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  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • A 39-year-old man with hip pain and respiratory failure. 
  • A 9-Year retrospective review of antibiotic cycling in a surgical intensive care unit. 
  • A Comparative Analysis of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Guideline Development Methodologies. 
  • A Quality Improvement Project to Increase Adherence to a Pain, Agitation, and Delirium Protocol in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • A comparison of 3% hypertonic saline and mannitol for brain relaxation during elective supratentorial brain tumor surgery. 
  • A cost-minimization analysis of dexmedetomidine compared with midazolam for long-term sedation in the intensive care unit. 
  • A few of our favorite unconfirmed ideas. 
  • A multicenter mortality prediction model for patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation. 
  • A new forum for health services research in critical care medicine. 
  • A new surgical monitoring and resuscitation cart. 
  • A noninvasive hemoglobin monitor in the pediatric intensive care unit. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • A randomized evaluation of bispectral index-augmented sedation assessment in neurological patients. 
  • A randomized, open-label study of the safety and tolerability of fospropofol for patients requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit. 
  • A reliable and cost-effective neonatal aminoglycoside administration system. 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction). 
  • ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction: executive summary. A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction). 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Intensive Care Unit Patients. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Intensive Care Unit Patients. 
  • AKI Treated with Renal Replacement Therapy in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19. 
  • ATS Core Curriculum 2014: Part II. Adult critical care medicine. 
  • Accuracy of references in three critical care nursing journals. 
  • Acquired thrombotic risk factors in the critical care setting. 
  • Acute decompensated heart failure patients admitted to critical care units: insights from ASCEND-HF. 
  • Acute decompensation after removing a central line: practical approaches to increasing safety in the intensive care unit. 
  • Acute pancreatitis and fulminant hepatic failure. 
  • Adherence to ventilator-associated pneumonia bundle and incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Admission cell free DNA levels predict 28-day mortality in patients with severe sepsis in intensive care. 
  • After Action Reviews. 
  • Aggressive versus conservative initiation of antimicrobial treatment in critically ill surgical patients with suspected intensive-care-unit-acquired infection: a quasi-experimental, before and after observational cohort study. 
  • Allocating Resources Across the Life Span During COVID-19-Integrating Neonates and Children Into Crisis Standards of Care Protocols. 
  • Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community. 
  • American College of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Parameters for Hemodynamic Support of Pediatric and Neonatal Septic Shock. 
  • An Education-Based Text Messaging Program to Improve Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice Related to Nosocomial Infections in Intensive Care Settings. 
  • An Online Curriculum in the PICU-Do You Have Plans Tonight? 
  • An analysis of time and staff utilization for open versus percutaneous tracheostomies. 
  • An official American Thoracic Society statement: Treatment of fungal infections in adult pulmonary and critical care patients. 
  • Analgesia in the surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Antidepressant Use and Depressive Symptoms in Intensive Care Unit Survivors. 
  • Are pediatric critical care medicine fellowships teaching and evaluating communication and professionalism? 
  • Are two (inexperienced) heads better than one (experienced) head? Averaging house officers' prognostic judgments for critically ill patients. 
  • Are we creating survivors…or victims in critical care? Delivering targeted nutrition to improve outcomes. 
  • Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. 
  • Assessing the comparative value of sedatives in the intensive care unit. 
  • Assessment of out-of-hospital resuscitation. 
  • Associations Between Day of Admission and Day of Surgery on Outcome and Resource Utilization in Infants With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Who Underwent Stage I Palliation (from the Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial). 
  • Attitudes and knowledge of nurses regarding organ procurement. 
  • Battlefield to Bedside: Bringing Precision Medicine to Surgical Care. 
  • Benzodiazepines in the intensive care unit. 
  • Biases in the measurement of arterial pressure. 
  • Brain resuscitation in the drowning victim. 
  • Brainstem dysfunction as a predictor of death in the nonneurologically injured. 
  • Burnout in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellows. 
  • COCATS 4 Task Force 13: Training in Critical Care Cardiology. 
