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Value-Based Outcomes in Critical Care Recovery: The Voice of Relatives
In recent years, value-based healthcare has been endorsed by policymakers and clinical practice initiatives. Consequently, there is a need to engage patients and their relatives in identifying value and working jointly with professionals in new ways of delivering high-quality care. In this article, we present which value-based outcomes, here stated...
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Value-Based Critical Care
Value-based critical care is a transformative approach in intensive care that aims to improve patient outcomes while optimising resource utilisation and reducing unnecessary costs. It emphasises the delivery of the best possible care tailored to individual patient needs, while aligning clinical practice with outcomes that matter most to patients and...
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Palliative Care AI: Creation to ICU Implementation
Implementing an AI screening tool in our ICU for palliative care consults streamlined early alignment of treatment with patient goals, decreased futile interventions, and demonstrated scalable, value-based, patient-centric critical care delivery. Introduction This special edition of Value-Based Critical Care highlights innovative approaches...
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Making Paediatric and Neonatal Transport Safer
A five-dimensioned quality management plan has been developed to make the paediatric and neonatal transport safer in a family-centred care model. The goal is to move towards excellence in care. Introduction The Emergency Medical System (known in Spanish as the Sistema de Emergencias Médicas, SEM) is part of CatSalut, the Catalan Health...
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What if Patients or Families Are ‘One of Us’? Equity in Critical Care
When we clinicians find ourselves as critically ill patients or visiting family members, the dynamic changes. We often receive more detailed information, additional treatments, extended visiting hours, and other privileges. But is that truly fair? Introduction It is very stressful and challenging for both patients and families to be...
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Airway Management in Patients With Acute Traumatic Brain Injury: An Evidence-Based Approach
This review highlights airway management in traumatic brain injury, focusing on strategies to prevent secondary brain injury. Key interventions include advanced preoxygenation, haemodynamic stabilisation, cautious sedation, selective use of prehospital intubation or supraglottic devices, protective ventilation, and early antibiotic prophylaxis to...
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Traumatic Rhabdomyolysis in Critically Ill Patients: Current Concepts and Clinical Strategies
Traumatic rhabdomyolysis is a clinical and biochemical syndrome frequently encountered in the intensive care unit, characterised by skeletal muscle necrosis and the release of intracellular components such as myoglobin, creatine kinase, and electrolytes into the bloodstream. Trauma-induced muscle injury may result from crush injuries, compartment...
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Upcoming Events/Courses/Congresses
For a full listing of events visit https://iii.hm/icuevents2025 AUG 1-3 8th Annual Anesthesiology Update 2025 Michigan, USA https://iii.hm/1vzf 7-8 11th International Congress on Trauma, Critical Care & Emergency Medicine Paris, France https://iii.hm/1vzg 15-17 APICS 2025 – Asia Pacific Intensive...
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Upcoming Events/Courses/Congresses
For a full listing of events visit https://iii.hm/icuevents2025 MAY International Conference on Emergency Medicine 23-28 Montreal, Canada https://iii.hm/1uxi Euro-China Forum 2025 23-25 Changsha City, China https://iii.hm/1uxj 25-27 Euroanaesthesia 2025...
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Phosphate-Sparing Solution to Prevent Hypophosphataemia in Patients Undergoing CRRT
Phosphate-based solutions used during continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) significantly reduce the incidence of hypophosphataemia in critically ill patients. These solutions are safe, improve phosphate balance, and may shorten ICU stay and ventilation duration, though further multicentre trials are needed to confirm these benefits. ...
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