High performance ventilation during transport – critical patients require diagnostic testing outside of the ICU. The Evita Infinity V500 is capable of maintaining high level therapy outside of ...

France: In non-COPD patients at high risk of extubation failure, prophylactic noninvasive ventilation (NIV) alternating with ...

A lung-protective ventilation strategy requires optimal ... do not provide a continuous picture of the patient's pulmonary function. Without continuous regional information, the assessment of ...

Background and setting: A general mixed surgical intensive care unit in a university hospital; all doctors and nurses in the unit; all adult patients (>18 years) treated by intermittent positive ...

In this article, we assess the evidence on pain management and sedation strategies in the ICU, the importance of these strategies for patient outcomes in the ICU and after discharge, landmark studies ...

A nine-year-old boy, Sritej, remains critically injured and on ventilator support after a stampede in Hyderabad on December 4 ...

Nevertheless, these were high-risk patients in a highly monitored ... 0.001 Mechanical ventilation within 48 h of ICU admission, n (%) 136 (96) 323 (92) 0.185 Vasopressors within 48 h of ICU ...

Initiating oseltamivir on the same day as hospital admission reduced the risk for severe clinical outcomes in adults ...

A Critical Care Rehabilitation Coordinator and Clinical Academic Nurse at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) has been awarded ‘Best Abstract’ at this year’s British Association of ...

Compared with noninvasive ventilation, high-flow nasal oxygen met prespecified criteria for noninferiority for the primary outcome of endotracheal intubation or death within 7 days in 4 of the 5 ...

A good critical care course will concentrate on this simplicity in explaining how all critical patients are managed by balancing the diagnosis with the needs of airway, ventilation, blood pressure ...