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Why Intensivists Should Participate in Home Ventilation Teams
A historical review of the birth of intensive care medicine and home mechanical ventilation; and an opinion piece on the merits of intensivists participating in home ventilation care teams. T he world is currently reeling from the ravages of COVID-19. It is still too early to know how healthcare will be transformed as a result of this...
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Treatment of Catecholamine Refractory Hypotension in Septic Shock: Beyond First Line Vasopressor
Hypotension during septic shock is a strong indicator of patient outcome and mortality. Arginine vasopressin is a naturally produced human hormone with vasoconstriction effect via V1 receptor activation and a short 5-20 minutes half-life and is recommended by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines to be added as a second-line vasoactive agent when...
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Biomarkers and Their Impact in ICU Patient Outcomes
The laboratory plays a critical role in ensuring optimal outcomes for ICU patients. Several biomarkers are valuable in this context and can help clinicians achieve improved patient outcomes and decreased expenses for healthcare. I mproving both in-ICU and post-ICU clinical outcomes often depends on actions taken much sooner in a patient’s...
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The Post-ICU Patient
“The success of intensive care has not to be measured only by survival statistics, as though each death is a medical failure. It has to be measured by the quality of lives preserved or restored and by the quality of dying of those in whose interest is to die.” This statement of G. R. Dunstan, Prof. of Morals and Social Theology, dating back to 1995,...
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Continuous Monitoring Beyond the ICU - The Rise of Mobile Solutions
Post-ICU patients are at high-risk of clinical deterioration. Continuous and mobile monitoring on hospital wards is useful to detect clinical deterioration at an early stage. It may help to prevent serious adverse events and ICU readmission. M ost patients discharged from ICUs are old and have co-morbidities. Even when they are young...
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Post-Intensive Care Syndrome - A Necessary Harm in the Critically Ill?
Critically ill patients can develop a series of complications due to ICU risk factors that may lead to permanent disability. The implementation of strategies to reduce its incidence is essential. N owadays, the possibilities of survival of critically ill patients have grown due to technological and medical advances. This leads to...
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The Post-ICU Patient
N umerous patients are admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) every year. Many of these critically ill patients receive multiple interventions to treat and manage acute conditions and prevent further deterioration. However, these treatments can often affect a patient's mind and body. That is why many ICU survivors, as they transition out of the...
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Agenda
JANUARY 11 NEUROINTENSIVE CARE: Update 2021 – 4th edition Online course https://iii.hm/161x FEBRUARY 31-12 SCCM – 50th Critical Care Congress Virtual conference https://iii.hm/161y MARCH 19-20 2020 World Critical Care and Anesthesiology Conference Bangkok, Thailand https://iii.hm/161z...
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ICU Management & Practice 2020 Subject Index
Issues/Pages Volume 20, Issue 1 1-98 https://iii.hm/137h Volume 20, Issue 2 99-153 https://iii.hm/14eo &nbs
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ICU Management & Practice 2020 Author Index
Aeyels D 20 https://iii.hm/137p Aleksandrova N 20 https://iii.hm/137p Algethamy H 305https://iii.hm/164t Allan C 313https://iii.hm/164x Alves Cunha AL 66 https://iii.hm/138a Amomed Pharma 16 https://iii.hm/137n, 106 https://iii.hm/14cm, 265https://iii.hm/164a Amrein K 214 https://iii.hm/14tp Antonelli 257https://iii.hm/164d...
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