Long-term outcomes of COVID-19 intensive care unit survivors and their family members: a one year follow-up prospective study.

Purpose: To describe the long-term physical, functional and mental status of COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) patients and their family members 1 year after ICU discharge.

Methods: We performed a prospective observational cohort study among patients admitted to the ICU for COVID-19-associated respiratory failure and their family members. Patients attended a one-year follow-up consultation with family members.

Diagnostic accuracy of early urinary index changes in differentiating transient from persistent acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: multicenter cohort study.

Introduction: Urinary indices have limited effectiveness in separating transient acute kidney injury (AKI) from persistent AKI in ICU patients. Their time-course may vary with the mechanism of AKI. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of changes over time of the usual urinary indices in separating transient AKI from persistent AKI.

Evaluation of colonisation of peripheral venous catheters inserted by prehospital emergency service teams (SMUR) in France.

There are no data in the literature on colonisation of peripheral venous catheters (PVCs) inserted by French prehospital emergency and resuscitation service teams (SMUR). In a descriptive and prospective study we evaluated colonisation of PVCs inserted and managed solely by a SMUR team. A total of 171 PVCs were analysed.

Weaning from mechanical ventilation with pressure support in patients failing a T-tube trial of spontaneous breathing.

Objective: Evidence that PS may facilitate weaning from mechanical ventilation (MV), although not confirmed by randomized trials, prompted us to investigate whether patients could be weaned with PS after failing a T-tube trial.

Design And Setting: This was a prospective, non-randomized study in two French intensive care units.

Patients And Participants: One hundred eighteen patients were enrolled and underwent a T-tube trial, after which 87 were extubated.

Effects of systematic prone positioning in hypoxemic acute respiratory failure: a randomized controlled trial.

Context: A recent trial showed that placing patients with acute lung injury in the prone position did not increase survival; however, whether those results hold true for patients with hypoxemic acute respiratory failure (ARF) is unclear.

Objective: To determine whether prone positioning improves mortality in ARF patients.

Design, Setting, And Patients: Prospective, unblinded, multicenter controlled trial of 791 ARF patients in 21 general intensive care units in France using concealed randomization conducted from December 14, 1998, through December 31, 2002.