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Gender in the ICU
G ender inequity in critical care medicine remains a pressing issue as the representation of women and minorities continues to be lowest in this specialty. Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership roles and senior positions. Whether it is overall compensation, lucrative opportunities, recipients of research funding, lead authors and editors,...
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Diversity and Equality During COVID-19: The World Series
Looking at gender, bias and equality through the lens of the COVID-19 crisis and its potential for broad and lasting effects and addressing how this unprecedented situation can be a chance for interaction, learning and the development of best practices, such as developing work structures that could be continued in our post-pandemic future....
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Male Sex - An Independent Risk Factor for Mortality in Very Old Intensive Care Patients
Among 1,841 very old ICU patients with respiratory failure, although women had higher age and frailty, males had higher 30-day mortality assessed one month after ICU admission. Particularly in light of the ongoing pandemic, male patients appear to be at significantly higher risk for worse outcomes than females. Introduction Demographic...
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Working in the Pandemic and Preserving Diversity
The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and communities of colour and the need for diversity among healthcare workers and public health leaders. Introduction D iversity is the condition of having many different elements. These may include people with different opinions, backgrounds (degrees and social experience), religious...
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Sex, Lies and COVID-19
An overview of the impact of gender on the severity of illness, impact and outcomes of COVID-19. T he human coronaviruses (HCoVs) includ e two alpha-CoVs (HCoV-229E and HCoV-NL63) and five beta-coronaviruses (HCoV-OC43, HCoV-HKU1, severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV [SARS-CoV], Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV [MERS-CoV], and most recently ...
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Sex in the Intensive Care
Change content default valueSex interplays with the development of several diseases and syndromes, impacting differently the need for intensive care unit admission between men and women. All in all, men are more prone to develop critical illness than women, which explains their over-representation in the intensive care unit. On the other hand, treatments...
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“Help! My Patient Has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy”
How should you handle a chronic ventilator user admitted to your ICU with acute critical illness? A personal observation and reflection on how to handle a chronic ventilator user and suggestions to smoothen the sojourn of the next chronic ventilator user through an ICU, while ensuring maximal dignity and maintenance of function; minimising...
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Should Families Be Allowed To Visit Dying COVID-19 Patients in the ICU?
COVID-19 has drastically changed how end-of-life care is practiced in the intensive care unit. Safety concerns for society limits family visitation but is contrary to patient and family-oriented care. This article provides an ethical analysis of the pros and cons of having family members present at the death of a COVID-19 positive ICU patient and...
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Agenda
SEPTEMBER 1-5 17th World Congress of Anaesthesiologists WCA 2021 Virtual event https://iii.hm/1biq 5-8 ERS International Congress 2021 - European Respiratory Society Virtual event https://iii.hm/1bir 8-10 European Society of Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA) Congress 2021 Virtual event https://iii.hm/1bis...
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Oxygen Therapy in COVID-19 Patients: The Role of HFNC and CPAP
Oxygen therapy and mechanical ventilation in patients with COVID-19 and steps to choose the right therapeutic strategy for each patient. Introduction Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus CoV-2 is the highly contagious viral agent responsible for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 is the name of the syndrome caused by SARS-CoV-2...
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