American Journal of Critical Care Videos
ICU Surrogates' Decision-Making and Bereavement Experiences
Christine E. DeForge compares experiences of ICU surrogates by reported level of decisional conflict related to treatment decisions after a patient’s cardiac arrest ...
Explainable AI for Predicting Pressure Injury Risk
Jenny Alderden discusses development of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based “super learner” risk-assessment model with an explainable dashboard to help assess...
Hospital-Based ECG Monitoring
Michele Pelter describes high points of her career as a nurse researcher that led to her being named the 2024 Distinguished Research Lecturer....
Sources of Sound Exposure in Pediatric Critical Care Units
Laura Beth Kalvas describes a secondary analysis undertaken to identify sources of sound exposure in a pediatric intensive care unit....
Inactivity and Risk for PICS in Older ICU Survivors
Maya Elias describes exploring trends between inactivity and symptoms of post–intensive care syndrome (PICS) in older ICU survivors.....
Individualizing End-of-Life Care in a Medical Intensive Care Unit
Brittany Harrison describes whether implementation of the 3 Wishes Project allowed the medical team to provide individualized end-of-life care in the intensive care unit....
Family Caregiving Early in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amanda Leggett describes themes found in interviews of 16 adults recovering at home with their primary caregivers after intubation for COVID-19 in an ICU at a major academic medical center....
Impact of COVID-19 Deaths on Frontline Acute Care Clinicians
Julia Bandini describes findings from interviews of 23 acute care clinicians about their experiences with end-of-life care and the long-term impact of those experiences 2 years after the start of the pandemic....
Functional Disability After Acute Respiratory Failure
Kelly Potter talks about identifying subtypes of survivors of acute respiratory failure early in the ICU stay that differ in post-ICU functional disability....
Palliative Care and ECMO
Gabriel Lutz discusses the feasibility of providing palliative care to patients with COVID-19 undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation....
Talking About Prognosis
Lauren Rissman discusses the results of a survey of 49 parents and 20 pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) attending physicians about prognostic conversations....
Psychological Distress in Family Caregivers
Amanda C. Blok discusses a qualitative study exploring sources of family caregiver psychological distress during critical care hospitalization and how caregivers’ experiences differed by anxiety level....
Interprofessional Team Collaboration
Brenda T. Pun discusses her article about the results of surveys distributed to 68 intensive care units from the ICU Liberation Collaborative in 2015. ...
Caring for Rural Patients at End of Life
Renea L. Beckstrand, PhD, RN, CCRN, CNE, describes her findings on critical access hospital nurses' perceptions of obstacles and helpful behavior items related to end-of-life care ...
Perceptions of ICU Hospitalization and Recovery
Mariya A. Kovaleva, PhD, RN, AGPCNP-BC, and Leanne Boehm, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, describe their findings on patients' and caregivers' perceptions of intensive ...
Nursing Care at End of Life in Children
Elizabeth G. Broden, PhD, RN, describes using data from a large clinical trial to assess pain and agitation in children at end of life...
Critical Care Nurses' Experiences During COVID-19
Jill L. Guttormson, PhD, RN, describes the experiences of critical care nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States...
End-of-Life Care Experiences of an ICU Team in Chile
Alejandra Palma, MD, describes reflections of members of an intensive care unit team in Chile on their experiences with and perspectives of end-of-life care of their patients....
Burnout and Related Outcomes in VA Critical Care Units
Lakshmana Swamy, MD, MBA, describes analyzing burnout among critical care nurses at VA hospitals in relation to outcomes for both patients and clinicians....
Live vs Recorded Music for Children Receiving Mechanical Ventilation
Hannah Ivey Bush, MM, MT-BC, describes the effects of live music, adjusted in real time by a trained music therapist, on children <2 years old receiving mechanical ventilation and sedation....
Use of Acute Care Resources After Elective Surgery
Vijay Krishnamoorthy, MD, MPH, PhD, describes the extent to which common inpatient elective surgical procedures consume acute and critical care resources. ...
Patients' Adaptations After ARDS
Katrina E. Hauschildt, PhD, describes the accommodative and recuperative strategies that patients use after ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). ...
Burnout and Healthy Work Environments
Lesly A. Kelly, PhD, RN, describes the key elements of the critical care work environment that are associated with burnout and compassion satisfaction. ...
Equipping Critical Care Nurses For Ethical Challenges
Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, MSN, RN, describes the Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy, a curricular intervention to increase nurses' skills in mindfulness, resilience, confidence, and competence to confront ethical challenges in clinical practice. ...
Home Visits for ARDS Survivors
Victor D. Dinglas, MPH, describes the factors associated with home visits in a 5-year study of survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). ...
Surge Response to the Pandemic
Rapid ICU Training to Treat COVID-19 Patients
Susan I. Liu, BSN, RN, CCRN, TCRN, describes how her hospital created and implemented a 3-hour training to prepare non–critical care nurses to manage critically ill patients with COVID-19. ...
Distinguished Research Lecture
Karen K. Giuliano, PhD, MBA, RN, describes her unconventional journey from a critical care staff nurse to challenging precedent in critical care and technology development...
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