Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Publishing Artificial intelligence (AI) can revolutionise medical publishing. The advantages of AI can be observed in three key areas: content, peer review, and post-publication. AI can enhance each process's speed, accuracy, and efficiency. AI can streamline content creation. It can assist researchers in analysing vast amounts of data, extracting relevant information, and synthesising it into comprehensive manuscri...

COMMENT|ONLINE FIRST The efficiency of computerised clinical decision support systems Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral, Brian H Cuthbertson Lancet Published: January 20, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02839-8 The rapid increase in the uptake of electronic medical records over the past decade is leading to an increased deployment of computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). These range from simple pop-up a...

Critical Care Staffing in Pandemics The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impact on healthcare, with millions of cases and deaths reported globally. Healthcare workers have been particularly affected, experiencing increased mental health issues, burnout, and moral distress. The pandemic has led to higher levels of anxiety, depression, stress reactions, sleep disturbances, and posttraumatic stress disorder among healthcare staff. Prolonged exposure to high-inten...

COMMENT|ONLINE FIRST The efficiency of computerised clinical decision support systems Andre Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral, Brian H Cuthbertson Lancet Published: January 20, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02839-8 The rapid increase in the uptake of electronic medical records over the past decade is leading to an increased deployment of computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSSs). These range from simple pop-up alerts about serious ...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 23 - Issue 5, 2023 Acute Subarachnoid Haemorrhage - An Epidemiological Perspective Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) carries a high disease-specific burden. Epide­miological studies have observed a reduction in the incidence of SAH from 1990 to 2019. However, the same trend was not observed for intrahospital mortality. Several studies focusing on the evaluation of SAH management across the world have shown a high heterogeneity...

Invited Commentary  January 8, 2024 Increasing Clinical Complexity—Implications for Care Delivery, Payment Models, and the Health Care Workforce Daniel M. Blumenthal JAMA Intern Med. Published online January 8, 2024. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.7407 In JAMA Internal Medicine, Naik et al1 present the results of a population-based serial, cross-sectional evaluation of trends in the complexity of hospitalized inpatients in British C...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 23 - Issue 5, 2023 Bringing Back the Forgotten Piece: Family Empowerment in the Care of the Critically Ill Patient This article aims to address patient-family-centred care programmes, starting from their origins and discussing new protocols. Critically ill patients entail a great complexity of care. ICU staff has focused on their care, with family members and surrogates put aside for decades. In recent years, we are witn...

Viewpoint  January 5, 2024 Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point? Peter Marks, 、Robert Califf JAMA. Published online January 5, 2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.27685 Vaccination is one of the most highly effective public health interventions, responsible for saving millions of lives each year. In the US, authorized or approved preventive vaccines must be manufactured with high quality, and the effectiveness and favorable safety pr...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 23 - Issue 5, 2023 The Internet & Rise of AI in CCM: Opportunities, Threats and the Practitioner-Patient Relationship This article explores how pervasive and persuasive the internet is in current critical care practice, offers insights into how healthcare professionals, patients and fami­lies can critically appraise where information comes from and its content producers and discusses the opportunities and threats posed ...

Prone Positioning During ECMO in Severe ARDS The effectiveness of prone positioning to improve outcomes in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) undergoing venovenous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV-ECMO) compared to supine positioning is unknown.  The PRONECMO multicenter randomised clinical trial aimed to address the lack of robust evidence regarding prone positioning during  VV-ECMO in patients with severe ARDS. Previous...