Critical Care
Review: Management of refractory variceal bleed in cirrhosis.
20 May, 2022 | 10:36h | UTC
Systematic Review | Post-stroke dysphagia: prognosis and treatment.
20 May, 2022 | 10:33h | UTC
Integrating palliative care into the ICU: a lasting and developing legacy.
19 May, 2022 | 10:52h | UTCIntegrating palliative care into the ICU: a lasting and developing legacy – Intensive Care Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
Palliative care in #ICU, 3 recommendations
1️⃣ implement consensus & disseminate skills/training
2️⃣ identify & implement strategies to identify pts/families who would benefit most
3️⃣ deliver/integrate primary/specialty palliative care focused on function
🖇 https://t.co/jtnYotNMgJ pic.twitter.com/Ga4J9tpRdx— Intensive Care Medicine (@yourICM) May 17, 2022
Palliative care: An update for internists.
19 May, 2022 | 10:33h | UTCPalliative care: An update for internists – Cleveland Clinical Journal of Medicine
When to start vasopressin in septic shock: the strategy we propose.
19 May, 2022 | 10:21h | UTCWhen to start vasopressin in septic shock: the strategy we propose – Critical Care
AHA/ASA Guideline: Management of patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.
18 May, 2022 | 12:01h | UTCTop Things to Know: 2022 Guideline for the Management of Patients With Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage – American Heart Association
News Release: New guideline refines care for brain bleeds: compression socks, some meds not effective – American Heart Association
Commentary on Twitter
Released today: Guidelines for treating spontaneous ICH
Includes:
➡️ Acute reversal of anticoagulation after ICH
➡️Updates to common interventions
➡️Minimally invasive surgical recommendations✍️ @SMGreenbergNeur @WendyZiai
📍 @StrokeAHA_ASA https://t.co/6YQ2TLy3NW pic.twitter.com/y93qQGCmfV
— AHA Science (@AHAScience) May 17, 2022
Non-pharmacological interventions for minimizing physical restraints use in intensive care units: an umbrella review.
18 May, 2022 | 10:55h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Minimizing restraints in ICU: umbrella review incl 47 systematic reviews identified non-pharmacological interventions (education, mobilization), reducing duration of MV, and pain management as effective, but evidence is limited https://t.co/6rAu3jH5B4
— Peter Nydahl (@NydahlPeter) May 17, 2022
Guideline Synopsis: Antithrombotic therapy for venous thromboembolism.
17 May, 2022 | 11:12h | UTCAntithrombotic Therapy for Venous Thromboembolism – JAMA (free for a limited period)
Original Guideline: Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease
Second Update of the CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report
Clinical update on COVID-19 for the emergency clinician: Cardiac arrest in the out-of-hospital and in-hospital settings.
17 May, 2022 | 11:05h | UTCRelated:
Cohort Study: Venous or arterial thrombosis and deaths among COVID-19 cases.
17 May, 2022 | 11:02h | UTCInvited Commentary: Risk of arterial and venous thromboses after COVID-19 – The Lancet Infectious Diseases
News Release: COVID-19’s high blood clot risk – University of Oxford
Commentary on Twitter
Clots with Covid: Multi-national report of over 900,000 people indicates propensity of risk for arterial and venous thrombi is in men, with increasing age, and association with fatalities (4-fold in non-hospitalized) https://t.co/muGnDld4Um pic.twitter.com/6bLiHPLInm
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 13, 2022
Under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license
RECOVERY Trial: Due to safety concerns, recruitment to higher dose corticosteroids closed for patients with hypoxia on no oxygen or receiving simple oxygen.
17 May, 2022 | 11:04h | UTC
Cohort Study: The risk of death or unplanned readmission after discharge from a COVID-19 hospitalization.
17 May, 2022 | 11:01h | UTCCommentary: Study: Readmission rate for COVID-19 is 11% – CIDRAP
M-A: Prevalence and prognostic value of preexisting sarcopenia in patients with mechanical ventilation.
