Investigation followed complaints by the Massachusetts Nurses Association. It says the hospital took steps to correct the ...
Pediatric admissions declined over the past two decades, but a greater proportion of these hospitalized kids have landed in the intensive care unit (ICU), and with increasingly complex cases, a ...
Private rooms in hospital intensive care units are not just nicer for patients and their families – a new study shows they are safer, too. Roughly three out of every 10 ICU patients wind up with some ...
Each time communities experience surges of Covid-19, concerns arise over the availability of hospital and intensive care unit beds in affected regions. To monitor ICU capacity, several states have ...
“UAB Medicine has a longstanding partnership with Whitfield Regional Hospital, making it the ideal location to launch our first Tele-ICU expanded hospital,” said Steve Stigler, M.D., medical director ...
"I'm scared that we're not going to be able to take care of people." Demoralizing. Exhausting. Frustrating. Scary. Those are some of the words used by two nurses in two intensive care units used to ...
This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...
Nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists will come up short too: study. They built field hospitals, transformed operating rooms into ICUs, and ingeniously crafted their own ventilators and masks.
William married the love of his life, Marlene, in his ICU room just hours before he was transferred into hospice care.