Significant predictors of VTE were APACHE II score, previous immobilization, femoral central venous catheter, and invasive mechanical ventilation. Common risk assessment models for predicting venous ...

In a new development, researchers have created an AI-driven model capable of predicting mortality risk in sepsis patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Leveraging cutting-edge ...

It goes without saying that artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate many of the conversations around health care technology. Hospitals continue to face some of their toughest challenges ...

When patients stabilize enough to leave the ICU, the transition should represent progress. Instead, it often marks the beginning of a new set of risks. Research shows that in some patient cohorts, 1 ...

PubMed Central® (PMC), the archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles from the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM), recently released a ...

Whether selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) reduces mortality among patients undergoing mechanical ventilation and whether it adversely affects microbial ecology in the intensive ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

In neurological intensive care, it is understood that the brain cannot wait. As the most sensitive organ in the human body, ...