Death Is Inevitable. It's Time We Learned to Talk About It. By fostering honest and compassionate discussions, we can provide patients with more dignity Aug 13, 2024
ABIM Revokes Two Doctors' Certifications Over COVID Comments Paul Marik, MD, and Pierre Kory, MD, no longer hold internal medicine certifications Aug 12, 2024
Trauma Patients Without Insurance Taken Off Life Support Sooner, Study Finds Clinicians must "uncomfortably" examine bias in life-and-death decisions, says expert Jul 24, 2024
Extended-Infusion Antibiotics Tied to Reduced Mortality From Bloodstream Infections Benefit limited to patients with severe illness or elevated minimum inhibitory concentrations Jul 04, 2024
Access to Pediatric Care Is Rapidly Eroding The health of future generations is at stake Jul 02, 2024
Antibiotic Overuse in Preemies' Early Life Tied to Higher Risk of BPD, Death Findings suggest that early-onset sepsis concerns in those at low risk could have consequences Jun 28, 2024
Are Higher Initial Oxygen Concentrations Better for Very Preterm Infants? Yes, meta-analysis suggests, but the findings need to be confirmed in larger studies Jun 26, 2024
In-Hospital Continuous Glucose Monitoring Can't Budge T2D Control Randomized trial failed to get anywhere near tight glucose control Jun 25, 2024
Cannabis Use Tied to Increased Risk of Severe COVID Hospitalization risk 80% higher versus nonusers Jun 21, 2024
SGLT2 Inhibitor No Help for ICU Patients With Acute Organ Dysfunction Secondary findings of trial only suggest a potential benefit in kidney protection Jun 14, 2024
PPI Prevents Upper GI Bleeds During Intubation, With No Effect on Mortality But expert still suggests the approach may not be appropriate for the most severely ill Jun 14, 2024
Liberal Blood Transfusion After Traumatic Brain Injury May Hold Benefit Trial didn't meet primary outcome, but functional independence scores were better Jun 13, 2024
Preoxygenation With Noninvasive Ventilation Led to Less Hypoxemia During Intubation Fewer critically ill adults had hypoxemia compared with preoxygenation with an oxygen mask Jun 13, 2024
Amino Acid Infusion Before Cardiac Surgery Reduced Acute Kidney Injury The amino acid mixture reduced stage 3 AKI by 44% compared with placebo Jun 12, 2024
Gastrointestinal Bleeding More Common in Advanced CKD Risk was significantly higher regardless of dialysis status May 19, 2024
PICU Use for Bronchiolitis Tied to 'Striking' Rise in Noninvasive Breathing Support Multiple factors appear to be behind jump in high-flow nasal cannula, noninvasive ventilation use May 16, 2024
Illness Took Away Her Voice. AI Created a Replica She Carries in Her Phone. OpenAI's new AI voice generator was able to replicate her voice using only a 15-second voice clip May 13, 2024
More Newborns Intubated on First Try With Video Laryngoscopy "Unusually high degree" of successful first attempts in trial, researchers say May 06, 2024
Azithromycin Fails to Ease Burden of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Preemies Targeting Ureaplasma colonization, lung inflammation with antibiotic doesn't pan out in trial May 02, 2024
New E. Coli Outbreak; How ECMO Redefines Death; A Step Closer to Universal Blood Health news and commentary gathered by Â鶹´«Ã½ staff May 01, 2024
No Best Nutrition Strategy for Most Preemies Waiting to Breastfeed Trial in moderate to late preterm infants comparing a variety of common methods finds no winner Apr 24, 2024
Too Ill for Typical Transplants, Woman Gets a Pig Kidney and Heart Pump Instead Surgery marks sixth human xenotransplant performed at NYU Langone Health Apr 24, 2024
High-Dose Vit A Fails Again for Serious Lung Disease in Premature Infants Another trial of enteral supplementation is unable to reduce bronchopulmonary dysplasia rates Apr 24, 2024
Revisiting the Boston Marathon Bombing a Decade Later Even now, the emergency still has important lessons to teach us Apr 19, 2024
Apnea Tied to Non-Invasive Ventilation in Hospitalized COVID Patients Booster vaccination blunted the risk, however Apr 09, 2024
Impella Pump Improves Survival in STEMI-Related Cardiogenic Shock First trial in a quarter-century to show mortality benefit in this desperately ill group Apr 09, 2024
Mobilizing ICU Patients May Not Affect Risk of Adverse Events, Death Implementing mobilization tied to a less than 3% risk of adverse events in meta-analysis Mar 21, 2024
Lower Oxygen Targets May Be Preferable for COVID Patients in the ICU More days alive and off life support with a PaO2 target of 60 mm Hg Mar 21, 2024
Weight-Based High-Flow Oxygen for Bronchiolitis May Reduce ICU Admissions A weight-based high-flow nasal cannula protocol tied to 6.1% decrease per year in ICU admission Mar 19, 2024
Algorithm May Help Determine Oxygen Targets for Mechanically Ventilated Adults If results are "true and generalizable, then the consequences are staggering," editorialist says Mar 19, 2024
AAAAI Roundup: Perioperative Assessment of Antibiotic Allergy With a Mobile App Plus, other selected poster presentations from the allergy meeting Mar 04, 2024
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 Â鶹´«Ã½ 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