  • COVID-19 and Disruptive Modifications to Cardiac Critical Care Delivery: JACC Review Topic of the Week. 
  • COVID-19: Mobilizing Quickly for a Rapid Response. 
  • Cardiology and the critical care crisis: a perspective. 
  • Cardiovascular Critical Care: A Perceived Deficiency Among U.S. Trainees. 
  • Case 6-2011: Aortic valve replacement in a patient with aortic stenosis, dilated cardiomyopathy, and renal dysfunction. 
  • Case study: heart transplantation--increased incidence of acute rejection in female recipients. 
  • Cerebral aneurysms: mechanisms of injury and critical care interventions. 
  • Changes in Payment Regulation and Acute Care Use for Total Hip Replacement: Trends in Length of Stay, Costs, and Discharge, 1997-2012. 
  • Changes in comorbidities, diagnoses, therapies and outcomes in a contemporary cardiac intensive care unit population. 
  • Changing physician behavior: a review of patient safety in critical care medicine. 
  • Choice of fluid in acute illness: what should be given? An international consensus. 
  • Chronic critical illness. 
  • Chronic critical illness: the growing challenge to health care. 
  • Cimetidine versus antacids in the prevention of stress erosions in critically ill patients. 
  • Clinical course and outcome predictors of critically ill infants with complete DiGeorge anomaly following thymus transplantation. 
  • Clinical evidence of early acute lung injury often precedes the diagnosis of ALI. 
  • Clinical outcomes and need for intensive care after non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction. 
  • Clinical practice guidelines for the maintenance of patient physical safety in the intensive care unit: use of restraining therapies--American College of Critical Care Medicine Task Force 2001-2002. 
  • Clinical review: Optimizing enteral nutrition for critically ill patients--a simple data-driven formula. 
  • Clinical year in review I: quality improvement for pulmonary and critical care medicine, lung transplantation, rehabilitation for pulmonary and critically ill patients, and sleep medicine. 
  • Cognitive and physical rehabilitation of intensive care unit survivors: results of the RETURN randomized controlled pilot investigation. 
  • Commentary: Meaningful partnership with our intensive care medicine colleagues-The time is now. 
  • Comparison of Pediatric Severe Sepsis Managed in U.S. and European ICUs. 
  • Comparison of the response of saline tonometry and an automated gas tonometry device to a change in CO2. 
  • Consensus statement on continuous EEG in critically ill adults and children, part I: indications. 
  • Consensus statement on continuous EEG in critically ill adults and children, part II: personnel, technical specifications, and clinical practice. 
  • Consideration of adult critical care training for emergency physicians. 
  • Continuous High-Frequency Oscillation Therapy in Invasively Ventilated Pediatric Subjects in the Critical Care Setting. 
  • Continuous and intermittent CSF diversion after subarachnoid hemorrhage: a pilot study. 
  • Continuous arteriovenous hemodialysis: effect of dialyzer geometry. 
  • Continuous intravenous cimetidine decreases stress-related upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage without promoting pneumonia. 
  • Conventional and Unconventional Lifesaving Therapies in an Adolescent With Amlodipine Ingestion. 
  • Converting i.v. nitroglycerin therapy to nitroglycerin ointment therapy: a comparison of two methods. 
  • Coping as a Multifaceted Construct: Associations With Psychological Outcomes Among Family Members of Mechanical Ventilation Survivors. 
  • Cost analysis of aprotinin for coronary artery bypass patients: analysis of the randomized trials. 
  • Counterpoint: Are the best patient outcomes achieved when ICU bundles are rigorously adhered to? No. 
  • Critical Care Air Transport Team severe traumatic brain injury short-term outcomes during flight for Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. 
  • Critical Care Resource Utilization and Outcomes of Children With Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Critical Care in the Military Health System: A Survey-Based Summary of Critical Care Services 
  • Critical Update on the Third Edition of the Guidelines for Managing Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children. 
  • Critical care aspects of lung transplantation. 
