Retrospective study describes injury patterns and tetanus vaccination practices in Hangzhou trauma patients
A Simple Tetanus Shot Gap Is Putting Thousands at Risk
A retrospective cross-sectional study of 2,825 trauma and animal-injury patients receiving tetanus vaccination in Sandun Town, Hangzhou, fou…
A widespread oversight in emergency care is leaving patients with routine wounds vulnerable to a serious infection.
AI applications in acute care showed potential but face significant implementation challenges
AI Is Quietly Changing How ERs Save Lives. Here’s How
This narrative review examined artificial intelligence (AI) applications in patients within emergency departments and intensive care units.
Artificial intelligence is moving into emergency rooms to help doctors spot life-threatening problems faster, but it’s not ready to run the …
Mini-review examines operational definitions for precision perioperative AI applications
AI Is Quietly Changing Surgery. Here’s What That Means for You
A narrative mini-review of perioperative AI applications found they span preoperative risk stratification, intraoperative monitoring, and po…
Artificial intelligence is moving from the lab into operating rooms, helping to make surgery safer and more personalized at every step.
Meta-analysis identifies clinical signs associated with sepsis and mortality in young infants
Which signs in a newborn's cry or feeding best warn of life-threatening infection?
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 52 studies including 140,885 young infants in resource-limited settings found 16 clinical signs sig…
A weak cry, poor feeding, or a drowsy baby are the top five signs linked to life-threatening infection and death in newborns under two month…
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…