ICU nurse with no criminal record who ‘cared deeply for people’: What we know about Alex Pretti, victim of DHS shooting - Alex Pretti worked as an ICU nurse and had spent time working with the Departm

Pediatric admissions declined over the past two decades, but a greater proportion of these hospitalized kids have landed in the intensive care unit (ICU), and with increasingly complex cases, a retrospective study spanning 21 states found. In the ...

Private rooms in hospital intensive care units are not just nicer for patients and their families – a new study shows they are safer, too. Roughly three out of every 10 ICU patients wind up with some kind of infection during their hospital stay.

"I'm scared that we're not going to be able to take care of people." Demoralizing. Exhausting. Frustrating. Scary. Those are some of the words used by two nurses in two intensive care units used to describe their experiences right now during the pandemic ...

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Each time communities experience surges of Covid-19, concerns arise over the availability of hospital and intensive care unit beds in affected regions. To monitor ICU capacity, several states have begun to track and publicly report hospitalization rates ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they exist. The article ends with the authors' clinical ...

Alex Pretti's loved ones said he "wanted to make a difference in this world" before his Jan. 24 shooting death