{"title":"Right Bundle Branch Block in Patients With Cardiogenic Shock: Further Evidence Supporting the Critical Nature of the \"Forgotten\" Ventricle.","authors":"Richard H Savel","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142779549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily Damuth, Caitlin Baldwin, Nicole Schmalbach, Adam Green, Nitin Puri, Christopher W Jones
{"title":"Sex Disparity in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Clinical Trial Enrollment.","authors":"Emily Damuth, Caitlin Baldwin, Nicole Schmalbach, Adam Green, Nitin Puri, Christopher W Jones","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006539","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Multiple studies have shown that extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is used clinically more often in men than women. Because clinical trials provide the basis for identifying patients who are likely to benefit from medical therapies, we hypothesized that sex-based imbalances in ECMO trial enrollment may both reflect and perpetuate these observed disparities. Our objective was to determine whether sex-based enrollment imbalances exist within the published ECMO clinical trial literature.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Cross-sectional analysis.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Randomized controlled trials published between 2003 and 2023 that either tested ECMO as a treatment modality or tested another intervention among patients receiving ECMO.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Not applicable.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>None.</p><p><strong>Measurements and main results: </strong>We used the Cochrane Highly Sensitive Search Strategy to search PubMed for eligible trials. Data on participant demographics, trial characteristics, and journal information were abstracted for each publication. The primary outcome of interest was the proportion of male and female participants in each published trial. The initial literature search identified 774 articles. Of these, 31 were eligible for inclusion, and 28 provided data on the sex of study participants. Twenty-six of these 28 trials (93%) enrolled more men than women, and in aggregate women comprised 28% (95% CI, 26-30%) of all trial participants (551/1956 subjects). Trials involving extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) exhibited the largest sex-based enrollment differences (83% men) followed by venoarterial ECMO for cardiogenic shock (73% men). Among trials published in journals with impact factors of ten or higher 74% (95% CI, 72-76%) of participants were men. Only two trials (7%) provided data on the race or ethnicity of study participants.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Substantial sex-based disparity exists in published ECMO clinical trials. Underrepresentation of women relative to disease prevalence is most significant among trials utilizing venoarterial ECMO for cardiogenic shock and ECPR for cardiac arrest, limiting the applicability of findings from these trials for women.</p>","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142766953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inability to Sit-to-Stand in Medical ICUs Survivors: When and Why We Should Care.","authors":"Shu-Fen Siao, Tyng-Guey Wang, Shih-Chi Ku, Yu-Chung Wei, Cheryl Chia-Hui Chen","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006404","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To investigate the prevalence and association with mortality of inability to perform sit-to-stand independently in critically ill survivors 3 months following medical ICU (MICU) discharge.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Prospective cohort study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Six MICUs at a tertiary care hospital.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>MICU survivors who could sit-to-stand independently before the index hospitalization.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>None.</p><p><strong>Measurements and main results: </strong>Inability to sit-to-stand (yes/no) was measured at four points following MICU discharge: upon ICU discharge, 1, 2, and 3 months afterward. Mortality was evaluated at 6- and 12-month post-MICU discharge. Among 194 participants, 128 (66%) had inability to sit-to-stand upon MICU discharge. Recovery occurred, with rates decreasing to 50% at 1 month, 38% at 2 months, and 36% at 3 months post-MICU discharge, plateauing at 2 months. Inability to sit-to-stand at 3 months was significantly associated with 21% mortality at 12 months and a 4.2-fold increased risk of mortality (adjusted hazard ratio, 4.2; 95% CI, 1.61-10.99), independent of age, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score, and ICU-acquired weakness. Notably, improvement in sit-to-stand ability, even from \"totally unable\" to \"able with assistance,\" correlates with reduced mortality risk.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Inability to sit-to-stand affects about 36% of MICU survivors even at 3 months post-ICU discharge, highlighting rehabilitation challenges. Revisiting sit-to-stand ability post-ICU discharge is warranted. Additionally, using sit-to-stand as a screening tool for interventions to improve return of its function and mortality is suggested.</p>","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1828-1836"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142281542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Care MedicinePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-22DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006296
David A Simon, Michael J Young
{"title":"Doctors as Device Manufacturers? Regulation of Clinician-Generated Innovation in the ICU.","authors":"David A Simon, Michael J Young","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006296","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006296","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Critical care physicians are rich sources of innovation, developing new diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment tools they deploy in clinical practice, including novel software-based tools. Many of these tools are validated and promise to actively help patients, but physicians may be unlikely to distribute, implement, or share them with other centers noncommercially because of unsettled ethical, regulatory, or medicolegal concerns. This Viewpoint explores the potential barriers and risks critical care physicians face in disseminating device-related innovations for noncommercial purposes and proposes a framework for risk-based evaluation to foster clear pathways to safeguard equitable patient access and responsible implementation of clinician-generated technological innovations in critical care.</p>","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"1941-1946"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142496529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Care MedicinePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-10-15DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006440
