Nurse-led sedation protocols reduce mortality and delirium in mechanically ventilated ICU patients
Nurse-led sedation protocols in intensive care may reduce patient mortality and complications
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 16 RCTs involving 1,887 mechanically ventilated ICU patients found nurse-led sedation protocols sig…
Nurse-led sedation protocols in intensive care significantly reduce patient death, confusion, and hospital stay length for those on breathin…
Early nutritional support nursing interventions reduce mechanical ventilation and hospital stay in critical cardiac surgery patients
Early Nutrition Support May Shorten Hospital Stays After Heart Surgery
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated early nutritional support nursing interventions in 1846 patients undergoing critical card…
Early nutrition support after heart surgery cuts hospital stays and reduces time on breathing machines for patients recovering from critical…
Video call-assisted dispatcher guidance improves CPR quality metrics in simulation study of untrained students
Can a video call help someone save a life when they've never learned CPR?
A randomized, single-blind, manikin-based trial with 85 university students without prior CPR training found video call-assisted dispatcher …
A video call where a dispatcher demonstrates CPR on a manikin helped untrained students perform deeper compressions with fewer pauses than a…
Video laryngoscopes improve success rates and reduce dental compression compared with direct laryngoscopes in pediatric cardiac arrest simulations
When saving a child's life, does the camera on the tube make a difference?
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated 13 simulation-based studies involving 2,080 intubation attempts on pediatric manikins.
In simulated emergencies, tools with cameras helped doctors place breathing tubes faster and more often than older tools.
Prehospital point-of-care blood gas analysis associated with higher ambulatory treatment and admission rates in adult EMS patients
Prehospital blood gas tests linked to higher treatment rates and transport in German EMS
This retrospective pilot cohort study evaluated adult emergency patients in Jena, Germany, comparing those receiving prehospital blood gas a…
German emergency physicians treating patients on scene with a quick blood test saw admission rates nearly double compared to those without t…
In adult ED encounters, clinician engagement with EHR-based SDOH data was rare but higher in opioid use disorder cases
Did reviewing social data in the ER actually change how doctors treated opioid use disorder patients?
This cross-sectional study of 17,103 adult emergency department encounters examined clinician engagement with electronic health record-based…
Doctors reviewed social data more often for opioid use disorder patients, yet this action did not increase medication treatments or fix raci…
Multi-component environmental control intervention shows feasibility for sleep promotion in ventilated ICU patients
Small pilot study tests sleep environment intervention for ventilated ICU patients
A pilot randomized controlled trial in 17 mechanically ventilated ICU patients with minimal sedation assessed the feasibility of a multi-com…
A small Chilean ICU study shows that dynamic lights, sound masking, and grouped care checks are feasible ways to help ventilated patients sl…
Supraglottic airway versus endotracheal intubation shows no overall survival benefit in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Study finds airway device choice doesn't change survival after cardiac arrest outside hospitals
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 14,797 patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest found no significant difference in return of sp…
Paramedics saving people whose hearts stop outside hospitals find no survival benefit from complex breathing tubes versus simpler airway dev…
Meta-analysis finds diaphragmatic atrophy and weakness in critically ill patients on ventilation or with sepsis
Why do critically ill patients struggle to breathe on their own? Their diaphragm muscles shrink and weaken
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 187 critically ill patients requiring mechanical ventilation or with sepsis found diaphragmatic fib…
Critically ill patients on ventilators have diaphragm muscles that are 30% smaller and dramatically weaker than normal, explaining their str…
Liposomal bupivacaine, nerve blocks compared to lidocaine for skin graft donor site pain in burn patients
What's the best way to ease pain after skin graft surgery for burn patients?
A two-phase study (RCT and prospective cohort) in 74 burn patients with <20% TBSA burns compared liposomal bupivacaine injection and preoper…
Burn patients with minor injuries face intense donor site pain after skin graft surgery, but doctors haven't yet reported which numbing meth…
PDCA Cycle Intervention Improves Critical Value Management Rate in Primary Healthcare Institutions
Study finds quality improvement program boosts critical lab result handling in clinics
A prospective multicenter cohort study using interrupted time series analysis in 62 primary healthcare institutions in Jiangsu Province foun…
A structured quality program boosted critical lab result handling rates from 93.8% to 98.9% across 62 clinics in Jiangsu Province, China.
Higher baseline chondroitin sulfate predicts greater mortality benefit from restrictive fluid strategy in sepsis
Blood marker may help predict which sepsis patients benefit from less fluid
A biomarker analysis within an RCT of 574 patients with sepsis-associated hypotension found that higher baseline plasma chondroitin sulfate …
A blood marker may help doctors decide which sepsis patients benefit most from receiving less intravenous fluid during treatment.