Critical Care News

A healthy, 10-year-old boy seeks care for a sore left cheek.

The proportion of children dying from sepsis is lower than it was 20 years ago, but Black children are still at a significantly higher risk than white children, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

Insufficient infection prevention staffing can lead to higher rates of health care-associated infection, according to researchers who evaluated an online calculator that could help facilities meet staffing requirements.

In this episode, host Hansa Bhargava, MD, discusses opioid awareness, the stigma surrounding the opioid crisis and the resources for intervention with David A. Fiellin, MD.

ORLANDO — Most parents are willing to talk to pediatricians about safe firearm storage, although less than half reported ever receiving such counseling, according to a study presented at the AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

The FDA has approved Aqneursa as an oral treatment for neurological symptoms associated with Niemann-Pick disease type C, a rare genetic disease, in adults and children weighing at least 15 kg, according to a press release.

Among patients admitted to the cardiac ICU, those engaging in recreational drug use were almost three times as likely to experience a repeat serious CV event within 1 year compared with nonusers, researchers reported.

Medicine was an interesting thought as I was growing up with no medical people in my family.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, ICU clinicians who participated in virtual group discussions about death did not have significantly lower burnout at 6 months, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.