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Among adult sepsis survivors readmitted within 30 days, more than two-thirds had been previously discharged to a skilled nursing facility, home health care or home, according to results published in American Journal of Critical Care.

A simple median waiting time that did not account for censoring, death and other competing events underestimated time to organ transplantation by up to 61% compared with a competing-risk model, according to a study conducted in Switzerland.

Three years after hospital discharge for COVID-19, 36% of individuals still had residual lung abnormalities, according to results published in European Respiratory Journal.

Following propensity matching, lung transplant recipients aged 70 years or older had similar 5-year survival to recipients aged younger than 70 years, according to results published in European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.

The risk for any-cause hospitalization/death at 1 year was comparable between patients with severe hypoxemia receiving daily 24-hour vs. 15-hour oxygen therapy, according to findings published in New England Journal of Medicine.

One observed determinant of more resilience among French ICU professionals in the omicron wave was ICU experience during earlier waves, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Among patients with COVID-19 and acute respiratory failure, survival at 1 year was more likely if they received nintedanib or pirfenidone antifibrotics, according to results published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

Clinical outcomes after COVID-19 vaccine-related myocarditis were similar vs. myocarditis from COVID-19 infection, and events were fewer vs. conventional myocarditis, researcher reported.

Adults receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation may benefit in terms of survival with successful weaning, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.

Among ventilated ICU patients with suspected infection, the length of antibiotic use went down after respiratory viral panel testing was adopted, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.