Resistant staph infections dropped 90% at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center after it began testing incoming ICUpatients for exposure to resistant staph strains and isolating carriers.
While these patients spent a bit less time in the hospital, they also spent more days in the ICU. Most disturbingly, dementia patients spent more time in the intensive care in 2009 than in 2000.
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) where sickle cell patients go for treatment when suffering a sudden attack lost all five of its consultants and one of them is still in jail.
Pre-operative statin therapy can reduce the chance of post-operative atrial fibrillation and shortens the stay on the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the hospital in patients who undergo cardiac surgery, according to a new systematic review by Cochrane researchers.
In addition, they discovered that patients who had statins before the operation tended to leave the ICU about three-and-a half hours earlier, and left hospital about half a day earlier.