Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502220
Juan Carlos Ruíz-Rodríguez , Ana Ochagavia , Lluís Zapata , Ricard Ferrer
{"title":"Reply to: “Vasopressin: Why not in severe traumatic disease?”","authors":"Juan Carlos Ruíz-Rodríguez , Ana Ochagavia , Lluís Zapata , Ricard Ferrer","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502220","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502220","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 7","pages":"Article 502220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144334703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predictive performance of ROX index and its variations for NIV failure","authors":"Lada Lijović , Tomislav Radočaj , Nataša Kovač , Marinko Vučić , Paul Elbers","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502136","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502136","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To determine whether the ROX index and its variations can predict the risk of intubation in ICU patients receiving NIV ventilation using large public ICU databases.</div></div><div><h3>Design</h3><div>Retrospective observational cohort study.</div></div><div><h3>Setting</h3><div>Patient data was extracted from both the AmsterdamUMCdb and the MIMIC-IV ICU databases, which contained data related to 20,109 and 50,920 unique patients.</div></div><div><h3>Patients</h3><div>Non-invasively mechanically ventilated.</div></div><div><h3>Interventions</h3><div>Retrospective review of variables.</div></div><div><h3>Main variables of interest</h3><div>To assess the predictive values of models for each index, the ROX and its variations mROX, ROX-HR and mROX-HR were calculated based on mean values of SpO<sub>2</sub>, respiratory rate, FiO<sub>2</sub> and PaO<sub>2</sub> from 2-h windows within the first 12 h of NIV.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>3344 patients were eligible for analysis of which 1344 were intubated, died or returned to NIV within 24 h of ending NIV. NIV failure group had higher SOFA scores and higher CRP levels at admission. There was no difference in duration of NIV therapy or 28-day mortality, but patients who failed NIV had longer length of stay. The best performing index was ROX with an AUROC of 0.626 at 10−12 h. All other indices for all other time windows were less discriminating.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The performance of ROX index and its variations to predict NIV failure in ICU patients across large public ICU databases was moderate at best and cannot currently be recommended for clinical decision support.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 7","pages":"Article 502136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2024.502115
C.M. Marín Marín , P. García Moreno , R. Vicho Pereira
{"title":"Diagnosis of colitis by ultrasound in an Intensive Care Unit","authors":"C.M. Marín Marín , P. García Moreno , R. Vicho Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2024.502115","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2024.502115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 7","pages":"Article 502115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143477314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502173
Jesús Abelardo Barea-Mendoza , Juan Antonio Llompart-Pou , Adrian Marcos-Morales , Mario Chico-Fernández
{"title":"Vasopressin: Why not in severe traumatic disease?","authors":"Jesús Abelardo Barea-Mendoza , Juan Antonio Llompart-Pou , Adrian Marcos-Morales , Mario Chico-Fernández","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 7","pages":"Article 502173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144030132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502159
Alfonso Canabal Berlanga
{"title":"Safety and efficacy of beta-blockers and amiodarone in the management of new-onset atrial fibrillation in critically ill patients with sepsis","authors":"Alfonso Canabal Berlanga","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502159","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 7","pages":"Article 502159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143257462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502162
Manuel Quintana-Diaz , Daniel Agustin Godoy
{"title":"Optimal hemoglobin levels in the neurocritical patient: Are we there yet?","authors":"Manuel Quintana-Diaz , Daniel Agustin Godoy","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502162","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":"49 7","pages":"Article 502162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144060025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-06-28DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502252
Leonardo Lorente, Maria Lecuona, Elena Pérez, Adrián Hernández, Sergio Sánchez, Lucas González, Alejandro Ramos, Jesús Pimentel, Pablo Correa, Carmen Dolores Chinea-Rodríguez, Carolina Martín-Meana, Ana Madueño