  • Critical care cardiology research: a call to action. 
  • Critical care nursing education at the baccalaureate level. 
  • Critical care nursing education at the baccalaureate level: study of employment and job satisfaction. 
  • Critical care perspective on immunotherapy in lung transplantation. 
  • Critical thinking, critical practice. 
  • Current teaching and evaluation methods in critical care medicine: has the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education affected how we practice and teach in the intensive care unit? 
  • Dealing with "Difficult" Patients and Families: Making a Case for Trauma-informed Care in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Defining leadership competencies for pediatric critical care fellows: Results of a national needs assessment. 
  • Defining the Role of Dexmedetomidine in the Prevention of Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Delirium monitoring and patient outcomes in a general intensive care unit. 
  • Demand-flow airway pressure release ventilation as a partial ventilatory support mode: comparison with synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation and pressure support ventilation. 
  • Developing a Research Agenda for Integrating Palliative Care into Critical Care and Pulmonary Practice To Improve Patient and Family Outcomes. 
  • Developing a Tool to Assess Placement of Central Venous Catheters in Pediatrics Patients. 
  • Developing physician-scientists in the fields of neonatology and pediatric critical care medicine: an effort to formulate a departmental policy. 
  • Development and Feasibility Testing of a Critical Care EEG Monitoring Database for Standardized Clinical Reporting and Multicenter Collaborative Research. 
  • Development and Validation of a Mortality Prediction Model for Patients Receiving 14 Days of Mechanical Ventilation. 
  • Development and preliminary assessment of a critical care ultrasound course in an adult pulmonary and critical care fellowship program. 
  • Development of a web-based, specialty specific portfolio. 
  • Dexmedetomidine for the treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome: rationale and current status of research. 
  • Diagnosing and managing unstable angina. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. 
  • Diarrhea. 
  • Diarrhea: applying research to bedside practice. 
  • Diffusing an Innovation: Clinician Perceptions of Continuous Predictive Analytics Monitoring in Intensive Care. 
  • Discrepant attitudes about teamwork among critical care nurses and physicians. 
  • Early, goal-directed mobilisation in the surgical intensive care unit: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Economic Outcomes of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation With and Without Ambulation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation. 
  • Educational program in crisis management for cardiac surgery teams including high realism simulation. 
  • Effect of neuromuscular blockers and opiates on the cerebrovascular response to endotracheal suctioning in adults with severe head injuries. 
  • Effective cohorting and "superisolation" in a single intensive care unit in response to an outbreak of diverse multi-drug-resistant organisms. 
  • Effectiveness of a critical care nursing course: preparing students for practice in critical care. 
  • Effects of nursing interventions on intracranial pressure. 
  • Efficacy and Safety of Glutamine-supplemented Parenteral Nutrition in Surgical ICU Patients: An American Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19-Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study. 
  • Elevation of pulmonary artery pressure as a sign of pulmonary barotrauma (pneumothorax). 
  • Elevations in blood lactate: overview of use in critical care. 
  • End-stage renal disease and intensive care unit prognosis: are current tools good enough? 
  • Engaging Survivors of Critical Illness in Health Care Assessment and Policy Development. Ethical and Practical Complexities. 
  • Engaging nurses in patient safety. 
  • Engaging research partners to advance clinical inquiry. 
  • Enhancing & Mobilizing the POtential for Wellness & Emotional Resilience (EMPOWER) among Surrogate Decision-Makers of ICU Patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Enteral Nutrition Can Be Given to Patients on Vasopressors. 
  • Enteral fish oil in critical illness: perspectives and systematic review. 
  • Enterovirus D68 Infection in an Adult. 
  • Epidemiology and Characteristics of Neurosurgical Conditions at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 
  • Epidemiology, pathophysiology and clinical presentation of gram-negative sepsis. 
  • Establishing the Knowledge and Skills Necessary in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: A Systematic Approach to Practice Analysis. 
  • Evaluating Endotracheal Tube Depth in Infants Weighing Less Than 1 Kilogram. 
