ARTICLES| VOLUME 20, ISSUE 9, P1025-1033, SEPTEMBER 01, 2020 Individual quarantine versus active monitoring of contacts for the mitigation of COVID-19: a modelling study Corey M Peak, Rebecca Kahn, Yonatan H Grad, et al Lancet Infect Dis 2020; 20: 1025-1033 Summary Background Voluntary individual quarantine and voluntary active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies for emerging infectious diseases such as COVID-19. Given the impact o...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 3, 2020 Promising Techniques in Sepsis After Cardiac Surgery The purpose of this article is to give an up-to-date, comprehensive review on the utilisation of extracorporeal blood purification techniques and immunostimulation in septic patients after cardiac surgery. Introduction Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening state caused by an infection and an inadequate, dysregulated host immune response. In gen...

2020 most popular articles in Critical Care Featured Reviews  Biomarkers in critical care nutrition The goal of nutrition support is to provide the substrates required to match the bioenergetic needs of the patient and promote the net synthesis of macromolecules required for the preservation of lean mass, organ function, and immunity. Optimization of nutrition delivery should thus improve ICU clinical outcomes. C. Stoppe et al. discuss the development of...

ONLINE FIRST THIS WEEK(FREE ACCESS) Systematic Review ~ Wang Y. et al. - Efficacy and safety of gastrointestinal bleeding prophylaxis in critically ill patients: an updated systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized trials Systematic Review ~ Laserna A. et al. - Pain management during the withholding and withdrawal of life support in critically ill patients at the end-of-life: a systematic review and meta-analys...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 3, 2020 What Intensivists Can Learn From Geriatric Medicine In this article we discuss mind, mobility, medications, multi-complexity, and what matters most. These are key domains from geriatric medicine that are relevant to the practice of intensive care medicine. The notion that advanced age is a sufficient reason to decline admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is no longer widely accepted by clinic...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 3, 2020 The Future of Critical Care: The Human Capital This article will focus on the non-clinical, human aspects of critical care, namely the patient and the ICU team. The modern concepts of humanising ICU care, the healing environment and future-proofing the ICU team will be discussed. Introduction Despite being a relatively young specialty, critical care has made remarkable progress since its inception d...

ARTICLES|ONLINE FIRST Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in COVID-19: an international cohort study of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization registry Ryan P Barbaro, Graeme MacLaren, Philip S Boonstra, et al Lancet Published:September 25, 2020 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32008-0 Summary 摘要 Background 背景 Multiple major health organisations recommend the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support for COVID-1...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 3, 2020 Lessons from COVID-19: ICU Preparedness, Ethical Issues and Digital Congresses Jean-Louis Vincent is a Consultant in the Department of Intensive Care at Erasme University Hospital in Brussels and a Professor of Intensive Care at the Université libre de Bruxelles.He is the editor-in-chief of ICU Management & Practice, Critical Care, and Current Opinion in Critical Care and member of the editorial board...

Original | Published: 06 September 2020 Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in acute respiratory failure: a randomized controlled trial Robert M. Kacmarek, Jesús Villar, Dácil Parrilla, et al Intensive Care Med 2020 Abstract Purpose 背景 We hypothesized that neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) compared to conventional lung-protective mechanical ventilation (MV) decreases duration of MV and mortality in patients with acute respiratory failure (AR...

ICU Management & Practice, Volume 20 - Issue 3, 2020 Lessons From the “Very Old Intensive Care Patients” (VIP) Project An overview of the VIP project that studies a subgroup of patients ≥ 80 years, the oldest old, since both ICU mortality and morbidity are increased with advanced age. During the last 10 years, we have observed an increased interest in research into our oldest intensive care patients. This is brought forward with the expectation...