{"title":"Central venous catheter associated bacteremia in critically ill adult patients using the sealing of unused lumens with taurolidine.","authors":"Leonardo Lorente, Maria Lecuona, Elena Pérez, Adrián Hernández, Sergio Sánchez, Lucas González, Alejandro Ramos, Jesús Pimentel, Pablo Correa, Carmen Dolores Chinea-Rodríguez, Carolina Martín-Meana, Ana Madueño","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medine.2025.502252","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Lower risk of catheter-related bacteremia (CRB) using taurolidine (antimicrobial agent) sealing of central venous catheters (CVCs) in children has been found in a meta-analysis. The objective of this study was to analyze whether the sealing of unused lumens of CVCs with taurolidine in critically ill adult patients reduce CRB incidence.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Retrospective study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>One Spanish Intensive Care Unit.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>Critically ill adult patients, who underwent to some CVC.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>The seal of unused lumens of CVCs was performed with saline serum 0.9% or taurolidine.</p><p><strong>Main variable of interest: </strong>Primary Bloodstream Infection (PBSI) included catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) CRBSI and bloodstream infection of unknown origin (BSIUO).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We diagnosed 22 PBSI in the 573 (3.8%) CVC without taurolidine and 22 PBSI in the 548 (4.0%) CVC with taurolidine (p = 0.88). Logistic regression analysis showed an association of tracheostomy with the risk of PBSI; however, we did not find the association of other variables (included taurolidine) with the risk of PBSI.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study reporting data about sealing of unused lumens of CVCs with taurolidine in critically ill adult patients. In our preliminary study, we have not been able to demonstrate that sealing unused lumens of CVCs with taurolidine can reduce the risk of PBSI in critically ill adult patients. However, it would be interesting to conduct randomized studies to confirm or discard our findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":" ","pages":"502252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502219
María Cruz Martín Delgado, Mario Chico Fernández, Gonzalo Sirgo Rodríguez, María Bodí
{"title":"Re-explaining patient safety in Intensive Care Medicine: In need of understanding and action.","authors":"María Cruz Martín Delgado, Mario Chico Fernández, Gonzalo Sirgo Rodríguez, María Bodí","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medine.2025.502219","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Both patient safety and risk management in the healthcare field have adjusted to a diversity of conceptual models arising from different industries. Nowadays, Patient Safety should not be anchored to the most classical models but should be complemented by innovative advances that allow for a comprehensive view of all the key elements and the participation of the agents involved in this essential dimension of healthcare quality. This narrative review aims to analyze the approaches that have nurtured the science of safety over time and to offer a holistic and integrative vision that allows professionals, patients, and organizations to understand how we can move forward in achieving a risk-free healthcare system or at least, make it safer. Although there are experiences in the healthcare field of the application of the new paradigms of safety, there are still many pending questions to be solved before integrating and applying them in the real world.</p>","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":" ","pages":"502219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144532104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicina intensivaPub Date : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1016/j.medine.2025.502230
María-Lidón Mateu-Campos, Susana Altaba-Tena, Beatriz Boscá-Martínez, Jesús Camáñez-Fortanet, Clara Viana-Marco, Ana-Belén González-Núñez, Anna-Rosa Villanova-Landete, Fernando Sánchez-Morán, Raquel Navarro-Alcaraz
{"title":"Clinical impact of COVID-19 respiratory infection 15 months after intensive care unit discharge.","authors":"María-Lidón Mateu-Campos, Susana Altaba-Tena, Beatriz Boscá-Martínez, Jesús Camáñez-Fortanet, Clara Viana-Marco, Ana-Belén González-Núñez, Anna-Rosa Villanova-Landete, Fernando Sánchez-Morán, Raquel Navarro-Alcaraz","doi":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.medine.2025.502230","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To determine the prevalence of persistent COVID-19 symptoms in SARS-CoV-2 patients 15 months after ICU discharge,their impact on physical, psychological, and neurocognitive domains, and the burden on primary caregivers.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Descriptive, ambispective observational study.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Intensive Care Unit from a tertiary-level hospital.</p><p><strong>Patients: </strong>SARS-CoV-2 patients discharged from ICU.</p><p><strong>Main variables of interest: </strong>demographics and hospitalization data. Questionnaires assesing persistent COVID symptoms, functional tests (6-Minute Walk Test), anxiety (Beck Anxiety Inventory), PTSD and Zarit Caregiver Burden scales. Statistical analysis was performed using Stata for Mac, version 14.2.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>85 patients were evaluated, with a median age of 60.3 years (IQR 54.0-68.9), 70.6% males. A high percentage of patients reported musculoskeletal disorders such as arthralgia (44.7%) and myalgia (38.2%), cognitive impairments (52.9%), sleep disturbances (34.1%), asthenia (44.5%) and anxiety (34.5%). The overall BAI score was 2 (0-9), with paraesthesia being the most common symptom. Additionally, 29.4% of patients reported \"fear of the worst\", 35% had unpleasant or recurrent memories of their ICU stay, and 16.4% were unable to relax (moderate/severe degree). Interviews with primary caregivers revealed that 22.2% reported caregiving as a significant burden.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>persistent COVID affects three primary functional domains: physical, cognitive and psychological, as well as on primary caregivers concerns and burdens.</p>","PeriodicalId":94139,"journal":{"name":"Medicina intensiva","volume":" ","pages":"502230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144340718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}