Early supplemental parenteral nutrition may reduce ventilation time and ICU stay in older underfed ICU patients
Early nutrition support linked to shorter ICU stays for older patients on ventilators
A randomized trial in 92 older ICU patients requiring mechanical ventilation and achieving <50% of enteral nutrition targets found that earl…
Starting IV nutrition on day three instead of day seven helped older ICU patients on breathing machines spend less time on ventilators and i…
Socioeconomic factors associated with increased mortality in adults with sepsis or septic shock
Study finds poverty and lack of insurance linked to higher death rates from sepsis
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 13 observational studies involving 3,951,677 adults with sepsis or septic shock found that several …
Poverty and lack of private insurance are linked to higher death rates from sepsis, affecting nearly 4 million adults in a major review.
Neostigmine infusion in septic shock linked to lower TNF-alpha and 28-day mortality in single-center RCT
Neostigmine infusion linked to lower inflammation and mortality in septic shock trial
A single-center randomized controlled trial in adult ICU patients with septic shock compared a 5-day neostigmine infusion (0.2 mg/hr) to pla…
Septic shock patients receiving neostigmine showed lower inflammation, better organ scores, and fewer deaths compared to those on placebo in…
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…