Critical Care

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  • 30-Day risk-standardized mortality and readmission rates after ischemic stroke in critical access hospitals. 
  • A 9-Year retrospective review of antibiotic cycling in a surgical intensive care unit. 
  • A Call to Move From Point-in-Time Toward Comprehensive Dynamic Risk Prediction in Critically Ill Patients With Heart Failure. 
  • A Comparative Analysis of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Guideline Development Methodologies. 
  • A Quality Improvement Initiative to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the ABCDEF Bundle on Sepsis Outcomes. 
  • 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 nationwide survey of intensive care unit discharge practices. 
  • 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 Unselected Risk Scores in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Needed? 
  • 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. 
  • Blueprint for Restructuring a Department of Surgery in Concert With the Health Care System During a Pandemic: The University of Wisconsin Experience. 
  • 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 in Children. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 Transport of the Temporary Portable Ventricular Support Device. 
  • 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 clinicians' knowledge of evidence-based guidelines for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Critical care management of patients following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: recommendations from the Neurocritical Care Society's Multidisciplinary Consensus Conference. 
  • 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 practices of triple-H prophylaxis and therapy in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • 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? 
  • De Novo vs Acute-on-Chronic Presentations of Heart Failure-Related Cardiogenic Shock: Insights from the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry. 
  • Dealing with "Difficult" Patients and Families: Making a Case for Trauma-informed Care in the Intensive Care Unit. 
  • Defining COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis: systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • 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 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 and preliminary evaluation of EMPOWER for surrogate decision-makers of critically ill patients. 
  • 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-of-life care in the cardiac intensive care unit: a contemporary view from the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network (CCCTN) Registry. 
  • 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? 
  • Guidance for Structuring a Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 Differences in the Disease Process of the COVID-19 Pandemic Pose Challenges to the Delivery of Critical Care Nutrition. 
  • How healthcare provider talk with parents of children following severe traumatic brain injury is perceived in early acute care. 
  • How to assess critical thinking in clinical practice. 
  • Hyperammonemia in the ICU. 
  • Hyperventilation. 
  • Impact of Antibiotic Stewardship Rounds in the Intensive Care Setting: A Prospective Cluster-Randomized Crossover Study. 
  • Impact of High-Dose Prophylactic Anticoagulation in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia. 
  • 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 Standardized Communication Tool in an 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. 
  • Improved analgesia, sedation, and delirium protocol associated with decreased duration of delirium and mechanical ventilation. 
  • Improvements in pulmonary and general critical care reduces mortality following ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Improving Emergency Cricothyroidotomies: Simulation-Based Training for Critical Care Providers. 
  • Improving Pressure Injury Prevention by Using Wearable Sensors to Cue Critical Care Patient Repositioning. 
  • 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. 
  • 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 the initial level of consciousness on early, goal-directed mobilization: a post hoc analysis. 
  • Information Order for Periviable Counseling: Does It Make a Difference? 
  • Informing Healthcare Decisions with Observational Research Assessing Causal Effect. An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement. 
  • Inpatient Unit Leaders' Perspectives on Parent Engagement in Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care: A Secondary, Qualitative Analysis. 
  • 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 and mortality in critically ill patients. 
  • 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. 
  • Intracranial pressure response after pharmacologic treatment of intracranial hypertension. 
  • 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. 
  • Is it now time to promote mixed enteral and parenteral nutrition for the critically ill patient? 
  • Job satisfaction among critical care preceptors. 
  • Lessons Learned From Web- and Social Media-Based Educational Initiatives by Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Societies. 
  • Long-term survival in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome and rescue therapies for refractory hypoxemia*. 
  • Longitudinal Milestone Assessment Extending Through Subspecialty Training: The Relationship Between ACGME Internal Medicine Residency Milestones and Subsequent Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Milestones. 
  • Maintaining quality of care 24/7 in a nontrauma surgical intensive care unit. 
  • Management of cardiogenic shock. 
  • Management of hypertension in acute intracerebral hemorrhage. 
  • 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. 
  • Methylphenidate in the 'hard to wean' patient. 
  • Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Critical Illness: Implications for Nutritional Therapy. 
  • Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Children: Complications and Rehabilitation Strategies. 
  • Mortality and long-term functional outcome associated with intracranial pressure after traumatic brain injury. 
  • Multidisciplinary team partnerships to improve maternal and neonatal outcomes: the Kybele experience. 
  • Multiorgan Dysfunction After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Clinical Management. 
  • 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. 
  • Neurological Critical Care: The Evolution of Cerebrovascular Critical Care. 
  • New Persistent Opioid Use After Postoperative Intensive Care in US Veterans. 
  • New developments in cardiovascular adrenergic receptor pharmacology: molecular mechanisms and clinical relevance. 
  • Newly Proposed Sepsis-Induced Coagulopathy Precedes International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Overt-Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation and Predicts High Mortality. 
  • Not by the books. 
  • 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. 
  • Occurrence and complications of tracheal reintubation in critically ill adults. 
  • 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. 
  • Parent perceptions of early prognostic encounters following children's severe traumatic brain injury: 'locked up in this cage of absolute horror'. 
  • 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-centered Outcomes Research in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. 
  • Patient-level interventions to prevent the acquisition of resistant gram-negative bacteria in critically ill patients: a systematic review. 
