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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 Multicenter Randomized Trial of a Checklist for Endotracheal Intubation of Critically Ill Adults. 
  • 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 multi-institutional high-fidelity simulation "boot camp" orientation and training program for first year pediatric critical care fellows. 
  • 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. 
  • A response to 'Consent for observational studies in critical care: time to open Pandora's box', Reade MC, Young JD, Anaesthesia 2003; 58: 1-3. 
  • 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). 
  • ATS Core Curriculum 2014: Part II. Adult critical care medicine. 
  • ATS Core Curriculum 2017: Part III. Adult Critical Care Medicine. 
  • Abnormal gastric tonometric variables and vasoconstrictor use after left ventricular assist device insertion. 
  • Accuracy of references in three critical care nursing journals. 
  • Acquired thrombotic risk factors in the critical care setting. 
  • Acute Respiratory Failure in Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Multicenter Study. 
  • 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 heart failure and cardiogenic shock: a multidisciplinary practical guidance. 
  • 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. 
  • Advocacy, agency, and collaboration. 
  • 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. 
  • Altruism, incentives, and organ donation: attitudes of the transplant community. 
  • Alveolar-arterial oxygen gradients before extracorporeal life support for severe pediatric respiratory failure: improved outcome for extracorporeal life support-managed patients? 
  • 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 Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Workshop Report: Evaluation of Respiratory Mechanics and Function in the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units. 
  • 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. 
  • An official American Thoracic Society/International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Association of Organ and Procurement Organizations/United Network of Organ Sharing Statement: ethical and policy considerations in organ donation after circulatory determination of death. 
  • 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 pain behaviors in healthy subjects using the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool (CPOT): a pilot study. 
  • Assessing the comparative value of sedatives in the intensive care unit. 
  • Assessment and management of patients with abnormal calcium. 
  • 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. 
  • Before viability: a geographically based outcome study of infants weighing 500 grams or less at birth. 
  • 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. 
  • Breech delivery: evaluation of the method of delivery on perinatal results and maternal morbidity. 
  • CE: A Review of Current Practice in Transfusion Therapy. 
  • COCATS 4 Task Force 13: Training in Critical Care Cardiology. 
  • 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 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. 
  • Community-Acquired Pneumococcal Pneumonia in Virologically Suppressed HIV-Infected Adult Patients: A Matched Case-Control Study. 
  • 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 meeting on microdialysis in neurointensive care. 
  • 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. 
  • Courage as a virtue necessary to good nursing practice. 
  • 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 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 research on biomarkers: what's new? 
  • 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? 
  • Decision making by surrogates. 
  • 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. 
  • Desaturation episodes after severe head injury: influence on outcome. 
  • Design of clinical trials in AKI: a report from an NIDDK workshop. Trials of patients with sepsis and in selected hospital settings. 
  • 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. 
  • Developing strategies to prevent inhospital cardiac arrest: analyzing responses of physicians and nurses in the hours before the event. 
  • Developing trust and connection with patients and their families. 
  • 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. 
  • Distributive justice and personal responsibility for choices about health. 
  • Early elevation in plasma high-sensitivity troponin T and morbidity after elective noncardiac surgery: prospective multicentre observational cohort study. 
  • Early fever after trauma: Does it matter? 
  • Economic Outcomes of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation With and Without Ambulation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation. 
  • Education Research: Variation in priorities for neurocritical care education expressed across role groups. 
  • Educational program in crisis management for cardiac surgery teams including high realism simulation. 
  • Effect of immunomodulatory therapies in patients with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 complicated by pneumonia. 
  • Effect of neuromuscular blockers and opiates on the cerebrovascular response to endotracheal suctioning in adults with severe head injuries. 
  • Effect of the essentials of critical care orientation (ECCO) program on the development of nurses' critical thinking skills. 
  • Effective cohorting and "superisolation" in a single intensive care unit in response to an outbreak of diverse multi-drug-resistant organisms. 
  • Effectiveness of a continuous quality improvement program aiming to reduce unplanned extubation: a prospective study. 
  • Effectiveness of a critical care nursing course: preparing students for practice in critical care. 
  • Efficacy and Safety of Glutamine-supplemented Parenteral Nutrition in Surgical ICU Patients: An American Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • Efficacy of intensive care for bone marrow transplant patients with respiratory failure. 
  • Electroencephalographic monitoring in the pediatric intensive care unit. 
