Critical Care

Female trauma patients had longer stay in ED, longer time in pretriage, increased likelihood of discharge to nursing or long-term care facilities

Twenty-eight percent of trials used historical, external, or other control; nearly half used surrogate measure as a primary end point

Higher risk seen for patients who were male, had multiple comorbidities and more previous emergency department visits

Persistent viral shedding associated with in-hospital delirium and increased six-month mortality

Significant but weaker associations with selected adverse outcomes seen for preexisting hypertension, diabetes, and ischemic heart disease

President Biden has ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of those lost

Neuropsychiatric sequelae are comparable for survivors of COVID-19 hospitalization, other severe acute respiratory infections

Findings for six-month functional outcomes among patients with severe stroke receiving mechanical ventilation

However, a history of cancer more than one year before COVID-19 diagnosis not tied to increased mortality or hospitalization

Encephalopathy was the most common serious neurologic manifestation, occurring in 10.2 percent of adults hospitalized with COVID-19