This article discusses the challenges and nuances involved in using CAUTI and CLABSI rates as performance measures for ...

Peripheral artery disease, or PAD, is a condition where the arteries become narrow or blocked over time, most often affecting the legs. Reduced blood flow means that oxygen and other essential ...

When we talk about artery blockage, we automatically think of the heart (and heart disease). However, similar to that, Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) develops when blood vessels that supply legs ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

Study links vasopressor use to higher risk of ICU-acquired weakness, with patients on vasopressors showing 50.1% incidence versus 27.4% in controls Although most sepsis episodes are caused by an ...

Postoperative AKI is more likely among surgery patients who experience intraoperative hypotension as well as those receiving the vasopressor norepinephrine. Both intraoperative hypotension and ...

The absence of practice standards in vasoactive agent usage for acute decompensated heart failure has resulted in significant treatment variability across hospitals, potentially affecting patient ...

Objectives A rising incidence of septic shock as well as recommendations for early vasopressor initiation has increased the number of patients eligible for norepinephrine (NE). Traditionally, NE has ...