Critical Care News

Over recent years, the use of robotics for diagnosing people with lung cancer has been seen as promising, and the FDA even cleared a robotic navigated bronchoscopy system in 2023 to locate pulmonary lesions.

Symptoms of depression among frontline COVID-19 nurses decreased after using a mindfulness app for 1 month, according to results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Use of a palliative care screening tool within 24 hours of ICU admission vs. traditional consultative methods helped identify more patients in need of this type of care, according to results published in Critical Care Nurse.

The reason behind acute respiratory distress syndrome development in some patients suffering with severe respiratory illness and not others is unknown, but recent research suggests a possible explanation.

Use of the 2015 Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference, or PALICC, criteria for diagnosing pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome mostly resulted in agreement between two physicians, according to results published in CHEST.

More relatives of deceased vs. alive ICU patients with COVID-19 reported PTSD symptoms and negative impacts of visitation restriction, according to a research letter published in CHEST.

When talking to ICU patients, clinicians often fail to ask about social determinants of health, and this may be due to a lack of a standard for this type of data collection, according to results published in CHEST Critical Care.

Among ventilated adults, individualized oxygenation targets collected from a machine learning model that considers baseline characteristics may lower 28-day mortality, according to results published in JAMA.

A 60 mm Hg vs. 90 mm Hg oxygenation target helped adult ICU patients with COVID-19 and severe hypoxemia spend more days alive without life support, according to results published in JAMA.

Among patients who died of acute respiratory distress syndrome associated with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, heart tissues were damaged even when they were not directly affected by the virus, researchers reported.