Pulmonary embolism (PE) represents the third leading cause of cardiovascular mortality.
The technological landscape for management of acute intermediate-and high-risk PE is …

Critical care has evolved from treatment of poliomyelitis victims with respiratory failure in an
intensive care unit to treatment of severely ill patients irrespective of location or specific …

Objectives: To update the Society of Critical Care Medicine's guidelines for ICU admission,
discharge, and triage, providing a framework for clinical practice, the development of …

Background Although rapid response teams (RRTs) increasingly have been adopted by
hospitals, their effectiveness in reducing hospital mortality remains uncertain. We conducted …

Background: Some preventable deaths in hospitalized patients are due to unrecognized
deterioration. There are no publications of studies that have instituted routine patient …

Introduction Nurses often recognize deterioration in patients through intuition rather than
through routine measurement of vital signs. Adding the 'worry or concern'sign to the Rapid …

OBJECTIVES: There is no up-to-date literature review of physiologically based, aggregate
weighted 'track and trigger'systems (AWTTS) and few data on their predictive ability for …

The role of automatic formal protocol veri cation in hardware design is considered.
Principles are identi ed that maximize the bene ts of protocol veri cation while minimizing the …

ContextIntroduction of a rapid response team (RRT) has been shown to decrease mortality
and cardiopulmonary arrests outside of the intensive care unit (ICU) in adult inpatients. No …

Background For critical care to be effective it must have a system in place to achieve optimal
care for the deteriorating ward patient. Objectives To systematically review the available …