Critical Care
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DNRs affect residents’ patient care decisions
A trend among doctors ignoring the preferences of patients – especially those who may have DNRs but do not want to ignore other treatment options...
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Cutting back ICU antibiotics could significantly reduce MDRO transmissions
Multidrug-resistant organism transmission might be mitigated with just a modest reduction in antibiotic courses prescribed in ICU settings.
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Three factors linked to rhinovirus pneumonia in HCT patients
Higher levels of steroid use, a low white blood cell count, and a low monocyte count increased risk of lower rhinovirus respiratory tract...
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Dexmedetomidine improves sedation in sepsis
Use of dexmedetomidine improved sedation among ventilated patients with sepsis, but did not significantly cut mortality rates or increase...
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Norepinephrine shortage linked to mortality in patients with septic shock
A national shortage of norepinephrine in the United States was associated with higher rates of mortality among patients hospitalized with septic...
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Health care costs higher after prolonged ventilation
Depending on the duration of patients’ in-hospital mechanical ventilation, health care costs varied more than threefold over the next year.
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Corticosteroids reduce risks in elective extubation
Prophylactic corticosteroids before elective extubation could significantly reduce postextubation stridor and the incidence of reintubation in...
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Sarcoidosis doubles hospitalized infection risk
Sarcoidosis was associated with double the risk of hospitalization due to infection in a population-based cohort study that also found the use of...
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Small study: Drug combo achieves negative bacterial culture in all TB patients
SEATTLE – A three-drug combination of bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid achieved negative bacterial culture in all surviving patients at 4...
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Watch and wait often better than resecting in ground-glass opacities
The authors of a new long-term follow-up care study say higher detection rates of ground-glass opacity lesions should not necessarily equate with...
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Worse outcomes with video laryngoscopy in ICU
Video laryngoscopy, at least in the ICU, is no better than direct laryngoscopy, and in fact carries higher risks of life-threatening events.