Cardiac operations with cardiopulmonary bypass cause a systemic inflammatory response,
which can lead to organ injury and postoperative morbidity. Causative factors include …

Background: Improvement of clinical care requires measurement of key dimensions of health
care quality and action based on these measurements. Families, data analysts, clinicians, …

… Hall RI, Rocker GM: End of life care in the ICU: Treatments provided when life support
was or was not withdrawn. Chest 2000; 118: 1424–30 … Harvey M (Ed): Volunteers in the …

Objective. To describe the substitute decision-makers' perspectives related to decision-making
in the intensive care unit (ICU) and to determine those variables associated with their …

Background There is increasing support for the use of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation
(NPPV) in the treatment of patients with acute respiratory failure. Highest success rates …

By the year 2020, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third leading
cause of death globally. While there have been consistent calls for increased palliative care …

Objective To describe the perspectives of family members to the care provided to critically ill
patients who died in the ICU. Design Multicenter, prospective, observational study. Setting …

Background: High-quality end-of-life care should be the right of every Canadian. The objective
of this study was to identify aspects of end-of-life care that are high in priority as targets for …

Study objective To compare and contrast use oftechnology, pharmacology, and physician
variability in end-of-life careof ICU patients dying with or without active life support. Design …

PURPOSE: The frequency of clinically diagnosed venous thromboembolism (VTE) including
deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) in medical-surgical critically …