Critical Care Nursing Perspective

• At What Point Does Comfort Care Become Murder?   Drs Robert Glatter, Ferdinando Mirarchi, Lewis Nelson, and Thaddeus Pope discuss a recent legal case and how it may affect end-of-life care moving forward.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 18, 2022
• Sleep More, Weigh Less? Dr Aaron Holley looks at the current association of weight gain with sleep deprivation.
  Medscape Critical Care, May 10, 2022
• Malpractice Case: Did Error Cause Neurologic Impairment? An infant ends up with a lifelong impairment. What led to the outcome?
  The Doctors Company, April 21, 2022
• SCCM 2022 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from SCCM 2022
  Medscape Critical Care, April 20, 2022
• COVID-19: The Sadness of Dying Alone -- What Can We Do?   Bioethicist Art Caplan discusses the tragedy of people dying alone, especially during COVID, and how we should change that.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 18, 2022
• Are All Medical Errors Now Crimes? The Nurse Vaught Verdict   Drs Robert Glatter, Jane Barnsteiner, and Megan Ranney discuss medical errors related to medication dispensing, inspired by a recent event.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, April 13, 2022
• Cuffless BP Measurement: Great Potential, Uncertain Accuracy A hypertension expert discusses the promise and pitfalls of cuffless blood pressure measurement.
  theheart.org on Medscape, March 18, 2022
• ACG Offers Guidelines for Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure A conversation with the lead author behind the recently published recommendations on how to manage this major cause of mortality in patients with chronic liver disease.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 07, 2022
• Boost Now for COVID or Wait?   Drs Robert Glatter, Paul Offit, and Paul Sax discuss the current data about boosters for COVID-19.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, February 11, 2022
• The Best Crystalloid for the Critically Ill Dr Aaron Holley reviews the recent literature comparing crystalloid formulations used in critically ill patients.
  Medscape Critical Care, February 08, 2022
• Should We Always Offer CPR? The case of an elderly unconscious patient prompts this doctor to question why CPR is the default strategy and brings to mind the hero of a Hemingway short story.
  theheart.org on Medscape, January 25, 2022
• Should the Unvaccinated Pay More for Their Healthcare?   Professor Art Caplan debates whether unvaccinated individuals should have higher insurance premiums.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 18, 2022
• COVID-19: Ethics and the Unvaccinated   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Director, Division of Medical Ethics, New York University, about the ethical issues around criticizing and triaging the unvaccinated in hospitals.
  WebMD, January 14, 2022
• COVID Breakthrough Infections and Reinfections: Where We Stand   Drs Angela Rasmussen, Kartik Cherabuddi, and Peter Antevy discuss COVID reinfections and breakthrough infections, as well as the Omicron variant.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, January 05, 2022
• Malpractice Case: How Did Physicians Miss This Abscess? A missed infection triggers a legal claim. Could doctors have diagnosed the problem earlier?
  The Doctors Company, December 22, 2021
• How Bad Can Myocarditis Be After COVID Vaccination?   Dr F Perry Wilson reviews new data about post-mRNA vaccine myocarditis: who is affected, severity, treatment, and outcomes.
  Medscape, December 06, 2021
• 'It's Deconditioning, Stupid': Exercise Limitations After COVID Dr Aaron Holley investigates whether deconditioning is responsible for all post-COVID activity limitations.
  Medscape Critical Care, November 24, 2021
• HEP-COVID Clinical Trial Results on the Prevention of Blood Clots   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Alex Spyropoulos, MD, a thrombosis expert, on his recent HEP-COVID randomized clinical trial involving COVID-19 patients, the blood thinner heparin, and reducing the risk of major blood clots.
  WebMD, November 17, 2021
• Is Long COVID Even Real?   Dr F. Perry Wilson highlights a study that some might use to claim that long COVID doesn't exist. And that would be a disservice to our patients.
  Medscape, November 09, 2021
• Preventing the Next EM Crisis Dr Gillian Schmitz speaks about her devotion to empower emergency physicians and how ACEP plans to address staffing and resource shortages at various hospitals and healthcare systems.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, November 08, 2021