Critical Care News

The addition of the claims-based frailty index to the CMS Hierarchical Condition Category to Medicare’s cost prediction model correctly predicted costs of care, especially for clinicians with a disproportionate number of patients who were frail, according to a retrospective cohort study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Alternating between supine and prone positioning appeared to improve lung recruitability in a small cohort of mechanically ventilated patients with severe COVID-19 infection who developed acute respiratory distress syndrome in Wuhan, China, according to a research letter published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Health care providers across the world are adjusting to the challenges of caring for patients during the global COVID-19 pandemic.

A research letter published in JAMA has described some of the initial characteristics and outcomes of critically ill patients with COVID-19.

Playing slow-tempo music may be an acceptable and feasible strategy for reducing delirium among patients staying in the ICU, according to research published in the American Journal of Critical Care.

Adults with uncomplicated acute appendicitis who were treated with antibiotics and did not need surgery at a later date were as satisfied with their treatment experience as those who went through surgery, according to a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial that appeared in JAMA Surgery.

Researchers said they have developed a novel tool that uses artificial intelligence to help ICU physicians ascertain if a patient does not require an intervention and intense monitoring — allowing them to focus instead on more critical or unstable patients.

Many physicians treating older patients who require surrogate decision-makers experience moral distress, according to research recently published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

More than 118,300 cases of COVID-19 and 4,200 related deaths have been identified worldwide, including 938 cases and 29 deaths in the United States, according to WHO and the CDC.

Researchers at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Primary Care are tackling some of the biggest issues in the field — limited resources, reimbursement and burnout — both in the United States and abroad.