Nurses’ clinical intervention and barcode medication scanning emerged as the two biggest safeguards preventing patient harm in intensive care units at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai, according to a ...

As stroke systems of care evolve, clinicians are increasingly torn between the known safety of traditional, aggressive ...

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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 ...

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How nutrition therapy supports recovery, rehabilitation, and quality of life in patients with chronic critical illness and post–ICU syndrome.

Investigation followed complaints by the Massachusetts Nurses Association. It says the hospital took steps to correct the ...

Deaconess Health System employees stayed inside the hospital for multiple days during a major snowstorm to ensure critical patient care continued uninterrupted.

FLORENCE — After more than two years of construction, McLeod Regional Medical Center unveiled its newly renovated cardiovascular intensive care unit at a Sept. 26 ribbon cutting ceremony at the McLeod ...