Stephen Trzeciak

TL;DR: Test the hypothesis of noninferiority between lactate clearance and central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) as goals of early sepsis resuscitation and found that among patients with septic shock who were treated to normalizeCentral venous and mean arterial pressure, additional management tonormalize lactate cleared did not result in significantly different in-hospital mortality.

TL;DR: Critically ill emergency department patients with a ≥6-hr delay inintensive care unit transfer had increased hospital length of stay and higher intensive care unit and hospital mortality, suggesting the need to identify factors associated with delayed transfer as well as specific determinants of adverse outcomes.

TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to describe how ED overcrowding threatens patient safety and public health, and to explore the complex causes and potential solutions for the overcrowding crisis.

TL;DR: Among patients admitted to the ICU following resuscitation from cardiac arrest, arterial hyperoxia was independently associated with increased in-hospital mortality compared with either hypoxia or normoxia.

TL;DR: The SOFA score provides potentially valuable prognostic information on in-hospital survival when applied to patients with severe sepsis with evidence of hypoperfusion at the time of emergency department (ED) presentation.