Mobilizing ICU Patients May Not Affect Risk of Adverse Events, Death
Mobilizing patients who required mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU) was associated with a less than 3% risk of adverse events such as falls, desaturation, and hemodynamic instability, a systematic review and meta-analysis found. Compared with usual care, very-low-certainty evidence showed that mobilization did not lead to adverse events (risk ratio [RR] 1.09, […]
Low Tidal Volume Compliance Still Lacking in Mechanical Ventilation
Implementation of a well-established protective ventilation setting was limited in practice in the U.S. and U.K., electronic health records showed. From the records of mechanically ventilated people, median tidal volume was 7.48 mL/kg of predicted body weight in a U.K. database and 7.91 mL/kg in the U.S., both approaching the accepted upper limit of <8 […]
ECMO Therapy Out of Reach for Multiple Socioeconomic Groups
Socioeconomic disparities made certain groups on mechanical ventilation less likely to receive extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment in the years before the pandemic, a Nationwide Readmissions Database study found. Women were a relative 27% less likely to receive ECMO than their male counterparts (adjusted OR 0.73, 95% CI 0.70-0.75), while patients on Medicaid were nearly […]
You Probably Should Change Your Home’s HVAC Filter Right Now
Changing the filter for your home’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning system, or HVAC, is one of those tasks you probably forget to do as often as you should. Some people may even be unaware that they have an HVAC filter that needs to be changed. And it’s a really important item to swap out. […]