Critical Care News

Avoidant coping strategies predicted PTSD symptom severity among individuals who made decisions for adult family members in the ICU, according to results from a longitudinal correlational study.

Bordetella pertussis was uncommon among infants hospitalized with bronchiolitis during the winter season, as well as during interepidemic periods of pertussis, according to recent study results.

The Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone intervention was associated with accelerated access to concrete supports, improved rates for on-time vaccinations and preventive care and decreased ED use among low-income families of healthy newborn infants, according to study results.

Among children presenting to the ED of a single center with brain attacks when a pediatric acute stroke protocol was activated, 40% had a stroke or other neurological emergency, according to new findings.

The Institute of Medicine released a report recommending several actions to improve survival rates and quality of life after cardiac arrest, including establishing a national cardiac arrest registry and training more people in how to use CPR and automated external defibrillators.

Receiving dialysis treatment prior to regularly scheduled visits significantly lowered end-stage renal failure patients’ risk of ED visits and hospitalizations after Hurricane Sandy, compared with patients who did not receive advanced treatments, according to recently published data.

The ACP has highlighted the most important takeaway messages from a new report by the Institute of Medicine on the cognitive health of the aging population and various prevention and intervention opportunities that health care providers may be able to supply.

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has been ranked the nation’s top hospital in neonatology for a second year in a row, according to the 2015-2016 edition of “U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals” survey, released this morning. 

Delirium was identified in nearly one-third of ICU patients and was associated with a greater risk for in-hospital mortality and longer admission, according to a recent study.

Between 2008 and 2013, organ donation consent rates varied widely, from approximately 64% to 90%, across the country, according to recently published data in the American Journal of Transplantation.