Licorice lands 71-year-old man in ICU: Aussie case
Six weeks of munching through a birthday box of confectionery has landed man in his 70s in ICU with severe hypokalaemia, Australian doctors report. The…
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In-bed cycling in ICU could shorten patient stay, improve physical function
ICU patients could benefit significantly from in-bed cycling, with such exercise improving physical function and possibly shortening intensive care stays, a review finds. Even sedated…
‘Exceptional circumstances’: Doctors ordered to continue woman’s futile life support
A court has ordered doctors to keep treating a woman they deem to have irreversible brain damage, while her family attempt to raise over $400,000 to…
How this doctor quit medicine to make $140,000 a year playing online games
When Dr Michael Pomroy first ventured into the world of an online game called Space Engineers he was attempting to de-stress from his shifts in…
I’m back after a head injury — with (even more) admiration for my GPs
I wrote for Australian Doctor for some years as Retractor, but then I got too busy doctoring and being called an urban terrorist (by a…
Prolonged beta-lactam infusions beat intermittent dosing for sepsis, say Aussie doctors
Continuous infusions of beta-lactam antibiotics, rather than intermittent doses, should be adopted as the standard of care for managing adults with sepsis, according to Australian doctors. The…
‘Being critically ill is not their main complaint’: Doctor says noisy ICUs causing patients sleep deprivation
A leading intensivist is on a mission to turn down the volume in ICUs, after his research shows patients are struggling to sleep amid noise…
Brushing teeth of ICU patients could mean fewer cases of hospital-acquired pneumonia
Cleaning ICU patients’ pearly whites once a day appears to cut their risk of developing hospital-acquired pneumonia by a third, a US study shows.  …
Special report: Life at 24 weeks
Angela is staring at the blood-strewn vomit splattered across the bathroom floor. She is in shock. In a few minutes she’ll be in the car,…
