primary series of the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine reduced the risk of COVID-19-associated hospitalizations in children ages 5–11 years by two-thirds during the Omicron period.

19 Apr 2022

Triage team members experience moral distress during a simulated crisis-care event

The COVID-19 pandemic has led healthcare organizations to draft plans for critical patient care in the event of shortages of resources such as ventilators.

18 Apr 2022

New study paves the way for first drug treatment for sleep apnea

A new University of Gothenburg study has paved the way for the first drug treatment for sleep apnea. Compared to before receiving the treatment, breathing pauses decreased with on average more than 20 per hour for patients given the drug.

15 Apr 2022

Researchers publish consensus statement for the study of recalled experiences surrounding death

Scientific advances in the 20th and 21st centuries have led to a major evolution in the understanding of death. At the same time, for decades, people who have survived an encounter with death have recalled unexplained lucid episodes involving heightened consciousness and awareness.

13 Apr 2022

New standardized rounding tool reduces duration of mechanical ventilation for weaning patients

A Tennessee hospital reduced the amount of time patients required mechanical ventilation (MV) by nearly half, with a new standardized rounding tool that emphasizes weaning efforts.

13 Apr 2022

Pod-based e-cigarette use alters the inflammatory state across multiple organ systems

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that daily use of pod-based e-cigarettes alters the inflammatory state across multiple organ systems including the brain, heart, lungs and colon. Effects also vary depending on the e-cigarette flavor, and can influence how organs respond to infections, such as SARS-CoV-2.

13 Apr 2022

The Mount Sinai Hospital completes full renovation of its children's ED

The Mount Sinai Hospital has announced the completion of a full renovation of its children's Emergency Department (ED), and a newly redesigned area for walk-in, low acuity adult patients.

11 Apr 2022

A shortfall of ECMO treatment cost lives during the delta surge

Speaking from his hospital bed at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, James Perkinson’s voice was raspy. In February, he’d just been taken off ECMO, the last-ditch life support treatment in which a machine outside the body does the work of the heart and lungs.

7 Apr 2022

Los Angeles’s injury rate for riders of e-scooters higher than the national rates for motorcycles

For a recent six-year period, the injury rate for riders of electric scooters in one section of Los Angeles was higher than the national rates for riders of motorcycles, bicycles and cars, and pedestrians, new UCLA research has found.

6 Apr 2022

Examining hypomagnesemia in critically ill patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

In this interview, News-Medical talks to Dr. Francesca Di Mario, about hypomagnesemia in critically ill patients suffering from acute kidney injuries and discusses how Nova Biomedical instruments are utilized in her work.

From Nova Biomedical 6 Apr 2022

New technique can reliably identify patients most likely to suffer post-surgery pain

Patients who are most likely to suffer severe pain following an operation can be reliably identified using a new technique developed at the University of Birmingham.

5 Apr 2022

Why nurses are raging and quitting after the Radonda Vaught verdict

Emma Moore felt cornered. At a community health clinic in Portland, Oregon, the 29-year-old nurse practitioner said she felt overwhelmed and undertrained. Coronavirus patients flooded the clinic for two years, and Moore struggled to keep up.

5 Apr 2022

Study finds decline in routine opioid dispensing after common pediatric surgeries

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that opioid prescriptions for children who underwent one of eight common outpatient surgeries declined over a period of five years.

4 Apr 2022

Nanotherapies may benefit preterm babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia

Very premature babies need extra oxygen and mechanical intervention to breathe, but this damages their lungs, causing a chronic lung disease called bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).

30 Mar 2022

CDK6: a potential drug target for severe COVID-19

Researchers identify a methodology and workflow to repurpose drugs against the cyclin-dependent kinase 6 target gene of SARS-CoV-2.

27 Mar 2022

Using a new data-driven approach to understand more about people with Type 1 diabetes

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Children's Mercy Kansas City and Texas Children's Hospital has used a new data-driven approach to learn more about persons with Type 1 diabetes, who account for about 5-10% of all diabetes diagnoses.

21 Mar 2022

Recovery of consciousness may take weeks for most COVID patients on respirators

Most patients with severe COVID who are put on ventilators regain consciousness after removal of respiratory support, but recovery may take weeks after the period of mechanical ventilation has ended, according to a new study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Harvard Medical School, NewYork-Presbyterian and Massachusetts General Hospital.

15 Mar 2022

High doses of antibiotic may safely and effectively treat TB meningitis

A Johns Hopkins Children's Center-led study in animals suggests that high doses of a widely used antibiotic called rifampin may safely treat and reduce the duration of treatment for the deadliest form of tuberculosis that affects the brain, potentially improving survival rates for patients and decreasing the likelihood of lasting adverse effects of the disease.

15 Mar 2022

Critical Care News and Research

New study addresses uncertainties related to accurately describing sedation levels

CHEST and Three Lakes Foundation collaborate to reduce delays in diagnosing Interstitial Lung Diseases

COVID-19 vaccine reduced the risk of hospitalizations in children during the Omicron period

Triage team members experience moral distress during a simulated crisis-care event

New study paves the way for first drug treatment for sleep apnea

Researchers publish consensus statement for the study of recalled experiences surrounding death

New standardized rounding tool reduces duration of mechanical ventilation for weaning patients

Pod-based e-cigarette use alters the inflammatory state across multiple organ systems

The Mount Sinai Hospital completes full renovation of its children's ED

A shortfall of ECMO treatment cost lives during the delta surge

Los Angeles’s injury rate for riders of e-scooters higher than the national rates for motorcycles

Examining hypomagnesemia in critically ill patients with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI)

New technique can reliably identify patients most likely to suffer post-surgery pain

Why nurses are raging and quitting after the Radonda Vaught verdict

Study finds decline in routine opioid dispensing after common pediatric surgeries

Nanotherapies may benefit preterm babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia

CDK6: a potential drug target for severe COVID-19

Using a new data-driven approach to understand more about people with Type 1 diabetes

Recovery of consciousness may take weeks for most COVID patients on respirators

High doses of antibiotic may safely and effectively treat TB meningitis

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