Critically ill patients who recover from a potentially deadly syndrome known as acute lung injury frequently emerge with new, apparently long-lasting depressive symptoms and new physical impairments that make them unable to perform many daily tasks, Johns Hopkins research suggests. Results of the new study, published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, […]
Withdrawal of life-sustaining support and withholding lifesaving measures (such as CPR) appear to be the primary modes of infant deaths in a neonatal intensive care unit, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The research was carried out by Julie Weiner, D.O., […]
Surrogate decision-makers faced with the difficult task of overseeing loved ones’ medical care may find help thanks to a new decision aid aimed at patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation. According to a study conducted by researchers in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Washington who developed and tested the aid, surrogates reported the aid significantly improved the […]
Contracting an acute illness means an abrupt turn from everyday life to intensive care where one’s life is at stake. Surrounding the illness is traditional knowledge derived from the natural sciences, yet for the affected it means experiences of an existential nature that health care personnel do not possess the knowledge to treat. This is […]
Severely injured patients transported by helicopter from the scene of an accident are more likely to survive than patients brought to trauma centers by ground ambulance, according to a new study published in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. The study is the first to examine the role of helicopter transport on […]
While a much hailed communication intervention works for families making decisions for chronically-ill loved ones in medical intensive care units (ICU), Case Western Reserve University researchers found the intervention was less effective for patients on surgical and neurological ICUs.
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