Respiratory and heart problems are the top reasons children are admitted to pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the U.S. (Photo Credit: Monkey Business Images/Dreamstime) What is the PICU? The ...

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 ...

This paper describes a paradigm shift occurring in neonatal intensive care. Care teams are moving from a focus limited to healing the baby’s medical problems towards a focus that also requires ...

Different hospitals may use these specialized units for cardiac or critical care, which may be similar to an intensive care unit (ICU). Once you don’t need 24-hour critical or cardiac care, you will ...

Introduction Critical care patients face varying degrees of physical and psychological stress; in recent decades, the increasing focus on technologies and clinical processes has led to dehumanisation.

The traditional goals of intensive care are to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with critical illness, maintain organ function, and restore health. Despite technological advances, death ...

Introduction Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in intensive care units (ICUs), where any delay in diagnosis and treatment can lead to organ dysfunction, prolonged hospital stay and increased ...

Intensive insulin therapy reduces morbidity and mortality in patients in surgical intensive care units (ICUs), but its role in patients in medical ICUs is unknown. In a prospective, randomized, ...

There are two separate tracks for the surgical critical care fellowship - the adult focus and the pediatric focus. Each of these focus tracks has one position. The adult focus concentrates on adult ...