Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer deaths took place during ICU shifts staffed by nurses who had more previously shared shifts between them.

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently recognized UPMC Williamsport’s Intensive Care Unit with a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence. This is a significant achievement ...

Use of mobile patient lifts for ICU patients on mechanical ventilation improve their physical function during ICU admission by accelerating the standing process. The intervention group predominantly ...

Any ICU is a highly specialized environment designed to provide critical care for patients facing life-threatening illnesses or injuries. While primary focus within the ICU is typically physiologic ...

Additions to Orlando Health in St. Cloud aim to improve emergency heart-attack care and critical patient recovery.

Sepsis is an alarmingly common cause behind ICU admissions in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), a retrospective, population-based cohort study indicates. Furthermore, it contributes to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of the ICU Liberation Bundle was linked to shorter ICU stays, less time on ventilation and fewer patients in ...

A study in Chest investigated how patient flow changes following the implementation of a telemedicine intensive care unit, or tele-ICU. The researchers, led by Craig M. Lilly, MD, of Worcester-based ...

Nurses Lindsay Brant, from left, Orsi Laszlo and Amanda Cooper attend to a patient in UCLA's cardiothoracic intensive care unit that supports patients and their families during the dying process. (Al ...

In 2014, Massachusetts lawmakers passed a law requiring a 1:1 or 2:1 patient-to-nurse staffing ratio in intensive care units (ICU) in the state, as guided by a tool that accounts for patient acuity ...