Sepsis Outcomes in the United States and Europe

17 Dec

Posted by SCCM as Concise Critical Appraisal

Severe sepsis and septic shock remain major public health threats worldwide. Broad global variations in mortality have been reported, ranging from 22% to more than 75%. In the December issue of Lancet Infectious Diseases, Society of Critical Care Medicine past-president Mitchell M. Levy and investigators from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign compared models of care and [...]

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Are More Patients Surviving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrests?

04 Dec

Posted by SCCM as Concise Critical Appraisal

Despite the increase in evidence-based guidelines for advanced cardiac life support and resuscitation care during the past decade, it is not clear whether survival and neurologic function after in-hospital cardiac arrest have improved. In the November issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, investigators with the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines® (GWTG)-Resuscitation [...]