Usefulness of the qSOFA score for predicting hospital mortality in cancer patients.

Background: The quick Sequential Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) is a score that has been proposed to quickly identify patients at higher risk of death.

Objective: To describe the usefulness of the qSOFA score to predict in-hospital mortality in cancer patients.

Material And Methods: Cross-sectional study carried out between January 2021 and December 2022.

Reliability of point-of-care ultrasound to evaluate fluid tolerance performed by critical care residents.

Background: Patients with hypotension usually receive intravenous fluids, but only 50% will respond to fluid administration. We aimed to assess the intra and interobserver agreement to evaluate fluid tolerance through diverse ultrasonographic methods.

Methods: We prospectively included critically ill patients on mechanical ventilation.

Renal arterial resistive index, monocyte chemotactic protein 1 and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, for predicting acute kidney injury in critically ill cancer patients.

Purpose: We evaluated the renal arterial resistive index (RRI), urine monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (uMCP-1), and urine neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL) to predict acute kidney injury (AKI) in critically ill cancer patients.

Methods: In this prospective study, we included patients without AKI. We compared the area under the curve (AUC) of RRI, uMCP-1, and uNGAL to predict any stage of AKI and stage-3 AKI with the DeLong method, and we established cutoff points with the Youden index.

Acute kidney injury in critically ill patients after oncological surgery: Risk factors and 1-year mortality.

Aim: We aimed to identify risk factors associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) and to analyse 1-year mortality after oncological surgery.

Methods: We retrospectively included 434 adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after oncological surgery, and classified AKI according to the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes criteria. We performed logistic regression and Cox regression analyses to evaluate AKI and mortality risk factors.

Access to Palliative Care for Critically Ill Cancer Patients in Mexico.

Objective: To determine the outcomes of hospitalized cancer patients requiring intensive care unit (ICU) intervention and receiving palliative care.

Materials And Methods: An observational retrospective study was completed at a single academic critical care unit in Mexico City. All hospitalized cancer patients who were evaluated by the intensive care team to assess need for ICU were included between January and December 2018.