Articles on Intensive Care
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Research shows that more than half of patients in intensive care don’t get enough nutrition.
Boxer Muhammad Ali died of septic shock, after being admitted to the hospital for a respiratory problem. Despite the fact more than a million people are hospitalized with sepsis each year, fewer than half of Americans know what the word sepsis means.
Limiting ICU beds is suggested as a way to cut down on overuse, but that assumes doctors always know which patients need to be there.
Patients who are discharged from intensive care units (ICUs) after-hours have a higher chance of death than those discharged…
Quality health care can be expensive and medical research has traditionally been thought to play a role in making it so. But research can also help cut the cost of medical care. The notion of research…
Patients leaving hospital after intensive care require more support than they are currently getting, researchers at Imperial…
A study conducted over several East African hospitals has cast doubt over fluid replacement therapy. The study followed children…
Intensive Care Unit clinicians often allocate scarce resources towards gravely-ill existing patients rather than freeing…