  • Electroencephalography monitoring in critically ill children: current practice and implications for future study design. 
  • Elevation of pulmonary artery pressure as a sign of pulmonary barotrauma (pneumothorax). 
  • Elevations in blood lactate: overview of use in critical care. 
  • Emerging approaches in pediatric mechanical ventilation. 
  • 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 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Exploring the impact of augmenting sedation assessment with physiologic monitors. 
  • Exploring the vagueness of Religion & Spirituality in complex pediatric decision-making: a qualitative study. 
  • Exploring the validity of the bispectral index, the Critical-Care Pain Observation Tool and vital signs for the detection of pain in sedated and mechanically ventilated critically ill adults: a pilot study. 
  • Facilitating palliative care referrals in the intensive care unit: a pilot project. 
  • Family Presence During Pediatric Tracheal Intubations. 
  • Family involvement in critical care: shortcomings of a utilitarian justification. 
  • 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. 
  • Gastric versus duodenal feeding in patients with neurological disease: a pilot study. 
  • Gastrointestinal dysfunction in the critically ill: nutritional implications. 
  • 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? 
  • Healing environments and the limits of empirical evidence. 
  • 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. 
  • Heliox administration in the pediatric intensive care unit: an evidence-based review. 
  • 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 oscillatory ventilation in pediatric respiratory failure: a multicenter experience. 
  • High-frequency ventilation. 
  • High-risk maternal and neonatal transport: psychosocial implications for practice. 
  • How to assess critical thinking in clinical practice. 
  • Hyperammonemia in the ICU. 
  • ICU stay after single lung transplantation. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Incidence, underlying conditions, and outcomes of patients receiving acute renal replacement therapies in tertiary cardiac intensive care units: An analysis from the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry. 
  • 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. 
  • Incorporating palliative care into critical care education: principles, challenges, and opportunities. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 Outcomes and Mortality Prediction at a National Referral Hospital in Western Kenya. 
  • Intensive Care Utilization in Stable Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treated With Rapid Reperfusion. 
  • Intensive care of patients with acute liver failure: recommendations of the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group. 
  • 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 proton pump inhibitors in the critical care setting. 
  • 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". 
  • Invasive Mechanical Ventilation and Mortality in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Multicenter Study. 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • Invited commentary. 
  • Job satisfaction among critical care preceptors. 
  • Joint statement on mechanical circulatory support in children: a consensus review from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and Extracorporeal Life Support Organization. 
  • Late mortality in patients with severe acute pancreatitis. 
  • Lessons Learned From Web- and Social Media-Based Educational Initiatives by Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Societies. 
  • Lessons from the classics: conflict and tragedy in critical care at the end of life. 
  • Life-support technology, enframing, and disclosing. 
  • Management of cardiac dysrhythmias following hydrocarbon abuse: clinical toxicology teaching case from NACCT acute and intensive care symposium. 
  • Management of cardiogenic shock. 
  • Managing new oral anticoagulants in the perioperative and intensive care unit setting. 
  • Mannitol in Critical Care and Surgery Over 50+ Years: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials and Complications With Meta-Analysis. 
  • Measurement of quality and assurance of safety in the critically ill. 
  • Measurements of cerebral blood flow and metabolism in severe head injury using the Kety-Schmidt technique. 
  • 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. 
  • Medical futility, personal goods, and social responsibility. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Neonatal and pediatric respiratory care: what does the future hold? 
  • 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 developments in cardiovascular adrenergic receptor pharmacology: molecular mechanisms and clinical relevance. 
  • Newborn clinical outcomes of the AWHONN late preterm infant research-based practice project. 
  • Not by the books. 
  • Novel displays of patient information in critical care settings: a systematic review. 
  • Nursing practice and civic professionalism. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Outcome of liver transplantation in critically ill patients with alcoholic cirrhosis: survival according to medical variables and sobriety. 
  • Outcomes of primary stenting for acute myocardial infarction. 
  • 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 PCA: the role of concurrent opioid infusions and nurse-controlled analgesia. 
  • Pediatric acute respiratory failure: areas of debate in the pediatric critical care setting. 
  • Pediatric postoperative cardiac care. 
  • Pediatric workforce: a look at pediatric critical care medicine data from the American Board of Pediatrics. 
  • 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. 
  • Physiology and regulation. Ionized calcium, magnesium and lactate measurements in critical care settings. 
