scholarly journals Handoffs From the Operating Room to the Intensive Care Unit After Cardiothoracic Surgery: From The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Workforce on Critical Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 107 (2) ◽  
pp. 619-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhasis Chatterjee ◽  
Jay G. Shake ◽  
Rakesh C. Arora ◽  
Daniel T. Engelman ◽  
Michael S. Firstenberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Cardiothoracic Surgery

scholarly journals Advances in the Management of Sepsis and the Understanding of Key Immunologic Defects

2011 ◽  
Vol 115 (6) ◽  
pp. 1349-1362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee P. Skrupky ◽  
Paul W. Kerby ◽  
Richard S. Hotchkiss
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
The United States ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Treatment Algorithms ◽  
New Treatment ◽  
Overall Mortality

Anesthesiologists are increasingly confronting the difficult problem of caring for patients with sepsis in the operating room and in the intensive care unit. Sepsis occurs in more than 750,000 patients in the United States annually and is responsible for more than 210,000 deaths. Approximately 40% of all intensive care unit patients have sepsis on admission to the intensive care unit or experience sepsis during their stay in the intensive care unit. There have been significant advances in the understanding of the pathophysiology of the disorder and its treatment. Although deaths attributable to sepsis remain stubbornly high, new treatment algorithms have led to a reduction in overall mortality. Thus, it is important for anesthesiologists and critical care practitioners to be aware of these new therapeutic regimens. The goal of this review is to include practical points on important advances in the treatment of sepsis and provide a vision of future immunotherapeutic approaches.

Cardiothoracic Surgery and Postoperative Intensive Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Juan G. Ripoll Sanz ◽  
Robert A. Ratzlaff
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Heart Surgery ◽  
Open Heart Surgery ◽  
Cardiothoracic Surgery ◽  
Open Heart ◽  
Postoperative Intensive Care ◽  
Main Factor

Cardiothoracic surgical (CTS) critical care responsibilities have progressively shifted away from surgeons and toward intensivists in the past several decades. CTS patients present unique challenges, and optimal patient care in the intensive care unit is a main factor for the prevention of deaths after any type of open heart surgery.

Sedation, Pain Management, and Pharmacology

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-99
Author(s):  
Sophie Samuel ◽  
Jennifer Cortes
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Pain Management ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Critically Ill ◽  
Residency Training ◽  
Critically Ill Patients ◽  
Clinical Vignettes

The study of pharmacology enables the principle method of intervention for critically ill patients. Because many variables exists that affect the efficacy and indications for drug intervention, a thorough knowledge of pharmacology is needed in the intensive care unit, just as it is needed in the operating room. Because pharmacology effects every system it may potentially be included in every type of question. In order to achieve a pharmacologic focus, much of this chapter emphasizes and infrequently seen but non-isoteric contact. Overall, chapter is designed to evaluate pharmacologic knowledge with highly clinical vignettes for the reader. Additionally, the reader will find an emphasis on practice pharmacologic elements of managing infectious diseases and complexities of sedation, which anesthesiologists will find reminiscent of the residency training with a critical care “twist”.

scholarly journals Handoffs and transitions in critical care (HATRICC): protocol for a mixed methods study of operating room to intensive care unit handoffs

BMC Surgery ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan B Lane-Fall ◽  
Rinad S Beidas ◽  
Jose L Pascual ◽  
Meredith L Collard ◽  
Hannah G Peifer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Mixed Methods Study

scholarly journals A Timely Call to Arms: COVID-19, the Circadian Clock, and Critical Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Haspel ◽  
Minjee Kim ◽  
Phyllis Zee ◽  
Tanja Schwarzmeier ◽  
Sara Montagnese ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Human Physiology ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Circadian Clock ◽  
Clinical Course ◽  
Disease Expression ◽  
Severe Manifestation ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

We currently find ourselves in the midst of a global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the highly infectious novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Here, we discuss aspects of SARS-CoV-2 biology and pathology and how these might interact with the circadian clock of the host. We further focus on the severe manifestation of the illness, leading to hospitalization in an intensive care unit. The most common severe complications of COVID-19 relate to clock-regulated human physiology. We speculate on how the pandemic might be used to gain insights on the circadian clock but, more importantly, on how knowledge of the circadian clock might be used to mitigate the disease expression and the clinical course of COVID-19.

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