  • Evaluation and management of the atrial fibrillation patient: a report from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care. 
  • Evaluation of a life support module used for air transport of critically ill infants. 
  • Evaluation of an evidence-based, nurse-driven checklist to prevent hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections in intensive care units. 
  • Evaluation of the effect of the modified early warning system on the nurse-led activation of the rapid response system. 
  • Evidence-based assessments in the ventilator discontinuation process. 
  • Evolution of critical care cardiology: transformation of the cardiovascular intensive care unit and the emerging need for new medical staffing and training models: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Expanding Faculty Development of Teaching Skills: A National Needs Assessment of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Faculty. 
  • Exploring the impact of augmenting sedation assessment with physiologic monitors. 
  • Exploring the vagueness of Religion & Spirituality in complex pediatric decision-making: a qualitative study. 
  • Facilitating palliative care referrals in the intensive care unit: a pilot project. 
  • Family Presence During Pediatric Tracheal Intubations. 
  • Finding the optimal combination therapy for the treatment of newly diagnosed AML in older patients unfit for intensive therapy. 
  • Fiscal implications of newborn screening in the diagnosis of severe combined immunodeficiency. 
  • Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis reduces febrile neutropenia, bloodstream infections from mucosal translocations, and intensive care admissions in high risk hematological patients, a single center experience. 
  • From Coronary Care Units to Cardiac Intensive Care Units: Recommendations for Organizational, Staffing, and Educational Transformation. 
  • Gastrointestinal dysfunction in the critically ill: nutritional implications. 
  • Global Survey of Outcomes of Neurocritical Care Patients: Analysis of the PRINCE Study Part 2. 
  • Global patient outcomes after elective surgery: prospective cohort study in 27 low-, middle- and high-income countries. 
  • Glutamine Supplementation in Parenteral Nutrition and Intensive Care Unit Patients: Are We Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater? 
  • Health Care Professionals' Responses to Religious or Spiritual Statements by Surrogate Decision Makers During Goals-of-Care Discussions. 
  • Healthcare Resource Availability, Quality of Care, and Acute Ischemic Stroke Outcomes. 
  • Heart sound simulation: how useful for critical care nurses? 
  • Heat loss prevention for preterm infants in the delivery room. 
  • Hemicraniectomy and durotomy upon deterioration from infarction-related swelling trial: randomized pilot clinical trial. 
  • Hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients. 
  • Hemodynamic monitoring in the critically ill patient: overview of symposium. 
  • Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: A Review for Cardiac Anesthesiologists and Intensivists. 
  • High-frequency ventilation. 
  • High-risk maternal and neonatal transport: psychosocial implications for practice. 
  • Hospital acquired pressure injury prediction in surgical critical care patients. 
  • Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Development Among Surgical Critical Care Patients Admitted With Community-Acquired Pressure Injury: A Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • How to assess critical thinking in clinical practice. 
  • Hyperammonemia in the ICU. 
  • Impact of High-Dose Prophylactic Anticoagulation in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia. 
  • Impact of integrated graphical display on expert and novice diagnostic performance in critical care. 
  • Impact of percutaneous coronary intervention performance reporting on cardiac resuscitation centers: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. 
  • Impact of restarting home neuropsychiatric medications on sedation outcomes in medical intensive care unit patients. 
  • Implementation of antibiotic rotation protocol improves antibiotic susceptibility profile in a surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Implementing a hybrid web-based curriculum for an elective medical student clerkship in a busy surgical intensive care unit (ICU): effect on test and satisfaction scores. 
  • Importance of intravenous fluid dose and composition in surgical ICU patients. 
  • Improvements in pulmonary and general critical care reduces mortality following ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Improving acute coronary syndrome care: the ACC/AHA guidelines and critical pathways. 
  • In reply. 
  • Incidence and Risk Factors for Intensive Care Unit-related Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Veterans and Civilians. 
  • Incorporating Interprofessional Evidenced-Based Sepsis Simulation Education for Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) and Licensed Care Providers Within Long-term Care Settings for Process and Quality Improvement. 
