Cardiac arrest systems of care are successfully coordinating community, emergency medical
services, and hospital efforts to improve the process of care for patients who have had a …

Background Prolonged dependence on mechanical ventilation after critical illness is an
emerging public health challenge; however, long-term outcomes are incompletely …

Objectives: To provide an appraisal of the evolving paradigms in the pathophysiology of
sepsis and propose the evolution of a new phenotype of critically ill patients, its potential …

Importance Family caregivers of patients with chronic critical illness experience significant
psychological distress. Objective To determine whether family informational and emotional …

Although advances in intensive care have enabled more patients to survive an acute critical
illness, they also have created a large and growing population of chronically critically ill …

Objectives: To evaluate the association between length of ICU stay and 1-year mortality for
elderly patients who survived to hospital discharge in the United States. Design …

Background: Growing numbers of critically ill patients receive prolonged mechanical
ventilation. Little is known about the patterns of care as patients transition from acute care …

Background: Over the last 20 years, multiple interventions to better integrate palliative care
and intensive care unit (ICU) care have been evaluated. This systematic review summarizes …

Objective: To compare prolonged mechanical ventilation decision-makers' expectations for
long-term patient outcomes with prospectively observed outcomes and to characterize …

Background: The optimal resuscitative fluid remains controversial. Objective: To assess the
association between crystalloid fluid and outcomes in critically ill adults. Methods …