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 ...

Not too long ago, Rush Memorial Hospital in Rushville, Indiana, did not have the capability to staff an ICU 24/7. Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. This ...

Music therapy could significantly reduce heart rate, blood pressure and patient–ventilator asynchronies for patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit (ICU), according to research being ...

Approximately 35 percent of surviving intensive care unit patients experience posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms seven to 12 months following their hospital admission, according to a MedPage Today ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Around 30% of ICU providers indicated that they would discuss post-intensive care syndrome with the ...

PubMed Central® (PMC), the archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM), recently released a ...

International guidelines developed with contributions from a Texas A&M University College of Nursing researcher confirm the importance of thoughtful intensive care unit (ICU) design and encourage the ...

A fully immersive virtual entertainment experience can help calm patients in the pediatric intensive care unit, according to a study published in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Researchers at ...