An intensive care unit is a specialized hospital ward reserved for serious circumstances. Learn more about what they do, what to expect when you visit, and more.

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

Family members of intensive care unit (ICU) patients often experience psychological and spiritual distress as they deal with serious illness and potential death. A new paper authored by a national ...

My 10 years as an ICU nurse have shown me that futile care is confusing and traumatic for family members, demoralizing for doctors and nurses, and dehumanizing for patients.

Palliative care screenings in ICU may lead to better patient outcomes, study finds In the intensive care unit, every second counts when treating critically ill patients.

It also improved monitoring ICU patients when avoiding such combinations was not possible, and reduced the length of patients’ stay in the ICU. This study is published today in The Lancet.

A new clinical trial will test whether hearing slow tempo music through noise-cancelling headphones makes ICU patients less likely to develop delirium while they are on a ventilator.

Transforming Critical Care & Beyond The integration of telemedicine in critical care ICUs offers substantial benefits that extend beyond improved patient experiences.

Ventilated ICU patients stood up in fewer days with a mobile patient lift plus rehabilitation protocol vs. the protocol alone, according to results published in Critical Care Medicine.“We ...

Shorter stay in the ICU Contrary to the current indiscriminate CDSSs, nine ICUs received during some period a CDSS that was carefully tailored to the ICU environment. This tailored system only ...

Dallas’ pediatric hospital Children’s Health calls its flying transport team the “ICU in the sky.” The team of 80 — with more being hired — at the 40,000-square-foot hangar at Dallas ...

Hospitals cannot admit critically ill patients in the intensive care unit in case of refusal by them and their relatives, the Union Health Ministry has said in its recent guidelines on ICU admissions.