Assessment of organ dysfunction lies at the heart of contemporary critical care, offering an objective framework to quantify the severity and progression of multi-organ impairment in the intensive ...
New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, identifies biomarkers of a distinct immune profile that could be used ...
Clinician-scientists from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago were among a diverse, international group of experts tasked by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) with ...
Doctors use the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, previously known as the sepsis-related organ failure assessment, to measure a person’s organ function or failure rate. SOFA is a ...
A woman develops relentless nausea, severe abdominal pain, and organ dysfunction after taking a friend's GLP-1 weight loss ...
Providers should evaluate all patients with new-onset hypertension for evidence of end organ damage, guidelines say, but researchers have found gaps in that process. Researchers at Indiana University ...
Care of patients with systemic immunoglobulin light chain (AL) amyloidosis has undergone transformative changes, leading to marked, steady progress in outcomes for patients over the past four decades.
A 19-month-old child faced a life-threatening ordeal after accidentally ingesting mosquito-repellent liquid, leading to severe lung damage and multiple organ complications. After nearly three weeks of ...