1 Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Senior Staff Specialist, Department of ...

Objective As ‘critical illness’ and ‘critical care’ lack consensus definitions, this study aimed to explore how the concepts’ are used, describe their defining attributes, and propose potential ...

A number of recent studies have demonstrated a role for state-of-the-art neuroimaging methods in the assessment of patients in the vegetative state and other so-called 'disorders of consciousness'. In ...

High blood pressure should be controlled before surgery to avoid complications. If your blood pressure is over 180/110, surgery should be postponed for safety. Your healthcare provider may recommend ...

A man who was clinically dead for six minutes during surgery claims he crossed into “another world” — and returned with a message: death isn’t real. John Davis, whose experience was shared on the ...

Background BTS guidance for Emergency Oxygen Use recommends that local anaesthesia should be used for all routine arterial blood gas (ABG) sampling [1]. Intradermal and/or subcutaneous local ...

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of peripheral arterial catheter dysfunction in ICU patients and analyze its influencing factors, providing a basis for early precise identification and ...

Introduction: Effective feedback from incident reporting systems in healthcare is essential if organisations are to learn from failures in the delivery of care. Despite the wide-scale development and ...