Technology That Helps Save Intensive care is a field in the medical world that continues to experience rapid development. The latest medical technology has brought extraordinary innovations in efforts to save the lives of patients who are facing critical conditions. In this blog post, we will explore two recent innovations that have brought about significant changes in intensive care, namely … Read More
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We thank Al Shabeeb et al (1) for their interesting comments on our study (2). They report their local single-center experience of 69 patients with COVID-19–associated acute respiratory distress syndrome on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support, in whom only two patients (3%) had intracranial hemorrhage (ICH). These two patients showed complete neurologic recovery, whereas the entire
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1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
2Department of Family Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.
3Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital, Palos Heights, IL.
4Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Loyola University, Chicago,
Reexamining the Role of Postoperative ICU Admission for
As healthcare costs rise, there has been a growing focus on improving care value. Within this larger initiative, there has been a specific focus on analyzing and reducing costs in resource-intensive specialties (1–4). Prior studies have demonstrated that a key driver of the total cost related to surgical procedures is postoperative care (5,6). As
Impact of Pharmacists to Improve Patient Care in the
ICU workforce optimization is a widespread challenge affecting the multiprofessional team, including critical care pharmacists (1,2). Despite concerns of high patient care workloads resulting in both adverse patient outcomes and clinician burnout, strategies to best allocate existing resources and justify new pharmacist positions are scarce. Indeed, while the jointly published position article from Society of Critical
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1Department of Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL.
2Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
3Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
4Research Institute, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL.
5Medical Informatics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL.
6Department of Quality, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL.
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