Healthcare Disparities in Critical Illness

Healthcare disparities in pain management.

Despite efforts targeted at physicians for improving the way in which they manage pain, discrepancies still abound in how they treat certain patients for this condition. Special populations of patients such as racial minorities, women, and substance abusers are victims of deficiencies in pain management and suffer needlessly. Healthcare providers need to be aware of disparities that may not be ...

Health Disparities in Quality Indicators of Healthcare Among Adults with Mental Illness

Clinical review: Critical care in the global context – disparities in burden of illness, access, and economics

World health care expenditures exceed US $4 trillion. However, there is marked variation in global health care spending, from upwards of US $7,000 per capita in the US to under US $25 per capita in most of sub-Saharan Africa. In developed countries, care of the critically ill comprises a large proportion of health care spending; however, in developing countries, with a greater burden of both il...

Lactate in critical illness

Lactate measurement in the critically ill has been traditionally used to stratify patients with poor outcome. However, plasma lactate levels are the result of a finely tuned interplay of factors that affect the balance between its production and its clearance. When the oxygen supply does not match its consumption, organisms such as man who are forced to produce ATP for their integrity adapt in ...

CritiCal illness in pregnanCy

Critical illness in pregnancy increases maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. The critical illness can be related to pregnancy per se, or can be secondary to a concurrent medical illness. Early identification and appropriate management results in good outcomes with a short ICU stay. Late identification and delayed therapy results in poor maternal & fetal outcomes with development of multi...