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Neurocritical Care (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - September 24, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Source Type: research
Voices of Pandemic Care: Perspectives from Pediatric Providers During the First SARS-CoV-2 Surge
Pediatric providers were called upon to care for adult patients well beyond their typical scope of practice during the first surge of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Here we share novel viewpoints and innovations from the perspective of providers, consultants and families. We will enumerate several of the challenges encountered, including the need to lead while supporting our teams, balancing competing responsibilities to children while caring for critically ill adult patients, preserving the model of interdisciplinary care, maintaining communication with families and finding meaning in work during this unprecedented crisis. (Sou...
Source: Critical Care Clinics - September 13, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Lisa Delsignore, Phoebe Yager, Kimberly Whalen, Jenna Pacheco, Tamara Vesel, Sara Ross Source Type: research
Global Critical Care: Innovation for the Sickest Patients Worldwide
Global critical care emphasizes and promotes the practice of critical care medicine worldwide, with consideration of the epidemiologic, resource, logistical, and health systems contexts in which different people live. This concept has been established for at least several decades. Although the first World Congress of Intensive Care Medicine held in 1973 drew delegates from only four countries, the group has grown to become the World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care, with membership from more than 85 critical care societies from across the globe. (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - August 26, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Kristina E. Rudd, Wangari Waweru-Siika Tags: Preface Source Type: research
Living on the Edge of Possibility
The birth, expansion, and sustenance of critical care medicine as a specialty have often presented ethical challenges and dilemmas to health care workers in diverse settings. In addition to critical services being provided at the extreme end of a disease process, they are often in limited supply. The authors present patterns of inception and development of this crucial service as they have witnessed in rural Africa. Furthermore, they present the ethical challenges, both typical and unique, as they have experienced them in a tertiary referral center in Kenya. (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - August 16, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Immaculate Kariuki-Barasa, Mary B. Adam Source Type: research
Critical Care Pandemic Preparation: Considerations and Lessons Learned From COVID-19
Pandemics, increases in disease incidence that affect multiple regions of the world, present huge challenges to healthcare systems and in particular to policy makers, public health authorities, clinicians and all healthcare workers. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of severely ill patients patients, many of whom who have required hospital and intensive care unit admission. The discipline of critical care is a vital and integral component of pandemic preparedness. Safe and effective critical care has the potential to improve outcomes, motivate individuals to seek timely medical attention, and attenuate ...
Source: Critical Care Clinics - July 10, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Mervyn Mer, Diptesh Aryal, Nathan D. Nielsen, Ary Serpa Neto, Bhavna Seth, Madiha Raees, Martin W. D ünser, Kristina E. Rudd Source Type: research
Oxygen as an Essential Medicine
Supplemental oxygen is an essential medication within critical care. The optimal oxygen dose delivery system remains unclear, however. The “dose” and “delivery” of oxygen carries significant importance for resource-limited settings such as low and middle-income countries (LMICs). LMICS often experience significant inequities in oxygen supply and demand with major impacts on preventable mortality. These inequities have been beco me particularly prominent during the global COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need for additional investment and research into the best methods to utilize supplemental oxygen and ensure st...
Source: Critical Care Clinics - June 29, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Matthew F. Mart, Cornelius Sendagire, E. Wesley Ely, Elisabeth Riviello, Theogene Twagirumugabe Source Type: research
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CRITICAL CARE CLINICS (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - June 4, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Michelle Ng Gong, Gregory S. Martin Source Type: research
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Source: Critical Care Clinics - June 4, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Source Type: research
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GREGORY S. MARTIN, MD, MSC (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - June 4, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Source Type: research
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Michelle Ng Gong and Gregory S. Martin (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - June 4, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Source Type: research
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Global Health and Critical Care Medicine (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - June 4, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Source Type: research
Rapid Exome and Genome Sequencing in the Intensive Care Unit
Rapid genomic sequencing has become a powerful diagnostic tool for critically ill children. Accumulated data support clinical utility. Advances in sequencing technology have improved reliability of rapid results and reduced turnaround times. Cost savings to health care institutions are not only the result of reduced sequencing charges (which have paralleled advances in sequencing technology), but also and more specifically have impact on diagnosis-specific medical management and reduced length of hospitalization. The use of genomic sequencing in critical care is still primarily limited to academic centers but will ultimate...
Source: Critical Care Clinics - April 1, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Michael Muriello, Donald Basel Source Type: research
All that Wheezes is not Asthma or Bronchiolitis
We describe several clinical entities that may present with wheezing and respiratory distress, calling attention to the broad differential that may masquerade as asthma or bronchiolitis, and potentially lead to misdiagnosis, delayed diagnosis, or inappropriate treatment. (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - April 1, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Erica Y. Chou, Barry J. Pelz, Asriani M. Chiu, Paula J. Soung Source Type: research
Undiagnosed and Rare Diseases in Critical Care
There have been major advances in the understanding of severe cutaneous adverse reactions (SCARs). Early recognition and withdrawal of culprit medications can decrease morbidity and mortality significantly. SCARs encompass a variety of entities that present with extensive mucocutaneous involvement and systemic symptoms, often requiring management in an intensive care setting. Physicians need to recognize SCARs early in their course, including drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, and toxic epidermal necrolysis, and their mimicking conditions. This review focuses on common and rare...
Source: Critical Care Clinics - April 1, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Bridget E. Shields, Karolyn A. Wanat, Yvonne E. Chiu Source Type: research
Uncommon Causes of Rhabdomyolysis
This article, however, will provide a general framework to manage any patient with this muscle disease. (Source: Critical Care Clinics)
Source: Critical Care Clinics - April 1, 2022 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Matthew Harmelink Source Type: research