Hypothermia and Localized Cold Injury Joseph U Becker, MD | January 3, 2018 | Contributor Information The term hypothermia generally refers to inappropriate body temperature, usually resulting from deficient thermoregulation. It is commonly defined as a core body temperature lower than 35°C.[1,2] Hypothermia may be either accidental,[3] as in inadvertent overexposure to low temperatures, or intentional, as in therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. It may be either ...

News > Medscape Medical News > News Alerts Influenza Hospitalizations Highest on Record, CDC Says Troy Brown, RN February 02, 2018 Overall hospitalizations for influenza-like illness (ILI) are at their highest since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began collecting such data, according to new information presented during a teleconference by the CDC today. 根据今天CDC在新闻发布会上提供的最新信息，流感样病例(ILI)住院总数达到自从美国CDC开始收...

FDA Approves Artificial Intelligence That Can Predict Death 以下报道来自健康时报网 http://www.jksb.com.cn/html/news/hot/2018/0130/121306.html 近日，美国食品药品监督管理总局(FDA)批准了首个可以预测死亡的AI产品Wave Clinical Platform，由医疗科技公司Excel Medical研发。 根据产品研发公司Excel Medical官网的介绍，Wave Clinical Platform是一个永远在线的远程监测平台，可显示生理和医学相关数据的实时临床视图，包括医院工作站、移动设备和电子病历中危险患者的警报。 WAVE能自动计算风险，这套系...

Induced hypothermia in patients with septic shock and respiratory failure (CASS): a randomised, controlled, open-label trial Theis Skovsgaard Itenov, Maria Egede Johansen, Morten Bestle, et al. Lancet Respir Med 2018 Published Online January 8, 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30004-3 Summary Background 背景 Animal models of serious infection suggest that 24 h of induced hypothermia improves circulatory and respiratory function and reduces mortality. We tested ...

Intensive Care Medicine ONLINE FIRST THIS WEEK Letter ~ Veronica Vercesi et al. External confirmation and exploration of the Kigali modification for diagnosing moderate or severe ARDS. Understanding the Disease ~ Bérangère S et al. Understanding thrombotic microangiopathies in children. Imaging in Intensive Care Medicine ~ J. J. H. Bunge et al. Fast confirmation of correct position of distal perfusion cannula during venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Imaging...

Hypothermia and Localized Cold Injury Joseph U Becker, MD | January 3, 2018 | Contributor Information The term hypothermia generally refers to inappropriate body temperature, usually resulting from deficient thermoregulation. It is commonly defined as a core body temperature lower than 35°C.[1,2] Hypothermia may be either accidental,[3] as in inadvertent overexposure to low temperatures, or intentional, as in therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. It may be either ...

Intensive Care Medicine ONLINE FIRST THIS WEEK Conference Reports and Expert Panel ~ Jan J. De Waele et al. Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic stewardship programmes in the ICU: insistence and persistence in the fight against resistance. A position statement from ESICM/ESCMID/WAAAR round table on multi-drug resistance. Letter ~ James Downar et al. Prevalence and predictors of severe grief reactions and desire for support following a death in the intensive care unit: a...

Interobserver Reliability of the Berlin ARDS Definition and Strategies to Improve the Reliability of ARDS Diagnosis: Reliability of Berlin ARDS Diagnosis Michael W. Sjoding, Timothy P. Hofer, Ivan Co, et al. Chest 2017 Dec 14 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chest.2017.11.037 Background 背景 Failure to reliably diagnose ARDS may be a major driver of negative clinical trials and underrecognition and treatment in clinical practice. We sought to examine the interobserver...

Perspective > Eric Topol on Medscape COMMENTARY Eric Topol's Top 10 Tech Advances Shaping Medicine Eric J. Topol, MD January 11, 2018 5. Smartwatch Diagnosis of Atrial Fibrillation In November 2017, AliveCor announced that it had received FDA approval of an algorithm for its watch band with a built-in ECG sensor. KardiaBand, when used with an Apple Watch, tracks a person's heart rate–to–physical activity ratio, learned with several days of data capture. When an outl...

Perspective > Eric Topol on Medscape COMMENTARY Eric Topol's Top 10 Tech Advances Shaping Medicine Eric J. Topol, MD January 11, 2018 Each year, I look back at the top 10 tech advances that made headlines the previous year, and these technologies promise to revolutionize medicine in the coming year. Here they are, not in any particular rank order. 1 and 2. Gene Therapy and Gene Editing 基因治疗与基因编辑 These two biotechnologies are being used in clinical trials for...