Critical Care
Radiology Review
Haste Makes Waste
Reckless driving sends a young woman to your facility intubated, unresponsive, and in respiratory distress. Will a chest radiograph help you set...
Radiology Review
When It All Comes Crashing Down
A 40-year-old construction worker was remodeling a home when the roof collapsed. A metal support beam struck his head, face, and chest; what does...
Radiology Review
From Revved Up to Banged Up
A motorcyclist is brought to your facility after crashing into another vehicle. There is obvious trauma to his head, face, and extremities. See...
Radiology Review
The Man With No Medical History
Following a motor vehicle collision, a 60-year-old man has pain in his chest, head, and arm. He has no reported medical history; is his pain a...
Conference Coverage
Speedy sepsis care slows in-hospital mortality
WASHINGTON – Sepsis and septic shock patients treated within 3 hours had lower in-hospital mortality rates than those treated between hours 3 and...
Conference Coverage
Sepsis survivors may have high risk for seizures
BOSTON – Survivors of sepsis face a significantly increased risk of seizures following an index hospitalization, regardless of any previous...
Conference Coverage
Monotherapy as good as combo for antibiotic-resistant infections in low-risk patients
Reserve combination therapy for patients with high mortality risk
Conference Coverage
Small study: Drug combo achieves negative bacterial culture in all TB patients
SEATTLE – A three-drug combination of bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid achieved negative bacterial culture in all surviving patients at 4...
Commentary
Into the Wild: PA Edition
Clinicians travel to the ends of the earth to treat patients—sometimes literally. In this winning entry to our writing contest, an intreptid...