Critical Care News

A gradient boosting machine model performed best among five machine learning models tested for predicting delirium, according to findings recently published in JAMA Network Open.

Although most U.S. hospitals had visitor restrictions in place for pediatric facilities, a smaller percentage had staff restriction policies regarding respiratory syncytial virus, according to a set of studies published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Children and their parents who sleep in a hospital setting are exposed to noise levels that that surpass WHO’s recommended noise levels in Europe. This exposure, according to researchers, significantly reduces the amount and quality of sleep patients and their family receive.

Improved detection rates of major congenital heart disease from 1996 to 2013 in Denmark have led to increased pregnancy terminations, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.

Preoperative statin therapy was associated with higher long-term survival in patients undergoing abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, researchers reported.

Patients with HF and HIV who were treated with protease inhibitors had an increased risk for CAD, dyslipidemia, diabetes, lower left ventricular ejection fraction and higher pulmonary artery systolic pressure, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

A New York state-mandated treatment bundle for pediatric patients with sepsis and septic shock completed within an hour of recognizing the condition was associated with a 40% decrease in the odds of in-hospital mortality, according to recently published study results in JAMA.

Patients with depression and recent ACS who were treated with escitalopram had lower risk for major adverse cardiac events compared with those given placebo, according to a study published in JAMA.

Standardizing stroke protocols to have patients with suspected emergent large-vessel occlusion be met by a neurointerventional team upon arrival to the hospital appears to improve time to recanalization, according to a presentation at the Society of Neurointerventional Surgery Annual Meeting.

Compared with habitual sleep at home, sleep duration and quality were significantly worse in the hospital, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.