Critical Care News

A third of Medicare beneficiaries did not receive home health rehabilitation after being discharged from the intensive care unit, according to research presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s Critical Care Congress.

A set of interventions aimed at increasing provider knowledge of routine newborn immunizations and addressing parental vaccine hesitancy improved vaccination rates in one NICU from 56% to 93%, according to a quality improvement study published in Pediatrics.

New data published in JAMA Network Open show that PCSK9 genetic variants were not associated with the risk for sepsis or sepsis outcomes in patients hospitalized with infection.

Results of a study conducted at six New York NICUs suggested that multiple-birth infants are at an increased risk for wrong-patient order errors, with as many as one in seven sets of twins and one in three sets of triplets or quadruplets in the study given orders for diagnostic tests and medications meant for another infant.

In patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, personalizing mechanical ventilation based on lung morphology did not decrease mortality at 90 days, according to data published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Helmet use was “extremely rare” and alcohol consumption beyond the legal limit and illicit substance use “was common” among electric or motorized scooter drivers involved in accidents. In addition, extremity fractures were the most frequent injury among these patients, researchers said.

Mortality rates in adults with cystic fibrosis treated with invasive mechanical ventilation have decreased over time, suggesting mechanical ventilation in these patients is not futile.

Findings published in Pediatrics suggest that a child’s chance of survival in an emergency may depend on the hospital where they receive care.

Critically ill children who experience severe hyperoxemia in the pediatric ICU may have a higher risk for in-hospital mortality, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

A case report published in Pediatrics recently detailed the illness of a girl aged 12 years with leukemia who developed hyperammonemic encephalopathy resulting from Ureaplasma parvum. Researchers suggested that although the invasive infection is rare, providers should consider it in immunocompromised children with unexplained hyperammonemia.