Then, using genetic testing, they traced how the bacteria moved around the hospital. They discovered that around 10 per cent of ICU patients had C. diff exposure—either on their body or in their ...

Julie McFadden became a hospice nurse after working in the ICU for almost a decade, where the topic of death was rarely discussed despite being inevitable for some patients. • The content ...

It wasn’t until McFadden observed a troubling pattern in the ICU that the realization struck: the relentless pursuit of keeping patients alive often caused more suffering for both the patients ...

Clinical question: In patients presenting to the intensive care unit (ICU) for sepsis, which intravenous (IV) fluid resuscitation strategy (restrictive, liberal, or moderate) is optimal for lower ...

For a typical suburban ICU, the fear is that there could be one less nurse. Victoria is planning to legislate nurse-to-patient ratios in intensive care wards for the first time. Credit ...

This guidance is part of the NHS organisations with an impact on digital general practice section of the Good practice guidelines for GP electronic patient records. A PCN is a group of GP practices ...

"Our business is living, surviving and getting whatever the patient needs to get there," said Mojca Nemanic, a critical care registered nurse in the unit. But sometimes, despite everyone's best ...

On Jan. 16, Henderson was arrested and charged with a felony count of involuntary manslaughter, plus misdemeanor charges of tampering with evidence and gross patient neglect.

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recently conferred a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence on the Intensive Care Unit at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown, according to a ...

Trained on data from the eICU Collaborative Research Database, which includes over 200,000 patients, the model dynamically processes both hourly and daily health indicators. By day five of ICU ...