Critical Care News

Individuals with COVID-19 had increased risk and burden for diabetes and use of diabetes drugs at least 30 days after infection compared with people without COVID-19, according to data published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

In a new study, patients with COVID-19-associated respiratory failure who required mechanical ventilation had a better chance of recovery than patients without COVID-19, due to improved ventilator liberation and physical functioning.

High long-term exposure to particulate matter was associated with increased risk for mortality and ICU admission among patients hospitalized with COVID-19, researchers reported.

Small airways disease was common in patients with persistent symptoms following COVID-19, independent of severity of initial infection, according to a single-center study published in Radiology.

Compared with no antiplatelet therapy, aspirin and P2Y12 inhibitors did not improve the number of organ support-free days in critically ill patients with COVID-19, according to results of the REMAP-CAP trial published in JAMA.

Losartan failed to reduce lung injury or improve clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.

Here, Kristin Flanary, also known as Lady Glaucomflecken, shares her experience as a critical illness cosurvivor, hoping to highlight the challenges of the families who are at the receiving end of critical illness for their loved one.

While in-person visits for patients with cystic fibrosis decreased from 2019 to 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study found no evidence of worse lung disease, nutrition or increased risk for pulmonary exacerbations.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is hindering humanitarian access and disrupting medical supply chains that are critical to health care in the besieged country, according to WHO.

Lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic did not compromise diabetic foot ulcer prognosis if patients remained under the care of expert wound centers, according to findings published in Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews.