Oral care decreased both the number of intensive care unit (ICU) patients and the length of stay, as well as the amount of time of mechanical ventilation. Patients on mechanical ventilation who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . From the start of rehabilitation, it took a median of 1 day for patients given a mobile patient lift to stand vs ...

Surgically opening the windpipe, or trachea, within the first seven days of the start of mechanical ventilation decreases the time patients spend on ventilators, shortens their ICU stay and lowers ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Each additional minute patients spent boarded in the ED led to a 0.026% increase in ICU length of stay and a 0.023% increase in ventilator days, according to a study presented at ...

Covid-19 intensive care units are grappling with a shortage of ventilators and staff trained to monitor them. A groundbreaking innovation by Israeli startup Yehonatan Medical addresses both these ...

Few people have thought about providing an exercise workout in the intensive care unit, especially for patients on ventilators - even those who are comatose - but a researcher from Frances Payne ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — COVID-19 hospitalizations have risen fast in the past two weeks after a long, steady increase and the number of critically ill COVID patients has spiked even more ...

The COVID-19 ICU is quiet. Ventilators hum inside patient rooms, and sensors beep. The phone rings occasionally: sometimes another hospital floor calling, other times a family member inquiring about ...

In a recent study from UW Medicine of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) in the early days of the pandemic in the Puget Sound area, researchers found only half of the patients admitted to the ...

Nearly two months after Jim Kolovos was put on a ventilator, his wife and doctors tried to help him regain consciousness so they could ask him a question: Was he ready to give up, or did he want to ...

Music therapy could significantly reduce heart rate, blood pressure and patient–ventilator asynchronies for patients admitted ...