Articles: intensive-care-units.
-
Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jun 2024
Multicenter StudyAssociation of an In-Hospital Desirability of Outcomes Ranking Scale With Postdischarge Health-Related Quality of Life: A Secondary Analysis of the Life After Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation.
To develop a desirability of outcome ranking (DOOR) scale for use in children with septic shock and determine its correlation with a decrease in 3-month postadmission health-related quality of life (HRQL) or death. ⋯ The PCC-DOOR scale is a feasible, practical outcome for pediatric sepsis trials and demonstrates fair correlation with decrease in HRQL or death at 3 months.
-
Intensive care medicine · Jun 2024
ReviewManagement of hematological patients requiring emergency chemotherapy in the intensive care unit.
Hematological malignancies may require rapid-onset treatment because of their short doubling time, notably observed in acute leukemias and specific high-grade lymphomas. Furthermore, in targeted onco-hematological scenarios, chemotherapy is deemed necessary as an emergency measure when facing short-term, life-threatening complications associated with highly chemosensitive hematological malignancies. The risks inherent in the disease itself, or in the initiation of treatment, may then require admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) to optimize monitoring and initial management protocols. ⋯ Tumor-induced microangiopathic hemolytic anemia and plasma hyperviscosity due to malignant monoclonal gammopathy represent infrequent yet substantial indications for emergency chemotherapy. In all cases, the administration of emergency chemotherapy in the ICU requires close collaboration between intensivists and hematology specialists. In this review, we provide valuable insights that aid in the identification and treatment of patients requiring emergency chemotherapy in the ICU, offering diagnostic tools and guidance for their overall initial management.
-
Multicenter Study
Restrictive calcium replacement in septic shock: a multicenter before-after intervention study.
To study the impact of a restrictive calcium replacement protocol in comparison with a liberal one in patients with septic shock. ⋯ The implementation of a restrictive calcium replacement protocol in patients with septic shock was not associated with a decrease in 28-day mortality in comparison with use of a liberal protocol. However, we were able to reduce calcium replacement without adverse effects.
-
Pediatr Crit Care Me · Jun 2024
Cardiac Critical Care Fellowship Training in the United States and Canada: Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Endorsed Subcompetencies to the 2022 Entrustable Professional Activities.
We aimed to define and map subcompetencies required for pediatric cardiac critical care (PCCC) fellowship education and training under the auspices of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society (PCICS). We used the 2022 frameworks for PCCC fellowship learning objectives by Tabbutt et al and for entrustable professional activities (EPAs) by Werho et al and integrated new subcompetencies to the EPAs. This complementary update serves to provide a foundation for standardized trainee assessment tools for PCCC. ⋯ This represents the 2023 update to the PCCC fellowship education and training EPAs with the defining and mapping of 110 subcompetencies to the nine established 2022 EPAs. This goal of this update is to serve as the next step in the integration of EPAs into a standardized competency-based assessment framework for trainees in PCCC.