Critical Care Congress

One study, presented this week at the Critical Care Congress, conducted a thorough analysis of all reported cases of myocarditis after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

What are the clinical characteristics of children under 1 year old who are hospitalized with COVID-19 infection?

Critical care pharmacists and PGY2CC residents made fewer antimicrobial stewardship interventions on the Mondays following weekends they worked.

One study, presented at the Critical Care Congress, found that initiating remdesivir (Veklury) earlier did not significantly reduce the recovery time of hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

The greatest risk factors for recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) were age of at least 65 years, severe primary CDI, and use of non-CDI antibiotics. Patients with these risk factors should be prioritized for bezlotoxumab therapy.

Advanced age and comorbidities were more accurate predictors of severe COVID-19 disease than innate immune response.

Evaluating the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on hospitalized patients.

CalciMedica has developed Auxora, a calcium release-activated calcium (CRAC) channel inhibitor, and it has shown it can reduce the levels of D-dimer, a key biomarker associated with COVID-19 mortality.

Do people of varying age groups look at wearing a face mask differently?

Patients with severe COVID-19 experienced positive benefits reducing mortality and intubation rates when using the therapy along with Decadron and convalescent plasma.

Tele-intensivists working overnight can cover several patients, allowing the daytime intensivists more rest, decreasing the likelihood of burnout.

Patients who had OUD and sepsis were found to be younger and healthier than patients without OUD.

To evaluate the algorithm, the investigators looked at hospital encounters to determine trends in incidence and mortality from January 2011 through January 2019.

A study reports that a respiratory virus infection diagnosis was not linked with a decrease in antibiotic exposure and use of respiratory viral panels did not affect clinical outcomes.

Following implementation of stewardship program-guided blood culture communication process, the time to optimal therapy was 9.2 hours shorter for patients at Saint Luke’s Hospital.

Antibiotic prescription following ventilation in children with RSV-LRTI was associated with a 1.21-day shorter duration of ventilation and a 2.07-day shorter length of hospital stay.

Hospital-onset sepsis is twice as deadly as community-onset sepsis and increases the risk of death 3-fold, according to the results of a cohort study comprising 2.3 million adult patients.