Objectives: Racial disparities in the United States healthcare system are well described
across a variety of clinical settings. The ICU is a clinical environment with a higher acuity …

Up to 87% of patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) experience
chronic sequelae following infection. The long-term impact of COVID-19 infection on kidney …

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 …

Rationale: National trends in tracheostomy for mechanical ventilation (MV) patients are not
well characterized. Objectives: To investigate trends in tracheostomy use, timing, and …

Objective: To summarize the current literature on racial and gender disparities in critical care
and the mechanisms underlying these disparities in the course of acute critical illness. Data …

Objectives: In the United States, sepsis is a major public health problem accounting for over
200,000 annual deaths. The aims of this study were to identify US counties with high sepsis …

Racial and ethnic health disparities in the incidence and severity of Coronavirus Disease
2019 (COVID-19) have been observed globally and in the United States. Research has …

BACKGROUND: Necrotizing soft-tissue infections (NSTI) are rare, potentially fatal, operative
emergencies. We studied a national cohort of patients to determine recent trends in …

Objective: With important technological advances in healthcare delivery and the Internet,
clinicians and scientists now have access to overwhelming number of available databases …

Sepsis, a syndrome characterized by systemic inflammation during infection, continues to be
one of the most common causes of patient mortality in hospitals across the United States …