Among elderly patients, use of intensive-care units fell by more than eighty-five per cent.
But that was actually Max Weinmann, an intensivist (as intensive-care specialists like to be called).
The 1976-to-1980 period was particularly testosterone-intensive--as not a single actress appeared in more than one hit movie.
Should taxpayers' money be devoted to keeping grandmother alive for an extra month in an intensive-care unit?
Five days later, the young man visited his friend in the intensive-care unit of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital.
Intensive-care nurses at Cincinnati Children's used to watch helplessly as 60 kids a year developed this deadly infection.
While she was in an intensive-care unit, she had tried to get a message to Willingham, but apparently failed.
Some neonatal intensive-care units (NICUs) are cutting back on the high levels of oxygen traditionally given to premature babies.
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And while recycling appears to be the automatic safe option, critics complain that recycling is too labor-intensive, energy-intensive and costly.
Intensive-care medicine has become the art of managing extreme complexity and a test of whether such complexity can, in fact, be humanly mastered.
Portugal now joins Greece and Ireland in the euro zone's intensive-care ward.
Late one Friday evening, I joined an intensive-care-unit team on night duty.
Many patients were evacuated, but doctors were able to keep a makeshift neonatal intensive-care unit running for 26 babies--all of whom have been evacuated.
The medical team started him on intravenous nutrition and offered him a choice between going to the intensive-care unit and going home with hospice.
For his doctoral thesis, he examined intensive-care units in Maryland, and he discovered that putting an intensivist on staff reduced death rates by a third.
In another study only 12% of residents of a long-term skilled nursing facility wanted intensive-care unit treatment that would put them on a breathing machine.
In Illinois, Department of Public Health Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck said Wednesday that since October, six flu-related deaths of patients in intensive-care units have occurred.
An every-other-night schedule in a Harvard intensive-care unit is especially brutal.
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But the third who did were far less likely to undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation or be put on a ventilator or end up in an intensive-care unit.
In Hofuf on Monday, the guards posted outside the intensive-care unit at the private Al Moosa General Hospital were among the few signs of a medical crisis.
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There are degrees of complexity, though, and intensive-care medicine has grown so far beyond ordinary complexity that avoiding daily mistakes is proving impossible even for our super-specialists.
Intensive-care units take artificial control of failing bodies.
One reason it had the market to itself for so long was that indexing was extremely labor-intensive -- so much so that someone long ago suggested that convict labor be used to keep down costs.
While no deaths have been put down to malware in medical equipment, an example is given on how fetal monitors used on women with high-risk pregnancies being treated in intensive-care wards were slowed down by malware.
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Insurers and employer groups have stepped up pressure to stop early-elective deliveries because they can lead to malpractice suits when things go wrong and much higher costs if a baby ends up in a neonatal intensive-care unit.
Car making is more capital-intensive than labour-intensive.
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These are the patients who are in the top one per cent of costs because they were in a car crash that resulted in a hundred thousand dollars in surgery and intensive-care expenses, or had a cancer requiring seven thousand dollars a week for chemo and radiation.
In many other ways, the business of winning elections has become more capital-intensive and less labour-intensive, making political donors matter more and political activists less.
Their proposals to promote more private-sector jobs for the poor by cutting employers' national insurance contributions and shifting the burden of taxation on to capital-intensive activities from labour-intensive ones merit further consideration.
Previously limited to the labour-intensive manufacture of light-industrial goods such as toys, pens or shoes, private enterprises can now muster the wherewithal to invest in capital-intensive projects such as car factories and steel plants.
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