Critical Care News

A linked electronic medical record and social media database could yield insights pertaining to a patient's health, according to research published in BMJ Quality & Safety.

Healio.com/Internal Medicine presents the week’s top news stories, including cannabis for pain management, cost of women's health services and ICU outcomes for patients who receive acetaminophen for fever.

Early receipt of acetaminophen as a treatment for fever did not reduce ICU stays or mortality in patients who had probable infections, according to data recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Hospitalization, especially critical illness hospitalization, is a risk factor for persistent functional impairment in older adults, according to data published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Teenagers who reported experiencing a traumatic brain injury in the past year were seven times more likely to have consumed at least five energy drinks in the past week than those without such injuries, according to recent data.

The estimated lifetime medical and work-loss costs related to fatal and nonfatal injuries treated in ED was determined to be $671 billion in 2013, according to CDC reports published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The most common tricycle-related injuries incurred by children are lacerations and internal organ damage to the head and fractures of the elbow, according to recent research in Pediatrics.

Among patients who experienced in-hospital cardiac arrest, do-not-resuscitate orders often aligned with likelihood of favorable neurological outcomes; however, among patients with the worst prognosis, nearly two-thirds did not have do-not-resuscitate orders. 

A joint policy statement issued today by the AAP and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends improvements for and defines appropriate use of the Apgar score.

Discretionary admittance to the ICU improved 30-day mortality and resulted in comparable Medicare spending in hospital costs among older patients with pneumonia, compared with patients admitted to general wards, according to data recently published in JAMA.