17 May, 2022 | 10:27h | UTC
RCT: Effect of awake prone positioning on endotracheal intubation in patients with COVID-19 and acute respiratory failure.
16 May, 2022 | 02:37h | UTCRelated:
RCT: Prone positioning of patients with moderate hypoxia due to COVID-19 – medRxiv
Commentary on Twitter
In this trial, in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure from #COVID19, prone positioning, compared with usual care without prone positioning, did not significantly reduce endotracheal intubation at 30 days. https://t.co/1RyYRtcrYj
— JAMA (@JAMA_current) May 15, 2022
RCT: Comparison of 8 versus 15 days of antibiotic therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults.
16 May, 2022 | 02:30h | UTCComparison of 8 versus 15 days of antibiotic therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults: a randomized, controlled, open-label trial – Intensive Care Medicine (free article here)
Commentary on Twitter
🧫 8 vs 15 days ABT for Pseudomonas aeruginosa VAP in adults, iDIAPASON RCT: no differences in composite or separate outcomes (90-day mortality/VAP recurrence) between short & long duration treatment.
📢 @yourICM ground-breaking release #LIVES40 #FOAMcc
🖇 https://t.co/LfoUWxCkkl pic.twitter.com/XaWkQ5R6wT— Intensive Care Medicine (@yourICM) May 13, 2022
International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound.
16 May, 2022 | 02:20h | UTCInternational evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound – Intensive Care Medicine (if the link is paywalled, try this one)
Molecular diagnostics in severe pneumonia: a new dawn or false promise?
16 May, 2022 | 01:43h | UTCMolecular diagnostics in severe pneumonia: a new dawn or false promise? – Intensive Care Medicine
Commentary on Twitter
Pneumonia? no gold standard diagnosis available, likely resulting in overtreatment. Molecular diagnostics more widely available even if interpretation/use complex, requiring to take into account data/characteristics when making decisions based on these.
📎 https://t.co/mae0vxBfkF pic.twitter.com/bbkxGLEumN— Intensive Care Medicine (@yourICM) May 14, 2022
Review of thoracic imaging manifestations of COVID-19 and other pathologic Coronaviruses.
13 May, 2022 | 11:36h | UTC
IDSA updates guidelines on the treatment and management of patients with COVID-19.
13 May, 2022 | 11:35h | UTC
Review: Comfort during non-invasive ventilation.
12 May, 2022 | 08:07h | UTCComfort During Non-invasive Ventilation – Frontiers in Medicine
Review: Mucus clearance strategies in mechanically ventilated patients.
12 May, 2022 | 08:06h | UTCMucus Clearance Strategies in Mechanically Ventilated Patients – Frontiers in Physiology
International consensus recommendations for anesthetic and intensive care management of lung transplantation.
11 May, 2022 | 11:09h | UTC
Metabolic Alkalosis Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment: Core Curriculum 2022.
10 May, 2022 | 11:31h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Metabolic Alkalosis Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment: Core Curriculum 2022https://t.co/5ujfpBDwBz (FREE) pic.twitter.com/e1RvYVAzC8
— AJKD (@AJKDonline) May 8, 2022
Podcast: Inpatient Covid Management.
10 May, 2022 | 11:03h | UTC#332 Inpatient Covid Management with Dr. Nathan Erdmann. – The Curbsiders
Timing of invasive strategy in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
9 May, 2022 | 01:52h | UTC
Commentary on Twitter
Timing of invasive management of NSTE-ACS: is the time up for early management?
Timing of invasive strategy in #NSTEMI : a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialshttps://t.co/XD074Lh94S @ESC_Journals @escardio @mmamas1973 @ALEX_MISCHIE @AnkurKalraMD @HeartOTXHeartMD pic.twitter.com/0XekZqvJop
— Henry Han (@HanCardiomd) May 6, 2022
Under a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ license