Predicting mortality risk in intensive care unit (ICU) patients is a crucial part of medical treatment, and recent research ...

Clinician handoff is critical and can help reduce medical errors in the intensive care unit (ICU), according to a series of presentations on planning and communicating around ICU transitions.

A total 41.4% of elderly intensive care unit (ICU) admissions suffered from malnutrition, according to a September study published in BMC Geriatrics.

Intensive care unit (ICU)–acquired weakness often develops in patients who are undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation. Early active mobilization may mitigate ICU-acquired weakness, increase ...

Asthma ICU admissions rose in children and remained stable in adults over 10 years. Read more about the population study.

You have heard about the severity of COVID-19 and the Delta variant. You have heard about the crisis in our local hospitals; the nursing shortages and the lack of supplies. Maybe you do not believe it ...

Among people who have a stroke in Canada, immigrants were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at similar rates to long-term residents or people who were born in Canada, but they were more likely ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Sapna Kudchadkar still remembers the morning in 2010 that shaped the trajectory of her scientific research. She was in the midst of a medical fellowship, ...

It takes a special person to work as a unit secretary in the intensive care unit. Daily she deals with a wide variety of people, including sick patients, family members, nurses, physicians and other ...