Clinician-scientists from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago were among a diverse, international group of experts tasked by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) with ...
Assessment of organ dysfunction lies at the heart of contemporary critical care, offering an objective framework to quantify the severity and progression of multi-organ impairment in the intensive ...
A woman develops relentless nausea, severe abdominal pain, and organ dysfunction after taking a friend's GLP-1 weight loss ...
A 19-month-old child faced a life-threatening ordeal after accidentally ingesting mosquito-repellent liquid, leading to severe lung damage and multiple organ complications. After nearly three weeks of ...
Doctors use the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, previously known as the sepsis-related organ failure assessment, to measure a person’s organ function or failure rate. SOFA is a ...
Providers should evaluate all patients with new-onset hypertension for evidence of end organ damage, guidelines say, but researchers have found gaps in that process. Researchers at Indiana University ...
IRI is a shared pathological process in myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, acute kidney injury, lung injury, and graft dysfunction after transplantation.
The Sepsis-1, Sepsis-2, and Sepsis-3 definitions are for adult sepsis. The IPCC (International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference) and Phoenix definitions are for pediatric sepsis. ARDS denotes ...
Adding an SGLT2 inhibitor to standard care did not improve clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with acute organ dysfunction, an open-label randomized trial involving intensive care units ...