Latest - Critical Care

• Physicians' Views on Today's Divisive Social Issues Report 2022 Physicians reveal their attitudes about 10 of today's hottest social issues, from racial disparities to gun control, and how those challenges affect their lives and practices.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 27, 2022
• Don't Equate Mass Shootings With Mental Illness Dinah Miller speaks about the frustration and sadness around mass violence among psychiatrists.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 27, 2022
• SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant Transmission Within Households According to this report, Omicron infection resulted in high transmission within households, particularly among those who lived with unvaccinated persons or who didn't practice prevention measures.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, May 27, 2022
• Precision Medicine in Stroke: Outcome Predictions Using AI Learn more about the potential role of artificial intelligence for precision medicine in stroke.
  Brain, May 27, 2022
• Does Viagra Reduce Mortality in Pulmonary Fibrosis? Meta-analysis indicates potential mortality benefits, no help to hospitalization, acute exacerbations.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Are Docs Getting Fed Up With Hearing About Burnout? Physicians are constantly hearing that they're suffering from burnout -- but by now, are they becoming a little bit jaded over the attention to this subject?
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Wide Availability of Naloxone Could Combat Overdoses Two Belgian academies of medicine recommend that topical naloxone (nasal spray) be made readily available. A professor of intensive care weighs in on the drug's importance for public health.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Frustrated With Delays, Doctors Take Aim at Prior Authorization Physicians say the process to get approval from insurance companies before treating patients has gotten out of hand.
  Undark, May 26, 2022
• Focus on Antivirals, Vaccines as Monkeypox Continues As monkeypox outbreaks continue around the globe, the focus has turned to medications and vaccines. Health officials have their eye on stockpiles of smallpox drugs, which can also be used for monkeypox.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• Higher Bystander CPR Rates in States With High School Mandates New research shows that states that mandated instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use have greater rates of bystander CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  Medscape Medical News, May 26, 2022
• War Medicine Training a Challenge for Ukrainian Healthcare Ukraine has no shortage of doctors, but all caregivers must be trained to manage trauma, react appropriately on a battlefield, and evacuate safely.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• Monkeypox: What Do Experts Actually Think?   How much do we really know about the emerging risk of monkeypox? Join experts as they discuss the current situation, what people should focus on, and what to expect going forward.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 25, 2022
• Texas Killings Leave Nation's Doctors Grieving, Seething Physicians asking "why again?," demand action after gunman murders 21 in the town of Uvalde.
  Medscape Medical News, May 25, 2022
• Eliminating Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections Central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a seemingly intractable problem, and reporting requirements complicate the situation. How can a hospital's medical staff respond to this challenge?
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, May 25, 2022
• Infographic: Best & Worst Places to Practice 2022 The five best and worst states for physicians to practice medicine are evaluated based on 12 criteria such as compensation, burnout, and malpractice payment amounts, among others.
  Medscape, May 25, 2022
• Diagnostic Value of Different Urine Tests for UTIs How do different tests for the detection of urinary tract infection compare in terms of diagnostic accuracy?
  Translational Andrology and Urology, May 25, 2022
• Anesthesiologist Is Punished for Standard of Care Lapses The Florida Board of Medicine fined and imposed other obligations on a physician accused of medical malpractice in the death of a patient.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, May 24, 2022
• ECG Challenge: Cardiac Patient With Slow Heartbeat and Fatigue A man with controlled tachycardia visits the emergency department with fatigue and a slow heartbeat. What does the ECG reveal?
  Medscape Cardiology, May 24, 2022
• DDW 2022 Fidaxomicin Favored Over Vancomycin in Real-World C diff Study Researchers compared the agents for treating both initial and recurrent Clostridioides difficile infections in a Medicare population.
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2022
• Prophylaxis for PJP in Patients With Sarcoidosis Dr Aaron Holley scrutinizes the practice of prescribing TMP-SMX to prevent Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in patients on oral corticosteroids for sarcoidosis.
  Medscape Critical Care, May 24, 2022