Critical Care News

In patients with septic shock, those with positive troponin results had a 20% higher mortality rate than patients with negative troponin results, according to data from a single-center study that were scheduled to be presented at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

A new analysis published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society was unable to definitively identify two distinct subphenotypes of COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Among patients with COVID-19 who underwent surgery, 30-day mortality was high and approximately half of patients experienced postoperative pulmonary complications, according to an international study.

Many U.S. institutions have reported significant declines in the volume of patients presenting to the ED with potential MI or stroke due to fears associated with COVID-19.

Patients who died from COVID-19-associated respiratory failure had more intussusceptive angiogenesis in their lungs than those who died from influenza, according to an autopsy study.

Use of prone positioning is feasible and may yield improvements in some patients with COVID-19 who are receiving noninvasive respiratory support, according to two research letters published in JAMA.

Among patients with COVID-19 treated during the height of the pandemic in New York City, critical illness was common and was significantly associated with invasive mechanical ventilation, extrapulmonary organ dysfunction and in-hospital mortality, according to a study published in The Lancet.

Patients with asthma who sleep 5 hours or less per night may be at an increased risk for asthma attacks compared with those who sleep 6 to 8 hours per night, according to research published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology.

A study of patients admitted to New York hospitals with COVID-19 found acute kidney injury was common. Findings also suggested AKI developed in early stages of the disease and in conjunction with respiratory failure.

As health care workers begin to understand the scope of COVID-19 in their areas and how to respond to it, a new anxiety has set in: How long will the pandemic last?