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Second Ebola Patient Dies in Uganda, Two Others in Intensive Care A Congolese woman has become the second patient in Uganda to die of Ebola since the virus crossed the border from the Democratic Republic of Congo and two other people remain in intensive care, a health ministry official said on Thursday.
Reuters Health Information, June 15, 2019
Pressure-Support Ventilation Better for Weaning Trials Pressure-support appears to be better than T-piece ventilation for spontaneous-breathing trials, a randomized trial suggests.
Reuters Health Information, June 14, 2019

Patients Give More '5-star' Ratings to Hospitals With Fewer Services
Reuters Health Information, June 13, 2019
Too Many CKD Patients Get Central Catheters Despite Warnings
Medscape Medical News, June 4, 2019
Saybie, Believed to Be World's Tiniest Baby Ever to Survive, Goes Home
Reuters Health Information, June 3, 2019
Preemies' Nutritional Outcomes Better Without Gastric-Residual Evaluation
Reuters Health Information, May 5, 2019

Critical Care Nursing Perspective

Are Compression Devices Effective at Reducing DVT Risk? A comparison with chemoprophylaxis failed to see an advantage, but according to Dr Aaron Holley, several key questions remain unanswered.
Medscape Critical Care, May 23, 2019
Two Ways We Transmit Pathogens to Hospitalized Patients A pair of hospital studies look at the role of healthcare personnel in nosocomial pathogen transmission.
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), May 8, 2019

New Sepsis Definition and Treatment--What Changed?
Medscape Hospital Medicine, April 19, 2019
Surgeon Wins Again in Lawsuit Appeal; More
Medscape Business of Medicine, April 16, 2019
Should Medical Errors Be Punished or Forgiven?
April 1, 2019
Working for a Remote Intensive Care Unit: How Does It Differ?
Medscape Hospital Medicine, March 18, 2019

Journals

Delirium and Benzodiazepines Linked to Prolonged ICU Stay
Critical Care Medicine, November 1, 2017
Lung Ultrasound to Monitor VAP in Critically Ill Patients
Critical Care, December 5, 2016
Involving the Family in Developmental Care of the NICU Baby
Journal of Perinatology : Official Journal of the California Perinatal Association, February 4, 2016
Differential Outcome of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Audit and Feedback Program in Two Intensive Care Units
BMC Infectious Diseases, December 15, 2015
Risk Factors for Delirium After On-Pump Cardiac Surgery
Critical Care, December 2, 2015

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