🦠 Tired of MDRO infections & looking for better ways to prevent in-ICU spread?
L Huerta & colleagues look at feasibility of targeted MRSA/VRE contact precautions 🎯:
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❓ Can we ⬇️ contact days without ⬆️ infection?
#journal_CHESTCritCare
😵💫 Is it possible that the pulse ox story is more complicated?
…yep!
Douin & colleagues 👀 at concordance of 2 simultaneous SpO2s from different sites 👋 by different manufacturers:
chestcc.org/article/S2949-78…
💰🎓 We know ICU outcomes differ by SES in the USA… but is this due to insurance access?
N Cocoros & colleagues 👀 at outcomes of iMV in Denmark 🇩🇰, a country w a single payor…
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…am I surprised or not? 😳
#OpenAccess in #journal_CHESTCritCare
🤷♀️ Does echo help guide resuscitation in sepsis? 🦠
Hasegawa et al report their systematic review and meta analysis, just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare:
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…for something we do so often, is the data there? 📊
🧸 ICU clinicians surely love their toys…
…but monitoring vital signs from an under-mattress sensor once patients leave the ICU?!?! 🛌
@MeganTrieuMD & colleagues explore the feasibility of this new tool ⚒️, just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare:
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🫀🫁 The volume-outcome relationship in #ECMO is clear… or is it?
Green & colleagues consider a new metric for ECMO volume 📊, just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare:
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Counting may be more complicated than it seems… 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣…
⛓️💥 We know protocolized SBTs lead to earlier liberation from #MV…
But do we do them when we should & do delays harm patients? ⏰
Just out in #journal_CHESTCritCare, Sonti et al 👀 these ❓s:
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🫣 sneak peak: we aren’t great & patients suffer
To better understand ARDS, we’re developing many tools ⚒️; but how might they work together?
JCG Aldama & colleagues consider how 1️⃣ RV-PA uncoupling ⛓️💥 & 2️⃣ subphenotypes 🔴🟢🔵 interact:
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😖 #ICU care is complex & protocols can improve care (MV weaning, sedation management, etc.)… but are protocols ever bad? 👎
Bodley et al investigate this ❓ in the context of an existing electrolyte replacement protocol:
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