Venous thromboembolism (VTE), including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is recognized as a common complication in critically ill patients. Risk factors including critical illness, mechanical ventilation, sedative medications, and central venous catheter insertion are major contributing factors to the high risk of VTE. Because of their impaired cardiopulmonary reserve, PE...

S evere weakness with respiratory failure is a serious and common complication of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit setting. Recent studies have elucidated 2 entities characterized by severe weakness that occur as a result of these circumstances: critical illness neuropathy and critical illness myopathy. Both are the result of a serious illness, in contrast to weakness arising ...

Critically ill patients are often immobilized as a direct result of their illness or because of the administration of sedatives and analgesics or anesthetic agents that allow patients to receive other supportive care such as mechanical ventilation. Complications of critical illness documented in the literature include pressure ulcers, delirium, weakness, critical illness polyneuromyopathy, cont...

Background: Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) particularly critically ill ones may present different types of thyroid abnormalities. However, data regarding function tests (TFTs) among noncritical patients COVID-19 are scarce. This study aimed to assess functions and their associations the severity illness non-critically hospitalized COVID-19. Methods: cross-sectional assessed T...

Critical illness is any form of illness that represents an immediate threat to life.The major purpose of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is to treat patients with potentially reversible forms of critical illness. Until recently, the major focus in ICU research has been on survival, usually short-term survival, and with modern day ICU treatment around 80% of critically ill patients survive to hospit...

Critical illness is any form of illness that represents an immediate threat to life.The major purpose of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) is to treat patients with potentially reversible forms of critical illness. Until recently, the major focus in ICU research has been on survival, usually short-term survival, and with modern day ICU treatment around 80% of critically ill patients survive to hospit...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Depression following childbirth is an illness occurring in 10 to 20 percent of women in the year postpartum. Researchers have debated whether postpartum depression is a different illness from depression at other times. We critically review the literature on postpartum depression, as distinguished from postpartum blues and psychosis. RESULTS Problems with definition, stu...

Non-cardiac critically ill patients with type II myocardial infarction (MI) have a high risk of mortality. There are no evidence-based interventions to mitigate this risk. We systematically reviewed the literature regarding the use of medications known to reduce mortality in patients with cardiac troponin (cTn) elevation due to type I MI (β blockers, statin, and aspirin) in studies of criticall...

INTRODUCTION Hyperglycemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients and strict glycemic control has become standard care for adults. Recent studies have questioned the optimal targets for such management and reported increased rates of iatrogenic hypoglycemia in both critically ill children and adults. The ability to provide accurate, real-time continuous ...