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Organ Donation After Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

2024 22 Jun

  With the global demand for organ transplants on the rise, the shortage of available organs has worsened, leaving the supply insufficient to meet the growing need. One way to address this crisis is to identify potential organ donors, particularly by screening for brain death in ICUs, especially after cardiac arrest.   Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary...Read more

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CENTER-TBI - Haemoglobin Values, Transfusion Practices, Outcomes

2024 19 Jun

  Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause lasting cognitive, motor, and emotional issues. Despite advances in emergency care and neurosurgery, the long-term effects of TBI remain challenging for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers.   Managing TBI focuses on preventing secondary brain injuries, which can develop hours to days...Read more

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Proton-Pump Inhibitors to Prevent Gastrointestinal Bleeding

2024 18 Jun

  A recent systematic review evaluated the effectiveness and safety of proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) for preventing stress ulcers in critically ill patients. The review included randomised trials that compared PPIs with placebo or no prophylaxis in critically ill adults. Meta-analyses were performed, and evidence was assessed using the Grading...Read more

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NIH Intervention to Reduce Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths

2024 16 Jun

  A National Institutes of Health’s HEALing (Helping to End Addiction Long-Term) Communities Study evaluated a data-driven intervention aimed at reducing opioid-related overdose deaths by engaging communities to implement evidence-based practices, such as increasing naloxone distribution and enhancing access to medication for opioid use disorder....Read more

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Machine Learning Alerts to Prevent Escalation of Care

2024 14 Jun

  Deploying and evaluating a machine learning intervention to improve clinical care and patient outcomes is a key step in moving clinical deterioration models from byte to bedside. A Mount Sinai study found that hospitalised patients were 43% more likely to have their care escalated and significantly less likely to die if their care team received...Read more

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Non-Invasive Technologies for Continuous Hemodynamic Monitoring in Clinical Use are on the Rise

2024 17 May

  The Executive Board of the German Society for Anesthesiology recently adopted a new guideline that addresses the intraoperative clinical application of hemodynamic monitoring in non-cardiac surgical patients. 1   Why continuous hemodynamic monitoring?   The aim of this special guideline was to identify the questions that are important...Read more

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Nova Biomedical New Generation StatStrip Glucose Hospital Meter Obtains FDA 510k Clearance

2024 15 May

  Nova Biomedical announces the U.S. launch of our New Generation StatStrip Glucose Hospital Meter System. The new meter includes many features that make hospital glucose testing easier and more cybersecure while retaining the accuracy, freedom from interferences, and FDA clearance for use with critically ill patients that StatStrip has provided...Read more

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Philips Announces Q1 Results Aligned with 2024 Plan, Settles Respironics Litigation for $1.1 Billion

2024 29 Apr

  First-quarter highlights   Group sales amounted to EUR 4.1 billion, with comparable sales growth of 2.4% Comparable order intake -3.8%, mainly due to China USD 1.1 billion Respironics litigation settlement reached in the US (provision recognized of EUR 982 million) Income from operations EUR -824 million, including...Read more

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Masimo Board of Directors Authorizes Management to Evaluate the Separation of Consumer Business

2024 22 Mar

  Masimo , a global leader in noninvasive monitoring technologies and audio products, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized management to evaluate a proposed separation of its consumer business. The Board and management will evaluate the proposed structure of the separation. Masimo expects that the separation will include its...Read more

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Shaping Kidney Care: Fresenius Medical Care 2023 Annual & Sustainability Report

2024 22 Mar

  Fresenius Medical Care delivers on commitments during a year of fundamental transformation Progress towards sustainability goals in key areas: patient satisfaction, diversity in management, climate target roadmap   Fresenius Medical Care (FME), the world’s leading provider of products and services for individuals with renal diseases,...Read more

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Pain Monitoring and Management in Intensive Care Unit: A Narrative Review

2024 17 May

  Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. Among patients admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), severe untreated pain is associated with an increase in mortality, length of hospital stays and worsening in everyday quality of life after hospital discharge. Pain in critically ill patients is more difficult to monitor...Read more

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How and Why We Should Monitor Dyspnoea in Mechanically Ventilated Patients

2024 17 May

  Dyspnoea is among the worst suffering that a human being can experience. Because mechanically ventilated patients are strongly exposed to high dyspnoea intensity, it is important that clinicians monitor dyspnoea in this population. Relieving dyspnoea in patients is a human right.   Suffocating, not getting enough air or the feeling...Read more

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The Hazards of Monitoring – Alarm Fatigue in the ICU

2024 17 May

Alarm fatigue is a pressing clinical problem in our post-pandemic ICUs and can adversely impact patient outcomes. Its root causes can be classified by patient, device and organisation related. We believe it can be mitigated and we propose interventions through attention to policy, education and the creation of a meaningful culture of safety....Read more

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Critical Care Monitoring: Time for Hospital-Wide Monitoring and Response Capabilities?

2024 17 May

  Physiological monitoring has a rich 200-year history. In this article, the authors look into the components of an ideal monitoring system and highlight how advancements in modern technology could enable the development of an effective continuous monitoring and response system.   The continuous monitoring of patient vital signs is a required...Read more

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Perioperative Cardiac Output Monitoring: From Yellow Catheters to Green Algorithms

2024 17 May

  We discuss the economic and environmental advantages of green pulse wave analysis (PWA) techniques and the integration of PWA algorithms into standard bedside monitors that will likely contribute to democratisation of perioperative cardiac output monitoring.   Haemodynamic instability frequently manifests during the perioperative course...Read more

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