  • Increased risk of deep venous thrombosis with endovascular cooling in patients with traumatic head injury. 
  • Indications for tracheotomy in the pediatric intensive care unit population: a pilot study. 
  • Indirect calorimetry in critical illness: a new standard of care? 
  • Infections caused by multidrug resistant organisms are not associated with overall, all-cause mortality in the surgical intensive care unit: the 20,000 foot view. 
  • Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Influence of Single-Dose Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Early-Onset Pneumonia in High-Risk Intubated Patients. 
  • Influence of the initial level of consciousness on early, goal-directed mobilization: a post hoc analysis. 
  • Informing Healthcare Decisions with Observational Research Assessing Causal Effect. An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement. 
  • Inhaled nitric oxide to improve oxygenation for safe critical care transport of adults with severe hypoxemia. 
  • Insights in pediatric ventilation: timing of intubation, ventilatory strategies, and weaning. 
  • Integrating Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit. Evidence Gaps and Quality Gaps. 
  • Intensification of Medication Therapy for Cardiorenal Syndrome in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure. 
  • Intensive Care Clinicians' Views on the Role of Chaplains. 
  • Intensive Care Outcomes and Mortality Prediction at a National Referral Hospital in Western Kenya. 
  • Intensive Care Unit Management of the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease. 
  • Intensive insulin therapy in the neurocritical care setting is associated with poor clinical outcomes. 
  • Intensive management and treatment of severe Guillain-Barré syndrome. 
  • Intensive management of severe head injury. 
  • Interdisciplinary Care Model Independently Decreases Use of Critical Care Services After Corrective Surgery for Adult Degenerative Scoliosis. 
  • Intraosseous infusions: a review for the anesthesiologist with a focus on pediatric use. 
  • Intravenous fluids in sepsis: what to use and what to avoid. 
  • Intravenous starches: is suspension the best solution? 
  • Intravenous ziprasidone for treatment of delirium in the intensive care unit. 
  • Introduction to "A Compendium of Strategies To Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 updates". 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • Job satisfaction among critical care preceptors. 
  • Lessons Learned From Web- and Social Media-Based Educational Initiatives by Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Societies. 
  • Maintaining quality of care 24/7 in a nontrauma surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Management of cardiogenic shock. 
  • Managing new oral anticoagulants in the perioperative and intensive care unit setting. 
  • Measurement of quality and assurance of safety in the critically ill. 
  • Mechanical ventilation in an airborne epidemic. 
  • Medical and economic implications of prolonged mechanical ventilation and expedited post-acute care. 
  • Medical complications of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a report of the multicenter, cooperative aneurysm study. Participants of the Multicenter Cooperative Aneurysm Study. 
  • Medicare prospective payment and the use of medical technologies in hospitals. 
  • Meta-analysis of high- versus low-chloride content in perioperative and critical care fluid resuscitation. 
  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Critical Illness: Implications for Nutritional Therapy. 
  • Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: Complications and Rehabilitation Strategies. 
  • Multidisciplinary team partnerships to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes: the Kybele experience. 
  • Multisociety task force recommendations of competencies in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 
  • Muscle mass and physical recovery in ICU: innovations for targeting of nutrition and exercise. 
  • Near-infrared spectroscopy. Clinical applications. 
  • Neural Control of Inflammation: Implications for Perioperative and Critical Care. 
  • Neurocritical care monitoring correlates with neuropathology in a swine model of pediatric traumatic brain injury. 
  • Neurologic intensive care unit monitoring. 
  • New Persistent Opioid Use After Postoperative Intensive Care in US Veterans. 
  • New developments in cardiovascular adrenergic receptor pharmacology: molecular mechanisms and clinical relevance. 
  • Newborn clinical outcomes of the AWHONN late preterm infant research-based practice project. 
  • Newly Proposed Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy Precedes International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Overt-Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation and Predicts High Mortality. 
  • Not by the books. 
  • Novel displays of patient information in critical care settings: a systematic review. 
