Medscape

Where AI Is Leading and Lagging in Pulmonary and Critical Care

AI tools are proliferating across pulmonary medicine and critical care, with promising early results in diagnostics and ...
ahajournals.org

Republished: Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Expert Consensus Statement: Anesthetic Management of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke*

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 ...
The Lancet

When to intubate in acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure? Options and opportunities for evidence-informed decision making in the intensive care unit

iDepartment of Medicine, Division of Respirology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada jInstitute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, ...
thorax.bmj

BTS guideline for oxygen use in adults in healthcare and emergency settings

Definitions of hypoxaemia, hypoxia, type 1 respiratory failure and hyperoxaemia Definition of hypercapnia and type 2 respiratory failure Definition of acidosis (respiratory acidosis and metabolic ...
BMJ

Effect of high flow nasal cannula oxygenation on incidence of hypoxia during sedated gastrointestinal endoscopy in patients with obesity: multicentre randomised controlled trial

1 Department of Anesthesiology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China 2 Department of Anesthesiology, East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, ...
Frontiers

Unmasking hemoglobin Köln: a rare cause of discrepancies between pulse oximetry and arterial oxygen saturation—a case report

Discrepancies between pulse oximetry and arterial oxygen saturation can pose challenges in clinical assessment. Possible underlying causes include poor peripheral perfusion, skin pigmentation, motion ...
Europe PMC

Respiratory Failure in Adults

The respiratory system provides oxygen to and removes carbon dioxide from the body; however, the inability to perform either or both of these tasks results in respiratory failure. Type 1 respiratory ...
BMJ

Effectiveness and harms of high-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) for acute respiratory failure: a systematic review protocol

Introduction High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) use in adults hospitalised with acute respiratory failure (ARF) is increasing. However, evidence to support widespread use of HFNO compared with non-invasive ...
The Hospitalist

Is VBG an Alternative to the Troublesome ABG?

A 70-year-old man with hypertension and insulin-dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus initially presented for evaluation of left hip pain after sustaining a mechanical fall and was found to have a left ...
The Lancet

Associations of dynamic driving pressure and mechanical power with postoperative pulmonary complications–posthoc analysis of two randomised clinical trials in open abdominal ...

aDepartment of Intensive Care, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands bDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Amsterdam UMC, location AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands cDepartment of ...
BMJ

Severity of respiratory failure at admission and in-hospital mortality in patients with COVID-19: a prospective observational multicentre study

Objectives COVID-19 causes lung parenchymal and endothelial damage that lead to hypoxic acute respiratory failure (hARF). The influence of hARF severity on patients’ outcomes is still poorly ...