Right Ventricular Injury Definition and Management in Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

Right ventricular injury (RVI) in respiratory failure receiving veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VV ECMO) is associated with significant mortality. A scoping review is necessary to map the current literature and guide future research regarding the definition and management of RVI in patients receiving VV ECMO. We searched for relevant publications on RVI in patients receiving VV ECMO in Medline, EMBASE, and Web of Science.

Hospital-Onset Sepsis Warrants Expanded Investigation and Consideration as a Unique Clinical Entity.

Sepsis causes more than a quarter million deaths among hospitalized adults in the United States each year. Although most cases of sepsis are present on admission, up to one-quarter of patients with sepsis develop this highly morbid and mortal condition while hospitalized. Compared with patients with community-onset sepsis (COS), patients with hospital-onset sepsis (HOS) are twice as likely to require mechanical ventilation and ICU admission, have more than two times longer ICU and hospital length of stay, accrue five times higher hospital costs, and are twice as likely to die.

Early Serial Echocardiographic and Ultrasonographic Findings in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19.

Background: Cardiac function of critically ill patients with COVID-19 generally has been reported from clinically obtained data. Echocardiographic deformation imaging can identify ventricular dysfunction missed by traditional echocardiographic assessment.

Research Question: What is the prevalence of ventricular dysfunction and what are its implications for the natural history of critical COVID-19?

Study Design And Methods: This is a multicenter prospective cohort of critically ill patients with COVID-19.

IDSA made 4 strong recommendations for preventing COVID-19 infection in health care personnel.

Lynch JB, Davitkov P, Anderson DJ, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2020.

Best practice statements and recommendations for caring for critically ill patients with COVID-19.

Alhazzani W, Møller MH, Arabi YM, et al. Crit Care Med. 2020;48:e440-69.