The COVID-19 pandemic marked a turning point for telemedicine, driving a surge in patient use as Congress relaxed regulations to facilitate virtual consultations. While most discussions focus on ...

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.

Across the country, many intensive care units are strained for capacity. This prolongs the boarding process in the emergency department, when critically ill patients – for whom every minute and hour ...

Frank Brodkey, MD, analyzes the many forces contributing to the endurance of critical care myths in ICU clinical practices.

A UK hospital has unveiled a 60-bed rooftop critical care garden designed for ICU patients, blending nature, sunlight, and ...

Not too long ago, Rush Memorial Hospital in Rushville, Indiana, did not have the capability to staff an ICU 24/7. Physicians and nurses were only able to provide ICU care on a part-time basis. This ...

Understand palliative care's evolving role in supporting critically ill patients and their families, focusing on quality of ...

Like my patients, he was on life support—but from my body rather than machines. Illustration by Victor Juhasz. This article appears in the October 16/23, 2023 issue, with the headline “The Labor of ...

The Integrated Care Board proposed to remove level 3 critical care at the Barrow hospital last year.

Select patients with heart failure fitted with an implantable left ventricular assist device can be safely moved to a stepdown unit (SDU) from intensive care unit (ICU), reducing costs, reported ...

Early this month, Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta delayed elective surgeries and procedures. The reason: There were so many Covid-19 patients in the hospital's intensive care unit that there was ...

“I didn’t realise how close I came to dying.” These are the words of Bangor man, Adam Bayliss as he reflects on the ...