  • Nutrition Therapy in Sepsis. 
  • Nutrition assessment of the critically ill adult. 
  • Nutrition therapy and critical illness: practical guidance for the ICU, post-ICU, and long-term convalescence phases. 
  • Nutritional pharmacology in surgery and critical care: 'you must unlearn what you have learned'. 
  • Nutritional support in the critically ill elderly patient. 
  • Obstetric Anesthesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Operationalizing the Measuring What Matters Spirituality Quality Metric in a Population of Hospitalized, Critically Ill Patients and Their Family Members. 
  • Organ donation and treatment of the multi-organ donor. 
  • Orthopaedic trauma for the general orthopaedist: avoiding problems and pitfalls in treatment. 
  • Our favorite unproven ideas for future critical care. 
  • Overcoming challenges to enteral nutrition delivery in critical care. 
  • PROPHETIC: Prospective Identification of Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients in the ICU. 
  • Parenteral glutamine supplementation in critical illness: a systematic review. 
  • Patient Blood Management: Recommendations From the 2018 Frankfurt Consensus Conference. 
  • Patient characteristics and critical care workflow affect paging frequency in neurocritical care. 
  • Patient information organization in the intensive care setting: expert knowledge elicitation with card sorting methods. 
  • Patient-centered Outcomes Research in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. 
  • Pediatric acute respiratory failure: areas of debate in the pediatric critical care setting. 
  • Pediatric workforce: a look at pediatric critical care medicine data from the American Board of Pediatrics. 
  • Percutaneous tracheostomy for long-term ventilated COVID-19-patients: rationale and first clinical-safe for all-experience. 
  • Performance of Consultative Palliative Care Model in Achieving Quality Metrics in the ICU. 
  • Performance-enhancing sports supplements: role in critical care. 
  • Perioperative anesthetic management for Cesarean section of a parturient with gestational diabetes insipidus. 
  • Pharmacological considerations in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults in the intensive care unit. 
  • Physician attire in the intensive care unit in Japan influences visitors' perception of care. 
  • Physiology and regulation. Ionized calcium, magnesium and lactate measurements in critical care settings. 
  • Point-Counterpoint: Indirect Calorimetry Is Essential for Optimal Nutrition Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Post-Intensive Care Unit Psychiatric Comorbidity and Quality of Life. 
  • Practice recommendations in the diagnosis, management, and prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning. 
  • Precision diagnosis: a view of the clinical decision support systems (CDSS) landscape through the lens of critical care. 
  • Predicting proper endotracheal tube placement in underexposed radiographs: tangent line of the aortic arch. 
  • Predictors of extraventricular drain-associated bacterial ventriculitis. 
  • Prevention of Critical Care Complications in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit: Protocols, Bundles, and Insights From Intensive Care Studies. 
  • Probiotic and synbiotic therapy in the critically ill: State of the art. 
  • Professionalism and Communication Education in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: The Learner Perspective. 
  • Prognosis of patients with cirrhosis and chronic liver disease admitted to the medical intensive care unit. 
  • Project CAPE: a high-fidelity, in situ simulation program to increase Critical Access Hospital Emergency Department provider comfort with seriously ill pediatric patients. 
  • Promoters and Barriers to Implementation of Tracheal Intubation Airway Safety Bundle: A Mixed-Method Analysis. 
  • Pulmonary Artery Catheter Consensus conference: consensus statement. 
  • Pulmonary embolism complicating barbiturate overdose. 
  • Pulse oximetry in critical care scoring systems. 
  • Quiet time: a nursing intervention to promote sleep in neurocritical care units. 
  • Racial differences in hospice use and patterns of care after enrollment in hospice among Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure. 
  • Racial variation in initial stroke severity. 
  • Radiographic and Clinical Predictors of Cardiac Dysfunction Following Isolated Traumatic Brain Injury. 
  • Radiographic recognition of pneumothorax in the intensive care unit. 
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Negative Pressure Ventilation: We First Need a National Patient Registry. 
