critical illness

Stress hyperglycemia ratio as a mortality predictor in non-diabetic septic patients: a retrospective cohort analysis | BMC Infectious Diseases

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Singer M, Deutschman CS, Seymour CW, Shankar-Hari M, Annane D, Bauer M, et al. The third international consensus definitions for Sepsis and septic shock (Sepsis-3). JAMA. 2016;315(8):801–10. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2016.0287. Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar  van der Poll T, Shankar-Hari M, Wiersinga WJ. The immunology of sepsis. Immunity. 2021;54(11):2450–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2021.10.012. Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  … Read more

Many Definitions, No Easy Solutions

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SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have profound effects on outcomes, including the risk for mortality. In a scientific symposium on frailty in the ICU, presented during the … Read more

Flu Shot Shields Kids Across Severity Levels

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TOPLINE: Influenza vaccination demonstrates consistent effectiveness of approximately 50% across all severity levels in children, with higher protection observed in younger children (age, 6 months to 8 years) than in older ones (age, 9-17 years). METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a test-negative case-control study to evaluate the vaccine effectiveness (VE) against severe influenza in children across eight … Read more