Predicting Long-Term Complications After Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Disease
Sepsis is the most commonly identified risk factor for acute kidney injury (AKI), according to...
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Photographing Patients
As phones turned into cameras, HIPAA created national standards to protect a patient’s sensitive health information, including their image, from being disclosed without consent. We can capture anything easily…but are we allowed...
Mechanical Power Variation Rate Is Risk Factor for ICU Mortality
The 24-hour mechanical power (MP) variation rate is an independent risk factor for ICU mortality among patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) with elevated MP, according to a study published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine. To...
Obesity May Up ICU LOS, Mortality for Patients With COVID-19
High BMI is associated with a higher risk for death and prolonged length of stay (LOS) in the ICU among patients with COVID-19, according to a study published in PLOS ONE. Researchers used data from the Swedish Intensive Care...
Integrity in Medicine
It takes a special person to care for people during their most vulnerable states, to keep intimate...
In Conspiracy We Trust
There are increasing calls to discipline or de-credential doctors who are spreading anti-vaccine, anti-mask, and other pandemic misinformation. While statistics show that 96% of US physicians are vaccinated, a handful repeatedly...
COVID-19 Vaccines Prevent Critical Care Visits in High-Risk Populations
COVID-19 vaccines are eff ective against SARSCoV-2 infection requiring hospitalization, ICU admission, and emergency department (ED) or urgent care clinic visits, even in populations disproportionately aff ected by SARS-CoV-2...
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Severe Influenza-Associated Disease
Racial and ethnic disparities exist in the rates of severe influenza-associated disease among US...
Assessing MRSA Risk in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Who Warrants Empiric Therapy?
Data showing an increase in prevalence of MRSA and other multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) infections in ICU patients suggests that antimicrobial resistance continues to increase in this population As a measure of...
Our Healthcare System May Be Failing, But It Isn’t Broken
I ’ve stood in front of conferences before and made my case: Our healthcare system is per- fect. “A perfect system? Ours?” I’ll hear people murmuring, “He’s a little bit crazy.” For decades, critics of the US healthcare system...
Women Have Higher Illness Severity Scores than Men at ICU Admission
Women tend to have higher illness severity scores at ICU admission, according to a study published in the Journal of Critical Care. Women also appear to have higher risk-adjusted mortality than men at ICU discharge and at 1...
