Contemporary cardiac intensive care units (CICUs) have an increasing prevalence of
noncardiovascular comorbidities and multisystem organ dysfunction. However, little …

Objective: To examine the association between predefined adverse events (AE)(including
nosocomial infections) and intensive care unit (ICU) mortality, controlling for multiple …

Rationale, aims and objectives Adverse events are unintended patient injuries or
complications that arise from health care management resulting in death, disability or …

Background: Few published data exist with respect to current implementation of
interventions that increase patient safety in intensive care units (ICUs) Furthermore, even …

Background: Noncardiovascular comorbidities and critical illness are increasing in
cardiovascular intensive care units (CICUs). There are limited data comparing critical care …

Importance Single-center and claims-based studies have described substantial changes in
the landscape of care in the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU). Professional societies have …

Aim Cardiac arrest in the intensive care unit (ICU-CA) is a common and highly morbid event.
We investigated the preventability of ICU-CAs and identified targets for future intervention …

Background Prior studies have demonstrated that the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU)
patient population has evolved over time. We sought to describe the temporal changes in …

Abstract Background Adverse events (AEs) are patient injuries caused by medical care.
Previous studies have reported increased mortality rates and prolonged hospital length of …

Improving the outcome of critically ill patients remains an ideal that every practicing
Intensivist strives to achieve. Every year there are many hundreds of research papers …