  • Pediatric acute respiratory failure: areas of debate in the pediatric critical care setting. 
  • 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 of an Electronic Decision Support System as a Therapeutic Intervention During a Multicenter PICU Clinical Trial: Heart and Lung Failure-Pediatric Insulin Titration Trial (HALF-PINT). 
  • Performance of crisis standards of care guidelines in a cohort of critically ill COVID-19 patients in the United States. 
  • 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. 
  • Point-of-Care Laboratory Data Collection During Critical Care Transport. 
  • 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 Ionized Hypocalcemia with Total Calcium: Can "Correction" with Logistical Modeling of Multiple Analytes Do the Trick? 
  • Predicting proper endotracheal tube placement in underexposed radiographs: tangent line of the aortic arch. 
  • Predictors of extraventricular drain-associated bacterial ventriculitis. 
  • Prevention of Complications in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. 
  • Prevention of Critical Care Complications in the Coronary Intensive Care Unit: Protocols, Bundles, and Insights From Intensive Care Studies. 
  • Prevention of venous thromboembolism and haemostasis monitoring in patients with COVID-19: Updated proposals (April 2021): From the French working group on perioperative haemostasis (GIHP) and the French study group on thrombosis and haemostasis (GFHT), in collaboration with the French society of anaesthesia and intensive care (SFAR). 
  • 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. 
  • Providing Palliative Care in the Medical ICU: A Qualitative Study of MICU Physicians' Beliefs and Practices. 
  • 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. 
  • Randomized trial of light versus deep sedation on mental health after critical illness. 
  • Real-time application of continuous 12-lead ST-segment monitoring: 3 case studies. 
  • Rebuttal from Dr Marik et al. 
  • Reenvisioning the Adult Nephrology Workforce: The Future of Kidney Care in the United States. 
  • Reforming nursing education for future practice. 
  • Regional cerebrovascular and metabolic effects of hyperventilation after severe traumatic brain injury. 
  • 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 evolution and current status of protein requirements and provision in acute illness and critical care. 
  • 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 Factors for Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury in Surgical Critical Care 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. 
  • Risk factors for reperfusion injury after lung transplantation. 
  • 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. 
  • Role of heat shock protein and cytokine expression as markers of clinical outcomes with glutamine-supplemented parenteral nutrition in surgical ICU patients. 
  • SAHIT Investigators--on the outcome of some subarachnoid hemorrhage clinical trials. 
  • 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. 
  • Sedation practices in a cohort of critically ill patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation. 
  • Seizure Correlates with Prolonged Hospital Stay, Increased Costs, and Increased Mortality in Nontraumatic Subdural Hematoma. 
  • 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. 
  • Standardized Training for Physicians Practicing Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care. 
  • 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. 
  • Subsequent Pressure Injury Development in Mechanically Ventilated Critical Care Patients with Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury: A Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • 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 Nexus of Heart Failure and Critical Care Cardiology. 
  • The Patient and Family Member Experience of Financial Stress Related to Critical Illness. 
  • The Pediatric Craniofacial Collaborative Group (PCCG) Consensus Conference Methodology. 
  • The Range of Cardiogenic Shock Survival by Clinical Stage: Data From the Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network Registry. 
  • The Road Not Yet Traveled: Distinction in Critical Care Cardiology through the Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Training Pathway. 
  • The Saudi Critical Care Society practice guidelines on the management of COVID-19 in the ICU: Therapy section. 
  • 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 Year in Cardiothoracic Critical Care: Selected Highlights from 2019. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Training in Critical Care Cardiology Within Critical Care Medicine Fellowship: A Novel Pathway. 
  • Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound During Critical Illness in Children: Survey of Practices in Pediatric Neurocritical Care Centers. 
  • Transfusion in critical care - a UK regional audit of current practice. 
  • Transitional care from skilled nursing facilities to home: study protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial. 
  • Translational Neurocritical Care Research: Advancing Understanding and Developing Therapeutics. 
  • Transport Medical Control Education for Pediatric Critical Care Fellows: A National Needs Assessment Study. 
  • Two Questions About the Design of Cluster Randomized Trials: A Tutorial. 
  • Underlying disorders of disseminated intravascular coagulation: Communication from the ISTH SSC Subcommittees on Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation and Perioperative and Critical Care Thrombosis and Hemostasis. 
  • Upping the Game on Validating Automatic Quality Management Systems for Blood Gas and Critical Care Test Analyzers. 
  • 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 Functional Hemodynamics and Echocardiography to Aid Diagnosis and Management of Shock. 
  • Variation in tracheal reintubations among patients undergoing cardiac surgery across Washington state hospitals. 
  • Ventilatory management in critical neurologic illness. 
  • What is the ideal crystalloid? 
  • When the trauma never ends: (Post)-Traumatic Stress Disorder after COVID-19 amongst trauma and acute care surgeons. 
  • Working with the family of a critically ill child 
  • Worldwide Organization of Neurocritical Care: Results from the PRINCE Study Part 1. 
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  • Jones, Derek, Affiliate, Office of Research Informatics
  • Joshi, Sangeeta Prabhakar, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
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  • Lee, Walter T, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Radiation Oncology
  • Levy, Jerrold Henry, Professor of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Cardiothoracic
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  • Olson, Steven Arthur, Goldner Jones Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
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  • Turner, David Ashley, Consulting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
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