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What to Know About Your Child's Stay in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

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 ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Appropriate Patient Selection and Triage: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Cardiac intensive care units are specialized, high-acuity, and resource-intensive environments for the care of critically ill ...
The Hill

Intensive care: America’s patients need prevention, not procedures

With the recent rise in flu cases and the increase in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases nationally putting a strain on the health care system, the burden on health care professionals across ...

Clinical trial of online rehabilitation at home offers hope of better recovery for intensive care survivors

A UK-wide trial, managed by Warwick Medical School, finds that online rehabilitation at home can meaningfully improve quality ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Early Active Mobilization during Mechanical Ventilation in the ICU

Intensive care unit (ICU)–acquired weakness often develops in patients who are undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation. Early active mobilization may mitigate ICU-acquired weakness, increase ...