Abstract The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic
Shock 2020 (J-SSCG 2020), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis …

With more than 4 million intensive care unit (ICU) admissions per year in the United States,
there is increasing recognition of the long-term consequences of ICU care on the physical …

The purpose of this document is to highlight practical recommendations to assist acute care
hospitals to prioritize and implement strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia …

Background Current management practices and outcomes in weaning from invasive
mechanical ventilation are poorly understood. We aimed to describe the epidemiology …

Background Spontaneous-breathing trials can be performed with the use of either pressure-
support ventilation (PSV) or a T-piece. Whether PSV trials may result in a shorter time to …

Rationale: Diaphragm dysfunction worsens outcomes in mechanically ventilated patients,
but the clinical impact of potentially preventable changes in diaphragm structure and …

Objective To provide an update to “Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines for Management
of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2012”. Design A consensus committee of 55 international …

Over the past 20 years, critical care has matured in a myriad of ways resulting in dramatically
higher survival rates for our sickest patients. For millions of new survivors comes de novo …

Objectives: To track compliance by an interprofessional team with the Awakening and
Breathing Coordination, Choice of drugs, Delirium monitoring and management, Early …

Background The joint committee of the Japanese Society of Intensive Care
Medicine/Japanese Respiratory Society/Japanese Society of Respiratory Care Medicine on …