Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound for COVID-19 (PoCUS4COVID): international expert consensus

A Hussain, G Via, L Melniker, A Goffi, G Tavazzi, L Neri… - Critical care, 2020 - Springer
COVID-19 has caused great devastation in the past year. Multi-organ point-of-care
ultrasound (PoCUS) including lung ultrasound (LUS) and focused cardiac ultrasound …

The decision to extubate in the intensive care unit

AW Thille, JCM Richard, L Brochard - American journal of …, 2013 - atsjournals.org
The day of extubation is a critical time during an intensive care unit (ICU) stay. Extubation is
usually decided after a weaning readiness test involving spontaneous breathing on a T …

BTS/ICS guideline for the ventilatory management of acute hypercapnic respiratory failure in adults

AC Davidson, S Banham, M Elliott, D Kennedy… - Thorax, 2016 - thorax.bmj.com
Background The British Thoracic Society (BTS) published the guideline,'The use of non-
invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure', in 2002. 1 This was in response to trials …

Cardiovascular consequences of acute kidney injury

M Legrand, P Rossignol - New England Journal of Medicine, 2020 - Mass Medical Soc
Cardiovascular Consequences of Acute Kidney Injury Acute kidney injury is associated with
many short-and long-term adverse events. This review considers the cardiovascular …

Risk factors for and prediction by caregivers of extubation failure in ICU patients: a prospective study

AW Thille, F Boissier, HB Ghezala, K Razazi… - Critical care …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: The influence of delirium, ICU-acquired paresis, and cardiac performance on
extubation outcome has never been evaluated together. We aimed to assess the respective …

Risk factors and outcomes for airway failure versus non-airway failure in the intensive care unit: a multicenter observational study of 1514 extubation procedures

S Jaber, H Quintard, R Cinotti, K Asehnoune, JM Arnal… - Critical Care, 2018 - Springer
Background Patients liberated from invasive mechanical ventilation are at risk of extubation
failure, including inability to breathe without a tracheal tube (airway failure) or without …

Postoperative critical care of the adult cardiac surgical patient. Part I: routine postoperative care

RS Stephens, GJR Whitman - Critical care medicine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Cardiac surgery, including coronary artery bypass, cardiac valve, and aortic
procedures, is among the most common surgical procedures performed in the United States …

Clinical challenges in mechanical ventilation

EC Goligher, ND Ferguson, LJ Brochard - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Mechanical ventilation supports gas exchange and alleviates the work of breathing when
the respiratory muscles are overwhelmed by an acute pulmonary or systemic insult …

The preventability of ventilator-associated events. The CDC prevention epicenters wake up and breathe collaborative

M Klompas, D Anderson, W Trick… - American journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: The CDC introduced ventilator-associated event (VAE) definitions in January
2013. Little is known about VAE prevention. We hypothesized that daily, coordinated …

Weaning from the ventilator and extubation in ICU

AW Thille, I Cortés-Puch, A Esteban - Current opinion in critical …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Current research is focusing on preventing extubation failure, especially in the most
challenging cases. The use of weaning protocols–written or computerized–attempts to early …