Tag: Intensive Care

Online education and code simulation improves performance of intensive care unit nurses when responding to in-hospital cardiac arrests

If ICU bed use reached 75 percent capacity nationwide, an excess of 12,000 deaths would be expected two weeks later

Among COVID-19-positive adults, outcomes better for those with prior bariatric surgery versus those eligible for bariatric surgery

Measure indicating greater activity of IBD independently linked to ICU/ventilation/death and hospitalization among patients 50 years or younger

Review shows median age of 21 years, involvement of five organ systems, and presentation four weeks after COVID-19

For patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who are not critically ill, therapeutic-dose anticoagulation is beneficial

Peak reported in hospitalization, ICU admission, death, but decrease found in frequency of ICU admission, mechanical ventilation, vasopressor use

Increased in-hospital mortality for COVID-19 patients with schizophrenia versus those without severe mental illness

Faster progression to extubation does not increase risk for reintubation or other adverse events

Authors say there is need for increased attention to paternal mental health during infant NICU stay and after discharge to home