Background: Intensive care units (ICUs) account for considerable health care costs. Adequate pain and sedation management is important to clinical care. Objective: To determine whether implementing a ...
Researchers found patients have worse outcomes when put under early deep sedation in the intensive care unit, but pharmacist-led protocols could help. The retrospective study, conducted from March to ...
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Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis Cost-Effective in the ICU
In the economic analysis of the REVISE trial (E-REVISE), the incremental cost of randomization to IV pantoprazole (Protonix ...
Sedation weaning protocol reduces total opioid exposure in infants following cardiac surgery In the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (ICU), a specific sedation weaning guideline significantly ...
Avoiding “silent brain death” has the potential to cut costs and improve quality of care, according to an article published in Critical Care Nurse. The article’s author contends nurses, who are often ...
A new study by research with Johns Hopkins suggests that hospitals can cut catheter-related blood infections in ICUs meaningfully by using simple, common sense infection control practices. Researchers ...
In mid-August California’s Health Officer, Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, issued a new order meant to ensure rapidly-filling hospitals and ICUs had the support and flexibility they needed. At the time, Aragón ...
In this Healio video, Andrew J. Costandi, MD, MMM, details the Enhanced Recovery After Liver Transplantation protocol at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which shortened post-transplant ICU stays from ...
Hospitals in California’s San Joaquin Valley Region have fallen below a 10% threshold for staffed adult beds in intensive care units for three straight days, California’s Department of Public Health ...
The share of available intensive care beds has dropped to concerningly low levels in the San Joaquin Valley, prompting state health officials to implement COVID-19 hospital surge protocols aimed at ...
Patient symptom-driven sedation, analgesia, and delirium protocols were associated with several changes in pharmacologic practice. The proportion of patients receiving each class of drugs within the ...
In mid-August California‘s Health Officer, Dr. Tomás J. Aragón, issued a new order meant to ensure rapidly-filling hospitals and ICUs had the support and flexibility they needed. At the time, Aragón ...
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