Critical Care Commentary
Critical Care Commentary
Biomarker use in ARDS resulting from COVID-19 infection
There is renewed interest in the use of immunomodulator therapies in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure.
Critical Care Commentary
The language of AI and its applications in health care
AI can make clinical care more efficient; however, many find its confusing terminology to be a barrier.
Critical Care Commentary
Use of albumin in critically ill patients
Even for widely accepted albumin indications, the certainty of evidence is low ands recommendations are weak.
Critical Care Commentary
Hospital-onset sepsis: Why the brouhaha?
Prompt treatment of sepsis is necessary to avoid morbidity and mortality.
Critical Care Commentary
Implementing a critical care TEE program at your institution
Guidance on creating a critical care transthoracic echo at your facility.
Critical Care Commentary
Should intensivists place PEG tubes in critically ill patients?
Adequate nutrition combats the dangerous catabolic state that accompanies critical illness.
Critical Care Commentary
Sedative use in older adults after critical illness
Patients admitted to ICUs require modifications to their medication regimen due to their critical illness and rapidly changing clinical status.
Critical Care Commentary
Celebrating the inaugural issues of CHEST’s new open access journals
After much anticipation, the inaugural issues of both CHEST® Critical Care and CHEST® Pulmonary officially launched in late June.
Critical Care Commentary
Use the SCAI stages to identify and treat cardiogenic shock
Cardiogenic shock (CS) is being recognized more often in critically ill patients.
Critical Care Commentary
Fluids or vasopressors: Is sepsis management that simple?
Did CLOVERS and CLASSIC resolve the ongoing debate about the timing and quantity of fluid resuscitation in sepsis?