Frailty and the COVIP study
Over the last few years, the assessment of frailty at admission to the ICU has become increasingly popular. Frailty is also considered one of the potential prognostic indicators in patients with COVID...
31 Elo 202225min
Clinical course of children with acute liver failure admitted to the ICU
A recent outbreak of acute non-A-E hepatitis with serum transaminases greater than 500 IU/L identified in children under 16 years reported in the United Kingdom (UK) has become a serious cause for con...
24 Elo 202227min
Echocardiography findings in COVID-19 patients admitted to ICU
The ECHO-COVID study investigated the effects on cardiac function in critically ill COVID -19 patients. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the incidences and patterns of left and right v...
22 Kesä 202221min
Results from the UNITE-COVID study
The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), initiated a study to describe the extent of the COVID-19 ICU surge worldwide and the clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes of crit...
15 Kesä 202212min
Bullets in haemodynamics
The haemodynamic instability most patients present in the ICU may lead to organ dysfunction, deterioration into multi-organ failure, and eventually death. Proper medical management is essential to pre...
8 Kesä 202239min
The brain in paediatric critical care
The practice of neurocritical care for children with injured or vulnerable brains entails clinical assessment, a range of monitoring methods within the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and the f...
1 Kesä 202226min
The role of acute hypercapnia on mortality and short-term physiology in patients mechanically ventilated for ARDS
Recent evidence suggests that acute hypercapnia could have harmful physiological and clinical effects in patients with ARDS, particularly impacting the haemodynamic system. A review and meta-analysis ...
25 Touko 202211min
