Critical Care News

A 20-month-old male presents with acute onset of emesis, altered mental status and fever. Soon after admission to the pediatric ICU, he began having seizures and became obtunded.

Experts have published the first new criteria for diagnosing pediatric sepsis and septic shock since 2005.

New guidance was published in 2023 for STD prevention, diabetic foot infections, infective endocarditis and more.

The FDA in 2023 approved treatments for several hospital-associated infections and fully approved a long-used COVID-19 medication, among other non-vaccine-related regulatory decisions.

Similar to SARS-CoV-2, which can cause long COVID, people hospitalized with influenza are at an increased risk for health issues long after they have cleared the infection, according to a study.

Hospital-associated infections declined significantly at acute-care hospitals in 2022, although rates at other health care facilities remained relatively stagnant, according to a CDC report.

A new clinical decision rule could help physicians determine which older ED patients who experienced a fall will require imaging, according to a study published in CMAJ.

Doxycycline reduced the risk for Clostridioides difficile infection by almost half compared with azithromycin among patients hospitalized with community-acquire pneumonia who had a C. difficile infection in the past year, a study found.

In 2015, the CMS introduced the Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle, or SEP-1, as an all-or-nothing, pay-for-reporting measure.

I want to reflect on a recent patient I admitted: a woman in her 40s who presented with an intractable headache.