  • Real-time application of continuous 12-lead ST-segment monitoring: 3 case studies. 
  • Rebuttal from Dr Marik et al. 
  • Reducing the Reported Mortality Index Within a Neurocritical Care Unit Through Documentation and Coding Accuracy. 
  • Reforming nursing education for future practice. 
  • Reply: Critical Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Is It Ready for Prime Time? 
  • Resource use in the last 6 months of life among medicare beneficiaries with heart failure, 2000-2007. 
  • Respiratory controversies in the critical care setting. Conference summary. 
  • Respiratory controversies in the critical care setting. Part I. 
  • Response to the 'Consensus Statement of the Working Group on Roman Catholic Approaches to Determining Appropriate Critical Care'. 
  • Restoring Pulmonary and Sleep Services as the COVID-19 Pandemic Lessens. From an Association of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Division Directors and American Thoracic Society-coordinated Task Force. 
  • Review article: perioperative checklist methodologies. 
  • Review of the 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia: practice improvement. 
  • Rib Fracture Location Should Be Evaluated When Predicting Morbidity and Mortality in Trauma Patients. 
  • Risk Score to Predict Need for Intensive Care in Initially Hemodynamically Stable Adults With Non-ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. 
  • Risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia: comparing adult critical-care populations. 
  • Role of Critical Care Medicine Training in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit: Survey Responses From Dual Certified Critical Care Cardiologists. 
  • Role of L-glutamine in critical illness: new insights. 
  • Satisfaction with a new model of professional practice in critical care. 
  • Scientific and Standardization Committee communication: Clinical guidance on the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of venous thromboembolism in hospitalized patients with COVID-19. 
  • Searching for "the dying point:" providers' experiences with palliative care in pediatric acute care. 
  • Sedation and subglottic stenosis in critically ill children. 
  • Sepsis-induced disseminated intravascular coagulation, symmetrical peripheral gangrene, and amputations. 
  • Setting the vision: applied patient-reported outcomes and smart, connected digital healthcare systems to improve patient-centered outcomes prediction in critical illness. 
  • Seven unconfirmed ideas to improve future ICU practice. 
  • Should Pediatric Patients Be Prioritized When Rationing Life-Saving Treatments During COVID-19 Pandemic. 
  • Sidebar: Serious Illness Care for Children and Adolescents in North Carolina. 
  • Simulation for Skills-based Education in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 
  • Society of Critical Care Medicine's International Consensus Conference on Prediction and Identification of Long-Term Impairments After Critical Illness. 
  • Spatial methods for evaluating critical care and trauma transport: A scoping review. 
  • Spiritual Care Providers and Goals-of-Care Discussions--Reply. 
  • Spirituality, Palliative Care, and the Intensive Care Unit. A New Approach. 
  • Standard subcutaneous dosing of unfractionated heparin for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis in surgical ICU patients leads to subtherapeutic factor Xa inhibition. 
  • Statins and delirium during critical illness: a multicenter, prospective cohort study. 
  • Stevens-Johnson Syndrome/Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: A Multicenter Retrospective Study of 377 Adult Patients from the United States. 
  • Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent surgical site infections in acute care hospitals. 
  • Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia in acute care hospitals. 
  • Stress reduction for pediatric intensive care nurses. 
  • Structured Documentation of Home Ventilator Settings in Children: A Quality Improvement Project. 
  • Students' knowledge and perceptions of critical care nursing. 
  • Study of educational experiences, support, and job satisfaction among critical care nurse preceptors. 
  • Study of educational experiences, support, and job satisfaction among critical care nurse preceptors. 
  • Successful Identification of Anatomical Markers and Placement of Feeding Tubes in Critically Ill Patients via Camera-Assisted Technology with Real-Time Video Guidance. 
  • Supplemental Parenteral Nutrition: Review of the Literature and Current Nutrition Guidelines. 
  • Survey of anesthesiologists practicing in American neurointensive care units as neurointensivists. 
