Hospitals with a high percentage of patients cared for in the intensive care unit are more likely to incur higher costs and perform more invasive procedures with no improvement in patient mortality ...

Do family members of loved ones who are critically ill and being treated in an intensive care unit at a hospital belong there when clinicians are performing bedside procedures? A new study from ...

Some people have heard of the ICU but don’t fully understand what goes on in an intensive care unit. Read on to learn more about these specialty hospital wards that help treat severe cases and provide ...

Simulation sessions can help maintain clinician proficiency and prepare staff members to be part of the multidisciplinary team during high-risk procedures that happen suddenly and infrequently. One ...

A stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) is, for most patients and their families (a term I’ll use broadly, to include all loved ones), the scariest and most traumatic experience of their life.

Ken Wu, M.B., B.S. You are a physician leader on a senior committee that is responsible for your hospital’s Covid-19 response. For the past week, the hospital census has been over 90% of capacity, and ...

In one of the first detailed studies of the informed-consent process in an ICU, the researchers found that the rapid, unpredictable pace of critical illness combined with the inability of very sick ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Although aging was associated with an increased risk for mortality in the 3 years following hospital ICU ...

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