Critical Care Physician Articles & Analysis
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Wilkerson, “This study aims to demonstrate that a broad, multidisciplinary team of physicians, including critical care intensivists, interventional radiologists, and interventional pulmonologists, will be able to complete feeding tube placement using point-of-care ultrasound. ...
ByCoapTech
“The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how stretched our healthcare resources are and illustrated a need for tools and technologies to help ensure appropriate resources are available to support emergent cases,” said Dr. Hollis R. O'Neal Jr., a critical care physician at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and a ...
Cytovale, a medical diagnostics company focused on providing a more rapid and insightful way to diagnose fast-moving and immune mediated diseases, today announced the publication of a study in the peer-reviewed journal Critical Care Explorations (CCE) evaluating its IntelliSep test as a tool in the rapid diagnosis of sepsis in the hospital emergency department ...
“Early and reliable strategies to identify sepsis remain elusive, complicating physicians' efforts to implement sepsis care as quickly as possible. Since time-to-treatment for sepsis is measured in lives saved, we need a tool to mitigate diagnostic uncertainty and facilitate early sepsis care,” said Dr. ...
Conversely, treating patients for sepsis when they do not have it taxes the health system, risks overuse of antibiotics, and may delay care for their true illness. The Cytovale system directly analyzes white blood cells using rapid techniques that look at cell structure, making it a faster and less expensive diagnostic compared to gene expression diagnostic systems. ...
By simplifying gastrostomy procedures to the point where they can be conducted at the patient’s bedside with ultrasound, hospitals using PUMA-G benefit by freeing up surgical suites and personnel resources for COVID and other clinical priorities, minimizing cross-contamination, and improving efficiencies in care. CoapTech was founded by critical ...
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