Critical Care News

During the COVID-19 pandemic, ICU clinicians who participated in virtual group discussions about death did not have significantly lower burnout at 6 months, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

With earlier receipt of antibiotics for sepsis, those with vs. without metastatic cancer or shock had larger reductions in 30-day mortality, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Mechanically ventilated adults receiving in-bed cycling plus usual physiotherapy had similar physical function after ICU discharge to those receiving only usual physiotherapy, according to results published in NEJM Evidence.

Two years after COVID-19 hospitalization, 92% of patients continued to have either non-fibrotic-like or fibrotic-like lesions on CT scans, according to results published in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.

Different oxygen saturation targets did not significantly impact 1-year cognition or quality of life in mechanically ventilation adults, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Among patients receiving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, the presence of obesity did not impact mortality after the procedure, according to results published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

In assessing neighborhood-level socioeconomic position indicators, researchers found a link between pediatric ICU admission rates and housing quality, household income and education, according to results published in CHEST.

Lung transplant recipients lived for a longer time if they received lungs from a donor cared for in a hospital-based vs. independent donor care unit, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

Fewer ventilated patients who received pantoprazole, a widely available proton-pump inhibitor, experienced clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

More ICU patients with sepsis receiving a continuous vs. intermittent infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics achieved clinical cure by day 14, but 90-day mortality was similar, according to research published in JAMA.