Zoe M Perkins, Derek K Smith, Patricia G Yancey, MacRae F Linton, Loren E Smith
{"title":"High-Density Lipoprotein Anti-Inflammatory Capacity and Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac and Vascular Surgery: A Prospective Observational Study.","authors":"Zoe M Perkins, Derek K Smith, Patricia G Yancey, MacRae F Linton, Loren E Smith","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006440","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Acute kidney injury (AKI) predicts death after cardiac and vascular surgery. Higher preoperative high-density lipoprotein (HDL) concentrations are associated with less postoperative AKI. In animals, HDL's anti-inflammatory capacity to suppress endothelial cell adhesion molecule expression reduces kidney damage due to ischemia and hemorrhagic shock. The objective of this study is to evaluate the statistical relationship between HDL anti-inflammatory capacity and AKI after major cardiac and vascular surgery.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Prospective observational study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Quaternary medical center.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>One hundred adults with chronic kidney disease on long-term statin therapy undergoing major elective cardiac and vascular surgery.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>None.</p><p><strong>Measurements and main results: </strong>Apolipoprotein B-depleted serum collected at anesthetic induction was incubated with tumor necrosis factor alpha stimulated human endothelial cells. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction was used to measure intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) messenger RNA. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay assays were used to measure apolipoprotein A-I and postoperative soluble ICAM-1 concentrations in patient plasma. HDL concentration did not correlate with HDL ICAM-1 suppression capacity (Spearman R = 0.05; p = 0.64). Twelve patients (12%) were found to have dysfunctional, pro-inflammatory HDL. Patients with pro-inflammatory HDL had a higher rate of postoperative AKI than patients with anti-inflammatory HDL ( p = 0.046). After adjustment for AKI risk factors, a higher preoperative HDL capacity to suppress endothelial ICAM-1 was independently associated with lower odds of AKI (odds ratio, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.80-0.98; p = 0.016). The association between HDL anti-inflammatory capacity and postoperative AKI was independent of HDL concentration ( p = 0.018). Further, a higher long-term statin dose was associated with higher HDL capacity to suppress endothelial ICAM-1 ( p = 0.045).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing cardiac and vascular surgery who have dysfunctional, pro-inflammatory HDL have a higher risk of postoperative AKI compared with patients with anti-inflammatory HDL. Conversely, a higher HDL anti-inflammatory capacity is associated with a lower risk of postoperative AKI, independent of HDL concentration. Higher long-term statin dose is associated with higher HDL anti-inflammatory capacity.</p>","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"e616-e626"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11620948/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142459869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Care MedicinePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006464
Thomas A Nakagawa, Harry E Wilkins, Darren Malinoski
{"title":"Death Does Not Care Who You Are, So Why Should Organ Donation Be Any Different.","authors":"Thomas A Nakagawa, Harry E Wilkins, Darren Malinoski","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006464","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":"52 12","pages":"1976-1979"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142784391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Care MedicinePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006425
Maxwell A Hockstein, Joseph E Tonna
{"title":"ED-ICU Time: The EF of the ED?","authors":"Maxwell A Hockstein, Joseph E Tonna","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":"52 12","pages":"1970-1973"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142784393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Care MedicinePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006382
Ginga Suzuki, Hiromi Kanayama, Mitsuru Honda
{"title":"Enhancing the Impact of Mobile Patient Lifts on ICU Early Mobilization: A Response to a Recent Editorial.","authors":"Ginga Suzuki, Hiromi Kanayama, Mitsuru Honda","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":"52 12","pages":"e648-e649"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142784396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Care MedicinePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006452
Nika Filatova, Jamie Rubino, Christa Schorr
{"title":"Get Up, Stand Up! Take This Step to Decrease ICU Readmissions.","authors":"Nika Filatova, Jamie Rubino, Christa Schorr","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006452","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":"52 12","pages":"1964-1967"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142784400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Critical Care MedicinePub Date : 2024-12-01Epub Date: 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000006408
Yun Xie, Ruilan Wang
{"title":"Enhancing ICU Risk Prediction Through Diverse Multicenter Machine Learning Models: A Critical Care Perspective.","authors":"Yun Xie, Ruilan Wang","doi":"10.1097/CCM.0000000000006408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000006408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10765,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Medicine","volume":"52 12","pages":"e637-e638"},"PeriodicalIF":7.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142784395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}