Critically ill patients in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) may benefit from palliative care, focusing on quality of life, when aggressive medical interventions will not improve outcomes or ...

BACKGROUND: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a serious health care issue that affects a large number of people. Few standards exist for delineating the optimal dosing strategy for VTE prevention in ...

A Florida hospital surgical intensive care unit (SICU) improved clinical alarm management practices and reduced nurses' self-reported alarm fatigue, according to a study published in Critical Care ...

Objective. The optimal perioperative blood glucose range to improve surgical site infection (SSI) in surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients remains unclear. We sought to determine whether the ...

There are two separate tracks for the surgical critical care fellowship - the adult focus and the pediatric focus. Each of these focus tracks has one position. The adult focus concentrates on adult ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has awarded ECU Health Medical Center Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence ...

The Surgical Intensive Care Unit of MidMichigan Medical Center – Midland recently received the silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. The award ...

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) recently awarded ECU Health Medical Center Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence for 2025. The national ...

Billings Clinic unveiled Thursday the new Helmsley Surgical Intensive Care Unit and the Helmsley Regional Operations Center.

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Nicholas Tepe, M.D., had a $10 million charitable gift and ...

Acute Care Surgery (ACS) consists of trauma, critical care, and emergency surgery. An ACS service provides trauma and emergency surgical coverage for urgent, time-sensitive surgical conditions to ...