When working in an acute care ward, you face this dilemma almost every day. Should you make a decision based solely on vitals, wait for a doctor's order, or proceed based on your own assessment? In ...

We read with great interest the article titled “Use of high-dose steroid therapy: addition of anakinra in the treatment of severe COVID-19,” recently published in your journal 1. The study clearly ...

Literature on the anesthetic management of endovascular treatment of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is limited. Anesthetic management during these procedures is still mostly dependent on individual or ...

When compared with liberal oxygen therapy, conservative oxygen therapy did not improve rates of survival with favorable functional outcomes among unresponsive patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) ...

3 School of Engineering and ICT, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 4 School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Objective To assess the performance of a ...

Rationale In patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and mild hypoxaemia, the clinical benefit of high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) remains unclear. We aimed to examine whether HFNO compared with conventional ...

Introduction of "Code Sepsis": The use of "Code Sepsis" or "Sepsis huddle" protocols to facilitate rapid diagnosis and treatment of sepsis by multidisciplinary teams has been newly weakly recommended ...

Doctors study for years to be able to 'dish out' medical advice. They're trained to know whether or not it's safe for a patient to be discharged from hospital. Yet, every so often, they're met with ...

Managing a neonate presenting with sudden unexpected postnatal collapse requires the skillset of multiple specialities working together in a stressful situation. Recognition of abnormal neonatal ...

aDivision of Pulmonology, Critical Care, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA bJoint Program in Computational Precision Health, ...

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