Critical Care News

Hospital policies that prevent physicians from providing hemodialysis to undocumented immigrants with end-stage kidney disease except in emergency cases cause physicians to feel moral distress and drive them toward burnout, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The U.S. opioid epidemic has been associated with a sharp increase in the recovery of organs from brain-dead donors, according to a letter to the editor published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Mortality rates for patients with ischemic heart disease and chronic HF varied across the Veterans Affairs health system, according to a study published in JAMA Cardiology.

Preterm infants born younger than 29 weeks’ gestation who are treated for pulmonary hypoplasia with inhaled nitric oxide do not have an increased chance of in-hospital survival, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Readmissions to the hospital within 7 days of discharge tend to be more preventable than those between 8 and 30 days after discharge, according to Annals of Internal Medicine.

A clinical report issued by the AAP Sections on Surgery, Anesthesia and Pain Medicine and the AAP Committee on Bioethics have highlighted the important considerations to be made regarding do not attempt resuscitation, also known as DNR or DNAR, orders in children and adolescents undergoing anesthesia and surgery.

Proper use of organs from people who die of overdose could help address the shortage of organs available for transplant, according to findings recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Cigarette smoking is a strong risk factor for higher left ventricular mass and systolic dysfunction and HF hospitalization among black adults, according to new data published in Circulation.

Very low birth weight infants born within Swiss neonatal care units are more likely to have better outcomes when compared with infants born in American units, including the risk of death or major morbidity, according to findings published in Pediatrics.

Aortic aneurysm and hypotension were among the clinical features identified as putting patients at high risk for acute aortic dissection in a case-control study.