  • Survey of in-house coverage by pediatric intensivists: characterization of 24/7 in-hospital pediatric critical care faculty coverage*. 
  • Surviving critical illness: acute respiratory distress syndrome as experienced by patients and their caregivers. 
  • Symptomatic Avascular Necrosis: An Understudied Risk Factor for Acute Care Utilization by Patients with SCD. 
  • Temperature monitoring. 
  • The "other" intensive care unit. 
  • The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education proposed work hour regulations. 
  • The American College of Critical Care Medicine Clinical Practice Parameters for Hemodynamic Support of Pediatric and Neonatal Septic Shock: Executive Summary. 
  • The CRIT Study: Anemia and blood transfusion in the critically ill--current clinical practice in the United States. 
  • The Fierce Urgency of Now: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Serious Illness Care. 
  • The Future of Neurocritical Care Research: Proceedings and Recommendations from the Fifth Neurocritical Care Research Network Conference. 
  • The GENESIS project (GENeralized Early Sepsis Intervention Strategies): a multicenter quality improvement collaborative. 
  • The Genesis, Maturation, and Future of Critical Care Cardiology. 
  • The ICU chest film. Cardiopulmonary monitoring and assist devices. 
  • The Patient and Family Member Experience of Financial Stress Related to Critical Illness. 
  • The Treatment of Metabolic Acidosis: An Interactive Case-Based Learning Activity. 
  • The Voice of Surrogate Decision-Makers. Family Responses to Prognostic Information in Chronic Critical Illness. 
  • The Worldwide End-of-Life Practice for Patients in Intensive Care Units Study: Adding Africa. 
  • The Year in Cardiothoracic Critical Care: Selected Highlights From 2016. 
  • The Year in Cardiothoracic Critical Care: Selected Highlights From 2017. 
  • The authors reply. 
  • The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement. 
  • The effects of protocolized use of recombinant factor VIIa within a massive transfusion protocol in a civilian level I trauma center. 
  • The endotracheal tube air leak test does not predict extubation outcome in critically ill pediatric patients. 
  • The evolution of nutrition in critical care: how much, how soon? 
  • The glutamine debate in surgery and critical care. 
  • The glutamine story: where are we now? 
  • The impact of bispectral index monitoring on rates of propofol administration. 
  • The impact of super-spreader cities, highways, and intensive care availability in the early stages of the COVID-19 epidemic in Brazil. 
  • The limited reliability of the Ramsay scale. 
  • The structure of critical care transfer networks. 
  • The struggle for intensive care coverage of patients with hepatobiliary malignancies in Greece: Patients are not numbers. 
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  • Transfusion in Ischemic Heart Disease: Correlation, Confounding, and Confusion. 
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  • Using ClinicalTrials.gov to understand the state of clinical research in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. 
  • Utility of Functional Hemodynamics and Echocardiography to Aid Diagnosis and Management of Shock. 
  • Utilization of Quantitative EEG Trends for Critical Care Continuous EEG Monitoring: A Survey of Neurophysiologists. 
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  • Worldwide Organization of Neurocritical Care: Results from the PRINCE Study Part 1. 
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  • Bettger, Janet Prvu, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Duke Science & Society
  • Ginsberg, Zachary, Medical Instructor in the Department of Surgery, Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery
  • James, Michael Lucas, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Jones, Derek, Affiliate, Office of Research Informatics
  • Jordan, Joseph Dedrick, Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery
  • Joshi, Sangeeta Prabhakar, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Krishnamoorthy, Vijay, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
  • Kussin, Peter Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
  • Laskowitz, Daniel Todd, Professor of Neurology, Duke Science & Society
  • Lee, Walter T, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Radiation Oncology
  • Levy, Jerrold Henry, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • Moody, James, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke
  • Moretti, Eugene William, Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Nursing
  • Olson, Steven Arthur, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Raghunathan, Karthik, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, VA Anesthesiology Service
  • Turner, David Ashley, Consulting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
  • Wischmeyer, Paul Edmund, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine
  • Wong, An-Kwok Ian, Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine