Patient Transportation in Critical Care: introduction to our ACE course
Transportation of critically ill patients is inevitable in most health systems. Prehospital transportation (PHT) may be necessary after a major injury or as a result of a life-threatening illness – fo...
4 Loka 202312min
Interprofessional teamwork in ICU
Intensive care units (ICU) are the most peculiar units in hospitals where the quality and safety of health care delivery should be at the highest level. The most critical patients are treated in this ...
27 Syys 202324min
Artesunate treatment in severely injured patients with traumatic haemorrhage
Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is common after major trauma, affecting up to two-thirds of patients with critical injuries. Post-trauma MODS is associated with a mortality of over 20% and ...
20 Syys 202318min
Life after sepsis in adult and paediatric patients
Sepsis is a life-threatening acute organ dysfunction secondary to infection and affects more than 19 million people annually. In 2017, it was estimated that almost 49 million people were infected by s...
13 Syys 202325min
Severe meningoencephalitis in the ICU: results from the EURECA study
Central nervous system (CNS) infections significantly burden ICU physicians' daily clinical work. Diagnosis can be challenging, and timely management is of the utmost importance. Meningoencephalitis i...
6 Syys 202318min
Diabetes mellitus in old critically ill COVID-19 patients
Several studies have found an association between diabetes mellitus, disease severity and outcome in COVID-19 patients. Old, critically ill patients are particularly at risk. A recent multicentre inte...
30 Elo 202310min
Results from the TAME trial
International guidelines recommend targeting normocapnia in adults with coma resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, normocapnia may be insufficient to restore and maintain adequat...
27 Kesä 202325min
Guidelines for the management of severe community-acquired pneumonia
Severe community‐acquired pneumonia (sCAP) is a clinical entity to describe ICU-admitted patients with community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) as they might require organ support, and it is associated with...
24 Touko 202320min
