Critical Care Medicine

Research reveals exactly how coughing is triggered by environmental irritants

Scientists have revealed how environmental irritants such as air pollution and cigarette smoke cause people to cough, in research published today in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The authors of...

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Response to Letter by Vergouwen [Letters to the Editor]

Response to Letter by Vergouwen Andreas H. Kramer, MD, MSc, FRCPC Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, Foothills Medical Center, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta,...

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Exposures to metals and diesel emissions in air linked to respiratory symptoms in children

Exposure shortly after birth to ambient metals from residential heating oil combustion and particles from diesel emissions are associated with respiratory symptoms in young inner city children, according to a new study by...

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Winter receives national recognition for international relief work

NORWALK Stephen M. Winter, MD, FCCP, of Ridgefield, chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, recently received the Humanitarian...

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Ineffective triggering predicts increased duration of mechanical ventilation.

Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. mdewit@mcvh-vcu.edu OBJECTIVES: To determine whether high rates of ineffective triggering within the first 24 hrs of...

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Efficacy and safety of quetiapine in critically ill patients with delirium: A prospective,...

From the Northeastern University School of Pharmacy (JWD, RJR), Boston, MA; Massachusetts College of Pharmacy (JJF), Worcestor, MA; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Masionneuve Rosemont Hospital (YS, JH), Montreal, Quebec;...

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Prostacyclin Inhibits IFN-{gamma}-Stimulated Cytokine Expression by Reduced Recruitment of...

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045. Increasing evidence indicates that pulmonary arterial hypertension is a vascular inflammatory disease. Prostacyclin (PGI(2)) is widely used to...

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Get the First Articles from CCM's H1N1 Supplement

A supplement to Critical Care Medicine focused on H1N1 influenza will be released next year, but open-access article proofs are being posted online as they become available, ensuring clinicians receive this information as soon...

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AMA House of Delegates Address EOL, Healthcare Reform

The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates last week met for its interim meeting to discuss the ongoing healthcare system debate. Representatives from the Society of Critical Care Medicine attended the meeting, where...

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ISCCM Preparing a New Critical Care Workforce

The Nagpur chapter of the Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine (ISCCM) recently was featured in the The Times of India for the group’s efforts to launch a new, hands-on critical care training program for resident and junior...

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