ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 2, 2020 Nine Nurse-Recommended Design Strategies to Improve Alarm Management in the ICU: A Qualitative Study We asked intensive care nurses how they experience medical alarms in the critical care context and how they can help ideate strategies for better alarm management. Our study revealed that excessive medical alarms are one of the sources of discomfort at the workspace for critical care nurses and nurses’ wel...

ARTICLES| VOLUME 396, ISSUE 10250, P545-552, AUGUST 22, 2020 Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to rescue sepsis-induced cardiogenic shock: a retrospective, multicentre, international cohort study Nicolas Bréchot, David Hajage, Antoine Kimmoun, et al Lancet 2020; 396: 545-552 Summary Background 背景 Patients with sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy with cardiogenic shock have a high mortality. This study assessed venoarterial extracorporeal membr...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 2, 2020 The Night Falls in the ICU: Changing Realities for Patients, Relatives & Interdisciplinary Team Night has fallen in the intensive care unit, and the medical team is smaller. What do physicians, nurses and patients actually feel? An overview of the night falls in the ICU - from the perspective of an ICU team. Brief Description and Comparison with the Day-Time Atmosphere During the day and at nigh...

Original Investigation August 11, 2020 Effects of Liberal vs Restrictive Transfusion Thresholds on Survival and Neurocognitive Outcomes in Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants: The ETTNO Randomized Clinical Trial Axel R. Franz, Corinna Engel, Dirk Bassler, et al JAMA. 2020;324(6):560-570. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.10690 Abstract Importance Red blood cell transfusions are commonly administered to infants weighing less than 1000 g at birth. Eviden...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 2, 2020 Is the Severe COVID-19 Over in Europe? Is the worst over? Have patients most at risk already been affected and died? Or has the SAR-CoV-2 virus mutated to a less severe form? Where exactly do we stand with COVID-19? Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a terrible experience - worse than expected for many worldwide. As we follow the COVID-19 situation, there is a tendency to focus on the many dea...

Research Diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for covid-19: systematic review and meta-analysis Mayara Lisboa Bastos, Gamuchirai Tavaziva, Syed Kunal Abidi, et al BMJ 2020; 370: m2516 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m2516 (Published 01 July 2020) Abstract Objective 目的 To determine the diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for coronavirus disease-2019 (covid-19). 确定新冠病毒感染(COVID-19)血清学检查的诊断准确性。 Design 设计 Systematic ...

Original Investigation March 13, 2020 Risk Factors Associated With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Death in Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pneumonia in Wuhan, China Chaomin Wu, Xiaoyan Chen, Yanping Cai, et al JAMA Intern Med. 2020;180(7):934-943. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.0994 Abstract Importance 背景 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an emerging infectious disease that was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has subsequen...

Original Investigation August 18, 2020 Effect of Ascorbic Acid, Corticosteroids, and Thiamine on Organ Injury in Septic Shock: The ACTS Randomized Clinical Trial Ari Moskowitz, David T. Huang, Peter C. Hou, et al JAMA. 2020;324(7):642-650. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.11946 Abstract Importance 背景 The combination of ascorbic acid, corticosteroids, and thiamine has been identified as a potential therapy for septic shock. 联合应用维生素C、皮质...

Original Published: 11 August 2020 Combination therapy of vitamin C and thiamine for septic shock: a multi-centre, double-blinded randomized, controlled study Sung Yeon Hwang, Seung Mok Ryoo, Jong Eun Park, et al Intensive Care Med 2020 Purpose 目的 To evaluate the effects of early combination therapy with intravenous vitamin C and thiamine on recovery from organ failure in patients with septic shock. 评估静脉维生素C与维生素B1早期联合治疗...

ONLINE FIRST THIS WEEK(FREE ACCESS) Conference Reports and Expert Panel ~ Verweij P.E. et al. - Review of influenza-associated pulmonary aspergillosis in ICU patients and proposal for a case definition: an expert opinion Systematic Review ~ Fleischmann-Struzek C. et al. - Incidence and mortality of hospital- and ICU-treated sepsis: results from an updated and expanded systematic review and meta-analysis Narrative Review&nbs...