Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than half of older ICU survivors who filled a new sedative prescription filled it again within 6 months of ...

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 ...

Inhaled isoflurane sedation was on par with IV midazolam for children age 3 to 17 years in the ICU on mechanical ventilation in a randomized trial. Isoflurane also reduced time to extubation and ...

Listen to an interview with Richard Barton, M.D. and Nick Lonardo on The Scope Radio. Sedation is frequently required for mechanically ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients to reduce anxiety, ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Clinicians may be surprised that rules governing deep procedural sedation in intensive care settings forbid certain practices that seem like standard care, according to a discussion at ...

High proportion of time in deep sedation linked to loss of independent living among patients who lived independently before ICU admission. (HealthDay News) — For mechanically ventilated patients who ...

Prioritizing nonpharmacologic strategies, enhancing staff training, and distinguishing Delirium Superimposed on Dementia (DSD) are vital to improving outcomes for hospitalized patients with Alzheimer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A multicenter, randomized trial is planned to assess ketamine vs. etomidate in patients requiring intubation.

As ICU survival improves, researchers are exploring whether acupuncture could become a low-risk, evidence-informed add-on to critical care, helping patients recover faster while reducing reliance on ...

Psychiatrists and critical care specialists at Johns Hopkins have begun to tease out what there is about a stay in an intensive care unit (ICU) that leads so many patients to report depression after ...