Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most common type of nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit. Clinical diagnosis of VAP still depends on the results of microbial culture ...

The incidence density of VAP per 1,000 ventilator days in the ICU was 1.3 in 2009 ... 1 Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Av. Albert Einstein, 627/701 ...

A new clinical trial will test whether hearing slow tempo music through noise-cancelling headphones makes ICU patients less likely to develop delirium while they are on a ventilator.

Before we place patients on a ventilator, we, the ICU staff, often make video calls home. Hands reach out to each other, millimeters apart on the screen but cruelly, never able to touch. Real ...

High-pitched alarms beep sporadically. A ventilator wheezes. You have an IV line stuck in your arm, a breathing tube down your throat, and a catheter in your urethra. As a patient in a hospital ...

My 10 years as an ICU nurse have shown me that futile care is confusing and traumatic for family members, demoralizing for doctors and nurses, and dehumanizing for patients.

Region’s COVID ICU, ventilator patient counts rise quickly by: Jeff Keeling, Anslee Daniel. Posted: Jul 27, 2022 / 06:32 PM EDT. Updated: Jul 27, 2022 / 06:32 PM EDT.