• Bringing Back the Forgotten Piece: Family Empowerment in the Care of the Critically Ill Patient

    This article aims to address patient-family-centred care programmes, starting from their origins and discussing new protocols.     Critically ill patients entail a great complexity of care. ICU staff has focused on their care, with family members and surrogates put aside for decades. In recent years, we are witnessing a paradigm shift...

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  • The Internet & Rise of AI in CCM: Opportunities, Threats and the Practitioner-Patient Relationship

    This article explores how pervasive and persuasive the internet is in current critical care practice, offers insights into how healthcare professionals, patients and fami­lies can critically appraise where information comes from and its content producers and discusses the opportunities and threats posed by AI on the physicians/team-patient/family...

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  • ICU Management & Practice 2023 Subject Index

    Issues/Pages Volume 23, Issue 1 1-50 https://iii.hm/1jqh Volume 23, Issue 2 49-100 https://iii.hm/1k3i Volume 23, Issue 3 101-138 https://iii.hm/1kzj Volume 23, Issue 4 139-189 https://iii.hm/1mwh Volume 23, Issue 5 190-230 https://iii.hm/1nhu     Subject index   Airway Management...

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  • ICU Management & Practice 2023 Author Index

    Abella-Álvarez AM 175 https://iii.hm/1mwz Alava FM 44 https://iii.hm/1jr4 Alcaraz AR 195  https://iii.hm/1nho Alshamsi I 95 https://iii.hm/1k9x Areny-Balagueró A 6 https://iii.hm/1jqk Arriaga-Morales E 207 https://iii.hm/1nmi Badewien C 42 https://iii.hm/1jr2 Baid H 110 https://iii.hm/1kzr Bajaña I 25 https://iii.hm/1jqq...

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  • Artificial Intelligence in the ICU

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in healthcare, and its application in critical care is no exception. AI technologies can potentially enhance patient care, improve clinical outcomes, and streamline healthcare operations in the ICU.     There are numerous ways in which AI can be effectively utilised in the ICU....

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  • Towards Artificial Intelligence as a Decision Support Tool to Combat AMR in the ICU

    Ongoing research and challenges regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to leverage data and identify complex interactions to address antimicrobial resistance in the ICU.     The possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically, machine learning (ML), are being researched across almost all domains...

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  • Cardiovascular Management in Sepsis: Improving Cardiac and Vascular Functions

    Vasopressin and landiolol are critical therapies for ensuring the vascular and cardiac systems are as close to optimal conditions as possible during septic shock. Better cardiovascular management in septic shock can help improve septic shock management.     Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response...

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  • Applying International Sepsis Guidelines by Screening High-Risk Hospitalised Patients With PSP

    Hospital and ICU nosocomial sepsis screening for acutely ill and high-risk patients and daily measurement of PSP to diagnose nosocomial sepsis three to five days before the onset of symptoms.     Introduction Sepsis is a major public health threat and is responsible for 11 million deaths per year (Rudd et al. 2020) among 48.9 million cases....

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  • Individualisation of Mechanical Ventilation in Obstructive Lung Disease: Not All Patients Have ARDS

    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are pathologies par excellence with an obstructive pattern. It is important to understand the fundamentals of mechanical ventilation management in these patients. Therefore, it is crucial to perform proper measurement of respiratory mechanics in patients with obstructive pathology     Introduction...

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  • Mechanical Power for Protective Mechanical Ventilation in Patients With and Without ARDS

    Mechanical power is an easy bedside tool to guide lung protective ventilation, as it is an index of the energy load applied to the lung during mechanical ventilation and expresses in one formula all the main determinants of ventilator-induced lung injury. Although a threshold value has not already been defined, a mechanical power greater than 17...

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