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

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 ...

Delirium affects up to 50% of patients in the ICU, especially those who are mechanically ventilated and sedated. Delirium is ...

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 ...

As if staying in an intensive care unit isn’t traumatizing enough, a large proportion of people treated in ICUs develop delirium. Hallucinations make their hospital stay more traumatizing, and can ...

Some people have heard of the ICU but don’t fully understand what goes on in an intensive care unit. Read on to learn more about these specialty hospital wards that help treat severe cases and provide ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer deaths took place during ICU shifts staffed by nurses who had more previously shared shifts between them.

A video of a young man leaving the ICU after a year-long battle for life, moving into rehab, went viral, touching the hearts ...

Six critically ill patients have been killed in a fire that broke out at an intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital in the ...

ICU fire at Indian hospital kills nine, including six patients - Eleven patients were in the ICU when the fire broke out at ...