Critical Care
Feature
ED staff speak out about workplace violence, ask for mitigation
How much is workplace violence contributing to the great resignation in health care and what might be done to make clinicians feel more supported...
Conference Coverage
COVID-19 accelerated psychological problems for critical care clinicians
From the Journals
ILD progression, not diagnosis, triggers palliative care
“There is often a lack of preparedness for death by both patients and providers, contributing to increased distress.”
From the Journals
Can gram stains guide antibiotics for pneumonia in critical care?
Patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) were assessed.
Critical Care Commentary
What COVID-19 taught us: The challenge of maintaining contingency level care to proactively forestall crisis care
Conference Coverage
Hospitalists and PCPs crave greater communication
Both types of specialists want there to be more discussion about their patients when they are in the hospital.
From the Journals
Pneumococcal pneumonia outcomes worse than those of Legionnaires disease
From the Journals
‘Vast majority’ of COVID patients wake up after mechanical ventilation
From the Journals
COVID-19 often more severe with congenital heart defects
“Hospitalized patients with heart defects are up to twice as likely to have critical outcomes of COVID-19 illness,” says author of a new study.
From the Journals
Among critically ill adults, low-molecular-weight heparin reduces deep vein thrombosis