Most recommendations on cardiopulmonary resuscitation were developed from the
perspective of high-resource settings with the aim of applying them in these settings. These …

Worldwide, an estimated 45 million people suffer from critical illness each year. 1 Critical
illness is “a state of ill health with vital organ dysfunction, a high risk of imminent death if care …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Definitions for pediatric sepsis were established in 2005
without data-driven criteria. It is unknown whether the more recent adult Sepsis-3 definitions …

A 60 year old woman with diabetes and hypertension is admitted overnight to the intensive
care unit (ICU) with covid-19 and an unfolding septic shock. She is intubated and …

Purpose To systematically review the typology, impact, quality of evidence, barriers, and
facilitators to implementation of Quality Improvement (QI) interventions for adult critical care …

Among people with COVID-19 about 5% have critical disease with complications such as
respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), severe sepsis and septic …

Background: The global burden of critical illness falls disproportionately outside high-
income countries. Despite younger patient populations with similar or lower disease …

Background: Response to the outbreak of poliomyelitis in mid-1950 led to recognition and
consequent development of critical care. Seventy years later the humankind was struck by …

Background Prior research has demonstrated that low-and low-middle-income countries
(LLMICs) bear a higher burden of critical illness and have a higher rate of mortality from …

Abstract Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) is a novel approach to the care of
critically ill patients, focusing on first-tier, effective, low-cost, life-saving care and designed to …