Survivors of intensive care unit admissions may have increased risk of self-harm and suicide
1. Patients with prior episodes of critical illness requiring ICU admission were found to have an elevated risk of suicide ...
Tag: intensive care
Time-limited trials may decrease the length of stay of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit
1. Time-limited trial interventions in patients with poor prognoses decreased length of stay in ICU, reduced minimally beneficial treatments, and ...
No mortality benefit found for hydroxychloroquine or tocilizumab for the treatment of COVID-19
1. Hydroxychloroquine use in hospitalized and tocilizumab use in ICU lab-positive COVID-19 patients were not been associated with decreased death. ...
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in SARS-CoV-2 infected children has poor outcomes
1. In this case series, SARS-CoV-2 infection in children leading to multisystem inflammatory syndrome often required intensive care. 2. Of ...
The 3 Wishes Project: a valuable program to improve end-of-life care
1. The 3 Wishes Project (3WP), which strives to provide humanistic care and honor the dignity of end-of-life (EOL) patients, ...
Large proportion of late preterm infants and older admitted to the NICU
1. Infants ≥ 34 weeks’ gestational age (GA) comprised 75% of the median proportions of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) ...
Palliative care consultation linked to lower deaths by failed code resuscitation
1. Among deaths at one, large children’s hospital, the most common mode of inpatient death was withdrawal of life sustaining ...
Family-support intervention does not significantly improve surrogates’ psychological symptoms: The PARTNER trial
1. Family-support intervention delivered by an interprofessional intensive care unit (ICU) team did not significantly reduce anxiety and depression among ...
ECMO for severe ARDS does not improve mortality
1. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) did not show a 60-day mortality benefit compared ...
Parental hopes for critically ill children are dynamic
1. The most commonly reported parental hopes for critically ill children fell within the domains of quality of life, concerns ...