Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining therapy in older adults (≥ 80 years) admitted to the intensive care unit.
To document and analyse the decision to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment (LST) in a population of very old patients admitted to the ICU. ⋯ The most important patient variables associated with the instigation of LST limitation were acute admission, frailty, age, admission SOFA score and country.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Correction to: Infection-related ventilator-associated complications in ICU patients colonised with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae.
The members of the OUTCOMEREA Study Group were provided in such a way that they could not be indexed as collaborators on PubMed. The publisher apologizes for this error and is pleased to list the members of the group here.
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A population-level description and analysis of sepsis-related mortality in China is key to the planning and assessment of interventional strategies. ⋯ The standardized sepsis-related mortality rate in China was high and varied according to socioeconomic indices, even though some uncertainty remained.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Observational StudyOutcome in patients perceived as receiving excessive care across different ethical climates: a prospective study in 68 intensive care units in Europe and the USA.
Whether the quality of the ethical climate in the intensive care unit (ICU) improves the identification of patients receiving excessive care and affects patient outcomes is unknown. ⋯ Enhancing the quality of the ethical climate in the ICU may improve both the identification of patients receiving excessive care and the decision-making process at the end of life.
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2018
Impact of the driving pressure on mortality in obese and non-obese ARDS patients: a retrospective study of 362 cases.
The relation between driving pressure (plateau pressure-positive end-expiratory pressure) and mortality has never been studied in obese ARDS patients. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between 90-day mortality and driving pressure in an ARDS population ventilated in the intensive care unit (ICU) according to obesity status. ⋯ Contrary to non-obese ARDS patients, driving pressure was not associated with mortality in obese ARDS patients.