Critical Care News

Increased burden of youth-onset type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased strain on pediatric diabetes health care providers, children and families, according to findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

The performance of prognostic models for COVID-19 is modest, but simple predictors like age and the ratio of arterial partial pressure of oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen may useful as stand-alone predictors, researchers reported.

Patients with COVID-19 who received invasive mechanical ventilation in the ICU had reduced in-hospital mortality within 30 days compared with those who were treated in high-dependency care units, according to an observational study in Japan.

Hospital support and leadership from bedside clinicians were the primary facilitators for successful implementation of prone positioning for COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome, researchers reported.

Invasive mechanical ventilation improved 30-day survival in patients with advanced dementia hospitalized with pneumonia compared with noninvasive ventilation, despite lack of 1-year survival benefit and higher health care costs.

In a new study published in Pediatrics, researchers concluded that children with asthma have similar risk for for SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with children without asthma.

A new study highlighted an increase in adult and pediatric mechanical ventilators reported by acute care hospitals in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with 2019.

Among U.S. adults, there was an immediate decrease in smoking-cessation activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data published in JAMA Network Open.

In a new study, ventilator-associated pneumonia-related mortality was higher among patients with COVID-19 compared with those without COVID-19, with more than 9% of overall mortality attributable to ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Dementia cases in the United States were largely associated with modifiable risk factors, such as hypertension, obesity and physical inactivity — especially among Black and Hispanic people, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.