  • 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 cardiac troponin release after mitral valve surgery. 
  • 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. 
  • Procession to pediatric bacteremia and sepsis: covert operations and failures in diplomacy. 
  • 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 edema in obstetric patients is rapidly resolved except in the presence of infection or of nitroglycerin tocolysis after open fetal surgery. 
  • 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 and Ethnic Disparities in Parental Refusal of Consent in a Large, Multisite Pediatric Critical Care Clinical Trial. 
  • 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. 
  • Real-time application of continuous 12-lead ST-segment monitoring: 3 case studies. 
  • Rebuttal from Dr Marik et al. 
  • Recombinant human deoxyribonuclease improves atelectasis in mechanically ventilated children with cardiac disease. 
  • Recommendations on the Indications for RBC Transfusion for the Critically Ill Child Receiving Support From Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Ventricular Assist, and Renal Replacement Therapy Devices From the Pediatric Critical Care Transfusion and Anemia Expertise Initiative. 
  • 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. 
  • Respiratory therapies in the critical care setting. Should every mechanically ventilated patient be monitored with capnography from intubation to extubation? 
  • Response to the 'Consensus Statement of the Working Group on Roman Catholic Approaches to Determining Appropriate Critical Care'. 
  • 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 L-glutamine in critical illness: new insights. 
  • Satisfaction with a new model of professional practice in critical care. 
  • Searching for "the dying point:" providers' experiences with palliative care in pediatric acute care. 
  • Sedation Management for Critically Ill Children with Pre-Existing Cognitive Impairment. 
  • 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. 
  • Simulation for Skills-based Education in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. 
  • 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. 
  • Standards for education and credentialing in critical care medicine. 
  • 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. 
  • Suboptimal ward care of critically ill patients. More intensive care beds are needed. 
  • 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. 
  • Take heart: a one-on-one peer-based strategy to improve acute coronary syndrome patient care. 
  • 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 Catholic witness in a post-Christendom era. 
  • The Code of Professional Conduct for the Neurocritical Care Society. 
  • 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 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 economics of renal failure and kidney disease in critically ill patients. 
  • 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 first step toward data reuse: disambiguating concept representation of the locally developed ICU nursing flowsheets. 
  • 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 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. 
  • The unmet need for addressing cardiac issues in intensive care research. 
  • The ventilator discontinuation process: an expanding evidence base. 
  • Therapeutic Alliance between the Caregivers of Critical Illness Survivors and Intensive Care Unit Clinicians. 
  • Third universal definition of myocardial infarction. 
  • To stop or not to stop: how much support should be provided to mechanically ventilated pediatric bone marrow and stem cell transplant patients? 
  • Too much of a good thing? Tracing the history of the propofol infusion syndrome. 
  • Toward Designing Information Display to Support Critical Care. A Qualitative Contextual Evaluation and Visioning Effort. 
  • Toward solving the sedation-assessment conundrum: bi-spectral index monitoring and sedation interruption. 
  • Tracheobronchial trauma associated with airway management in neonates. 
  • Transfusion in Ischemic Heart Disease: Correlation, Confounding, and Confusion. 
  • Transfusion in critical care - a UK regional audit of current practice. 
  • Urgent colonoscopy for evaluation and management of acute lower gastrointestinal hemorrhage: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Use of Earlier-Reported Rotational Thromboelastometry Parameters to Evaluate Clotting Status, Fibrinogen, and Platelet Activities in Postpartum Hemorrhage Compared to Surgery and Intensive Care Patients. 
  • Using ClinicalTrials.gov to understand the state of clinical research in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine. 
  • Utility of B-type natriuretic peptide for the evaluation of intensive care unit shock. 
  • 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. 
  • Venous thromboembolism in the intensive care unit. 
  • Ventilatory management in critical neurologic illness. 
  • Volume therapy with hydroxyethyl starches: are we throwing the anesthesia baby out with the intensive care unit bathwater? 
  • What is the ideal crystalloid? 
  • Working with the family of a critically ill child. 
  • [Identification of pain in the case of patients under sedation and artificial ventilation: A systematic literature review]. 
  • [Indications for surgical therapy and operative technique in acute pancreatitis]. 
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  • Jones, Derek, Affiliate, Office of Research Informatics
  • Jordan, Joseph Dedrick, Associate Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery
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  • Moretti, Eugene William, Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Nursing
  • Olson, Steven Arthur, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • Turner, David Ashley, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
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