A Maryland first responder who has spent his career helping others is now the one fighting for his life — and his community is stepping up.Stephon Jones, a Prince George’s County Emergency Dispatcher ...

Researchers found that trauma teams with stronger “who knows what” coordination were associated with shorter hospital and ICU ...

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 ...

A team of Emory researchers recently found scientific evidence that the well-known health risks of extreme heat can have especially severe consequences for patients with pre-existing cardiovascular ...

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 ...

"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 ...

The Intensive Care Unit of a hospital is a typically scary department with patients often in critical condition. Now, an ICU nurse has answered some common queries about what happens to patients when ...

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.

CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. — When she finally made it home after 54 days in the UPMC Mercy intensive care unit, Brenda Markle was literally helpless. She could not sit, stand or speak. She could not feed ...