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    An up-to-date Literature Review about Edi and NAVA in infants and adul

    An up-to-date Literature Review about Edi and NAVA in infants and adults

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    Change Management: How to implement NAVA in your NICU

    Change Management: How to implement NAVA in your NICU

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    The Importance of Diaphragmatic Monitoring and Detecting Synchrony

    The Importance of Diaphragmatic Monitoring and Detecting Synchrony

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    Volume 22 - Issue 4, 2022

    • ICU
    • 14/10/2022

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  • Antibiotic Resistance

    Infections occur frequently in critically ill patients in the ICU. They may be the reason for admission and could also be due to immunosuppression associated with critical illness. Antibiotics are essential tools for treating both common and complex infections. It is recommended that antibiotics should be administered as soon as possible once an infection...

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  • Diagnostic Stewardship in Five Common Infectious Syndromes

    This article defines diagnostic stewardship and discusses how it can be implemented in intensive care units and how it may improve patient outcomes. Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an imminent threat to global health and has been accelerated by the inappropriate use of antimicrobials (Llor and Bjerrum 2014). Antimicrobial...

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  • Does Antimicrobial Resistance Affect Clinical Outcomes in the ICU?

    An overview of antimicrobial resistance and its impact on clinical outcomes in the ICU.  Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been defined as a major threat to healthcare and to humanity by the World Health Organization (WHO 2015). The level of evidence for the association between AMR and hospital deaths, hospital length of stay and healthcare-associated...

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  • Reducing Antibiotic Resistance in the ICU

    This article reviews practices currently available to reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance and novel therapies that are presently being developed. Introduction Among healthcare providers, and especially among those working with intensive care unit (ICU) patients, one of the greatest concerns that has emerged in recent decades has...

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  • Sepsis in Critical Care

    The importance of clearly defining sepsis, improving early recognition strategy, and increasing the understanding of innate and adaptive immune system derangements that facilitate the development of sepsis. The improvement in mortality outcomes of patients with sepsis is attributable to the early recognition of sepsis, better adherence to guidelines,...

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  • Upcoming events/courses/congresses

    OCTOBER 13-14  Sepsis 2022 - International Symposium on Infections in the Critically Ill Patient Barcelona, Spain https://iii.hm/1hvz 15-19  EUSEM Congress 2022 Berlin, Germany https://iii.hm/1g2g 17-18  BACCN Conference 2022 Belfast, Northern Ireland https://iii.hm/1hw0 21-25  ANESTHESIOLOGY...

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