Audrey De Jong

TL;DR: The use of a lung-protective ventilation strategy in intermediate-risk and high-risk patients undergoing major abdominal surgery was associated with improved clinical outcomes and reduced health care utilization.

TL;DR: In this article, the use of lung-protective ventilation strategy in intermediate-risk and high-risk patients undergoing major abdominal surgery was associated with improved clinical out comes and reduced health care utilization.

TL;DR: In hospitalized and ICU patients and in patients with chronic illnesses, a J-shaped relationship between BMI and mortality has been demonstrated, with overweight and moderate obesity being protective compared with a normal BMI or more severe obesity (the still debated and incompletely understood “obesity paradox”).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and validated a simplified score for identifying patients with difficult intubation in the ICU and to report related complications using data collected in a prospective multicenter study from 1,000 consecutive intubations from 42 ICUs.

TL;DR: Sodium bicarbonate decreased the primary composite outcome and day 28 mortality in the a-priori defined stratum of patients with acute kidney injury, and metabolic alkalosis, hypernatraemia, and hypocalcaemia were observed more frequently in the bic carbonate group than in the control group, with no life-threatening complications reported.