The updated version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), the global reference system in intensive care medicine used to assess the degree of organ dysfunction in critically ill patients, ...

Sepsis, a common complication following burns, trauma, and major surgery, remains the leading cause of death among critically ill patients. Globally, there are about 48.9 million sepsis patients and ...

Adding an SGLT2 inhibitor to standard care did not improve clinical outcomes in critically ill patients with acute organ dysfunction, an open-label randomized trial involving intensive care units ...

Researchers from 28 countries have proposed updating the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score to better measure organ dysfunction in critically ill patients admitted to the ICUs. SOFA 2, ...

About The Study: In critically ill sepsis patients, treatment with intravenous acetaminophen for 5 days was safe but did not improve the primary end point of days alive and free of any organ support ...

Using national data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), Lonze and colleagues evaluated outcomes in 568 kidney after heart (KAH) and 210 kidney after lung (KAL) transplants performed ...

The authors make the point that bowel functions in general are associated with a lot of health outcomes. Direct association would be somebody with severe constipation, or the long term can be and ...

Low blood pressure, or hypotension, is often overlooked because some people tolerate lower readings without obvious symptoms. However, in many situations, particularly during critical illness, trauma, ...

Doctors must treat sepsis quickly to prevent organ failure. But demographic change and drug-resistant infections are making the condition harder to manage.