Intensive-care unit
hideAn intensive care unit (ICU), critical care unit (CCU), intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) is a specialized department used in many countries' hospitals that provides intensive care medicine. Many hospitals also have designated intensive care areas for certain specialities of medicine, as dictated by the needs and available resources of each hospital. The naming is not rigidly standardized.
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Role of Statins in Reducing H1N1 Mortality Rates Studied
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are studying statins, the class of drugs long associated with lowering cholesterol, as a way to reduce H1N1-related deaths.
Researchers mobilizing global resources to test new treatments for severe H1N1 infection
Nov 11, 2009 |
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An important, ground-breaking initiative is unfolding in the global critical care community in response to the H1N1 pandemic.
Muscle weakness a common side effect of long stays in intensive care units
Oct 27, 2009 |
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After decades of focusing on the management of respiratory failure, circulatory shock and severe infections that lead to extended stays in hospital intensive care units, critical care researchers are increasingly turning ...
New study recommends change in treating pulmonary embolisms
Oct 27, 2009 |
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William Kuo, MD, was the on-call interventional radiologist one Friday night three years ago when he received a call from the intensive care unit at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. He was asked to attend to a 62-year-old woman ...
Researchers find those with severe H1N1 at risk for pulmonary emboli
Oct 14, 2009 |
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University of Michigan researchers have found that patients with severe cases of the H1N1 virus are at risk for developing severe complications, including pulmonary emboli, according to a study published today in the American Jo ...
Lessons learned from H1N1 virus pandemic
Oct 09, 2009 |
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A comprehensive study has revealed, for the first time, the impact of swine flu on the health of the general public in Australia and New Zealand.
Intensive care units poorly equipped to care for the dying
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Almost half of the patients who die in intensive care units die within 24 hours, but the environment is not equipped to provide good end-of-life care. Most relatives are nevertheless happy with the care given, shows a thesis ...
How do doctors really feel about surrogate decision making?
Sep 08, 2009 |
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A growing number of hospitalized adults are incapable of making their own health decisions, but little research has explored how doctors feel about making medical decisions with a patient's surrogate decision ...
Cardiac biomarker levels strongly predict outcome of bypass surgery
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Levels of a biomarker used in the diagnosis of heart attacks are almost universally elevated in patients who have undergone coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) and, when markedly elevated, are powerfully prognostic, a ...
Surgical scrub solution: It's good for patients, too (w/ Video)
Sep 04, 2009 |
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Giving critically ill hospital patients a daily bath with a mild, soapy solution of the same antibacterial agent used by surgeons to "scrub in" before an operation can dramatically cut down, by as much as 73 percent, the ...
Surviving sepsis program -- increased compliance gets results
Sep 03, 2009 |
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A 'surviving sepsis' in-hospital project has been shown to improve the care of patients with sepsis. The educational program for early management of patients with septic shock, described in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Early, aggressive treatment recommended for critically ill patients with hematological malignancy
Aug 24, 2009 |
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A study of 7,689 admissions from 178 adult intensive care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has revealed the factors associated with a higher mortality rate in haematological malignancy. Researchers writing in ...
Hospital dramatically increases transplant donations by integrating bereavement and donor services
Jul 30, 2009 |
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A UK hospital that combined its bereavement and donation services saw a forty-fold increase in tissue donations, such as corneas, in just five years, according to research in the August issue of Anaesthesia.
Baby with two heads born in Philippines
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Doctors at a Philippine hospital were Wednesday trying to save a baby girl born with two heads, officials said.
Swine flu researchers put Milwaukee under microscope
Jul 28, 2009 |
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To better understand the enemy they will face this fall, health investigators have been studying Milwaukee's swine flu outbreak during the spring and following the virus as it sweeps through the Southern Hemisphere.
