Background: Intensive care units (ICUs) account for considerable health care costs. Adequate pain and sedation management is important to clinical care. Objective: To determine whether implementing a ...

Researchers found patients have worse outcomes when put under early deep sedation in the intensive care unit, but pharmacist-led protocols could help. The retrospective study, conducted from March to ...

In mid-August California‘s Health Officer, Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, issued a new order meant to ensure rapidly-filling hospitals and ICUs had the support and flexibility they needed. At the time, Aragón ...

image: Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City have received a $4.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the best ways to implement recognized standards of ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is stepping up safety protocols for veterans as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Mark Morgan, the Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System Director, said their ICU is ...

The provision of intensive care for cancer patients presenting with respiratory failure has evolved markedly over recent decades. Advances in oncological therapies and critical care management have ...

Home ICU can offer comfort and lower infection risk, but doctors say they are suitable only for carefully selected patients ...