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.

Determining whether capacity has been reached is more nebulous. The state determines a region’s ICU capacity with a weighted formula to ensure that some ICU beds remain open for non-COVID patients.

The longer a patient suffers from delirium while in the hospital, the higher the risk for dementia once discharged, the study found. The practice of putting critically ill patients into drug ...

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.

Over the last 25 years, refinements in ICU care meant that patients were discharged faster and had fewer lingering symptoms. COVID-19 undid nearly all our progress overnight.

But data experts caution ICU bed capacity is not the only distinguishing feature of a hospital's COVID readiness. The ability to actually staff those ICU beds remains an essential component of how ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.