Explore the latest in critical care medicine, including management of respiratory failure, sepsis, HAI prevention, end-of-life care, and more.
This substudy of the Danish-German (DanGer) Shock randomized clinical trial investigates if the use of a microaxial flow pump reduces the need for pharmacological support and what the effects are on hemodynamics and lactate clearance in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction–induced cardiogenic shock.
This cross-sectional study examines the potential association of novel respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) prevention strategies with pediatric intensive care unit utilization among children younger than 18 years of age.
This JAMA Clinical Guidelines Synopsis summarizes the Wilderness Medical Society’s 2024 recommendations on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of acute altitude illness.
This cross-sectional study examines morbidity and mortality in older racially and ethnically minoritized patients with sepsis who were hospitalized during the COVID-19 pandemic at various states of hospital burden.
This cohort study evaluates whether shared decision-making–aligned communication is associated with prognostic misunderstanding between physicians and surrogates of adult patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).
This cohort study examines the associations of neurologic recovery at hospital discharge after cardiac arrest with long-term survival among patients with in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Sweden.
This parallel cluster randomized clinical trial examines the effect of daily multidisciplinary rounds conducted via telemedicine by a board-certified intensivist on length of stay in the intensive care unit in critically ill adult patients in Brazil.
This randomized clinical trial compares the effects of screening frequency (once-daily vs more frequent screening) and spontaneous breathing trial techniques (pressure-supported vs T-piece spontaneous breathing trial) on the time to successful extubation among critically ill adults who required invasive mechanical ventilation.
This cross-sectional study evaluates the performance of surgical risk-prediction models trained on risk-specific cohorts among inpatient surgeries performed at 2 Florida hospitals.
This nationwide cohort study evaluates the effectiveness of a quality improvement intervention to improve inpatient advance care planning by assessing billing rates and changes in treatment plans and patient outcomes.
This randomized clinical trial assesses the role of antitachycardia pacing in terminating fast ventricular tachycardia in primary prevention patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators with contemporary programming.
This Viewpoint discusses pragmatic trials and their role in developing new knowledge that can be broadly applicable throughout the health care system.
This cohort study assesses the incidence of and compares factors associated with in-hospital and postdischarge mortality and sequelae among patients with epidermal necrolysis.
This randomized clinical trial follows up extremely preterm infants treated at birth with a high-frequency oscillatory ventilation just before surfactant administration technique vs the standard intubate-surfactant-extubate technique to examine outcomes at corrected postnatal age 2 years.
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