Given the important role of patient-ventilator assessments in ensuring the safety and efficacy of mechanical ventilation, a team of respiratory therapists and a librarian used Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation methodology to make the following recommendations: (1) We rec...
Patients hospitalised with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are frequently admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) for invasive mechanical ventilation and receive treatment by physiotherapists. However, clinical physiotherapy practice is variable for this ICU cohort.
To develop a clinical practice gui...
Ha, Tae Sun;
Oh, Dong Kyu;
Lee, Hak-Jae;
Chang, Youjin;
Jeong, In Seok;
Sim, Yun Su;
Hong, Suk-Kyung;
Park, Sunghoon;
Suh, Gee Young;
Park, So Young.
Successful liberation from mechanical ventilation is one of the most crucial processes in critical care because it is the first step by which a respiratory failure patient begins to transition out of the intensive care unit and return to their own life. Therefore, when devising appropriate strategies for...
Gage, Christopher B;
Powell, Jonathan R;
Bosson, Nicole;
Crowe, Remle;
Guild, Kyle;
Yeung, Matthew;
Maclean, Davis;
Browne, Lorin R;
Jarvis, Jeffrey L;
Sholl, J Matthew;
Lang, Eddy S;
Panchal, Ashish R.
Emergency airway management is a common and critical task EMS clinicians perform in the prehospital setting. A new set of evidence-based guidelines (EBG) was developed to assist in prehospital airway management decision-making. We aim to describe the methods used to develop these EBGs.
The EBG developmen...
The WHO COVID-19 Clinical management: living guidance contains the Organization’s most up-to-date recommendations for the clinical management of people with COVID-19. Providing guidance that is comprehensive and holistic for the optimal care of COVID-19 patients throughout their entire illness is impor...
COVID-19/complications,
COVID-19/diagnosis,
Masks,
Global Health,
Hospitalization,
Respiration, Artificial,
Shock, Septic,
Breast Feeding,
Pregnancy,
Respiratory Distress Syndrome/etiology,
Pneumonia, Viral/etiology,
Palliative Care,
Rehabilitation,
Patient Care Management/organization & administration
The aim of this Intensive Care Medicine Rapid Practice Guideline (ICM‑RPG) was to formulate evidence‑based guidance for the use of dexmedetomidine for sedation in invasively mechanically ventilated adults in the intensive care unit (ICU). We adhered to the methodology for trustworthy clinical practic...
Soler-Cataluñaa, Juan José;
Piñera, Pascual;
Trigueros, Juan Antonio;
Calle, Myriam;
Casanova, Ciro;
Cosío, Borja G;
López-Campos, José Luis;
Molina, Jesús;
Almagro, Pere;
Gómez, José-Tomás;
Riesco, Juan Antonio;
Simonetm, Pere;
Rigaun, David;
Soriano, Joan B;
Ancochea, Julio;
Miravitlles, Marc.
En este artículo se presentan las recomendaciones sobre el diagnóstico y tratamiento del síndrome de agudización de la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) (SAE) de GesEPOC 2021. Como principales novedades, la guía propone una definición y aproximación sindrómica, una nueva clasificaci...
For patients with acute respiratory insufficiency, mechanical ("invasive") ventilation is a fundamental therapeutic measure to ensure sufficient gas exchange. Despite decades of strong research efforts, central questions on mechanical ventilation therapy are still answered incompletely. Therefore, many d...
Infection prevention and control consists of evidence-based measures intended to prevent exposure and reduce the risk of transmission of infectious agents.
The revised guidelines contain recommendations for specific administrative, environmental controls and respiratory protection, following the assessme...
Mechanical ventilation is life-saving for patients with acute respiratory insufficiency. In a German prevalence study, 13.6% of patients in intensive care units received mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours; 20% of these patients received mechanical ventilation as treatment for acute respiratory...
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation/nursing,
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation/instrumentation,
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation/methods,
Respiration, Artificial/instrumentation,
Respiration, Artificial/nursing,
Respiration, Artificial/methods,
Respiratory Insufficiency/prevention & control,
Respiratory Insufficiency/nursing,
Intensive Care Units/organization & administration,
Ventilator Weaning/instrumentation,
Ventilator Weaning/nursing
