Critical Care News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lung transplant recipients with COVID-19 appear to have increased risk for mortality and sustained lung function decline regardless of vaccination status, according to study results presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

The American College of Cardiology Solution Set Oversight Committee has issued an expert consensus decision pathway for the diagnosis and acute chest pain in the ED.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Opioids were implicated in nearly half of fatal poisonings of U.S. toddlers during a recent 14-year period, with most deaths occurring at home while the children were being supervised, a study found.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — An antimicrobial stewardship initiative involving more than 130 U.S. hospitals has shown promise — particularly when it comes to treating children for an appropriate duration, researchers reported here.

In a cohort of patients with chronic precapillary pulmonary hypertension, the rates of in-hospital mortality for those who contracted COVID-19 were more than 40%, according to a study.

Despite a lower overall mortality rate, lung transplant recipients remain at high risk for severe disease and death from the COVID-19 omicron variant compared with both the general population and other respiratory infections.

Pediatric patients with prior COVID-19 had a higher likelihood of a new-onset type 1 diabetes diagnosis compared with those with other respiratory infections, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Treatment with oral favipiravir had a beneficial effect on recovery and mechanical ventilation-free survival among patients younger than 60 years who were hospitalized with COVID-19, researchers reported.

Treatment with vilobelimab reduced mortality at 28 to 60 days in patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia without increasing infections, according to data presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.

In a new study, use of filtering facepiece class 2 or 3 respirators was associated with an increased risk for airway complications, but most aerosol precautions during COVID-19 were not linked with the same risk.