Staph Infections Appear to Be More Deadly for Women Understanding reasons behind mortality gap is "of critical importance," study author says Feb 27, 2024
Acute Kidney Injury Outcomes Better When It's Due to COVID, Study Finds "Survivors of COVID-AKI appear to be a resilient population," say researchers Feb 26, 2024
FDA OKs Device for Pediatric Kidney Injury Due to Sepsis The device was granted a Humanitarian Device Exemption approval Feb 23, 2024
Wendy Williams' Dementia; 48% Back 16-Week Abortion Ban; Hospital Sues Quadriplegic Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 名媛直播 staff Feb 23, 2024
History of IBD Linked to Severe Outcomes in Patients Hospitalized for COVID IBD was associated with an increased risk of sepsis, shock, and acute kidney injury Feb 01, 2024
Pulse Oximeters Once Again in the Spotlight at FDA Advisory panel to discuss how to improve device accuracy for patients with darker skin Jan 31, 2024
Trial Backs Short Course of Antibiotics for Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Individualized treatment noninferior versus usual long-course treatment in the ICU Jan 26, 2024
Critical Care Guideline Changes Boost Corticosteroid Uses, Role of Families Corticosteroids, glycemic control, and clinical deterioration outside ICU addressed Jan 25, 2024
Can Targeting Normoxemia Benefit Critically Ill Trauma Patients? Strategy appeared to increase supplemental oxygen-free days Jan 24, 2024
Tailoring Drug Interaction Alerts to the ICU Reduced Number of High-Risk Combos Intervention reduced "alert fatigue" for clinicians Jan 23, 2024
Ceftriaxone Prevents Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia After Brain Injury Single-dose administered prophylactically associated with less pneumonia, mortality Jan 22, 2024
Newly Unveiled Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis Can Improve Diagnoses The Phoenix Sepsis Score was validated using encounters in higher- and lower-resource settings Jan 22, 2024
Switch to Oral Antibiotics Noninferior in Low-Risk Staph Bloodstream Infections Identifying "low risk" infections is tricky, experts say Jan 19, 2024
Go Vegetarian to Avoid COVID? Making Dialysis Centers Work Better Also in TTHealthWatch: diagnostic errors among hospitalized patients Jan 13, 2024 podcast
Pain, Impairment Linger Months After ECMO for Most Meta-analysis shows long-term functional and cognitive problems, neuropsychiatric symptoms Jan 11, 2024
Diagnostic Errors Common in Hospital Deaths, ICU Transfers, Study Suggests Mistakes were driven by patient assessment, testing, and often led to harm or death Jan 08, 2024
Hospitals Often Failed to Switch From IV to Oral Antibiotics in Eligible Patients Study shows only 43% of patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections were transitioned Jan 02, 2024
Mortality Reaches 20% for Hospitalized Patients With High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism Worst outcomes for patients with hemodynamic collapse Jan 01, 2024
Brain Impairment Persists at Least 18 Months After COVID Hospitalization Cognitive dysfunction similar to that seen in other illnesses of comparable severity Dec 28, 2023
Nirsevimab Reduced Hospitalizations for Infants With RSV Monoclonal antibody is highly effective, but in short supply Dec 27, 2023
Therapeutic Hypothermia May Not Benefit Cardiac Arrest Patients Mortality, functional outcomes similar to normothermia in patients with nonshockable rhythm Dec 21, 2023
Learning to Control Traumatic Hemorrhage Can Prevent Firearm Deaths Escalating gun violence necessitates widespread bystander response Dec 21, 2023
Giving Oropharyngeal Surfactant at Birth Is No Help to Preemies Increased rates of pneumothorax emerged among newborns treated prophylactically Dec 11, 2023
Conservative Oxygenation Outperforms Liberal Targets for Critically Ill Kids Oxy-PICU is the first randomized trial to compare different SpO2 targets in these patients Dec 05, 2023
Prone Positioning Falls Flat for Weaning COVID Patients Off ECMO Similar ECMO duration, mortality compared with supine position in randomized trial Dec 01, 2023
Safer to Hold Off on Intubating Comatose, Intoxicated Patients, Trial Finds French centers showed faster discharge, fewer adverse events Nov 29, 2023
Convalescent Plasma Improves Survival in COVID Patients With ARDS, New Trial Shows Might be one treatment option for the sickest of patients Oct 25, 2023
Antibiotic Combo for Acute Infection Cleared of Kidney Risk Use of cefepime meanwhile resulted in more neurological dysfunction Oct 16, 2023
Hemoglobin Targets a Good Idea for Massively Transfused Patients Outcomes improved with values approaching 10 g/dL Oct 16, 2023
'Yellow' Blood Products Come With VTE Risk, Study Finds Increased thrombosis, mortality when fresh frozen plasma is used in transfusions Oct 15, 2023
Cryoprecipitate, REBOA Flop for Improving Major Hemorrhage Outcomes The first randomized trials of both approaches failed Oct 13, 2023
ECMO Has Become a Harder Sell in Severe COVID-19 Studies show decreased use, cast doubt on clinical benefit Oct 13, 2023
ITP Drug Shows Benefit in Hospitalized COVID Patients Fostamatinib reduced time on supplemental oxygen, improved clinical status Oct 13, 2023
'Surprising' Contribution of Pulmonary Hypertension to ARDS Outcomes Coexisting conditions spell markedly poor clinical course Oct 12, 2023
Overdoing Blood Transfusions? JAMA Special Issue Shines a Light Also includes two negative trials in hemorrhage control Oct 12, 2023
AMA Too Woke? FDA Warns on Probiotics; Medicare Drug-Price Negotiation Moves Forward Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by 名媛直播 staff Oct 02, 2023
Primary Care Visits With NPs, PAs on the Rise; C. Diff in the Intensive Care Unit Also in TTHealthWatch: suicide risk among health workers Sep 30, 2023 podcast
